The old neighborhood was the place Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church and school operated like a religious city hall, and...

Sullivan, a motivational speaker and consultant who has been blind since birth, often speaks on the importance of turning disadvantages into advantages. He shows general readers how to recognize defining moments in one's life and how to use them to...

Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics. Publishers Weekly Shrinking Walden into picture book size is somewhat like trying to fit Moby Dick into an aquarium. Still, Lowe's selections from Thoreau's iconoclastic work will give children a...

The first book on AIDS to be writen from the point of view of a gay man's heterosexual sister. And what writing it is! "The mark of a good writer is that when she invites you to take a trip...

First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature. London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is,...

In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the results were handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a cabin in the Red River Gorge, and quit civilization for a proscribed...

First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature. London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is,...

An intelligent voice. An illuminating book. Mary Lou Sanelli is unsparing as she explores the subject of friendship in the lives of women This is a book of self-discovery ... dauntless, smart, funny, beautifully written. She examines, deeply and sincerely,...

Conversations with twenty successful authors about conquering the demon of rejection.Every author, from unpublished to bestselling, experiences rejection—from agents, editors, publishers, critics, even loved ones. It comes with the turf. But rejection can stop a writer dead in his tracks...

First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature. London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is,...