About Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Tatra Press (October 16, 2010) Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, youthful romance in Greenwich Village, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming of age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing […]
Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told me, on tour August/September 2010
About Lies My Mother Never Told Me • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (August 17, 2010) Her mother, Gloria, was a brainy knockout whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was James Jones, the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity and other acclaimed novels […]
Teen Authored Memoir Series LOUDER THAN WORDS on tour August 2010
About LOUDER THAN WORDS: 3 NEW TITLES IN A BREAKTHROUGH TEEN-AUTHORED MEMOIR SERIES! Alexis Singer gives an honest voice to the very real phenomenon of online solicitation. In Alexis, she shares her harrowing story of being sucked into an emotionally dependent and cybersexual relationship by an older man she met in a chat room. “I […]
Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW, author of Ugly as Sin, on tour September 2010
About Ugly as Sin: The Truth About How We Look and Finding Freedom from Self-Hatred Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010) “The truth is that we all have felt ugly. The sin is that we let this word shame us, control us, and define us.” — Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW Have you heard about […]
Amy Boesky, author of What We Have: A Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, on tour August/September 2010
About What We Have: A Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 5, 2010) At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake […]
Mary Karr, author of Lit, on tour July 2010
About Lit Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year is out now in paperback—Mary Karr’s sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry is “as humble and funny as it is beautiful” (Time). Lit is about getting drunk and getting […]
Marjorie Hart, author of Summer at Tiffany, on tour June 2010
About Summer at Tiffany Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Avon A (March 30, 2010) New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as […]
Carlene Bauer, author of Not That Kind of Girl, on tour July 2010
About Not That Kind of Girl Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) Raised in evangelical churches that preached apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, and she becomes skeptical […]
Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, on tour June 2010
About In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to family and friends, gave generously to his church, and invested in his community—but his bank account couldn’t keep up. Soon White began moving money from one […]
Michael Perry, author of Coop, on tour May 2010
About Coop Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs […]