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More than 150 recipes plus family remembrances and cultural history make
up this irresistible salute to Cracker heritage - with an Introduction by
Pat Conroy.
Crackers, rednecks, hillbillies and country
boys have long been the brunt of many jokes,
yet this old southern culture is a rich and
vibrant part of American history. In The
Cracker Kitchen, novelist Janis Owens traces
the root of...
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Part coming-of-age story, part blueprint for effecting real change, this
engrossing narrative explores what it means to create meaningful solutions
to global poverty and release human potential in an interconnected world
For Jacqueline Novogratz it all started back
home in Alexandria, Virginia, with the blue
sweater, a special gift that quickly
became...
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For all the debate about
belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and
how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or
the other— Tomáš Halík teaches that God
requires us to persevere with our doubts,
carry them in our hearts, and allow them to
lead us to maturity. For Halík, patience is
the main difference between faith and
atheism. Faith, hope, and love...
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We’ve all seen the sort of woman who can walk into a room and pow!
Everyone feels a pull toward her, a great gravitational tug. She’s
confident. She’s dynamic. She’s comfortable in her own skin. THE RIPPLE
EFFECT will help readers become that kind of woman.
What these women have going for them isn’t a secret. But it’s the key to
being sexy, self-assured...
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From two parenting experts as well as in the trenches moms comes a book
no new mother will want to be without. Organized chronologically and indexed
for easy reference, The Must Have Mom manual covers every aspect of mother
and child’s life from birth to around first grade.
The book has an all-inclusive philosophy
because these young moms-who are best
friends have made opposite...
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To his friends, Seymour Langer was one of the brightest kids to emerge
from Chicago’s Depression-era Jewish West Side. To his family, he was a
driven and dedicated physician, a devoted father and husband. But to his
youngest son, Langer was also an enigma: a somewhat distant figure to whom
he could never quite measure up; a worldly man who never left the city of
Chicago during the last third of his life; a would-be author who...
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This book will unveil a
little known but critical truth: small
donations from everyday Americans can create
tremendous positive change throughout the
world.
Philanthropy is everywhere in American media
today. Unfortunately, most of it focuses on
the biggest donations by the wealthiest
individuals such as Oprah and Bill Gates.
Give a Little will show readers
that their modest gifts...
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Pat Conroy, the beloved
American storyteller, is a voracious reader.
Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed
into a life-long companion, reading has been
Conroy’s portal to the world, both to the
furthest corners of the globe and to the
deepest chambers of the human soul. His
interests range widely, from Milton to
Tolkien, Philip Roth to Thucydides,
encompassing poetry, history, philosophy,
and any mesmerizing tale...
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An inspiring memoir about how the seemingly ordinary act of writing thank
you notes led a middle-aged man out of hopelessness and into the fulfillment
of lifelong dreams.
At age 53, John Kralik was about to begin the new year at a personal
nadir—confronted with a law firm in the red, a painful divorce, increasingly
distant children, a small and poorly heated apartment, and a newly
ex-girlfriend. During a walk in the hills...
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Caregiving is hard work. Few
are prepared to take it on. The Good
Caregiver is a survival guide with an
insider’s perspective, for the millions of
people who find themselves in a role they
never trained for: caring for aging loved
ones.
As Americans live longer, more people than
ever require long-term care during their
last years—and adult children become
unsuspecting caregivers for their parents.
Most of these new caregivers are unprepared...
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After the birth of her
first child in 2006, internationally best
selling Turkish writer Elif Shafak suffered
from postpartum depression that triggered a
profound personal crisis. Infused with
guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about
whether she could ever be a good mother,
Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in
words altogether. In this elegantly written
and often humorous and ironic memoir, she
retraces her journey from free-spirited,
nomadic artist to dedicated...
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Every week new discoveries
about the brain make the news, often
promising parents the latest “right” way to
nurture their kids’ developing brains and
behavior. And every day there’s a new
technology that demands your child’s
attention, a new game or toy that purports
to make your kid smarter, and a new snack
promising to be healthy as well as tasty.
How’s a busy parent to make heads or tails
of all these claims? You turn to Dr. David
Walsh, an expert at translating...
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THE ORCHARD is the story of
a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a
new life on an apple farm after she falls in
love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a
prominent local family whose lives and
orchards seem to be cursed. Married after
only three months, young Theresa finds life
with Adrian on the farm far more difficult
and dangerous than she suspected. Rejected
by her husband’s family as an outsider, she
slowly educates herself about the isolated
world of farming, even as she falls more
deeply in love with her husband, a man
she...
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An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism--the true
story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor,
and the pianist who was the subject of an inspiring You Tube video that
moved millions of viewers.
At nearly 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest
Holocaust survivor. An eyewitness to the entire last century and the first
decade of this one, she has seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt
concentration camp, attending the trial of
Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the
way coming into contact with some of the
most...
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"Without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no
concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a
small space…the history of the human spirit and to make it his own,
he can only do this in the form of a collection of books."
--Hermann Hesse, The Magic of Books
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Nonfiction coming in 2012
January:
A SIMPLE
ACT OF GRATITUDE (originally published as 365 Thank Yous)
by John Kralik, paperback.
February:
A CENTURY OF WISDOM:
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, The World’s Oldest
Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger.
March:
DREAMING IN FRENCH: The Paris Years of Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan.
July: THE
ORCHARD by Theresa Weir, paperback.
September:
SMART
PARENTING, SMARTER KIDS by David Walsh, paperback.
November/December: MR. OWITA’S GUIDE TO GARDENING by
Carol Wall, FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF BOB by Bob Harris |
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