About Cosmic Queries • Publisher: National Geographic (March 2, 2021) • Hardcover: 312 Pages In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world’s most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science. For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to understand […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Cosmic Queries, on tour April/May 2021
About Cosmic Queries • Publisher: National Geographic (March 2, 2021) • Hardcover: 312 pages In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world’s most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science. For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to […]
Claudia Kalb, author of Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers, on tour April/May 2021
About Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers • Publisher: National Geographic (April 27, 2021) • Hardcover: 368 pages Yo-Yo Ma’s ear for music emerged not long after he learned to walk. By the age of seven, he was performing for President Kennedy; by fifteen he debuted at Carnegie Hall. Maya Angelou, by […]
Ben Philippe, author of Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend, on tour April/May 2021
About Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 27, 2021) • Paperback: 320 pages It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting […]
National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition, on tour April/May 2021
About Backyard Guide to the Night Sky • Publisher: National Geographic; 2nd edition (March 19, 2019) • Paperback: 288 pages Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher’s guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing — and understanding — the wonders of space. Stargazing’s too much fun to leave […]
Jonny Sun, author of Goodbye, Again, on tour April 2021
About Goodbye, Again • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition (April 20, 2021) • Hardcover: 240 pages The wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to […]
Margaret Kimball, author of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, on tour April 2021
About And Now I Spill the Family Secrets • Publisher: HarperOne; Illustrated edition (April 20, 2021) • Paperback: 288 pages In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988, when Kimball is […]
J. Byrne Murphy, author of Le Deal, on tour April/May 2021
About Le Deal • Publisher: Lyons Press (March 14, 2021) • Paperback: 304 pages Le Deal is a business adventure story involving raw entrepreneurship and high-level politics. It is the true story of Byrne Murphy, a young businessman who abruptly moves to Paris in a quest to reignite his career and his fortunes. He quickly finds […]
Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Neal Asbury, authors of MAPPING AMERICA, on tour July 2021
About Mapping America Hardcover: 288 Pages Publisher: Apollo Publishers (July 6, 2021) The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period. Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities […]
Brian Skerry, author of Secrets of the Whales, on tour April 2021
About Secrets of the Whales • Publisher: National Geographic (April 6, 2021) • Hardcover: 192 pages This provocative book of photography offers bold new insight into the lives of the world’s largest mammals, along with their complex societies. In these pages, we learn that whales share an amazing ability to learn and adapt to opportunities, […]