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 […]
Candida Moss, author of The Myth of Persecution, on tour March 2013
About The Myth of Persecution • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 5, 2013) According to Cherished Church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown […]
Glennon Doyle Melton, author of Carry On, Warrior, on tour April 2013
About Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Scribner (April 2, 2013) An inspirational, sidesplittingly funny exploration of the power of living with love, forgiveness, and honesty. In Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton shares new stories and the best-loved material from Momastery.com. She recounts her mistakes and triumphs with candor and humor, and gives […]
John Price, author of Revealing Heaven, on tour February 2013
About Revealing Heaven • Paperback: 176 pages • Publisher: HarperOne; Original edition (February 19, 2013) In Revealing Heaven: The Christian Case for Near-Death Experiences, the Reverend John W. Price, a longtime Episcopal priest and member of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, tackles a subject that’s been long-ignored by clergy. For the first time, Price offers a pastoral perspective […]
Bruce Feiler, author of The Secrets of Happy Families, on tour February/March 2013
About The Secrets of Happy Families • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 19, 2013) • Don’t worry about family dinner. • Let your kids pick their punishments. • Ditch the sex talk. • Cancel date night. These are just a few of the surprising innovations in this bold first-of-its-kind playbook for today’s families. Bestselling author […]
Betsy Prioleau, author of Swoon, on tour March/April 2013
About Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (February 4, 2013) Casanovas: where are those great romancers of women? In Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them (W. W. Norton), Betsy Prioleau gives us a smart, entertaining study of the ladies’ man, demystifying his character, seductive […]
Not Less Than Everything, edited by Catherine Wolff, on tour February 2013
About Not Less Than Everything • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (February 12, 2013) For a thoughtful Catholic, ongoing divisions and controversies call for continual redefinition and negotiation of one’s faith and allegiance to the Church. And this often requires looking at respected figures from past and present for inspiration. In Not Less Than Everything: Catholic Writers on Heroes […]
Cecil Williams & Janice Mirikitani, authors of Beyond the Possible, on tour February 2013
About Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (February 5, 2013) Love Acceptance Community With admirers ranging from the Clintons, Warren Buffett, Maya Angelou, and Dianne Feinstein, Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco has been inspiring, infuriating, welcoming, and changing the world for fifty […]
Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The Myths of Happiness, on tour January/February 2013
About The Myths of Happiness • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 3, 2013) In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (singlehood, divorce, financial ruin, illness) to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]