The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author
Publication Date: 02/13/2024
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) excelled at writing country house and locked-room mysteries for a decade before…
We’re Live in 5: My Extraordinary Life in Television
Publication Date: 02/13/2024
In this dazzling Hollywood memoir, Jeff Margolis takes us on the ultimate behind-the-scenes tour of television’s most memorable variety series and specials spanning the past fifty years—from the most iconic variety shows of the 1970s to the Oscars. Introduced to showbiz by his uncle Monty Hall, legendary host of Let’s…
Trailer Park Parable: A Memoir of How Three Brothers Strove to Rise Above Their Broken Past, Find Forgiveness, and Forge a Hopeful Future
Publication Date: 01/30/2024
Growing up amid addiction and chaos in a Minnesota trailer park, Tyler Zed and his two brothers broke the cycle of abuse and forged a different path. “Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old sonsaved her.” This is the news article detailing the event that would…
Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution
Publication Date: 01/16/2024
Berkeley, 1972: a hotbed of creativity where painters, filmmakers, musicians, and writers inspire a young poet. Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace. On election day,…
Reverend Ike: An Extraordinary Life of Influence
Publication Date: 12/19/2023
The unlikely and sometimes harrowing journey of an iconic evangelist, known to millions as simply Reverend Ike, will draw you into his remarkable story of rising from extreme poverty and leading millions of poor Blacks to unprecedented financial success, independence, and joyful living by understanding the profound Biblical promises of…
Raising Olives in Provence: A Guide for Body and Soul
Publication Date: 12/12/2023
A fun-filled portrait of Provence told by an American bestselling author who knows France intimately and unwraps people and places with devastating insight—and laugh-out-loud humor. Americans have long had a love affair with Provence: its glamour, its mystique, its foreignness. But never have they had a guide like Ken Timmerman.…
Nuff Said
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Just Tyrus returns in his inimitable style with deeper reminiscences on the life that shaped him and how he views the world we’re living in. "In this sequel, you'll delve into some of Tyrus's extraordinary life experiences and see…
Saying Inshallah With Chutzpah
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
From floundering to navigating, this gefilte-fish-out-of-water story follows the unorthodox path of a Jewish woman working for a Muslim government. “Marrying one woman is like eating chicken every day for the rest of your life,” the cultural attaché —a.k.a. my boss—warned the week before my Jewish wedding. I replied, “I…
Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
Publication Date: 11/07/2023
Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon. Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in…
More Than We Expected: Five Years With a Remarkable Child
Publication Date: 11/07/2023
“No matter how much I enjoyed parenthood, I found myself having to accept its fundamental truth: that nothing ever turns out quite as you’d expect.” It was a journey that most parents would hope to avoid: a son born with a congenital heart defect, a fateful decision to take a…