"What's for dinner?"
If the sound of those three words sends you reeling or, worse, straight to the nearest fast-food chain or take-out joint, then relax. Dream Dinners will change all that forever. 
With their new cookbook, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna, founders of Dream Dinners, bring the successful philosophy behind their hundreds of assemble-and-freeze-meal stores across America into home kitchens. Dream Dinners offers up one hundred recipes for flavorful meals made with easy-to-find ingredients.
The premise is simple: Scoop or pour ingredients into baking pans or plastic bags, then store the uncooked dishes in the freezer. Later in the week or month, when dinnertime rolls around, just pop one of the frozen meals into the oven. Each recipe is provided two ways: One, prepare just one meal for the night, or two, prepare enough for three meals and freeze the other two. Dinner after sports practice, music lessons, and play rehearsals has never been easier!
In addition to recipes for hearty, family-pleasing classics such as Baked Pesto Ravioli with Chicken, Beef and Zucchini Casserole, and Cider-Braised Pork Loin Chops, Stephanie and Tina give a wealth of time-saving shopping tips and cooking pointers. More than for convenience, eating dinner together provides benefits for the whole family. Study after study shows that mealtime matters. Families who dine together form stronger bonds, and kids get better grades and develop lifelong healthful eating habits. Dream Dinners makes it easy for families to gather around the dinner table and share the ups and downs of the day.
With Dream Dinners, you will spend less time stressing in the kitchen and more time connecting with family and friends.

Dream Dinners: Turn Dinnertime into Family Time with 100 Assemble-and-Freeze Meals

Allen, Stephanie

Kuna, Tina

Reference

HarperOne

Fiction. African &amp; African American Studies. It's 1919, a time when traveling medicine shows can still find audiences eager to buy miracle "cures" and watch old-fashioned variety acts onstage. Stephanie Allen's novel TONIC AND BALM follows one such troupe, Doc Bell's Miracles and Mirth Medicine Show, as it winds through Pennsylvania, struggling to stay afloat amidst internal discord and dwindling revenues. Doc Bell's show, which features both black and white performers, includes a song-and-dance team whose marriage is fraying, a sword-swallower and her charming but fickle lover, and a medical doctor in a downward spiral of alcoholism. Performers and crew alike are caught off-balance when the show takes on a new addition, a young woman with hydrocephaly, who finds herself cast into a dismaying role as a sideshow exhibit. Set against a backdrop of rural poverty and a wave of anti-black violence, TONIC AND BALM examines the tenuous solidarity and shifting alliances of people on the fringes of society. "Uses [the medicine show] to explore larger issues of race, class, and gender...Gives us characters who defy stereotypes."—NPR "Fearlessly offers the B-side of American culture—more sultry, racially turbulent, eccentric, harrowing, even redemptive."—Howard Norman "A fascinating look at [an] itinerant troupe and their hardscrabble world. Black, white, hetero, gay—about the only thing the performers share in common is their poverty, a trait which also marks their audiences...Highly recommended."—Historical Novels Review "An unforgettable chorus of con men, roustabouts, and 'freaks' that broke my heart while also leaving me uplifted and wanting more."—David Haynes "The multivocal narration of the troupe makes the book resemble its subject. Each new story is another act, another performer...An unusual book on an unusual topic, and a fine fictional chronicle of a lost art."—Masters Review "Entertaining and deeply affecting... TONIC AND BALM, ... like the medicine show itself, is wonderfully strange and haunts the imagination long after the players have exited the stage."—Small Press Picks "Even as [the characters] fight against each other..., they push harder to remain connected...We are with them at each moment, pulled in deeper and deeper at every turn of the page."—Fiction Writers Review "Restores the voices of overlooked American exiles, a troupe of people striving for their day in the sun."—Cathy Day

Tonic and Balm

Literature & Fiction

United States

Shade Mountain Press

The facts are on the table. Dinnertime is truly the most important hour in a day that a family can spend together. Focusing on the family meal, this book will help strengthen families by showing them how to reclaim this important time in order to build relationships, draw closer to one another, and restore a sense of peace in their homes. Millions of parents in America can picture the kind of home life they want but don’t know how to make it a reality. The Hour That Matters Most will help readers strengthen and transform their own families―specifically around the dinner table.

The Hour That Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal

Parrott, Les

Parrott, Leslie

Parenting & Relationships

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Three women. Three separate journeys. One path to find that fate will divide even the closest of bonds.\nTen days after the battle in the north, the world of Erez has been thrown into turmoil.\nPrincess Isemay awakens - injured and weak - in a strange village. Branded an outcast because of her mixed heritage but forced to stay against her will, she must choose to conform to the sha'nidow way of life or face the consequences. When a mysterious stranger arrives with a heartbreaking message, Isemay's hope abandons her to a fate far more destructive than she was prepared for.\nPrincess Alena finds herself the queen of the northern kingdom - powerful, adored, alone. Fighting inner demons of darkness, she travels south to visit her brother, now the king of Neilos. But fate will not allow her to find peace, and she must decide whether she will side with those she loves or the one who holds ultimate power.\nNiri Flesh-cleaver, granddaughter to the elusive Choshech and heir to the nashech throne, has everything she could want - and yet her heart yearns for more. Torn between her mother's orders and a forbidden love, she quickly realizes she cannot have both. Driven by brokenness, she will seek to destroy the one person she blames for Choshech's demise - and find that perhaps her heart was the better guide all along.

Divided Fates

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Liminal Books

Easier to Lie

Science Fiction

Xlibris, Corp.

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