About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 20, 2012) Kamila Sidiqi’s life changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. After her father and brother were forced to flee, she became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Banned from school, confined to her home, and […]
Rachel Lloyd, author of Girls Like Us, on tour March 2012
About Girls Like Us • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 28, 2012) During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself […]
Heather Poole, author of Cruising Attitude, on tour March 2012
About Cruising Attitude • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (March 6, 2012) Flying the not-so-friendly skies… In her more than fifteen years as an airline flight attendant, Heather Poole has seen it all. She’s witnessed all manner of bad behavior at 35,000 feet and knows what it takes for a […]
Tracey Jackson, author of Between a Rock and a Hot Place, on tour February/March 2012
About Between a Rock and a Hot Place • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 21, 2012) As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone’s lips: “Fifty is the new thirty.” With a comedy writer’s training and a screenwriter’s eye for detail, Jackson skewers that […]
Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman, on tour February/March 2012
About The Pioneer Woman • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 14, 2011) “That’s when I saw him—the cowboy—across the smoky room.” I’ll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne western rolled into one. Out for a quick drink with friends, I […]
Tamara Chalabi, author of Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, on tour February 2012
About Late for Tea at the Deer Palace Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the homeland she’d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family’s history […]
Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 2011
About So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (November 15, 2011) Christine Hartmann’s mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the […]
Anna David, author of Falling for Me, on tour October 2011
About Falling for Me • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (October 11, 2011) Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen […]
Ilene Beckerman, author of The Smartest Woman I Know, on tour October 2011
About The Smartest Woman I Know Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (September 5, 2011) Ilene Beckerman’s first book “illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women,” wrote the New York Times Book Review in a full page of praise for Love, Loss, and What I Wore. It became a bestseller and inspired the hit Off-Broadway play by the […]
Jane and Robert Rave, authors of Conversations and Cosmopolitans, on tour November 2011
About Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are: Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (November 8, 2011) After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing […]