Heated debates, controlling attitudes, and blaming judgments wreak havoc on relationships already fragile as couples struggle with the pressures of everyday life. The authors present practical techniques to help couples reduce the... Read More

By the early 1940s, studio executives making B Westerns featuring entertainer Roy Rogers realized that they needed to jazz up their movies with a little romance. “Half of the viewers going to the movies were females and they wanted to... Read More

Parents tend to advise their teens with simple declarations, such as “Believe in yourself” and “Be more positive,” says the author. But that’s where the advice often ends; how are teens supposed to figure out practical... Read More

Spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (those islands in the Caribbean popularly known as the Netherlands Antilles), Papiamentu is a Creole language, a combination of Aboriginal, African, Spanish, and Dutch languages. The author, an... Read More

The literary value of the memoir has often been questioned, and this book adds its own arguments to the debate. In an engaging narrative, the author reconstructs the last year of her marriage, interweaving past journal excerpts with... Read More

A legendary Samurai was once challenged to a fight to the death by a brash ronin, or masterless Samurai. The elder man tried to dissuade the younger from persisting, saying that he had so much to live for, to no avail. The ronin,... Read More

“Having a mentally ill family member is like climbing a never-ending spiral staircase,” writes the author. The mother of six children and stepmother of a severely disturbed child and his younger brother, Henry takes the reader up and... Read More

“Poe was a madman,” says Joe R. Lansdale in his introduction to this second edition of adaptations and illustrations of Poe’s work. He “was darker, and far more savage” than the movies made from his tales. While that darkness... Read More