About A Jane Austen Education • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (April 28, 2011) An eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author’s novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, […]
Lisa Miller, author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, on tour April 2011
About Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 29, 2011) A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings to the convictions and perceptions of everyday people. The desire for a celestial afterlife is universal. It […]
February Book Club of the Month Contest #2
Here’s a book you’ll wish you could hand your younger self! Multi-generational book clubs will get a kick out of this! The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper Author Donna Estes Antebi Which not-so-brilliant Neanderthal said all women have to learn the hard way? Introducing The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper, the essential 21-century playbook for […]
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes, on tour June 2011
About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
John Pollack, author of The Pun Also Rises, on tour April/May 2011
About The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Gotham (April 14, 2011) The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. […]
Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History, on tour March/April 2011
About Pox: An American History • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 31, 2011) The untold story of how America’s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast […]
Lisa Napoli, author of Radio Shangri-La, on tour February/March 2011
About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011) When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public […]
Carolyn & Sean Savage, authors of Inconceivable, on tour February/March 2011
About Inconceivable • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (February 14, 2011) A medical mistake during an IVF procedure. An unthinkable situation . . . you’re pregnant with the wrong baby. You can terminate, but you can’t keep him. What choice would you make? Carolyn and Sean Savage had been trying to expand their family […]
Tim O’Donnell, author of A View from the Back Pew, on tour March 2011
About A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth: Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Linchpin Publishing (March 1, 2011) Since the time Tim O’Donnell was a nuisance to the nuns, he has been asking questions about religion. He went on to become a successful owner of daily newspapers and consulting […]
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking With Einstein, on tour March 2011
About Moonwalking With Einstein • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 3, 2011) Foer’s unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things […]