Product Description: If you have ever thought about waging a war on fatty foods, found yourself choosing fish over meat, or paused at the vegetable bins in the supermarket over some exotic new fruit or vegetable, you could be a gradual vegetarian. In this step-by-step guide to moving away from meat, Lisa Tracy takes the trouble out of transitioning from carnivore to herbivore by encouraging readers—and eaters—to progress at their own pace through the spectrum of vegetarianism, however quickly or slowly...read more

Product Description: After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households’ worth of furniture and memorabilia, much of it accumulated during their family’s many decades of military service in far-flung outposts from the American frontier to the World War Two–era Pacific...read more

Product Description: Hurricane Katrina, closely followed by Hurricane Rita, was, without doubt, the most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history. It devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, inflicted serious losses in Florida and Alabama as well as the harder-hit states at the core of the disaster, and all but destroyed a city unique in American culture...read more

A guide to becoming a vegetarian shows readers how to analyze their diets, plan their strategies, reorganize their kitchens, shop, attack allergies, dine out, and more and includes more than two hundred recipes. Reprint.