Authors On Tour – Live!

Taiye Selasi reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed debut novel Ghana Must Go. Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Selasi’s book is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent. ($25.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781594204494. You can visit Taiye Selasi‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Former bookseller Hugh Howey reads from and discusses his debut science fiction novel Wool. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Now, the Silo’s inhabitants are about to learn just how badly their world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. “Howey’s Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world.” – Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Passage and The Twelve ($26.00 – Hardcover / $15.00 – Paperback) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781476735115 / 9781476733951. You can visit Hugh Howey‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Colorado author Dan Baum, a former staff writer for The New Yorker, reads from and discusses his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip. In his book, Baum, both a lifelong gun guy and a Jewish Democrat, grabs his licensed concealed handgun and hits the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own guns. Written equally for avid shooters and those who would never touch a firearm, Gun Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will challenge and inform people on all sides of the issue. ($26.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595416. You can visit Dan Baum‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Kent Haruf, the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide, reads from and discusses his new novel Benediction, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. In his new novel, Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants. ($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307959881. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

David Burstein is the founder and executive director of Generation18 and director of the documentary 18 in ’08. A frequent contributor to Fast Company, Burstein has appeared as a commentator on youth and politics for a range of publications and media outlets, including CNN, ABC, NPR, and the New York Times. Burstein discusses his new book Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World. ($25.95) Beacon Press ISBN # 9780807044698. You can visit David Burstein‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Margot Berwin, author of the bestselling debut Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, reads from and discusses her new novel Scent of Darkness. In this eagerly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes readers deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs. Scent of Darkness is a magical, seductive story about the power of scent, and about what happens when a perfume renders a young woman irresistible. ($25.00) Pantheon ISBN # 9780307907523. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook and photographer; and the creator of SmittenKitchen.com, an award-winning blog with a focus on stepped-up home cooking through unfussy ingredients. Perelman discusses her bestselling new book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. ($35.00) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595652. You can visit Deb Perelman‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Gretel Ehrlich, the author of This Cold Heaven, The Future of Ice, and The Solace of Open Spaces, discusses and reads from her new book Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami. A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience the terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water. ($25.00) Pantheon ISBN # 9780307907318. You can visit Gretel Ehrlich‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Susan Cain, whose record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 3 million times, and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks, discusses the new paperback edition of her acclaimed book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. ($16.00) Crown ISBN # 9780307352156. You can visit Susan Cain‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Bestselling novelist, war and human rights journalist, and international energy expert Mike Bond lives on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Based on his experiences in dangerous, remote and war-torn regions of the world, his critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of international politics and multinational corporations, and the vanishing beauty of the natural world. Bond reads from and discusses his new novel Saving Paradise, an exciting thriller of politics, lies and remorseless murder. ($15.99) Mandevilla ISBN # 9781627040013. You can visit Mike Bond‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Bestselling, award-winning thriller author Robert Crais, creator of the beloved Elvis Cole and Joe Pike mysteries, reads from and discusses his new stand-alone novel Suspect. Scott James is an LAPD officer whose partner, Stephanie, was murdered. Maggie was a USMC German shepherd patrol dog who lost her handler in Afghanistan. Now Scott and Maggie are an LAPD K9 team nobody trusts – damaged goods who are wounded, scared, and suspect. Scott and Maggie now have no one but each other. They will help each other learn to trust and love again, or die in the hunt for Stephanie’s killers. ($27.95) Penguin ISBN # 9780399161483. You can visit Robert Crais‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Supernatural adventure master Kim Harrison reads from and discusses Ever After, the eleventh entry in her New York Times bestselling Hollows series. When witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world-demonic and human-she must use her gifts to save those closest to her while preventing an apocalypse. ($27.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780061957918. You can visit Kim Harrison‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Brad Meltzer is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Inner Circle and The Book of Fate, and six other bestselling thrillers. He is also the host of the History Channel series Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, the Eisner Award-winning writer of the graphic novel Justice League of America, and one of the co-creators of the TV show Jack & Bobby. Meltzer reads from and discusses his new thriller The Fifth Assassin, the story of a serial killer imitating all of the presidential assassins, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. ($27.99) Grand Central ISBN # 9780446553971. You can visit Brad Meltzer‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Cuban-born, Miami Beach-based private investigator Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is the author of ten books, as well as a contributor to many anthologies, but she is perhaps best known for her Lupe Solano mystery series. Garcia-Aguilera reads from and discusses her new stand alone novel Magnolia. “Garcia-Aguilera creates a lovably imperfect heroine in this Pretty Woman-type tale…readers will fall in love with Magnolia in this engaging tale of what unexpected choices can be made when one’s back is against the wall.” – Publishers Weekly ($16.95) B & B Press ISBN # 97809839378458. You can visit Carolina Garcia-Aguilera‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

In 2004, Ken Jennings successfully auditioned for a spot on Jeopardy!, and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac, about his Jeopardy! adventures, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, as was his follow-up, Maphead. Jennings reads from and discusses his entertaining new book Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids. “A fun, lighthearted compendium of conventional wisdom, mostly parental, which debunks plenty of old wives’ tales and urban myths while offering a few surprising truths…. ‘Occasionally Mom knew what she was talking about,’ as this clever book confirms, but often she did not.” – Kirkus Reviews ($19.99) Scribner ISBN # 9781451656251. You can visit Ken Jennings‘ official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!