You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling to Croatia and Slovenia.With this guide, you’ll explore charming towns and undiscovered natural wonders. Stroll ato
A New York Times bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. With unmatched patience and a pulsat
The Russian River Valley?laid-back, marijuana-steeped, and off-the-grid?is the backdrop for Bart Schneider’s new mystery featuring the tough and dogged detective Augie Boyer.Augie takes a break from t
Banned in China, Dream of Ding Village is acclaimed Chinese novelist Yan Lianke’s most important and controversial novel to date? a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is develop
GORGEOUS & CREATIVE CAKE ON A STICKPacked with 50 designs and 70 color photos, this book shows how to make cake pops that are incredibly cute and amazingly delicious. Everyone loves a beautifully
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs, and Gilligan’s Island, Peter Bebergal was barely in his teens when the ancient desire to finding higher spiritual meanin
In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and Henry Miller, John Franc's masterful novel explores sexual obsession, as a group of male friends delve further and further into the world of brothels under the
Veggiyana brings the vitality of the world’s kitchens to your ownwith timeless wisdom and recipes to nourish, delight, and inspire.The kitchen is the most vital place on Earth, because even now in the
What better way to learn how to count than with eye-catching works of art? From fanciful folk Mexican puppets, Egyptian eyes, and lively masks to golden antiquities, Olmec era sculpture, and European
The Johnny Depp Photo Album follows the unstoppable rise of its subject: through all the movies and the drunken bad-boy behaviour, the romantic affairs with actress Winona Ryder and supermodel Kate Mo
What’s your damage?In 1989, Michael Lehmann’s black comedy Heathers drew a line in the sand, rebuffing the sweetness and optimism of John Hughes’ more popular fare with darkness and death. Launching t
Frustrated by the indifference of the music industry and the stacks of homemade CDs gathering dust in their closets, brothers Heth and Jed Weinstein made the radical decision to bring their music dire
The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humor and heartbreak. By turns hilarious and poignant, it’s the story of retired pro-hockey ruffian Bobby Bonaduce, who is stubbornly ignoring a disease
Leading children into the highest limits of their imagination, the art and language of Imagine That! lets them color and draw their own creations. From a ladybug fashion show to dancing dinosaurs, boy
Candy always had a million guys after her. Only before, they never used GPS tracking and surveillance helicopters. Candy Resnick and her best friend Velma jaunt around the world, flirt with rock stars
John Ashbery's esteem for A. F. Moritz has been seconded repeatedly by critics and readers. Starting in 1975 with Here and continuing through the years to Moritz's latest, The Sentinel, this poet has
It Can Happen In A Minute is a compelling story of love, deception, secrets, lies and making wrong decisions. From the beginning to a very explosive end, S.M. Johnson captivates, titillates and moves
Erin Moure, a frequent nominee and winner of the Governor General’s and other literary awards, is one of the most consistently innovative, imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure se
In their first book, Max Finder and Alison Santos invited readers to don their deerstalkers and join them in their crime-solving adventures. This all-new collection serves up ten more mystifying whodu
In The Sweet Science Goes Sour, boxing writer Thomas Myler recounts some of the sport’s most controversial fixes, fakes, and frauds. Like a ringside seat at the sport’s greatest and most troubled bout
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley’s new label, RCA Victor, to photogra
A personal account by the prestigious philosophy professor and author of On the Emotions describes his lonely youth in pre-World War II London, during which his impresario father and "Gaiety Girl" mot
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley’s new label, RCA Victor, to photogra
In this tender sequel to the New York Times bestseller and children's classic The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn provides parents with another tale of love and reassurance to share with their children. Che
With over three million kids playing soccer across the country in the early 1970s, soccer was poised to finally conquer America, and its heartbreaking rise and fall is captured in Gavin Newsham's Once
Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex is a collection of writing about desire. The stories are not straight-up sexual narrations but pieces, poems, and stories that explore the concept and manifestation of de
Here is a new and unique way of introducing children to communicating and playing with angels. Each delightful page offers the opportunity to create from the heart by taking pencils, paints, felt tips
With the full text of the Pratimoksha guidelines as well as the ceremonies and practices associated with it, Freedom Wherever We Go is an opportunity to discover and learn from the integrity, simplici
Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept during the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postin
Once again the acclaimed British author of Rhode Island Blues and Big Girls Don't Cry draws us into an unmistakably wild, rollicking tale full of her trademark satirical wit and sharp observation. Gra
Peter Wexler is unhappy. He's forty and obsessed with what's wrong in the world, including his marriage, a "thirtysomething" version of Ozzie and Harriet. Deciding a change of scenery might help put h
This best-selling guide, intended for those who are looking for moderately easy hikes in Yosemite is now in a much smaller and compact size. It describes twenty different trips and provides informatio
"C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy—the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants—and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge
David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thom
After delivering a package to Los Angeles International Airport and, in the process, accidentally blowing it up, Mary Alice Baker finds herself wanted by the FBI as a psychotic terrorist and pursued b
Using stories and personal anecdotes, Easwaran addresses the lessons death can bring. He sheds light on the perennial questions of time, desire, the nature of the mind, and the realization that the bi
Since fleeing to Latin America from Franco's Spain, Solita, her mother, and her brother find themselves having to contend with the strange society of El Topas, an opulent and sprawling estate, while a
This is a selection from among the most significant texts in the body of Buddhist literature, culled especially for readers who want a rich, varied, and comprehensive collection in one volume, and inc
The third and final book in the sexy, smart and thought-provoking SCARLET LETTER SOCIETY trilogy! Eva, now a full-time islander, has been working pro bono on the watermens’ lawsuit against the state.
From award-winning and NY Times bestselling children's author of more than 350 books, Jane Yolen, and award-winning illustrator, Bob Marstall,On Bird Hill is a wonderful new picture book created in co
