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 […]
Rodney King, author of The Riot Within, on tour April/May 2012
About The Riot Within • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. […]
Doctors George Pratt and Peter Lambrou, authors of Code to Joy, on tour April 2012
About Code to Joy • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Beneath the surface—undiagnosed, untreated and often unspoken—there is a pervasive cloud of unease affecting virtually everyone. This “fog of distress” is the reason so many people feel unloved, guilty, ashamed, fearful, and unsafe. It’s the basis of addictions, sleeplessness, bad habits, […]
James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way, on tour March 2012
About The Irish Way • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 1, 2012) A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. […]
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2012
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2012) A beautifully written biography from an internationally acclaimed poet, The Paper Garden is at once the story of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a “graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age” (New York Times Book Review). […]