A "Library Journal" Best Book of the Year
What would you do with a second chance at life?
Having survived a life-threatening illness, Kate celebrates by gathering with six close friends. At an intimate outdoor dinner on a warm September evening, the women challenge Kate to start her new lea[...]

National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of "The School of Essential Ingredients" in this luminous sequel...
Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There's Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers; Chloe, a budding chef who[...]

Celebrities, foodies and media people rely on the Blueprint Cleanse for relief from the excess, overindulgence and toxins we are all exposed to every day. Now, the founders of the cleanse praised in Elle, Vogue and Every Day with Rachel Ray, offer THE 3-DAY CLEANSE, an at-home juice cleansing progra[...]

Number Theory: A Lively Introduction with Proofs, Applications, and Stories , is a new book that provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to elementary number theory along with relevant applications. Readable discussions motivate new concepts and theorems before their formal definitions and s[...]

"Democratic Insecurities" focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti, during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized[...]

The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice w[...]

This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-[...]

Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow older time seems to condense, speed up, elude us, while in old age significant events from our distant pa[...]

"Rat-a-tat-tat Dum-da-da-dum Sis-boom-ba "Little Lana wants to have aparade with her family.But it's raining andMama, Papa, Ray, and Jay don t want to get wet.Of course, the"pitter-pitter-pat" of the rain isn t enough to dampenLana simaginative spirit or plans She knows how tocreate a parade all [...]

Modern fairy tales for modern kids
Once upon a time, Snow White fled from an evil queen and found peace in the forest with seven dwarves. But that was then. Flash forward to today....
Snow White can't help being the prettiest thing in her stepmother's chic boutique. But when awful Evilyn no[...]