Gradebusters Stephen Schmite How Parents Can End the Bad Grades Battle 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 in grade trouble at school, Dr. Schmitz, and it’s making my life hellish at home.… Continue reading Gradebusters
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Bridges
Bridges Jonetta Rose Barras Reuniting Daughters & Daddies 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. Using her own story, and that of other women from across the country, Barras identified… Continue reading Bridges
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 in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received… Continue reading The Art of Acquiring
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 causes of premature death in all technologically advanced nations. The medical toll is made heavier… Continue reading A Cry Unheard
The Last of the Black Emperors
The Last of the Black Emperors Jonetta Rose Barras The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious obscenities at the woman who helped agents trap him, Barry was publicly disgraced, his personal… Continue reading The Last of the Black Emperors
Generation of Wealth
Generation of Wealth Julius Westheimer Time-Tested Rules for Worry-Free Investing Clear, reassuring, generation-spanning wisdom to investors from one of America’s best known brokers. Julius Westheimer boils down his lifetime of experience into his first book and shares with us his wisest and most sought-after investment advice for generating wealth safely and soundly. The late Julius… Continue reading Generation of Wealth
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, Shelton offers humor as the best therapy for post-modern parenting. From lost keys and broken… Continue reading You Might as Well Laugh
Violent Screen
Violent Screen Stephen Hunter A Critic’s 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter’s movie reviews, taking aim at one hundred of the most important (or notorious) violent films released since 1982. With an… Continue reading Violent Screen
The Miss Dennis School of Writing
The Miss Dennis School of Writing 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 make up a life.” These pieces thus explore, with quiet grace, the unexpected pleasures that are gleaned from an appreciation of the… Continue reading The Miss Dennis School of Writing
Last Call at the 7-Eleven
Last Call at the 7-Eleven Kevin Cowherd Fine Dining at 2 A.M., the Search for Spandex People, and Other Reasons to Go on Living The country might be going to hell in a hand-basket, but don’t close the garage doors and sit there with the engine running until you read this collection of sardonic, off-the-wall… Continue reading Last Call at the 7-Eleven