About Unprotected Texts • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (January 25, 2011) Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today’s discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible: Is premarital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual desire appropriate? With whom can I legitimately […]
Iain Reid, author of ONE BIRD’S CHOICE, on tour March 2011
About One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Mar 1, 2011) Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a bug-filled basement apartment and struggling to make ends meet. When Iain lands […]
Daniel Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line, on tour February/March 2011
About The Invisible Line • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (February 17, 2011) A multigenerational saga of three American families crossing the racial divide, written by one of our most accomplished historians of race and the law. In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have […]
Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken, on tour January/February 2011
About Reality is Broken • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 20, 2011) Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will […]
Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City, on tour February 2011
About Triumph of the City • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (February 3, 2011) A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 […]
Daniel Akst, author of We Have Met the Enemy, on tour January/February 2011
About We Have Met the Enemy • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 6, 2011) An intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self-control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do. More calories, sex, and intoxicants are more readily and […]