Creamy Custard

Cooking expert Lou Seibert Pappas shows you how to make a variety of sweet, savory, nutty or chocolaty recipes using just a few key ingredients plus flavorings in the book Créme Brulée.

With its caramelized crisp topping and delicious silken custard, créme brulée makes a fine finale for any occasion. Featuring easy-to-follow recipes that will delight first-time cooks as well as the most experienced chefs, page after page of scrumptious color photographs, plus practical presentation and serving tips.

Cocktail Chef

Recalling the cocktail-hour glamour of the past, Sips & Apps by Kathy Casey brings together creative libations and mouth-watering appetizers. This essential guide to the craft of the cocktail will teach you how to make delicious, memorable drinks.

With more than 100 recipes to guide and inspire, Sips & Apps is the guide for both home cocktail “chefs”and bar professionals. An elegant addition to your cooking and cocktail repertoire, with a thorough bar-basics section, insider tips and recipes for infused syrups, original garnishes and fresh fruit purees.

Comfort in a Bowl

This holiday season authors Carla Snyder and Meredith Deeds bring 300 delicious soup recipes to homes with their new cookbook, 300 Sensational Soups.

This easy-to-use cookbook is divided into 10 chapters with most recipes made from common home pantry and refrigerator items, making the perfect solution for quick meals when confronted with out-of-town holiday guests. There is even a chapter called Our Just Desserts, featuring more than 20 recipes for mouth watering dessert soups featuring fresh fruits and chocolates.

Medicinal Plants

Native American Medicinal Plants by Daniel E. Moerman is the most comprehensive and authoritative listing of Native North American plant use for medicines available anywhere. The medicines are used for everything from sore eyes to rheumatism, from kidney illnesses to love medicines.

With more than 3,000 plants listed, this engaging read covers 82 categories of medicinal uses. It is an easy-to-use reference perfect for the home library.

eBay Expertise

The eBay Marketing Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Reach More Customers and Maximize Your Profits  by Cliff Ennico and Cindy L. Shebley offers visionary ideas and practical advice on both diversifying on eBay and branching out beyond eBay into other e-commerce platforms.

Packed with insider information and expert tips, the eBay Marketing Bible is the one book every serious eBay seller needs to build a successful, prosperous business. Learn how to develop the best marketing strategy, moving beyond individual auction listings to open an eBay store and mastering the elements of an attention-getting eBay listing.

Conquering Cancer

My Beautiful Life is the personal story of Mina Dobic, a top academician in her home country of the former Yugoslavia, who was diagnosed in 1987 with stage IV ovarian cancer that metastasized to her liver, bones and lymph system. She adopted the macrobiotic way of life, and six and a half months later was cancer free.

My Beautiful Life tells Mina’s story of how she recovered from cancer and details on how cancer can be prevented through diet and a simple philosophy of living in balance with nature. This modern odyssey weaves together the struggle between repression and a free society, the conflict between conventional medicine and holistic health and the forces that pull the modern family apart even as members strive to hold it together.