12 stories from the heart of South Minneapolis: Lake Street.Lake Street cuts across Minneapolis from west to east, from the urbane to the urban to the blue-collar. North and south, it is the dividing line between inner-city neighborhoods and tidy bedroom communities. Lake Street is a polyglot of people from all corners of the world mixing with lifelong Minneapolitans.These stories connect people's hope for a new beginning with the history of what was.

IN EARLY 2007, Edish.com was a thriving discontinued china business with two stores, a huge internet presence, and well over two hundred thousand loyal customers. By January 2009, the company was on the brink of failure. Discontinued: What I Lost and Found During the Recession is the timely and dramatic story of the last six months in the life of Edish.com. The story chronicles the ups and downs of attempting to save the business and of the author’s relationship with her two partners— one ...

A man shares his personal journey of embracing life after loss—and during times of adversity—by practicing gratitude every day.One December, at age fifty-three, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low: his law firm was failing; he was struggling through a painful second divorce; he had grown distant from his two older children and feared losing contact with his young daughter; he was living in a tiny apartment where he froze in the winter and bake...

The humorous New York Times Bestseller from the Tonight Show host and Saturday Night Live alumnus about his appreciation for the little things in life.Jimmy Fallon is very thankful. And in this first book to come from his TV show, he expresses his gratitude for everything from the light bulb he's too lazy to replace to the F12 butto...

New York City's top concierge gives up a keyhole view into the luxe hotel rooms, private dining and dressing rooms of the ridiculous, rich and demandingMichael Fazio is the ultimate behind-the-scenes support man. Want two orchestra tickets to the Broadway musical that just won the Tony? Call Fazio. How about an upgrade to first class on an overbooked overnight flight to Tokyo? Call Fazio. Or a roomful of fresh hydrangeas—in winter? That's right. Call Fazio....

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, comes True Prep, which looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece.

In the irreverent spirit of A.J. Jacobs and Michael Moore, Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica is a pavement-pounding exploration of tipping, a huge but neglected part of the American economy—the hilarious and eye-opening follow-up to his smash-hit New York Times bestseller Waiter Rant. Subtitled "A Clueless Tipper's Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity," Keep the Change follows the popular blogger known as "the Waiter" from restaurant to casino to st...

**Twenty Years of Dish from Flay and Fieri to Deen and DeLaurentiis...Includes a New Afterword!***“I don’t want this shown. I want the tapes of this whole series destroyed.”—Martha Stewart“In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.”—Bobby Flay“She seems to suggest that you can make good food easily, in minutes, using Cheez Whiz and chopped-up Pringles and packaged chili mix.”—Anthony Bourdain...

"Deftly and compassionately captures [Ben's] genius in all its entrepreneurial splendor...This tale will keep you entertained."--New York Times Book Review.A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how two '60s holdovers built a single ice cream store into one of America's hottest companies. From modest beginnings--opening their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station--to entrepreneurial challenges, including their clash with Häagen-Dazs, to becoming a miltimilli...

"Ginsberg got her education in restaurants and she dole it out just right in this entertaining account." — PeoplePart memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twenty-year journey as a waitress at a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, the dingiest of diners, and more. While chronicling her evolution as a writer, Ginsberg takes a ...

A thrilling and irreverent memoir about the transformation of the advertising business from the 1980s to todayRichard Kirshenbaum was born to sell. Raised in a family of Long Island strivers, this future advertising titan was just a few years old when his grandfather first taught him that a Cadillac is more than a car, and that if you can’t have a Trinitron you might as well not watch TV. He had no connections when he came to Madison Avenue, but he possessed an out...

The best is yet to be . . ."GodWinks" are the so-called circumstances and that are delivered directly to you, one of nearly seven-billion people on the planet, at particularly needed moments in your life. Like the wink you received from a loved one as a child that meant, "Hey, kid, I'm thinking of you right now," . . . GodWinks are messages of encouragement from above.With more incredible-but-true stories about how God communicates with us through everday c...