“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round.” — Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World

97 Orchard is a richly

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"From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But...

Based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, LAMB traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl from a broken home. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and takes Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the...

A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.

Describes the hunting technique, physical characteristics, mating ritual, and nesting and child-rearing practices of the great horned owl.

A chaste love story of sorts, about a couple of depressed outsiders who find each other: David, a divorced 47-year-old Chicagoan reeling from the death of his father, and eleven-year-old Tommie, who has little use for her sullen and neglectful parents and seems to spend her days wandering around acting wise beyond her years.

"Ever since learning that Little Women was based on real life, I wanted to know the secret, mysterious identity of Laurie, the ultimate boy next door. I found out, but I had to dig through the entire biographies of Louisa May Alcott to get there. What if I had simply wanted a simple answer? Team Laurie simply and succinctly answers the question that the readers have asked the world over for a hundred years: "Who was the real Laurie?" It is a question...