Authors
Sam Barry
How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons
Harmonica playing becomes a life guide for the musically unaware. Fun, fast, and witty. Learn to play the harmonica and how to manage your life in one easy read. Laugh so hard that you can’t possibly play the harmonica. Read, relax, breathe, blow, and draw until you make your whole life a song.
Hester Bass
The Secret World of Walter Anderson
Walter Anderson “is the most famous artist you have never heard of.” The book is WINNER of the 2010 NCTE ORBIS PICTUS AWARD for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English and holds a whole list of other distinctions. Anderson’s unusual personality comes alive in prose and images.
John Berendt
The City of Falling Angels
This exploration of the rich eccentricities of Venice should be read by anyone anticipating a trip to Venice or anyone who wishes they might go to the magic city of canals. Local characters narrate and guide the reader through the city. You will feel as though your feet are soaked in the organic personality of this mysterious city of art and commerce.
Elizabeth Berg
The Last Time I Saw You
A 40th high school reunion and a zestful, authentic look at the pressures and possibilities of reuniting with personalities from your youth. Explore your own high school legacy via this funny, authentic, and optimistic look at human nature. Reviewers always describe the writing as smooth and flowing as it envelops you in memories of adolescent emotion.
Rona Berg
Fast Beauty: 1,000 Quick Fixes
Every woman needs at least three copies of this book, one for her office, one for the car, and one at home. Oh! And one more to give away when you find a friend who has not yet bought a copy. Fast fixes for pimples, dry skin, the effects of late night fatigue, and over work. How to prepare for a date when you have only five minutes between work and the restaurant. An entertaining how-to book for your face and hands.
Sarah Bird
The Flamenco Academy
A story of being an outsider, grief, a love triangle, and freedom, the resonant first-person voice of Czech, Cyndi Rae Hrncir (not a typo) takes us through obsession, sex, flamenco, gypsies, art, celebrity, broken families, the Spanish Civil War, and contemporary Albuquerque, NM. Brutal, beautiful, and provoking, a great read.
Mike Blakey
Come Sundown
American history, adventure, humor, and great use of the English language make this a book that you can’t put down. Protagonist, Plenty Man, manages to be swept up in every major event of the old west as he rides through this, the second in a promising trilogy. The book suffers not in the least by following closely the story line of Little Big Man. Despite the similarity, this book is original, exciting, fun, and educational, a Wild West memorial.
Stephanie Bond
Body Movers
At 18, a rich pampered girl is suddenly adrift and on her own when her parents flee the country with the authorities in hot pursuit. Disdained by friends, dumped by her fiancé, and suspected of murdering her rival, Carlotta Wren's life becomes an engrossing crime tale with a surprising plot twist. The book starts out making you, the reader, angry. Some are tempted to put it down somewhere in the first 50 pages. But then…! Totally captivating, full of humor, and ends with a promise of more great reading to come.
Sharon Boorstin
Cookin’ for Love: a Novel with Recipes
At 18, a rich pampered girl is suddenly adrift and on her own when her parents flee the country with the authorities in hot pursuit. Disdained by friends, dumped by her fiancé, and suspected of murdering her rival, Carlotta Wren's life becomes an engrossing crime tale with a surprising plot twist. The book starts out making you, the reader, angry. Some are tempted to put it down somewhere in the first 50 pages. But then…! Totally captivating, full of humor, and ends with a promise of more great reading to come.
Melodie Bowsher
My Lost and Found Life
An engrossing and provocative coming of age story. Read the adventures of Ashley Mitchell as she learns to thrive on her own after a privileged childhood that ends in abandonment. Fall in love with fully living characters and immerse yourself in the richly intoxicating atmosphere of the Madhouse Cyber Café. Suitable for ages as young as 13 or as old as imagination.
Prill Boyle
Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women
Inspiring without the smell of frou-frou or haze of dreamy etherealism. These are real stories of real women doing real and amazing things with their lives at an age when most are settling for the status quo. A beautiful book that proves life can re-start when others are winding down. These women did it. We can too. Laugh, cry, or jump for joy, read this book and make something new of you.