Speaking of Writers
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Christopher J. Leahy-President Without a Party- The Life of John Tyler
July 17, 2020 21:33 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MBHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full- scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades—Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorne...
Todd Zolecki-Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay
July 17, 2020 20:38 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBRoy “Doc” Halladay was an All-Star, a two-time Cy Young winner, a superstar and ultimately a Hall of Famer. But Roy was also a quiet enigma, a man who worked harder than anyone and let his pitches do his talking. He intimidated opponents, and his silent intensity hung between him and the media, his fans and even some of his teammates. In Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay (Triumph Books), longtime Phillies writer Todd Zolecki reveals the real Roy Halladay in a way which has never been done befor...
Ace Atkins- The Revelators
July 17, 2020 20:12 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBFormer Army Ranger Quinn Colson returned a decade ago to his native Tibbehah County, Mississippi, to serve as sheriff. In the last nine books of the series, he has sparred with white supremacists, collided with corrupt religious leaders, and grappled with issues of racism on his home turf. New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins writes, “The genesis of the series was to write about the new South, what’s happening right now. And you can’t really escape the rise of Trumpism and its effect...
Tracy Tutor-FEAR IS JUST A FOUR-LETTER WORD: How to Develop the Unstoppable Confidence to Own Any Room
July 16, 2020 17:39 - 7 minutes - 7.06 MBBehind Tracy Tutor's entertaining on-screen persona is an uncanny knack for projecting confidence in the most intimidating of circumstances. The breezy, tough-talking, utterly inimitable LA real estate broker has rivaled her male co-stars to land increasingly high-profile deals. In FEAR IS JUST A FOUR-LETTER WORD: How to Develop the Unstoppable Confidence to Own Any Room, Tracy leverages her years of experience to provide the go-to manual for women who struggle to convince people they're in ...
Megha Majumdar- A Burning
July 15, 2020 17:39 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBA BURNING is about three characters whose lives become entwined after a terrorist attack in India. It is taut, electrifying, and dazzling. “I started writing A Burning from a place of alarm and anger,” says Megha Majumdar, “I saw a world changing in frightening ways, growing more intolerant of minority communities and more extremist, and I wanted to look at individuals caught within those turns of society.” Megha grew up in Kolkata, India and studied social anthropology at Harvard and Johns...
Sara Paretsky- Love & Other Crimes
July 14, 2020 14:31 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBIn this spellbinding collection, Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents in a new V.I. Warshawski story, along with fourteen additional short stories, eight of those featuring the indomitable detective. As Publishers Weekly praised, ““The love that really comes through in each story is the love and empathy Paretsky has for her all-too-human characters.” Paretsky is the master of twisting suspense and pacey plot. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Mas...
Jane L Rosen- Eliza Starts A Rumor
July 14, 2020 14:27 - 8 minutes - 8.2 MBAbout ELIZA STARTS A RUMOR by Jane L. Rosen Eliza Hunt is the creator of the Hudson Valley Ladies’ Bulletin Board, a local social media group for the mothers of her community just north of New York City that she started when her twins were barely out of diapers. Fifteen years later, with an empty nest and a crippling secret affliction—agoraphobia—it’s brought to her attention that the younger moms in her town no longer have any use for the group she prides herself in running. Instead, there...
Mark Cannizzaro- Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters
July 02, 2020 21:01 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters (Triumph Books), veteran New York Post sportswriter Mark Cannizzaro explores the rich history and deep connection between Augusta National and the world’s most iconic and prestigious golf tournament. Cannizzaro, who’s covered a quarter century of Masters tournaments, combines his experience and passion for the sport in this engaging collection of essays. Loaded with insights from the biggest personalities in the golf world, this grea...
Tracy Campbell- The Year of Peril, America in 1942
June 26, 2020 14:59 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBThe Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the po...
Chanel Cleeton- The Last Train to Key West
June 26, 2020 14:49 - 11 minutes - 11 MBTHE LAST TRAIN TO KEY WEST is another example of Chanel Cleeton’s gorgeous historical storytelling as she brings to life three bold young women whose paths cross over Labor Day weekend, 1935, when a devastating storm wreaks havoc on the Florida Keys – the very first Category 5 storm to hit American soil. These women seem very different on the surface, but ultimately their lives will never be the same after their chance encounters during this life-altering, completely unforgettable moment in ...
