About The Storytelling Animal • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 10, 2012) Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy […]
Max Holland, author of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat, on tour June 2012
About Leak • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas (March 6, 2012) Through the shadowy persona of “Deep Throat,” FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his “leaks” helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook’s portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s All the […]
Tracy Reifkind, author of The Swing, on tour April/May 2012
About The Swing • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 13, 2012) In his blockbuster New York Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Body, Timothy Ferriss asked the question: what are the tiniest changes that will produce the biggest results. When he examined how one could lose 100 pounds the fastest, he interviewed Tracy Reifkind. In […]
Chade-Meng Tan, author of Search Inside Yourself, on tour April/May 2012
About Search Inside Yourself • Hardcover and eBook: 288 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) In his first book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Profits, Happiness (and World Peace), Meng distills emotional intelligence into a set of practical and proven tools and skills that anyone can learn to transform their own creativity, productivity and […]
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La, on tour April/May 2012
About Lost in Shangri-La • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 24, 2012) Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into a land that time […]
Melissa Coleman, author of This Life Is In Your Hands, on tour April 2012
About This Life Is in Your Hands • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 10, 2012) A true story, both tragic and redemptive, This Life Is in Your Hands tells of the quest to make a good life, the role of fate, and the power of forgiveness. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman’s parents […]
Philip Delves Broughton, author of The Art of the Sale, on tour April 2012
About The Art of the Sale • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A revelatory examination of the elusive mix of talents that sparks successful selling and the essential role of sales in business, religion, romance, art, and every other corner of human experience. Sales permeates everything we do-not just moving product, […]
Lisa Bedford, author of Survival Mom, on tour April 2012
About Survival Mom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 13, 2012) Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe and Secure—No Matter What Undaunted by the prospect of TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It), Lisa Bedford tackles every what-if and worst-case scenario head-on, offering practical advice on how to […]
Cynthia Sass, author of S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim, on tour April 2012
About S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 20, 2012) Nutritionist Cynthia Sass, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Flat Belly Diet!, delivers the ultimate weight loss plan in S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches. When Cynthia’s weight loss plan was first published last year, […]
Saima Wahab, author of In My Father’s Country, on tour April/May 2012
About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]