About Hungry: What Eighty Ravenous Guys Taught Me about Life, Love & the Power of Good Food Publisher: Hyperion (August 6, 2013) Pages: 272 “Few sane cooks would take on the trials of cooking five days a week for a fraternity house…. Unique, funny, touching.” —Booklist Newly arrived in Seattle, Darlene Barnes stumbles on a job ad […]
Bear Grylls, author of A Survival Guide for Life, on tour July 2013
About A Survival Guide for Life • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 2, 2013) From the world-famous survival expert, learn how to make every day an unforgettable adventure Life in the outdoors teaches us invaluable lessons. Encountering the wild forces us to plan and execute goals, face danger, push our “limits,” and sharpen our instincts. But our […]
Shohreh Aghdashloo, author of The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, on tour June 2013
About The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in this dazzling memoir of family, faith, revolution, and hope. Enchanted by the movies she watched while […]
Darya Pino Rose, author of Foodist, on tour May 2013
About Foodist • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (May 7, 2013) Darya Pino Rose, a neuroscientist and the creator of the popular blog SummerTomato.com, offers a first-of-its-kind “Healthstyle” book showing readers how to ditch the diets in order to achieve lasting weight loss, simply through the love of food. In Foodist: Using Real Food and Real […]
Aimee Molloy, author of However Long the Night, on tour May 2013
About However Long the Night • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 30, 2013) The story of how one of the “most powerful women in women’s rights” (Forbes)is paving the way to a world with human dignity for all. However Long the Night is the extraordinary story of one woman’s determination to create a movement toward change, and a […]
Kim Wong Keltner, author of Tiger Babies Strike Back, on tour May 2013
About Tiger Babies Strike Back • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby all grown up with a daughter of her own . . . but is she a Tiger Mother? Heck, no. This book describes—in hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking, detail—exactly why not. A battle […]
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Frozen in Time, on tour April/May 2013
About Frozen in Time • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 23, 2013) Two harrowing crashes . . . A vanished rescue plane . . . A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land . . . The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping […]
Elizabeth Winder, author of Pain, Parties, Work, on tour April/May 2013
About Pain, Parties, Work • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 16, 2013) “I dreamed of New York, I am going there.” On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at “the intellectual fashion magazine” Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six […]
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 […]
Megan Marshall, author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, on tour April/May 2013
About Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 12, 2013) From an early age, Margaret Fuller dazzled New England’s intelligent elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The […]