Tom Clavin- TOMBSTONE: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
June 19, 2020 16:38 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBTom Clavin’s popular Western histories have delighted readers and earned critical accolades. Like many, Clavin is fascinated by the larger-than-life personalities and enduring myths that surround the Wild West. His histories take on those myths and legends, separating fact from fiction to get at what really happened. In Dodge City, he told the true story of how a depraved cattle town was tamed by two young lawmen. In Wild Bill, he provided a definitive biography of the first lawman of the Wi...
Robert Dallek-HOW DID WE GET HERE?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump
June 19, 2020 16:22 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBRenowned New York Times bestselling historian and presidential scholar Robert Dallek believes that President Trump is ignorant of the histories of the presidencies that came before 1993. “It was only with the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama presidencies,” Dallek says, “that he saw vulnerabilities he hoped to exploit to become president.” But while Trump’s 2016 election has presented extreme new challenges to American republican ideals, the triumphs and failures of some of the ...
Chris Wallace- Countdown 1945
June 19, 2020 16:12 - 10 minutes - 9.38 MBFrom Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima. April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first...
Doug J Swanson- CULT OF GLORY- : The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers
June 11, 2020 19:34 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThe Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still going, one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. Countless movies, television shows, and pulp novels have celebrated the Rangers as Wild West supermen. In many cases, they deserve their plaudits. But often the truth has been obliterated. In CULT OF GLORY: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers (Viking) Doug J. Swanson does justice to the Range...
Nicholas Basbanes- CROSS OF SNOW: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
June 11, 2020 19:28 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBThe first major biography of “a poet of the people” in 50 years, CROSS OF SNOW: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes. Cross of Snow gets its title from a sonnet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) wrote toward the end of his life to commemorate the devastating loss eighteen years earlier of his beloved wife Fanny, the victim of a frightful domestic accident that in an instant turned an idyllic relationship into a scene of unspeakable horror. For his central image, Lo...
Kristan Higgins- Always The Last To Know
June 08, 2020 18:15 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBIn her newest novel, ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW (Berkley Trade Paperback Original), Higgins tackles fractured family relationships through the story of a quietly unhappy nuclear family trapped in a narrative of their own making. Barb and John Frost, who entered marriage deeply in love, have become two people coexisting in the same house. Barb’s pride and joy is her favorite daughter, the beautiful and successful Juliet. John’s purest love belongs to his free-spirited and artistic younger daught...
Danielle Trussoni- The Ancestor
June 08, 2020 17:46 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBTHE ANCESTOR by Danielle Trussoni —her triumphant return to fiction a decade after the critically acclaimed publication of her breakout novels Angelolgy and Angeloplis. As the horror columnist for the New York Times Book Review, Trussoni has a unique window into the world in which THE ANCESTOR is set. Her mastery and understanding of the genre has influenced this newest release with a captivating blend of taut suspense and gothic elements that will “enrapture readers” (Publishers Weekly) and...
Tim McGrath- JAMES MONROE: A Life
June 04, 2020 21:40 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBAmong the extraordinary group of early Americans who became known as the Founding Fathers, James Monroe may be the least recognized. But with the remarkable range of his service to the nation, and his extraordinary skill in shepherding the young nation through one of its most perilous periods, he and his achievements find new resonance and relevance in our own time. Now, drawing on newly available primary sources, acclaimed biographer and historian Tim McGrath presents the first biography ...
Jeffrey Deaver- The Goodbye Man
June 04, 2020 21:37 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBAbout the Book: The Osiris Foundation is located in a vast rural area near the beautiful but remote Snoqualmie Gap in Washington State. It bills itself as a faith-based organization that helps troubled people overcome addiction and other problems. Its enigmatic and charismatic leader is known only “Master Eli,” who claims to have cheated death and become a prophet for a new age. But just who is this strange man and what hypnotic power does he hold over his flock? Shaw is drawn to the Osiri...
