Join us for an Instagram tour for A DREAM TOO BIG About A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbably Journey from Compton to Oxford Paperback: 272 Pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (June 2, 2020) The astounding, against-all-odds story of a young man’s rise from abject poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to the pinnacle of academic […]
Randy Travis, author of FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN, on tour June 29th – July 12th, 2020
Please join us for an Instagram feature tour for FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN About Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (June 2, 2020) The long-awaited, deeply personal story of one of American music’s greatest icons, a remarkable tale of the utmost heights […]
Kate Mulgrew, author of How to Forget, on tour May 2020
About How to Forget • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 19, 2020) “This is a masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour de force that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment. The soulmate to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, How to Forget, despite the promise of its title, cannot be forgotten […]
Maureen Stanton, author of Body Leaping Backward, on tour November 2019
About Body Leaping Backward • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 16, 2019) The “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town —Andre Dubus III For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t […]
Sheri Salata, author of The Beautiful No, on tour August 2019
About The Beautiful No • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (June 4, 2019) “Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.” What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was […]
Jeanne McCulloch, author of All Happy Families, on tour June 2019
About All Happy Families • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave; Reprint edition (June 4, 2019) The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble […]
Don Cummings, author of Bent But Not Broken, on tour May 2019
About Bent But Not Broken • Paperback: 214 pages • Publisher: Heliotrope Books LLC (March 15, 2019) Bent But Not Broken is an unflinchingly honest memoir about the onset of Peyronie’s disease, a painful and sexually limiting condition that is estimated to affect more than 5% of the worldwide adult male population. Don Cummings writes humorously about the […]
Anne Edelstein, author of Lifesaving for Beginners, on tour September/October 2018
About Lifesaving for Beginners • Paperback: 225 pages • Publisher: Red Hen Press (November 7, 2017) When Anne Edelstein was forty-two, her mother, a capable swimmer in good health, drowned while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Caring for two small children of her own, Anne suddenly found herself grieving not only for her emotionally distant mother […]
Mohammed Al Samawi, author of The Fox Hunt, on tour April 2018
About The Fox Hunt • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 10, 2018) A young man’s moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists […]
Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me, on tour April 2018
About You All Grow Up and Leave Me • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 10, 2018) “Unflinching, rich and revelatory.”—MEGAN ABBOTT “Equal Parts true-crime investigation and self-reflection . . . Bracingly honest and extremely discomfiting, this book is like a riveting episode of Law & Order: SVU set at a Manhattan prep school with the U.S. […]