This is Mom’s portable personal assistant, packed with organizational punch and perfectly sized for a purse or tote. On the right- hand side of each weekly spread, Mom’s Family Desk Planner features a roomy grid with two write-in columns—one for Mom’s schedule and one for the rest of the family’s. On the left-hand side is a full-color illustration …
A collection of insanely funny texts between parents and kids, When Parents Text is a surprisingly affecting window into the complicated time when parents aren’t ready to let go, and kids aren’t ready to be let go. The parents are well-meaning but hopeless, silly and a little corny, and befuddled by the technology. The kids are bewildered yet …
Imagine a world where pregnant women are always upbeat and glowing, newborns sleep on cue, toddlers love to have their teeth brushed, and teenagers gaze adoringly at their parents. Impossible, you say? Not according to advertisers who flood the web with stock photos of perfect parents and children. They’d have you believe that parenting is a piece of …
Celebrate the wisdom of the sandbox—the witty, innocent, surprising, and yet completely sensible things that kids say and do. A little book with a big heart, Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me combines deceptively simple life lessons with engaging images that together not only offer insight but inspire joy. Kids see the world in a way …
The quirky and beloved calendar—called “habit-forming” by Maxim and anointed one of the “Funniest Calendars” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show—is back with an all-new year of nuns letting down their veils and having a rip-roaring good time. Here are nuns skateboarding, nuns at amusement parks, nuns playing cricket, nuns on bikes, nuns checking out the latest vestment fashions …
Now bigger, better, and with more guilt: a completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition (would it hurt to have a little more?) of Jewish as a Second Language, the hilarious field guide to Jewish language and culture. Written to help her Gentile husband and others like him who fall for believing a Jewish mother-in-law when she says, …
Hallelujah, it’s a book! After proving itself to be the “funniest calendar of the year” (according to Gene Shalit), “irresistible” (USA Weekend), and “habit-forming” (Maxim magazine), the Nuns Having Fun calendar has inspired Nuns Having Fun, a book of endearing nuttiness. Catholic kitsch doesn’t get any funnier. Written by Maureen Kelly and Jeffrey Stone, pitch-perfect co-authors of …
A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Indie Bestseller! Playful spaniels completely covered with snow—“There’s no such thing as ‘bad’ weather.” Two happy dogs sleeping, one on top of the other— “Sometimes you need a pillow. Sometimes you are the pillow.” The bulldog who’s headfirst in her bowl—“Every meal is THE BEST MEAL EVER.” Cynthia …
The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses
“Salmansohn’s writing is bold, playful, insightful—with powerful metaphors that provoke and inspire. Her kinetic images amplify her message and take the book to a new level of literary experience.” – Deepak Chopra, author of Seven Laws of Spiritual Success A bad breakup. A serious illness. The loss of a job. Life has a habit of throwing people …
This duffer’s dictionary is the perfect gift for every insatiable hacker. 559,000 copies in print. Beard & McKie lexicons have over 2.3 million copies in …