Excerpt from I Thought You Were Dead

For Paul Gustavson, a hack writer for the wildly popular For Morons series, life is a succession of obstacles. His wife has left him, his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, his girlfriend i...

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Reads: 103

Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home

Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about...

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Reads: 126

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her...

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Reads: 159

Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars

Make leaf rubbings, learn the neighborhood bird songs together, turn an aquarium into a worm hotel, create a firefly lantern. There are garden projects, both for the outdoors—grow a container snack...

From: Workman

Reads: 2,134

How to Spell Chanukah Excerpt

"What a holiday! No pestilence, no slavery, no locusts, no cattle disease or atonement. No synagogue, no guilt, no mortar, and no real lesson to be absorbed and passed down to my Jewish offspring. ...

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Reads: 685

SEW Excerpt

S.E.W don’t hem and haw   just hem To practice your whipstitch, fold back the edge of a swatch of gingham about 1⁄4" and press. Fold up your “hem” another inch and press. Whipstitc...

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Excerpt from The Ghost at the Table

Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to...

From: Workman

Reads: 2,229

Hard Work Excerpt

Coach Roy Williams, one of the most respected, successful, and dominant basketball coaches in the nation, had an unlikely rise to the Hall of Fame and a career that boasts the highest winning perce...

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Reads: 1,882

Quick and easy Halloween costumes from Generati...

Two fun, no-sew Halloween costumes to craft out of T-shirts in a pinch!

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Reads: 1,855

A Friend of the Family

Pete Dizinoff has spent years working toward a life that would be, by all measures, deemed successful. A skilled internist, he’s built a thriving practice in suburban New Jersey. He has a devoted w...

From: Workman

Reads: 3,724

The Original Sudoku Page-A-Day Calendar 2010

Printed in eye-catching full color, this is the Sudoku calendar that sets the standard with an engaging new puzzle—hand-designed by the masters at Nikoli, the Japanese publisher that launched the S...

From: Workman

Reads: 2,495

The Cake Mix Doctor Returns!

What could be better than a phenomenon? The return of a phenomenon. Ten years ago Anne Byrn's The Cake Mix Doctor began its extraordinary run as one of the most popular baking books of all time. No...

From: Workman

Reads: 6,457

How to Be an Everyday Philanthropist

Want to help make your community, your town—your world—a better place, but don’t know where to begin? How To Be An Everyday Philanthropist shows you the way. A handbook, a resource guide, a call to...

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Reads: 1,411

Rosh Hashanah Recipes from Cooking Jewish

Three recipes from Cooking Jewish perfect for Rosh Hashanah dinner. Blending the recipes with over 160 stories from the Rabinowitz family—by the end of the book you'll have gotten to know the w...

From: Workman

Reads: 3,296

The Wine Lover's Page-A-Day Calendar 2010

Drink easy. The Wine Lover's Calendar features a year of wine advice you can trust from Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible. Here are hundreds of fantastic recommendations, plus tips, advice, h...

From: Workman

Reads: 2,547

The Official 365 Sports Facts-A-Year Page-A-Day...

Packed with hundreds of plays and saves, miraculous points, shattered records, and victories for the ages, 365 Sports Facts-A-Year is the calendar that's as vital to fans as the daily sports page. ...

From: Workman

Reads: 3,872

One-Minute Devotions Page-A-Day Calendar 2010

Guideposts, a nonprofit organization founded in 1945 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale, is dedicated to helping people achieve their maximum personal and spiritual poten...

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Reads: 2,425

Zen Page-A-Day Calendar 2010

Every morning, open your eyes and mind anew. Based on the bestselling book, the Zen Calendar features a daily koan, quote, parable, sutra, or poem filled with surprise, paradox, and infinite wisdom...

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Reads: 2,538

Smart Ass Page-A-Day Calendar 2010

Smart ass or dumb ass, you'll love this calendar. Here is the lively and addictively entertaining calendar based on Smart Ass, the bestselling Australian board game recently released in the United ...

From: Workman

Reads: 9,696

The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Page-A-Day C...

Oh, the stupidity! The #1 bestselling black-and-white Page-A-Day calendar is back with more hilarious celebrity gaffes, bureaucratic idiocy, malapropisms, and d'oh! moments. Outrageous excuses for ...

From: Workman

Reads: 3,146