About Mother, Mother Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Crown (September 17, 2013) In MOTHER, MOTHER we meet the Hursts: William, a twelve-year-old autistic boy, who wants nothing more than to please his parents but can’t seem to figure out how; Violet, a rebellious teenager whose experiments with hallucinogenic drugs have just landed her in a mental ward; Douglas, their father who spends […]
Doron Weber, author of Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, on tour May 2013
About Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 5, 2013) Damon Weber is a brilliant kid – a top student, skilled actor and a natural leader at school. Born with a congenital heart defect corrected by surgery when he was an infant, Damon lives a big life with spirit […]
Joan Cusack Handler, author of Confessions of Joan the Tall, on tour in November/December 2012
About Confessions of Joan the Tall Paperback: 246 pages, appropriate for all ages Publisher: CavanKerry (November 13, 2012) A coming of age memoir written in the voice of a twelve year old Irish Catholic girl living in the Bronx in 1954, Confessions recounts one year in the life of Joan, a very tall, religious, funny, self-conscious, obsessive, […]
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 […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of Don’t Sing at the Table, on tour October 2011
About Don’t Sing at the Table • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 4, 2011) New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani’s gift for illuminating the profound challenges and issues defining women’s lives has propelled her novels to the top of bestseller lists and earned her a wide, devoted readership. Now, she shares […]
Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year, on tour August, 2011
. About The Gap Year Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Knopf (July 5, 2011) From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest. […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2011
Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? Island Girl by Lynda Simmons Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is the emotionally riveting story of a 55 year old mother, Ruby Donaldson, fighting to reunite her family as she struggles with the diagnosis of early on-set Alzheimer’s. Facing the […]
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 […]
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit, on tour May/June 2011
About When God Was a Rabbit Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011) This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love […]
Lynda Simmons, author of Island Girl, on tour May/June 2011
About Island Girl: Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (December 7, 2010) Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is the emotionally riveting story of a 55 year old mother, Ruby Donaldson, fighting to reunite her family as she struggles […]