Stuff on My Cat Presents: Wet Cats

By Mario Garza

What's funnier than cats with stuff on them? Wet Cats. When Stuffonmycat.com (a Yahoo! Top 25 Web site featured on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart") launched in 2005, some of the first images posted were of adorable, laugh-out-loud funny, ...    more >>

House Blessings

By June Cotner

The home has long been the center of our family lives. This is where we gather to create memories with family and friends and to find comfort and solace for ourselves. In House Blessings, best-selling anthologist June Cotner has ...    more >>

Little Pea

By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrated by Jen Corace

If Little Pea doesn't eat all of his sweets, there will be no vegetables for dessert! What's a young pea to do? Children who have trouble swallowing their veggies will love the way this pea-size picture book serves up a playful story they can ...    more >>

Mom and Dad Are Palindromes

By Mark Shulman
Illustrated by Adam McCauley

Bob has a problem. He's a palindrome. In fact, once he learns what a palindrome is, he starts finding palindromes everywhere: his little sis, Nan; his pup, Otto; even his Mom and Dad! It's making Bob feel like a kook. Is there no escape? Mark ...    more >>

Kathy Casey's Northwest Table

By Kathy Casey
Food photographs by E. Jane Armstrong

Kathy Casey, beloved expert on Northwest cuisine, shares more than 100 it-doesn't-get-more-delicious-than-this recipes for everything from cocktails all the way to desserts. Lambert cherry mojitos waft the fragrance of fresh mint. A ...    more >>

Fate! Luck! Chance!

By Ken Smith

Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The ­Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan's best-selling novel, into a pioneering opera, which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words, captured ...    more >>

Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad

By Annie Barrows
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue in paperback! In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls decide to be so good and kind and pure of thought that wild animals will befriend them. When this doesn't work, they decide that perhaps a ...    more >>

Stuff On My Cat Journal

By Mario Garza

Now the millions of visitors to Stuffonmycat.com can track their cat-stacking exploits in this official journal, which includes stickers! ...    more >>

Love Stamp Kit

Proclaim devotion to loved ones with these 16 sentimental and sassy heart-shaped stamps and a two-color ink pad. ...    more >>

The Tra Vigne Cookbook

By Michael Chiarello
with Penelope Wisner
Photographs by Karl Petzke

This classic cookbook from Food Network star Michael Chiarello is at last available in paperback. It's vintage Chiarello: blending simple yet sophisticated recipes from Napa Valley's famed Tra Vigne restaurant with the grace of Wine ...    more >>

Mexican Calendar Girls

By Angela Villalba
Foreword by Carlos Monsiváis

A truly popular art form, the glamorous paintings of Mexican calendar girls have a long and fascinating history—as advertisements, enticements, and emblems of Mexican cultural heritage and pride. The result of years of research, this ...    more >>

A Beautiful Bowl of Soup

By Paulette Mitchell
Photographs by William Meppem

No, there is no chicken stock in this soup. What you'll find here is page after glorious page of the loveliest, most delicious soups and stews - each and every one entirely vegetarian. Brimming with international flavors, Paulette ...    more >>

New Chinese Architecture

Over the last five years, China has experienced an unprecedented boom in architecture and has become the most dynamic and active region in the world. The complex fusion of both Chinese and Western influences has given its architecture a ...    more >>

2010 Daily Doodle Calendar

By Taro Gomi

Playful drawings and fun-to-follow instructions for every day of the year will have kids of all ages doodling, drawing, and stretching their imaginations all year long! ...    more >>

Peeps®!

By Charity Ferreira
Photographs by Liz Wolfe

For Peeps sake! They're cute. They're tasty. And for the first time ever, PEEPS—the No. 1 selling non-chocolate Easter candy—take center stage in fun crafts and sweet treats for the entire family. Both seasonal savorers and ...    more >>

The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie

By Malu Halasa
and Rana Salam

The most outrageous and exuberant lingerie in the world comes from a place you’d probably never expect: Syria. Adorned with everything from faux fur, artificial flowers, and feathered birds to plastic toy cell phones, these intimates ...    more >>