About Too Hurt to Stay • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Element (April 23, 2013) Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It’s a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent’s reaction – good riddance – speaks volumes. Casey’s hackles are immediately up for this […]
Jennifer Gilbert, author of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag, on tour May 2013
About I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 30, 2013) When Jennifer Gilbert was twenty-two years old, someone tried to cut her life short in the most violent way. Not wanting this traumatic encounter to define her life, she buried it within and bravely launched a fabulous career in New […]
Kelle Hampton, author of Bloom, on tour April 2013
About Bloom • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 2, 2013) There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . . From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When […]
Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine, authors of Have Mother, Will Travel, on tour April 2013
About Have Mother, Will Travel • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 2, 2013) Their bestselling memoir, Come Back, inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine’s harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire’s, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now, a decade later, as Mia finds that adult life isn’t all it’s cracked […]
Janice Van Horne, author of A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg, on tour May 2013
About A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Counterpoint Press Love, marriage, the New York art world, and a wife’s self-discovery. A rare opportunity to experience the explosive and history-making New York art world of the 1950s thru the eyes of the young bride of Clement Greenberg, America’s most influential art […]
Cathy Glass, author of Another Forgotten Child, on tour February/March 2013
About Another Forgotten Child • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Element (February 5, 2013) The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee and, when she reads the referral, Cathy understands why: it says that Aimee kicks and bites her mother, that her mother is terrified of her, and that in […]
Madeleine Albright, author of Prague Winter, on tour February/March 2013
About Prague Winter Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 19, 2013) Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. […]
Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon, on tour February/March 2013
About Outlaw Platoon • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 26, 2013) At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon, the 10th Mountain Division—a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws. Tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a valley in the […]
Stephanie LaCava, author of An Extraordinary Theory of Objects, on tour December 2012
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 […]