Authors On Tour – Live!

A. Scott Berg is the author of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, Goldwyn: A Biography, Kate Remembered, and Lindbergh, for which he received the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pulitzer Prize respectively. Berg discusses his new book Wilson, the definitive – and revelatory – biography of one of the great American figures of modern times, the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. ($40.00) Putnam ISBN # 9780399159213. You can visit A. Scott Berg‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (winner of the 1998 National Book Award), and At Weddings and Wakes. McDermott reads from and discusses her new novel Someone, a fully realized portrait of one woman’s life in all its complexity – a transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermott’s deft, lyrical voice. ($25.00) FS&G ISBN # 9780374281090. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Life is Better Rescue joined us in presenting W. Bruce Cameron, the bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and A Dog’s Purpose, as he discussed his new novel The Dogs of Christmas, a charming and heartwarming holiday tale that explores the power of love, trust, and a basket full of puppies. ($15.99) Forge ISBN # 9780765330550. You can visit W. Bruce Cameron‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author whose works include Schindler’s List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reads from and discusses his new novel The Daughters of Mars. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings World War I vividly to life from an uncommon perspective. Keneally has written a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad. ($28.00) Atria ISBN # 9781476734613. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Science writer and essayist Katy Butler discusses her family memoir Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. When doctors refused to disable her aged, very ill father’s pace­maker, sentencing him to a protracted and agonizing death, Katy set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother faced her own illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and instead met death head-on. Knocking on Heaven’s Door, a revolutionary blend of memoir and investigative reporting, is the fruit of the Butler family’s journey. ($25.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451641974. You can visit Katy Butler‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, reads from and discusses his new novel Songs of Willow Frost. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls – a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past – both seeking love, hope, and forgiveness. ($26.00) Ballantine ISBN # 9780345522023. You can visit Jamie Ford‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Natasha Solomons, the bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, reads from and discusses her new novel The Gallery of Vanished Husbands. London, 1958. It’s the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague’s conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she finds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally practical. But on her thirtieth birthday, thanks to a wealthy young artist, that’s all about to change. ($16.00) Plume ISBN # 9780142180549. You can visit Natasha Solomons‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Award-winning poet Jason Mott reads from and discusses his debut novel The Returned. With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, Mott’s book explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, The Returned is an unforgettable story that marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction. ($24.95) Harlequin ISBN # 9780778315339. You can visit Jason Mott‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Joyce Maynard, the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters reads from and discusses her new novel After Her. Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case that terrorized Marin County, California, in the late 1970s, After Her is part thriller, part love story. Maynard has created a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl’s first explorations of sexuality, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave. ($25.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062257390. You can visit Joyce Maynard‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Formerly an award-winning investigative journalist and now a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs, Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Last Gunfight and Go Down Together, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award in 2010. Guinn discusses his new book Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, the most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today. ($27.50) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451645163. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, discusses his new book Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story. Recounting his latest hilarious misadventures in the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of his unlikely idol, Robert Louis Stevenson, Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way. ($26.00) Gotham ISBN # 9781592407897. You can visit J. Maarten Troost‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Bestselling author Sophie Hannah reads from and discusses Kind of Cruel, the latest page-turner in her Zailer and Waterhouse mystery series. “This is a dark exploration of the intricacies of control and desire, and what can happen when they turn horribly warped. This may be Sophie Hannah’s best book yet.” – Tana French ($26.95) Putnam ISBN # 9780670785858. You can visit Sophie Hannah‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches, is acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos. Waldman reads from and discusses her new book Gossamurmur, a book-length oracular poem offering a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time. ($20.00) Viking ISBN # 9780143123088. You can visit Anne Waldman‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made his son Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller, reads from and discusses his debut novel A Far Piece to Canaan. Inspired by Halpern’s own childhood in rural Kentucky, this novel tells the story of of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child to reconnect with long-buried memories and make good on a forgotten promise. ($14.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062233165. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Chris Bohjalian, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls, reads from and discusses his new novel The Light in the Ruins, a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge-set in war-ravaged Tuscany. Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart. ($25.95) Doubleday ISBN # 9780385534819. You can visit Chris Bohjalian‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!