Gradebusters
Gradebusters How Parents Can End the Bad Grades Battle Stephen Schmite Throughout his long and varied career as an educator, Steve Schmitz has been told one story, and asked one question, more than any other: “I know my child is …
Category: Non-Fiction
Bridges
Bridges Reuniting Daughters & Daddies Jonetta Rose Barras In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking bestseller Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl? author Jonetta Rose Barras broke the code of silence surrounding the devastating impact father absence has on girls and women. …
The Art of Acquiring
The Art of Acquiring A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone Mary Gabriel For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists’ studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections …
A Cry Unheard
A Cry Unheard New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness James J. Lynch It is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of modern life. As technology dramatically expands our ways of communicating, loneliness has become one of the leading …
Live by the Sword
Live by the Sword Gus Russo Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly …
The Last of the Black Emperors
The Last of the Black Emperors The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders Jonetta Rose Barras The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious …
Generation of Wealth
Generation of Wealth Time-Tested Rules for Worry-Free Investing Julius Westheimer Clear, reassuring, generation-spanning wisdom to investors from one of America’s best known brokers. Now, at the age of 81, Julius Westheimer boils down his lifetime of experience into his first …
You Might as Well Laugh
You Might as Well Laugh Surviving the Joys of Parenthood Sandi Kahn Shelton When it comes to surviving the joys of parenthood, take Sandi Kahn Shelton’s advice: You Might As Well Laugh. In this hilarious collection of essays and columns, …
Violent Screen
Violent Screen A Critic’s 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem Stephen Hunter Summary Order here
The Miss Dennis School of Writing
The Miss Dennis School of Writing And Other Lessons from a Woman’s Life Alice Steinbach In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to “rescue from insignificance some of the small events that …