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POW!Sometimes, don’t you just want to let someone have it? Give them a tongue-lashing they’ll never forget? Alexa’s a Spy…

With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you…

From the nine types of PTA members to the trials and tribulations of packing a child’s lunch, these hilarious parenting stories are told with “forthright honesty and the kind of humor that combines self-deprecation and casual philosophizing… Duff’s candor [is] bracing and satisfying” (Kirkus Reviews).

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our lives in so many ways we couldn’t have foreseen. With profits benefitting The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, this collection explores love, comfort, and grief during this time of isolation and uncertainty. “A really good book for a really good cause” (James Patterson).

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend…

From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and…

In this “exemplary, inviting” account (Kirkus Reviews), a food historian traces African American cooking and its influence on the US through his own family’s experiences. “A valuable addition to culinary and Old South historiography” (Library Journal starred review), with over 900 five-star Goodreads ratings.

“This might be one of the month’’s, if not the year’’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post “A…

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it…

“WOW! A totally different type of cozy mystery. Definitely looking forward to more!!!”“I liked the characters who were varied and…