About An Uncomplicated Life • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (March 17, 2015) A father’s exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down […]
Sasha Martin, author of Life from Scratch, on tour March 2015
About Life from Scratch • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: National Geographic (March 3, 2015) It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble […]
Cheryl Rice, author of Where Have I Been All My Life? on tour January 2015
About Where Have I Been All My Life? • Paperback: 185 pages • Publisher: She Writes Press; New edition (October 7, 2014) Where Have I Been All My Life? is a compelling memoir recounting one woman’s journey from grief and a profound feeling of unworthiness, to wholeness and healing. It begins with the chillingly swift death of […]
Liz Weber, author of Memory Card Full, on tour October/November 2014
About Memory Card Full A book for anyone who has loved and lost and found the space in that loss to become the person they were meant to be. When Rufus, Liz Weber’s oddly proportioned but adorable dog dies of old age, her life begins to unravel. She is forced to let go of the […]
Gail Sheehy, author of Daring: My Passages, on tour September 2014
About Daring: My Passages • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 2, 2014) The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s “girl” journalist to fearless bestselling author who made […]
Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, on tour July 2014
About Waking Up White • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Elephant Room Press (January 9, 2014) On the heels of a year when films such Django, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave have made real the lived experience of black Americans, Waking Up White exposes critical aspects of the white experience. White people are thirsting for clarity […]
Tim Anderson, author of Sweet Tooth, on tour June 2014
About Sweet Tooth Paperback: 334 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 11, 2014) “To a boy whose ideal snack was Little Debbie Zebra Cakes, the existence of a disease like diabetes seemed like the dark work of a mean God.” So begins Sweet Tooth (March 2014 | Lake Union Publishing), the much-anticipated new memoir by Tim Anderson, […]
Irris Makler, author of Hope Street, Jerusalem, on tour February/March 2014
About Hope Street, Jerusalem • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: HarperCollins (February 25, 2014) ‘I had no idea how demanding this consuming, cruel, dangerous and fascinating place would be. I would fall in love here, I would do some of my best reporting, I would be injured, ending my run of good luck – my life would change dramatically […]
Gayathri Ramprasad, author of Shadows in the Sun, on tour March 2014
About Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within Softcover, 240 pp. Publisher: Hazelden Published Year: 2014 Americans have become immune to the terms, drugs, and behaviors associated with depression even as its reputation has grown as a debilitating and sometimes fatal mental illness. But in India and elsewhere the stigma associated with […]
Janice Gary, author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, on tour December 2013/January 2014
About Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance Paperback: 246 pages Publisher: Michigan State University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2013) It’s hard to believe that a walk in the park can change a life – let alone two – but for Janice Gary and her dog Barney, that’s exactly what happened. Gary always walked […]