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 […]
Karen Abbott, author of Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, on tour September 2014
About Liar Temptress Soldier Spy • Hardcover: 528 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 2, 2014) Belle Boyd Emma Edmonds Rose O’Neal Greenhow Elizabeth Van Lew In Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything—their homes, their families, and their very lives—during the Civil War. Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an […]
Claire Prentice, author of The Lost Tribe of Coney Island, on tour October 2014
About The Lost Tribe of Coney Island Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: New Harvest (October 14, 2014) Readers of Erik Larson will love this tale of sex, greed, and the American dream: A huckster imports a tribe of Filipinos to Coney Island’s Luna Park, and two cultures collide. The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the forgotten story of the […]
Greg Matloff, C Bangs, and Les Johnson, authors of Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth, on tour June 2014
About Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth • Publisher: Springer What was our planet like in years past? How has our civilization affected Earth and its ecology? Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth, the Second Edition of Paradise Regained: The Regreening of the Earth, begins by discussing these questions, and then generates a scenario for the […]
Darlene Lancer, author of Conquering Shame and Codependency, on tour July 2014
About Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You Hazelden Publishing Publication Date: July 2014 180 pages . Codependency Expert Uncovers Fundamental Causes and Effects of Shame and a Simple Path to a Healthier Life Shame is an emotion that can be buried in a person’s psyche so deep that one does […]
Gayathri Ramprasad, author of Shadows in the Sun, on tour March 2014
About Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within Softcover, 240 pp. Publisher: Hazelden Published Year: 2014 Americans have become immune to the terms, drugs, and behaviors associated with depression even as its reputation has grown as a debilitating and sometimes fatal mental illness. But in India and elsewhere the stigma associated with […]
Phoebe Baker Hyde, author of The Beauty Experiment, on tour January/February 2014
About The Beauty Experiment • Paperback: 248 pages • Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1 edition (December 23, 2012) The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World Without Concealer and Learned to Love the Real Me is a funny, controversial, and painfully honest coming–of-age memoir set vividly in Hong Kong and the U.S. At the […]