About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House (July 12, 2011) Every first Sunday in June, members of the colorful Moses clan gather for their annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. Samuel Lake, a handsome young preacher with a huge heart and strong convictions, […]
Connie Briscoe, author of Money Can’t Buy Love, on tour July/August 2011
About Money Can’t Buy Love Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 27, 2011) New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe takes readers into a world of romance, sex, money and class in her new novel, MONEY CAN’T BUY LOVE. Lenora Stone used to say if she didn’t have bad luck, she wouldn’t have any luck at […]
Ned Zeman, author of The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness, on tour August 2011
About The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back […]
Jennifer Belle, author of The Seven Year Bitch, on tour June/July 2011
About The Seven Year Bitch Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Riverhead Trade (May 3, 2011) What’s a fabulously fun New York City girl to do when she finds herself in a matrimonial rut — disillusioned, sex life with her husband on the wane, and quickly turning into a big-time nag? No, she hasn’t gotten the seven-year […]
Susan Newman, P.h.D., author of The Case for the Only Child, on tour June 2011
About The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: HCI (June 1, 2011) What’s really wrong with having one child? Is one enough for you? For your partner? What constitutes a complete, happy family? Will your only child be lonely, spoiled, bossy, selfish? Read this book and find out. Despite […]
Ellen Feldman, author of Next to Love, on tour June/July 2011
About Next to Love Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (July 26, 2011) “A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.”—Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three […]
Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 2011
About The Long Journey Home Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (May 17, 2011) First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern […]
Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business, on tour May/June 2011
About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
John McWhorter, author of What Language Is, on tour August 2011
About What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in […]