Book Review
Cookies for Christmas
If there were ever a time when people need shortcuts, the holidays are the time. So a cookie cookbook that has a substantial chapter on Sugarplum Shortcuts is a welcome time-saver. Consider baking three different cookies from one dough...
Book Review
Alan Wong's New Wave Luau
One might call a book covering both Hawaiian and Hawaiian fusion cuisine a niche book, but Wong’s New Wave Luau is much more than an ethnic cookbook. It is a book for cooks and cookbook collectors, for lovers of beautiful food and for...
Book Review
Raising Good Kids in Tough Times
As a family consultant, University of Maryland child psychologist, teacher and author, McIntire brings years of professional experience to a book that addresses raising children in today’s complex and often violent times. An...
Book Review
Fast Appetizers
Good things come in small packages, and well over 100 fresh recipes for appetizers neatly packaged in a slim, 10“ x 10“ cookbook is a pleasant thing indeed. Although the title suggests a less sophisticated book, and many of the...
Book Review
Smart Love
One might wonder what elements make a parenting book deserving of a large publicity and advertising budget, a national radio campaign and a fourteen-city book tour. In the case of Smart Love, the elements are authors respected in...
Book Review
Elders on Love
Elders on Love is a book that seeks to bring insights, people and generations together, and offers “love as the missing link,” but ends with diverse views. Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi (From Age-ing to Sage-ing author )...
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Like it Is
In a comprehensive small book, physician Lieberman and public health expert Troccoli not only cover most of the sexual practices and mores of contemporary teens, but they also give much space, proportionately, to the critical subjects of...
Book Review
Ending the War on Drugs
Ending the War on Drugs is a timely book since illegal drug use in America is currently a political hot potato. However, it is not a new issue. Eldredge, an admitted “white, conservative Republican,” sheds light on the complex...