About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]
Craig Robinson, author of A Game of Character, on tour May/June 2011
About A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (May 3, 2011) This inspirational memoir by Craig Robinson pays tribute to his parents, his coaches, and the lessons his experiences have taught him. Foreword by Marian Robinson When he stepped into history’s […]
Gail Caldwell, author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home, on tour August 2011
About Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail […]
Simon Pegg, author of Nerd Do Well, on tour June 2011
About Nerd Do Well The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor, comedian, writer and self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing […]
Marshall Ulrich, author of Running on Empty, on tour April/May 2011
About Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Avery (April 14, 2011) The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more than 100 foot races averaging over 100 miles each, completed 12 expedition-length adventure races, and ascended the Seven Summits – including Mount […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for March 2011
Book clubs will ponder.. Are the rich really different? Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden Joining the ranks of Augusten Burroughs & David Sedaris, a descendent of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. The New York Times calls author […]
Amy Wilson, author of When Did I Get Like This?, on tour April/May 2011
About When Did I Get Like This? • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 19, 2011) When Did I Get Like This? is the hilarious story of one mother’s struggle to shrug off the ridiculous standards of modern parenting, and remember how to enjoy her children Over the last seven years of long […]
Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye, on tour April 2011
About The Long Goodbye: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (April 14, 2011) From one of America’s foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge […]
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes, on tour June 2011
About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
Lisa Napoli, author of Radio Shangri-La, on tour February/March 2011
About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011) When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public […]