Books

Mayo Clinic The Integrative Guide to Good Health

From eating the right foods and exercising regularly to meditating and spending time at a spa, every effort you make to improve your overall physical and mental health works together to build a solid wellness foundation.

With Mayo Clinic The Integrative Guide to Good Health (Oxmoor House, August 8, 2017, $26.99), you can address all aspects of your health—mind, body, and spirit. Doctors Brent Bauer (available for interview), Cindy Kermott, and Martha Millman explain what works best when treating common ailments (headaches, allergies, and sprains) as well as what complementary techniques (aromatherapy, acupuncture, and reflexology) can enhance conventional medicine.
 

Practical, trustworthy, and smart, Mayo Clinic The Integrative Guide to Good Health will safely and naturally transform your well-being one page at a time.


Valerie’s Home Cooking

As the current star of her Food Network show, Valerie’s Home Cooking, and co-host of the network’s Kids Baking Championship, as well as having spent years acting on television, Valerie Bertinelli has made a name for herself in households across America. But to really know Valerie, is to spend time in her kitchen.

Inspired by her family’s cooking legacy, Valerie specializes in showing fans how to make dishes their own families will love that are for the heart and soul. As she often says, there’s a story behind every recipe and Valerie shares them in this gorgeous cookbook, where home cooks will find more than 100 recipes that are easy to make and innovative—they’re just as fresh, vibrant and down to earth as Valerie herself. Many of these classic comforting recipes have an original twist like Bloody Mary Tea Sandwiches, Lobster BLTs, Quick Rotisserie Chicken Gumbo, and S’mores Popcorn. These mouthwatering dishes will become your go-tos, whether you’re having breakfast or lunch on your own, friends are joining for last-minute cocktails and small bites, or the whole family is coming together for a hearty dinner and dessert. Available October 2017


The All New Fresh Food Fast 

From the popular and best-selling Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast series, The All-New Fresh Food Fast offers 200 brand-new recipes using 5 ingredients or less, in 15 minutes or less-or both. It is jam-packed with fresh, easy-to-make recipes that are guaranteed to get dinner on the table faster. Every food category is covered, from breakfast, soups, main-dish salads, and sandwiches to fish and shellfish, meats and poultry as well as sides and desserts.

Readers will find recipes that are anything but ordinary, such as Cardamom Oatmeal with Honey-Lime Yogurt and Pistachios; Udon Noodle and Mushroom Soup; Flank Steak Panzanella; Southwestern Burrito Bowls; Seared Scallops with Bacon and Oranges; One-Sheet Pork Chops, Brussels Sprouts, and Apples; and Maple-Pecan Minis. The recipes utilize fresh ingredients as well as smart time-saving, store-bought products that provide a healthy, filling meal in minutes. Tips and sidebars throughout give additional advice about ingredients, easy substitutions, and shortcuts to help make dinner prep as streamlined as possible. Available March 2018


Screen Shot 2017 09 02 at 8.54.21 AMThe Financial Briefing

Financial uncertainty accompanies us at every stage of life―not just in the years surrounding retirement. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Eric Hutchinson knows money is a key factor in maintaining a level of comfort and peace of mind, regardless of age. In The Financial Briefing, he reveals distilled wisdom based on over thirty years of professional experience and provides an overview of many of the financial and life issues everyone will face at some point. With the quick and easy-to-understand answers in this book, you will have the knowledge and resources needed to make money a positive force in your life. Put your money worries to rest, and learn tactics to:

  • Develop a blueprint for your financial future
  • Navigate critical money decisions at each stage of life
  • Hold meaningful money conversations with family

Screen Shot 2017 09 02 at 8.57.52 AMThe Sarcasm Handbook

From the author of the bestselling Snark series comes the premiere guide to satire, sneering, jeering, and mockery in their finest forms. A surviving knight of many a verbal joust, Larry Dorfman has become an expert at backhanded sass and cathartic banter.
Featuring life lessons from the master himself, as well as quotes and quips by some of history’s sarcastic greats, The Sarcasm Handbookteaches readers how to deflect stupidity and express their inner dissatisfaction with a keen sensibility, hushing subtlety, and wisecrack wit. Included in these invaluable teachings are chapters on achieving the right tone, sarcastic bastards in history, as well as scenarios depicting some of the greatest moments in sarcasm.