Even if truth is stranger than fiction, Townsend has been giving truth a run for its money in the person of Adrian Mole, her fictitious English diarist whose life and predicaments were nicely captured in his self-description from an... Read More

In this fifteenth volume of her cookbook-paired-with-a-compact-disc series, O’Connor, a musician, cook, and founder of the San Francisco String Quartet invites readers to peek into twenty-one Italian restaurant kitchens in Italy and... Read More

Women-owned businesses have doubled in the last twelve years to more than 9.1 million, 38 percent of all firms in the United States…Women owners generate $3.6 trillion in sales yearly. Careerpreneurs is for and about women who take... Read More

Sam the detective has a hairball of a problem on his paws. His friend, Sandy, the popular star of cat food commercials, is missing, the result of an apparent catnapping. The villains left a ransom note and clues that are trickier to... Read More

There is a poignant silence to these photographs taken of Paris at the turn of the previous century. They are pictures of storefronts, alleys, parks, riverbanks, streetscapes, street vendors, sculptures, bridges, stairways, details of... Read More

“In West Virginia a good story takes awhile, / and if it has people in it, you have to swear / that it is true,” Maggie Anderson confides in “Long Story,” one of the hundreds of poems editors Smith and Judd—both West Virginia... Read More

Burkett brings the experience of participating in a mom’s support group home by interviewing a selection of mothers on topics concerning women switching from the challenges of full-time employment to the unknown world of motherhood.... Read More

Powered by Garth Brooks’ phenomenal success, country music flourished throughout the early 1990s, reaching a younger audience and selling far more records than ever before. (The famed “Class of ’89” yielded not just Brooks, but... Read More