David Pepper- The Voter File
June 04, 2020 21:33 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBAs November approaches, foreign interference in our election process weighs heavily on our public conscience. Novelist David Pepper—who in 2015 was unanimously elected Chairman of the Democratic Party of Ohio—lends his singular political expertise and sharp storytelling powers to a twisty, cautionary thriller—THE VOTER FILE —that sounds the alarm about election meddling and the loss of American freedoms. No one is better suited than Pepper—who President Bill Clinton named as one of his favor...
Thomas Wolf- The Called Shot
June 04, 2020 21:30 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBIn the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country—and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same edginess that pervaded the national scene. On‑the‑field fights were as common as double plays. Amid the Nationa...
Stephen Fritz- The First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader
May 29, 2020 16:22 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBA leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany’s humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country’s brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer’s erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demons...
Dave Wedge- Hunting Whitey
May 28, 2020 21:34 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBBased on exclusive, fresh reporting, HUNTING WHITEY is the thrilling, definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of legendary South Boston mob boss, James “Whitey” Bulger, detailing as never before his years on the run, how he evaded arrest, and his brutal murder in prison. Sherman and Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete story of Whitey Bulger, one of the most notorious crime bosses in American history and a longti...
David Rohde-IN DEEP: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State”
May 28, 2020 21:27 - 10 minutes - 9.33 MBWith IN DEEP: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” [W. W. Norton & Company], two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Rohde investigates whether an American “deep state” exists. Today, three-quarters of Americans polled believe that a group of unelected government and military officials are secretly manipulating national policy. To conservatives, the “deep state” is an ever-growing government bureaucracy, an “administrative state” that relentlessly encroaches ...
John Shea- 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
May 28, 2020 20:27 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MBWillie Mays has long been recognized as baseball’s greatest all-around player. In the history of the sport, few have been as inspiring as Mr. Mays, who uplifted many generations since he first captivated the baseball world with his unparalleled combination of skills, flair and joyful exuberance. This tremendous, heartfelt new book, co-authored with John Shea, and told in Mr. Mays’s voice, 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, (St. Martin’s Publishing Group), is full of poignant...
Alan Gaff- Lou Gehrig- The Lost Memoir
May 23, 2020 05:24 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBAt the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with the legendary 1927 World Series-winning Yankees. In an effort to grow Lou’s star, pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou’s tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Until now, those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history. Lou co...
Barbara Sapienza-The Laundress: A Novel
May 23, 2020 05:16 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MBSet among the steep streets and stunning vistas of San Francisco, The Laundress: A Novel (May 19, 2020; She Writes Press; paperback original) by Barbara Sapienza is a coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever sought to understand where they came from in order to figure out who they’re meant to become. About the Author Barbara Sapienza, PhD, is a retired clinical psychologist and an alumna of San Francisco State University’s creative writing master’s program. She writes and paints, nourishe...
Ted Widmer-LINCOLN ON THE VERGE: Thirteen Days to Washington
May 23, 2020 05:07 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBLINCOLN ON THE VERGE: Thirteen Days to Washington ( Simon & Schuster) by Ted Widmer is a deep history of thirteen days in the life of Abraham Lincoln as he boarded a train in Springfield, IL and journeyed to Washington, DC to take the oath of office and be sworn in as the sixteenth president of the United States. Widmer, a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York and former speechwriter in the Clinton White House, offers “a colorful, richly detaile...
Lisa Duffy- My Kind of People
May 15, 2020 19:01 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBMy Kind of People (Atria), Lisa Duffy’s third breathtaking and sensitive novel, will restore your hope in the world. For fans of Celeste Ng and Mary Beth Keane comes a profound story about the power of community as a members of a small New England island town rally around a recently orphaned ten-year-old girl. My Kind of People is Big Little Lies meets an Elin Hilderbrand novel, delving into themes of love, heartbreak, deceit, scandal, and mental health. Emotionally complex, deeply moving, ...
