Product Description: The 20th anniversary edition of FIVE FAST STEPS to BETTER WRITING has been praised as "portable and affordable! An effective teaching model for the novice and experienced writer alike." Used by students and businesses in both Canada and U...read more

A guidebook for women who realize that poodles are superior to wolves--they know the importance of a good haircut--offers a program for finding your Inner Poodle that involves no goddess ceremonies, drumming, or screeching at the moon. Original. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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Drawing on more than thirty years of research, this innovative study explores the health benefits and properties of rhodiola, discussing the herb's ability to maximize energy, battle aging and stress, sharpen memory and concentration, enhance physical performance and sexual function, protect against heart disease and cancer, and promote weight control. 50,000 first printing.

Spring in East Tennessee is normally the most beautiful of seasons, a time of growth and renewal. Residents of tiny Park County are shocked when it is also a time for murder. When a snake-handling preacher is murdered with his own snakes, Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his wife, Theo, a quilt shop owner are thrown into the search for a killer. From the beginning of the investigation, it seems like an unlikely choice of weapons. Why kill a man few people even knew existed? The trouble has just begun. Soon the entire sheriff's department is fighting rising water, more deaths and illegal drugs. Theo aides Tony's search as she runs her shop, designs a mystery quilt (pattern included) and is mom to their two young sons.

Product Description: With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara GrahamIn this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the clichés and tell the real stories about what it's like to be a grandmother in today's world. Among the contributors:Judith Viorst exposes the high-stakes competition for Most Adored Nana...read more

Spring, with a full moon, arrives in tiny Park County, Tennessee and induces the well-named madness in its residents and visitors alike. Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his staff must slog through a morass of stupidity and bad behavior. The Ramp Festival at Sheriff Tony Abernathy's family's folk museum occurs during the peak of spring fever. The entertainment includes music, food --including the odiferous ramps --crafts and homemade weapons launching vegetables at rubber duckies floating in a stock tank. Chaos mixes with sudden death when a flying vegetable hits the unpopular game warden, Harrison Ragsdale, and he dies at the festival. Tony swore an oath to protect and serve everyone in his county. While he investigates, his wife Theo is busy running her quilt shop, raising their children and gathering clues at "gossip central." Stir in a growing roadside memorial, arson, a gala funeral, a little bank robbery and --like Theo's mystery quilt (pattern included) --eventually the solution is revealed.

Product Description: Tennessee Sheriff Tony Abernathy and his small staff are hoping the upcoming celebration of the nation's birthday will be a quiet one. The quilters are hanging a show and antique cars promise to liven up the parade. Life is good. And then it's not...read more

Product Description: As Halloween approaches, Sheriff Tony Abernathy has to deal with a series of events, including a passenger who jumps from a plane, bones in a root cellar, a quilt disappearing from his wife's store, and a stolen coffin.