Novedades

Are you craving the comfort of a home-cooked meal that tells a story? “Over the past thirty or so years, Linda and Jerry Carsman have hosted us for many of the terrific meals spelled out in her recent book… which has left us drooling. Her skills in the kitchen are more than worthy of this new cookbook, putting on paper dishes for all to emulate. Enjoy!” —Steve and Sherry Raffin, friends In the Kitchen with Linda by Linda Carsman offers a heartwarming blend of memoir and cookbook, where each recipe carries the legacy of a Jewish family, spanning from the bustling streets of Brooklyn ...

Hay Balers & Holy Rollers is a gripping, firsthand account of a boy born in the 1980s who grew up straddling two contrasting worlds: the rugged coalfields of West Virginia and the rolling hayfields of Southwestern Virginia. Written by a preacher, this memoir is raw and unfiltered, with glimpses of rough language and gritty experiences that reflect the realities of a challenging upbringing. At the heart of this story lies the boy’s profound and often complex relationship with his family, particularly his two grandfathers and his great-grandfather, a wealthy, hardened, and godless man known...

Growing up on a small dairy farm in upstate New York, Gary lived a few hundred steps from his paternal grandparents. His grandfather (hereafter “Grandpa”) was a perpetually happy man and Gary wondered, in light of the nature of farm work, in light of some of the hardships Grandpa endured, in light of the pace of the town, in light of the way he was chronically frugal, how this could be so. After college, Gary moved to the city and reveled in the cadence and sophistication of the city. And began to see how places came to shape the people who lived in those places.