Scott Turow- The Last Trial
May 12, 2020 15:40 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBTHE LAST TRIAL by Scott Turow is the courtroom drama his fans have been waiting for: the culmination of two incredible lives in one explosive case, as Turow’s beloved character, Sandy Stern, returns to the Kindle Country courtroom to defend one of his oldest friends from ruinous charges. In THE LAST TRIAL, Sandy Stern is a celebrated criminal defense lawyer nearing the end of his career. But when his lifelong friend, Dr. Kiril Pafko, a Nobel Prize winner and world- renowned cancer researche...
James Patterson-The House of Kennedy
May 01, 2020 21:28 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBJames Patterson Tells the Story of the Kennedy Family The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America’s most storied family, as told by America’s most trusted storyteller. You've read about Jack, Bobby, Joe, Rose, Kick, Ted, Jackie O, John, and JFK Jr. This is their true story. James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. He has created many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michae...
John Turner- They Knew They Were Pilgrims
May 01, 2020 21:03 - 9 minutes - 8.3 MBAn ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zeal...
David Baldacci- Walk The Wire
May 01, 2020 20:49 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBAbout WALK THE WIRE: Decker and Jamison are ordered to investigate the death of a young woman, Irene Cramer, whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open—which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene’s life, they are shocked to discover that the woman who worked as a prostitute by night was also a teacher for a local religious sect by day—a sect operating on land once owned by a mysterious government facility that loo...
Chad Seales- Religion Around Bono
April 29, 2020 03:34 - 10 minutes - 9.84 MBOn the face of it, Bono—U2’s frontman since 1978 and arguably one of the most recognizable people on the planet—is the very example of an engaged, progressive activist: headlining human rights benefits, conferring with world leaders, founding NGOs to help Africa’s poor. But in this new critique, religious studies scholar and U2 fan Chad Seales illuminates the often-ignored threads that run through and complicate the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s popular persona and promise—and that unconscious...
Don Winslow- Broken
April 24, 2020 17:48 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MBIn six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body of work—crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption—to explore the savagery and nobility that drive and define the human condition. About the Author: Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller Th...
Lindsay Chervinsky-The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
April 24, 2020 17:37 - 12 minutes - 11 MBThe US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet—the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because...
Toby Muse- KILO: INSIDE THE DEADLIEST COCAINE CARTELS—FROM THE JUNGLES TO THE STREETS
April 21, 2020 18:28 - 10 minutes - 9.19 MBVeteran journalist Toby Muse has witnessed up close each level of the cocaine underworld, fueled by the appetite for cocaine in America and Europe. In KILO: INSIDE THE DEADLIEST COCAINE CARTELS—FROM THE JUNGLES TO THE STREETS, he takes the reader inside Colombia’s notorious drug cartels to offer a never before look at the drug trade. Following a kilo of cocaine from its production in a clandestine laboratory to the smugglers who ship it abroad, he reveals the human lives behind the drug’s co...
Jon Pessah- Yogi A Life Behind the Mask
April 17, 2020 19:24 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBThe definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history by Jon Pessah.
Erik Larson- The Splendid and The Vile
April 17, 2020 18:44 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBNew York Times bestselling author Erik Larson is known for expertly transporting readers to past worlds; even stories we think we know come to life in a different way in his hands. With his remarkable new work of nonfiction, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, Larson once again turns history into a thriller, taking us into the heart of war-torn England for the period of May 10, 1940, through May 10, 1941—Winston Churchill’s first year as prime minister.
Harlan Coben- The Boy From The Woods
April 10, 2020 14:27 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBIn THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, Harlan Coben creates the unforgettable character of Wilde, a man who is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods with no memory of his past. Now, thirty years later, he’s a highly trained ex-military operative who still knows nothing about his personal history. And he's back living in the same woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast with only a few deep connections to other p...
Son of Bum: Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life by Wade Phillips and Vic Carucci
April 09, 2020 18:32 - 8 minutes - 7.72 MBFootball life lessons from one of our greatest coaches, who learned from his father –the legendary Bum Phillips. Legendary football coach and Super Bowl champion Wade Phillips recalls his life in football and memories of his father, NFL head coach Bum Phillips.
Luis Tiant-Son of Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back with Saul Wisnia.
