Many of our earliest memories center around food and eating. Family stories, histories of relationships and the negotiations of the heart often revolve around rituals of breaking bread. In this eclectic collection, there is a diverse group of voices, each exploring how food influences and shapes our lives. From backyard cocktail parties to flirting with a stranger in the vegetable aisle at the grocery store, from acquaintances sharing coffee and casual conversation at a diner’s counter to lovers mixing the tastes of the mouth with the pleasures of the body, each piece brings a fresh look at the central role food plays in the rhythm of our days. 
This superb anthology reminds us of what we’ve known all along: that both kitchen and bookshelf are for the feeding of body and spirit. 
This literary collection includes writings from the award winning authors Lynne Barrett, John Dufresne, Denise Duhamel, Les Standiford, and Dan Wakefield, plus an additional 31 contributors.

Irrepressible Appetites

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Broussard, Tracey

Cooking Education & Reference

Rock Press, Inc.

Pursuing the way of the warrior is a noble endeavor and not limited to martial artists and soldiers. Anyone can incorporate the traits of the warrior into their life with effort and consistency. Here are 365 meditations, poems, and short stories offered to help you incorporate the way into daily life, along with journaling space to enable you to track your progress. Use 365 Days of the Warrior as a journal and a book of inspiration, keeping in mind the words of the Buddha, "Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

365 Days of the Warrior

Kelljchian, Joseph

Self-Help

Le Petit Theatre is the crown jewel of community theatres in the United States. The elegant theatre, located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, has enriched the cultural life of many New Orleanians. Numerous productions at this theatre, on both the main stage and in the children's theatre, have provided countless hours of enjoyment for many audiences. Interviews in this book from actors, directors, playwrights, and board members of Le Petit Theatre allow the reader a first-hand look at the operations of a first-class community theatre. The Soul of the City: Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré is an important read for anyone interested in New Orleans history. In addition to a comprehensive study, the book offers onstage and offstage drama. There are violent ghosts, disappearing props and costumes, mudslinging, and more. There are copies of programs available from most of the plays performed at Le Petit; however, no definitive list of plays is written anywhere. The Soul of the City: Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré is a record of all plays performed on the main stage and in the children's theatre, as well as a few children's touring productions. Soap opera performer Veleka Gray and Broadway actors Bryan Batt and B.J. "Lady B.J." Crosby began their theatre acting careers at Le Petit Theatre. The famous novelist Sinclair Lewis also performed at Le Petit Theatre.

The Soul of the City: Le Petit Thtre Du Vieux Carr

Hale, Rebecca Fichter

Humor & Entertainment

Haya Pomrenze's "Hook" conveys the complexities of the Jewish Modern Orthodox female experience. The narrator is an insider and an outsider, dependent and contemptuous, a follower and a free spirit. Like the child in "Straddle" hooking her feet into the stirrups of a carousel horse, the heroine labors to stand on solid ground while staking her claim in a world further complicated by the push and pull of the mother-daughter relationship, explored throughout the book and masterfully portrayed in the title poem. You'll struggle not to laugh and cry at the same time while reading this poetry debut.

Hook

Literature & Fiction

Pomrenze, Haya

Poetry

Nina Romano's debut collection celebrates the enchantment of love, life, family, and food. Reading Romano's poetry is like taking a voyage through an exotic landscape, accompanied by the most adventurous and insightful of guides. Pleasures and surprises abound. The poems glow like jewels, vessels filled to the brim. Come join us at the table. Cooking Lessons promises a feast.

Cooking Lessons

Romano, Nina

If a central question in literary biography is how to separate the poetry from the life of the poet, then the case of Jeffrey Knapp proves the impossibility of the task. For the playful-but-serious exuberance of his writing seems indivisible from the serious-but-playful exuberance of the life Jeffrey led as a champion of art and culture,of teaching and parenting, of eating and drinking and laughing and crying. "It's a wonderful experience, joining the atmosphere," he writes, in the poem "The Acupuncture of Heaven," a cry of cosmic solidarity that presumes the membrane between the self and the world to be as permeable as the boundary between art and life. We can only hope that Jeffrey is right about that, and that when our time comes we find him waiting for us with a new poem a glass of wine. In the meantime, reading this collection is itself a wonderful experience, and a reminder of the remarkable talent, charm, intelligence, wit and boundless energy of Jeffrey Knapp. -Campbell McGrath

I'm the One with the Blue Cap on

Knapp, Jeffrey

Tips from a Talent Agent is an incredibly informative and entertaining step-by-step guide that walks you through all the aspects of show business. It takes you through the collective knowledge necessary to ensure that, if applied correctly, your career as an actor is armed with solid, insider advice, and professionalism. Whether you're a novice to the business or even the most seasoned of actors, you need to make this literary treasure your new actor's bible. Being an actor in the business of show often feels like trying to navigate through a Wild West-like terrain where there are ambiguous rules, if any, and is seemingly every one for himself or herself. To counter the vortex that so many actors fall into, Rebecca Hale has brilliantly distilled her over 50 years of experience as an actor, director, and talent agent into a modern-day treatise on how to be a professional actor. This is a concise and thorough book that is a must read for every actor or parent of a child actor.

Tips From A Talent Agent

Fichter Hale, Rebecca

Dramas & Plays

From Clueless to Confident

Max Silverberg

Parenting & Relationships

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