About Food Rules • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 1, 2011) Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman come together to create an enhanced Food Rules for hardcover, now beautifully illustrated and with even more food wisdom. Michael Pollan’s definitive compendium, Food Rules, is here brought to colorful life with the addition of Maira Kalman’s […]
Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 2011
About So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (November 15, 2011) Christine Hartmann’s mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the […]
James A. Roberts, author of Shiny Objects, on tour November 2011
About Shiny Objects • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (November 8, 2011) In Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy, James A. Roberts, a leading researcher and expert on consumer behavior, exposes the hidden motivations and erroneous assumptions behind our spending habits. He also reveals the key to reversing […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour November 2011
About A Train in Winter • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 8, 2011) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newpapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest […]
Steve Inskeep, author of Instant City, on tour October 2011
About Instant City • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 13, 2011) From the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from […]
David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, on tour October/November 2011
About You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 27, 2011) An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees […]
Joel Brenner, author of America the Vulnerable, on tour October 2011
About America the Vulnerable • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (September 29, 2011) A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America’s next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and […]
Sam Sommers, author of Situations Matter, on tour October 2011
About Situations Matter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (December 29, 2011) An “entertaining and engaging” exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do. The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don’t even realize it. Every […]
Jane and Robert Rave, authors of Conversations and Cosmopolitans, on tour November 2011
About Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are: Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (November 8, 2011) After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing […]
James Martin, author of Between Heaven and Mirth, on tour October 2011
About Between Heaven and Mirth • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (October 4, 2011) In Between Heaven and Mirth, James Martin, SJ, assures us that God wants us to experience joy, to cultivate a sense of holy humor, and to laugh at life’s absurdities—not to mention our own humanity. Father Martin invites believers to rediscover the importance of […]