About An Extraordinary Theory of Objects • Hardcover: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper (December 4, 2012) A haunting and moving collection of original narratives that reveals an expatriate’s coming-of-age in Paris and the magic she finds in ordinary objects An awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava finds solace and security in strange […]
Craig Heimbuch, author of And Now We Shall Do Manly Things, on tour November 2012
About And Now We Shall Do Manly Things • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 30, 2012) In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods and A. J. Jacobs’s The Know-It-All, Craig J. Heimbuch takes a wry look at some of our most deeply cherished cultural beliefs Craig J. Heimbuch had never even thought of […]
Christal Presley, author of Thirty Days With My Father, on tour November 2012
About Thirty Days With My Father: Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (November 1, 2012) “An incredible memoir…an important part of the still unhealed wounds of war.” —Nikki Giovanni When Christal Presley’s father was eighteen, he was drafted to Vietnam. Like many soldiers who returned home, he was never the same. Days on […]
David Fitzpatrick, author of Sharp: A Memoir, on tour August/September 2012
About Sharp: A Memoir • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 21, 2012) “Endorphins sped through me. I spun around, growing dizzy, frantic, and silly. I wasn’t drunk, but I felt a nice stoned feeling, sans paranoia, and I thought, ‘I believe I’ve found my new pharmaceutical deep inside.’ I giggled fearlessly, manically at this and looked […]
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, author of Before the Rain, on tour August 2012
About Before the Rain • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 7, 2012) In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom […]
Eric Nuzum, author of Giving Up the Ghost, on tour August 2012
About Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What it Means to Be Haunted Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (August 7, 2012) At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story […]
Emma Sweeney, author of As Always, Jack, on tour July 2012
About As Always, Jack • Publisher: Axios Press In the days just after the end of World War Two, a young Texas Navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl just before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with […]
Christian Hosoi, author of Hosoi, on tour June/July 2012
About Hosoi • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (June 12, 2012) Raised at the legendary Marina Del Rey Skatepark—where his father was the manager and the Dogtown and Z-Boys crew were his mentors—Christian Hosoi never questioned that he would become a full-time skateboarder. But no one could have predicted his meteoric rise to the apex of a burgeoning […]
J.J. Keeler, author of I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands, on tour July 2012
About I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands • Paperback: 170 pages • Publisher: Paragon House (March 1, 2012) I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD focuses on harming obsessions (fear of hurting oneself or others), rather than the traditional hand-washing compulsion normally associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and provides a candid look at the daily challenges faced […]
Ken Budd, author of The Voluntourist, on tour May 2012
About The Voluntourist • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 8, 2012) VOL·UN·TOUR·IST n. 1. A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself. 2. Someone who can only do it two weeks at a time. When Ken Budd was thirty-nine, his father collapsed after eighteen holes […]