FOR RELEASE March 7, 2010

 

Video Bread comprises a set of eight DVDs offering a complete cooking class with detailed instructions on how to make bread with or without a bread machine, including muffins, pizza, sticky buns, pretzels, sourdough, sweet rolls, and more.

The End of the Road by Sue Henry finds Maxie McNabb and her dog Stretch settling in to enjoy the approaching winter in Homer, Alaska, but her peaceful plans are derailed when an engaging drifter apparently commits suicide at a local motel, and Maxie believes that he was murdered.

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system and examines the international models that could work at home as we set out to cure a health care system that has failed us.

No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara ends an historical trilogy with a story about the young GIs that unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler’s crimes as they sweep through the German countryside and absorb firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel describes the biggest government financial intervention in more than half a century under the Federal Reserve, a department that effectively became the fourth branch of government, with no direct accountability to the nation’s voters.

The Iacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover as a man is pulled between two nations inventing their modern identities.

Bad Applies: How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity by Brette Sember shows managers how to tackle different types of problem employees and their behaviors in order to keep the team productive and to preserve a pleasant and fruitful work environment.