About The Indifferent Stars Above • Paperback: 376 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition (September 22, 2015) In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, […]
Katrell Christie and Shannon McCaffrey, authors of Tiger Heart, on tour October 2015
About Tiger Heart Paperback: 232 pages Publisher: HCI (October 6, 2015) Katrell Christie never intended to visit India. In fact, her ideal vacation was a tropical beach where she could relax with a margarita in her hand. But when this former art student turned roller-derby rebel met three teenage girls at a crowded Buddhist orphanage in Darjeeling, she […]
Karen Abbott, author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, on tour September 2015
About Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy • Paperback: 544 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 8, 2015) New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything during the Civil War. Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed rebel with a dangerous temper, shot a Union soldier in her home […]
Matt Richtel, author of A Deadly Wandering, on tour June 2015
About A Deadly Wandering • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 23, 2014) From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology’s vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic “texting-while-driving” car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006. In this […]
Kate Andersen Brower, author of The Residence, on tour April 2015
About The Residence • Print Length: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 7, 2015) A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America’s First Families are unknowable in […]
Molly Bloom, author of Molly’s Game, on tour March 2015
About Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Dey Street Books; Reprint edition (January 20, 2015) The true story of “Hollywood’s Poker Princess” who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all When Molly Bloom was a […]
Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, on tour January 2015
About 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (December 23, 2014) The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Your Mental Strength Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we […]
Judy Bachrach, author of Glimpsing Heaven, on tour November 2014
About Glimpsing Heaven • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: National Geographic (September 2, 2014) If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Many people alive today have experienced clinical death—a heart that has stopped beating, brain activity that has flat lined—and returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what […]
Caroline Morehead, author of Village of Secrets, on tour October/November 2014
About Village of Secrets • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 28, 2014) From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the fascinating story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mountains of the southern […]
Laurence Steinberg, author of Age of Opportunity, on tour October 2014
About Age of Opportunity • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 9, 2014) Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg argues, this makes these years the key period in determining individuals’ life outcomes, demanding that we change the way we parent, educate, and understand […]