Tom Nevins

About Tom Nevins

Tom Nevins is a Senior National Account Manager for Random House and author of The Age of the Conglomerates (Ballantine, 2009). He can be visited at thomasnevins.com.

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April 16, 2013

A Mother’s Memoir of Autism and Potential: Kristine Barnett’s The Spark

A moving memoir of a mother who goes beyond traditional treatment to help her autistic son. By focusing on his passions, he achieves amazing things, showing readers that 'the spark' for potential can be found within us all.

April 12, 2013

A New Take on the Civil War: Bruce Levine’s The Fall of the House of Dixie

The Fall of the House of Dixie is an original take on the Civil War and that critical period in U.S. history. Bruce Levine does not concentrate on battles or politics, but on the aftereffects on the psychology and social fabric of the South.

March 20, 2013

Jonathan Dee’s A Thousand Pardons: Family Scandal and Reinvention

Jonathan Dee's latest book is an all-too-human redemption story of a family on the brink of disaster and one mother's struggle to climb back up.

October 10, 2012

Erin McHugh’s One Good Deed: A Promise and Path to Kindness

You don't have to be a saint to change someone's life for the better. In this lovely and personal how-to guide, Erin McHugh shows us how doing just one simple good deed a day can connect you to the world again.

September 25, 2012

One Marine’s Story of Going Beyond the Call of Duty: Dakota Meyer’s Into the Fire

This personal account of an astounding, controversial battle in the Afghan War takes no prisoners. Dakota Meyer shows us the intensity of combat and an unusual bravery, resulting in an unforgettable story of American heroism.

August 8, 2012

The End of the World Begins Here: 12.21 by Dustin Thomason

Used to dismissing end-of-the-world theories? Not this time. In 12.21, Dustin Thomason delivers a realistic thriller that you won't be able to put down, even as the clock runs out.

July 11, 2012

In War, Anguish, and Hope: John Boyne’s The Absolutist

The author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas brings his talents once again to the horror of war in this gripping tale of two young soldiers.

June 14, 2012

Capturing Elegance and Intrigue: Alan Furst’s Mission to Paris

Alan Furst's books are reminiscent of the classic black-and-white movies of days past -- and the beauty of this is magnified when he sets a story in the City of Light.

May 8, 2012

Toni Morrison’s Latest Novel, Home: A Road to Bittersweet and Back

If I didn't know better, I'd swear that Toni Morrison must have written the Bible. Her voice has such authority and command. And this is evident in her new novel, Home.

April 10, 2012

Home Run Derby: John Grisham’s Calico Joe and 4 Other Great Baseball Books

John Grisham's latest, Calico Joe, and the imminent arrival of springtime have us thinking about -- what else? -- baseball.

February 29, 2012

Blood, Guts, and Plenty of Heart in Conn Iggulden’s Genghis: Birth of an Empire

If you've seen that old "Star Trek" movie where Ricardo Montalban plays Genghis Khan and thought to yourself, "Hey, I might like to be a Khan," well, you might want to think again. In the Central Asian Plateau of the late 1100s there wasn't much to do but freeze, starve, and protect oneself from the elements, and we get a front-row seat to it all in Conn Iggulden's fictional biography of Genghis Khan, Genghis: Birth of an Empire.

January 4, 2012

A Myth Dispelled and a Man Newly Understood in Van Gogh: The Life

In reviews, commentaries, and notably on “60 Minutes,” much has been made of Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s shocking findings about the death of Vincent Van Gogh -- that he did not actually die by his own hand. And while that is important, it is not the point of their book.

December 5, 2011

Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers: A Historical Deep-Sea Adventure

So, you may ask yourself, why would I want to read a book about a U-boat, especially one that is filled with a bunch of dead Nazis? What if I told you that the boat was found only sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey and while the crew had been Nazi, they were really just boys? Sent on a blind suicide mission, these barely young men were under the direction of a demented leadership hell-bent on fighting a lost war until the last soldiers and sailors had fallen. Not enough?

November 30, 2011

Robert K. Massie’s Catherine the Great: A Biographical Matryoshka of Royal Scandal

There is more intrigue, politics, sex, and couture in Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great than a dozen Regency romances! This is the story of a woman who seized every opportunity and honed her mother’s ambition into a lethal weapon.

November 22, 2011

Charles Frazier: From Cold Mountain to Nightwoods, a True Storyteller

Having borne the burden of an 800-pound gorilla of a first novel with Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier shakes off the beast to do what storyteller’s do best -- tell a story.