April 09, 2020 18:27 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThe improbable story of Luis Tiant—a living link to the earliest days of Fidel Castro’s regime, a Boston Red Sox legend, and the most qualified 20th Century pitcher not yet enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Megan Campisi- Sin Eater
April 09, 2020 18:17 - 8 minutes - 8.08 MB“Reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale” (Kirkus Reviews), playwright Megan Campisi’s debut novel, SIN EATER ( Atria), is an inventive exploration of history and womanhood in 16th century England—with a dystopian and eerily contemporary feminine twist. When 14-year-old May is caught stealing, she receives a life sentence: rather than being hanged, she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned, silent woman, performing a funeral rite of consuming food that symbolizes each particular sin—from lust to reb...
Kate Winkler Dawson- American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
April 01, 2020 18:49 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBMany are fascinated by the forensic techniques employed at crime scenes, but few know the origin story of these now taken-for-granted methods of solving murders and other misdeeds. AMERICAN SHERLOCK by journalist and documentary film producer Kate Winkler Dawson chronicles the revolutionary contributions of Edward Oscar Heinrich, who pioneered many of the forensic techniques used today. Heinrich was one of the nation's first expert witnesses, working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibitio...
Steve Inskeep- Imperfect Union
April 01, 2020 18:36 - 10 minutes - 9.86 MBSteve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America’s first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the a...
Dean Koontz- Devoted
April 01, 2020 18:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIn Dean Koontz's new book: DEVOTED - 100,000 years of the human-dog bond leads to an evolutionary leap in a relationship that will change the world for the better - that is - if events in a Utah lab don’t first change it for the worse. Devoted is a breathless story of suspense and terror and also about the many ways people become devoted to one another and to dogs - and dogs to them! About the Author: DEAN KOONTZ has been praised as a “literary juggler” by The Times (of London) for his deft...
Kerri Maher- The Girl In White Gloves
March 27, 2020 18:58 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MBTHE GIRL IN WHITE GLOVES is a vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from Kerri Maher, the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Maher’s meticulously researched novel, The Kennedy Debutante, earned Maher both critical and popular acclaim. People Magazine called it “a riveting reimagining of a true tale of forbidden love,” and USA Today praised this “well-paced and engaging novel.” In her new novel, THE GIRL IN WHITE GLOVES, Maher once ...
Susan Spungen- Open Kitchen: Inspired Food for Casual Gatherings,
March 27, 2020 18:43 - 10 minutes - 9.82 MBAn open kitchen, whether physical or spiritual, is a place to welcome company, to enjoy togetherness and the making of a meal. This cookbook is full of contemporary, stylish, and accessible dishes that will delight and impress with less effort. From simple starters such as Burrata with Pickled Cherries and centerpieces such as Kale and Prosciutto-Wrapped Chicken, to desserts such as Chamomile Flan, the dishes are seasonal classics with a twist. Her meals are vegetable-forward and always appe...
Jason Diakite- A Drop of Midnight
March 11, 2020 16:16 - 10 minutes - 9.62 MBJASON “TIMBUKTU” DIAKITÉ is one of Sweden’s chart topping hip hop artists winning 8 Swedish Grammy awards, 4 P3 Guld (Swedish radio) awards and has performed all over the world, from Sweden to Africa and from the Roxy in Los Angeles to Nobel Peace Prize award ceremonies! Born in Sweden to American parents - an African American dad and a white mom - Jason's book - A DROP OF MIDNIGHT- has already sold thousands of copies in Sweden and goes on sale in the US next month. It is also being adapte...
Kristina Kuzmic- Hold On, But Don't Hold Still: Hope and Humor from My Seriously Flawed Life.
March 11, 2020 16:12 - 10 minutes - 9.17 MBThirteen years ago, Kristina Kuzmič , was a broke and defeated mother of two; recently divorced; juggling jobs and sleeping on the floor next to her kids. She never imagined that a lo-fi cooking show she pieced together to reach other moms in the trenches would get Oprah’s attention. Today, she speaks directly to her 2.8 million Facebook followers in honest, funny parenting videos on topics from “Mind your own Motherhood” to a satirical PSA “4 Reasons women should NEVER breastfeed in public....