After years of weighing over 300 pounds, Russell Branjord concluded that, despite his best efforts, eating less and exercising more was not the answer to his weight problem. Now a fitness instructor, he has created the Spike Diet to allow dieters to enjoy the food they love while still eating healthy. By indulging in an ice cream treat or a slice of pizza for one day (the Spike Day) out of the week, dieters learn to reward themselves with the foods they want most, instead of seeing them as everyday fare. Branjord includes recipes that will make eating well taste like every day is a Spike Day.

Spike Diet

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Russell Branjord

Diets & Weight Loss

Putnam & Smith Publishing Company

Buddha &amp; Love, published in over half a dozen languages, explores all aspects of love and partnership from a Buddhist perspective. Covering a broad spectrum of topics such as sexuality, infidelity, parenting, and divorce. Lama Ole Nydahl, a Buddhist Lama in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, explains how a Buddhist approach to relationships can help us to relax our minds, break bad habits, and use relationships to grow ourselves and benefit everyone around us. Unafraid of taboo topics, and free from sappy cliches and political correctness, Nydahl provides modern people with practical advice on how to love better.

Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships

Lama Ole Nydahl

Parenting & Relationships

The reality TV show Survivor just completed its 21st season, and continues to enjoy an audience of about 13 million viewers each week. The Essential Armchair Guidebook for Winning Survivor is a tribute to this granddad of TV reality competition shows, and serves as the definitive guidebook, giving a step-by-step road map to winning the game. This book examines the winners and losers, extrapolating requirements to outwit, outlast, and outplay opponents. The Essential Armchair Guidebook for Winning Survivor is filled with strategies, tips, facts, trivia, and anecdotes from all 21 seasons, making it a great fan read and a better examination of strategy and social acceleration.

The Essential Armchair Guide to Winning Survivor

Humor & Entertainment

Larry Richardson

Television

Savannah May Lovely learned that a satisfying life for a smart, ambitious and beautiful woman-child came with a hefty price. She had perfected the illusion of emotional maturity to pay that price, embracing an oath of silence that stifled her freedom. kept is a journey into a superficial world of tangible pacifiers and monetary gains that cost Savannah agonizing sacrifice. Faced with loneliness and isolation while on the heels of a disgusting self-revelation, Savannah manifests that there would be no one with whom she could confide her most vulnerable, desperate, and vulgar atrocities. She would have to suck it up no problem; she'd been sucking it up for years. kept is a raw exposure of time, a lens into the tumultuously seductive, yet imprisoned life of Savannah May Lovely. Sonpri Gray narrates effortlessly through this fiction while exposing Savannah's complicated choice of submission to a fraudulent life of luxury as a kept woman and the escape from her own albatross.

kept

Literature & Fiction

Sonpri Gray

Genre Fiction

Kosher Soul Food is a new cookbook featuring over 101 recipes from standup comedian, actress and television host, Sunda Croonquist and Chef Nir Weinblut, owner of La Gondola Restaurant, Beverly Hills. CA. Kosher Soul Food serves up comfortable, familiar, delicious and memorable recipes with a touch of nostalgia that will remind you of dinner at Grandma s house. From Sweet Potato Pie to Southern Fried Chicken with Waffles, this cookbook brings southern soul to the high holidays, Passover and Shabbat dinners. Kosher Soul Food was photographed by award-winning photographer, Antonio Busiello.

Kosher Soul Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Sunda Croonquist & Chef Nir Weinblut

Regional & International

C.I.B. 1969, A Combat Infantryman s Journey follows a Vietnam Veteran s trip into hell. It takes a soul-searing look back at the life of army grunt Rick Seaman. From his battle with PTSD to the jungle swamps in enemy territory, this story exposes an amazing event that transpired between a young North Vietnamese soldier and a few desperate American recon troops. Seaman entered the next phase of warfare as a patient in a ward full of very young double and triple amputees. The final chapters chart his course through the raging strategies for taking down the negative forces that have crippled so many returning warriors.

C.I.B. 1969: A Combat Infantryman's Journey

Biographies & Memoirs

Rick Seaman

Leaders & Notable People

Cover Your Child in the Entertainment Industry is a revealing, informative, enlightening and instructive book from the first-person experiences of author, Jackie Elam whose two sons have been in motion pictures, television, modeling and commercials since infancy. Her new book addresses the questions from parents who already have children in entertainment world or parents who are seeking information about getting their child into showbiz. Jackie s new book shares with you her experience and knowledge of how to keep your child safe and happy while forging a career in film industry. Whether your child is already in modeling, motion pictures, television, beauty contest or hopes to be, this book will help guide your steps and lead you through the Do s and Don ts of the Industry.

Cover Your Child in the Entertainment Industry

Jackie Elam

Set in the wake of General Custer's tragic massacre at the Little Big Horn, The Big Horn tells the story of a celebrated steamboat captain who rescued the tragic survivors of the 7th Cavalry, forcing him to bury a fated gold shipment along the banks of the Little Big Horn to make room for the wounded. Thirty years later, while trying to solve a murder, a Montana lawman stumbles upon a clue that might not only solve the crime, but possibly lead to the whereabouts of the lost gold, a discovery that puts him on a collision course with those determined to stop him."

The Big Horn

Tom Richardson

Dr. Larry Richardson

Occasionally you will read a book that seems to understand who you are and where you are at. It can leave a profound mark on your soul and change your path for good. This book is a raw gem offering transparency and Truth taking you on an eventful journey that offers healing, understanding and love, pointing you toward your own profound revelation and change. The author Simone Leslie was presenting to millions on national television in her early 20 s and friends thought she had the world at her feet, yet behind the confident mask was a broken hearted, suicidal little girl. These short stories are the revelations that took her from a world of heartache to one of life and love.

It's OK to be Beautiful

Self-Help

Simone M. Leslie

Self-Esteem

What Drives Our Lives considers everyday social problems that stem from biological, specifically hormonal roots. Looking at these social problems from a biological/hormonal lens provides a different perspective that allows us not only to better understanding social behavior, but also to shed a light on the necessity of ensuring our social acumen is in sync with our hormonal and biological status.

What Drives Our Lives

Dr. Jihad Nassar

Success

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