Da Capo Lifelong Books imprint: 466 books
by Holly Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Browse, read a bit, browse some more, and then head for the kitchen."--Hudson Valley News
From small-town bakeries to big city restaurants, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For eighteen years, Holly Hughes has scoured both the online and print world to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For fourteen years, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year's food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year, from a range of voices: food writing stars, James Beard Award winners, writer-chefs, bestselling authors, and up-and-coming bloggers...
by Holly Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Anthony Bourdain, John T. Edge, Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Ruth Reichl, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters. These are just some of the celebrated writers and foodies whose work has appeared in Best Food Writing over the past fifteen years. Whether written by an established journalist or an up-and-coming...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Like your favorite local grocery store, with its sushi bar, fresh baked goods, and maybe a very obliging butcher, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For seventeen years, Holly Hughes has delved into piles of magazines and newspapers, scanned endless websites and blogs, and...
The Beauty Experiment
How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
I looked at my reflection and despaired. As an exhausted young mother I felt ugly and saw that a new dress or face cream would never help. I was at risk of passing on a habit of feeling miserable about my looks to my baby girl—if nothing changed. Soon afterward Phoebe Baker Hyde made a vow: to give...
Reset
How to Beat the Job-Loss Blues and Get Ready for Your Next Act
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Welcome to the new world of job insecurity.
Layoff. If you haven't experienced one, you know someone who has. Dwain Schenck speaks with authority; not only has he seen energetic, talented, and accomplished friends undergo the stress of job loss, but he, too, has felt the sting of being "let...
You Get What You Pitch For
Control Any Situation, Create Fierce Agreement, and Get What You Want In Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
TV's most popular pitchman reveals the secrets of pitching to get what you want in virtually any situation.
Anthony "Sully" Sullivan went from selling car washers in rainy Welsh street markets to selling to audiences of millions around the world as the face of OxiClean. How did he...
Unsafe Thinking
How to be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**A Financial Times Book of the Month
"An enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl...
Happily Ever After
The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
**Trista Rehn **was a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer when she heard about casting for a new reality show-one guy getting to know twenty-five girls in the hope of finding a fiancée. As improbable and crazy as it sounded, Trista took the chance-and had her heart broken...
Losing A Parent
Practical Help For You And Other Family Members
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Whether from a sudden accident or a slow, terminal illness, the death of a parent is devastating to adults and children alike. In Losing a Parent, Fiona Marshall helps readers understand the process of coping with a parent's death, from preparing for death to recognizing the different stages of grief,...
Locker Room Diaries
The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, and Re-imagining the ""Perfect"" Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Often dressed in no more than a towel, author Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all ages, shapes, and sizes about what goes into shaping” not just their bodies but their body image. From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale to body fat measurements, American women...
Baby Steps
Having the Child I Always Wanted (Just Not as I Expected)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When Elisabeth Rohm started blogging about her family for People.com, she had no idea how many women would respond to her stories about struggling with infertility. Now the actress best known for her role on Law and Order shares what she hasn’t yet: the full story of how in-vitro fertilization allowed...
All in My Head
An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
At the age of twenty-four, Paula Kamen's life changed in an instant. While she was putting in her contacts, the left lens disturbed a constellation of nerves behind her eye. The pain was more piercing than that of any other headache she had ever experienced. More than a decade later, she still has...
Asking for It
The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
**In the era of #metoo, a clear-eyed, sharp look at rape culture, sexual assault, harassment and violence against women--and what we can do about it.
"A timely and brilliant book." (Jessica Valenti)**
Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that's...