About What’s Wrong With My Kid? When Drugs or Alcohol Might Be a Problem and What to Do About It Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Hazelden (May 1, 2012) George E. Leary Jr., M.A. was a youth counselor, surrounded by kids all day, and yet he failed to see that his own child was using and abusing drugs. […]
Kevin Roberts, author of Movers, Dreamers and Risk-Takers, on tour June 2012
About Movers, Dreamers and Risk-Takers: Unlocking the Power of ADHD Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Hazelden (June 5, 2012) The negative aspects of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are well known–impulsivity, difficulty paying attention, lacking follow through, procrastination, boredom, anxiety, etc. But what many people don’t know is that when these same traits are put to good use, those […]
Saima Wahab, author of In My Father’s Country, on tour April/May 2012
About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2012
Book club members will want to share their own wedding memories and their hopes and dreams for their daughters while discussing The Magic Room The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters by Jeffrey Zaslow The New York Times bestselling journalist and author of The Girls from Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow, […]
Doc Hendley, author of Wine to Water, on tour January 2012
About Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Avery (January 5, 2012) The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who’s changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events […]
Anna Lefler, author of The CHICKtionary, on tour November/December 2011
About The CHICKtionary: from A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know: Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Adams Media (October 19, 2011) Your bestie, biffle, and GMF rolled into one! You’re all over the definitions of “low lights,” “ruching,” and a “tankini.” But can you spot a “Mrs. Potato Head” when you see one? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]