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Press Release: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011 by Richard N. Bolles
Monday, August 16th, 2010Press Release: The New Job Security by Pam Lassiter
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Press Release: How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack by Chuck Sambuchino
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Chuck Sambuchino is a certified GDE (Gnome Defense Expert) with years of experience in direct combat—guerilla lawnfare style. HOW TO SURVIVE A GARDEN GNOME ATTACK outlines a proven four-step strategy—Assess, Protect, Defend, Apply—for safeguarding family, pets, and possessions against home gnome invasions. The only published handbook of its kind, this indispensable manual features detailed plans for gnomeproofing dwellings inside and out, instructions for hand-to-hand confrontations, correct gnomenclature, guidelines for compiling an effective arsenal, illuminating case studies of human vs. gnome clashes throughout history, plus ten tips that could save your life.
Press Release: Naked, Drunk, and Writing by Adair Lara
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010The award-winning author of an autobiographical newspaper column, Adair Lara has written more than ten books, including the memoir Hold Me Close, Let Me Go. Packed with insight and wit, Naked, Drunk, and Writing is the culmination of her extensive experience as a writer, editor, and teacher. In this instructive and refreshingly irreverent guide, she shows aspiring writers how to cast off self-doubt and become skilled storytellers.
Press Release: What I Eat by Peter Menzel & Faith D’Aluisio
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Eighty people, 30 countries, one day’s food, and another extraordinary book. From the same dynamic husband-and-wife team that brought us Material World, Man Eating Bugs, and the 2006 James Beard Book of the Year, Hungry Planet, comes the much anticipated What I Eat. In vivid photographs and thought-provoking text, this remarkable book chronicles a three-year around-the-world journey and delivers a fascinating portrait of what individuals eat over the course of one day.
Press Release: Careers for Your Cat by Ann Dziemianowicz
Thursday, July 29th, 2010The first of its kind, Careers for Your Cat is for the free-loading fat cat who, in these thin times, needs to get out of the house and start making down payments. This comprehensive, fully-illustrated feline career guide is geared exclusively to help streamline the kitty job search and help these feckless feline freeloaders reach their potential as fully contributing members of their households.
Press Release: What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010This second edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps readers plan early and well for the next stage of their lives while addressing the tough new realities of today’s economic environment. Using current research from the fields of economics, medicine, and psychology, the book delivers a comprehensive approach to life planning and provides readers with the tools they need to map out and pursue their ideal retirement.
Press Release: It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences by June Casagrande
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Everybody knows one: an aspiring novelist or wannabe freelancer whose writing just isn’t up to snuff. Until now, struggling writers have had nowhere to turn for help in understanding what, exactly, makes some prose so terrible.
June Cassagrande’s It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences is the first book ever to target bad writing at its very root: the sentence. Combining her grammar and editing expertise with a keen eye for quality writing, Casagrande has created a resource guaranteed to transform some frustrated writers into bona fide success stories.










