About Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance Paperback: 246 pages Publisher: Michigan State University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2013) It’s hard to believe that a walk in the park can change a life – let alone two – but for Janice Gary and her dog Barney, that’s exactly what happened. Gary always walked […]
Darlene Barnes, author of Hungry, on tour August 2013
About Hungry: What Eighty Ravenous Guys Taught Me about Life, Love & the Power of Good Food Publisher: Hyperion (August 6, 2013) Pages: 272 “Few sane cooks would take on the trials of cooking five days a week for a fraternity house…. Unique, funny, touching.” —Booklist Newly arrived in Seattle, Darlene Barnes stumbles on a job ad […]
Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun, on tour August 2013
About Son of a Gun: A Memoir Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Random House (August 13, 2013) In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death in her […]
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 […]
Megan Marshall, author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, on tour April/May 2013
About Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 12, 2013) From an early age, Margaret Fuller dazzled New England’s intelligent elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The […]
Glennon Doyle Melton, author of Carry On, Warrior, on tour April 2013
About Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Scribner (April 2, 2013) An inspirational, sidesplittingly funny exploration of the power of living with love, forgiveness, and honesty. In Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton shares new stories and the best-loved material from Momastery.com. She recounts her mistakes and triumphs with candor and humor, and gives […]
Betsy Prioleau, author of Swoon, on tour March/April 2013
About Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (February 4, 2013) Casanovas: where are those great romancers of women? In Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them (W. W. Norton), Betsy Prioleau gives us a smart, entertaining study of the ladies’ man, demystifying his character, seductive […]
Donna Richardson Joyner, author of Witness to Fitness, on tour January/February 2013
About Witness to Fitness: Pumped Up! Powered Up! All Things Are Possible! Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: HarperOne (December 26, 2012) In WITNESS TO FITNESS, Donna Richardson Joyner brings together faith, food, and fitness in a way no one else has done before. She inspires the reader to follow her on a journey to good health and a […]
L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison, authors of Square Peg, on tour March 2013
About Square Peg: My Story and What it Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, & Out-of-the-Box Thinkers Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Hyperion (March 5, 2013) From high school dropout to Harvard— scientist, educator, and thought-leader Todd Rose’s learning curve was complex. After being labeled “gifted but quirky” and belatedly diagnosed with ADHD, Todd Rose fought an uphill battle to […]
Mary DeMuth, author of Everything, on tour October/November 2012
About Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 16, 2012) Readers discover exactly what it takes to grow in Christ and become like Him. You don’t need a plan, and you don’t need a program. To experience the abundant Christian life, you only need Jesus. […]