Jorja Grace has just landed a plum job as a television news producer in Detroit, but it hasn't been easy to stay at the top of her game while raising her daughter alone. She certainly doesn't have time to get hot and bothered over Dr. Mark Collins, even if her best friends think she's crazy to resist such a gorgeous, flawless brother. In this lively debut from an exciting new author, a compelling cast of characters is about to discover that friendship can make the good times great and the bad times bearable.
For more than a century, Woolworth's five and dime stores represented Americana, mirroring the country's growth, its good times and bad, its foibles and its fads. The chain was founded by Frank W. Woolworth, who in 1879 established two stores--one in Utica, New York, which failed and was closed down, and another in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which succeeded and marked the beginning of the legacy of the Woolworth's Five and Tens. This work is a full account of the chain, its rags-to-riches founder, Frank W. Woolworth, and his flamboyant and tragic descendants. It traces the important role that Woolworth stores played in the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, as part of the Civil Rights movement (which tainted Woolworth's as the Big Business enemy of the downtrodden), and the gradual disintegration of the five and tens during the 1980s and early 1990s. The dramatic story is enhanced with important photos featuring such events as the closing of a Woolworth's in Germany by Nazi soldiers and the Greensboro sit-in as well as archival photos from Woolworth's 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversary booklets.
A practical guide to healthy cooking from the ultra-hip New York restaurant Dimes, described by New York Magazine as "1970s-era-whole-food-hippie chow for the jaded modern palate. Dimes, the Lower East Side restaurant from chef Alissa Wagner and designer Sabrina De Sousa, known for serving vibrant, healthy plates to an attractive clientele, is also a carefully designed brand providing more than just food to the artsy inhabitants of downtown New York City. The restaurant has expanded over the years to produce Dimes-branded merchandise, a food market, home goods and skincare, and now: the comprehensive debut cookbook of the Dimes all-encompassing brand. The restaurant has amassed a devout following of patrons who regularly visit the all-day cafe and bakery, and even refer to its location at the confluence of Canal, Essex and Division Street as "Dimes Square." This new book presents a whimsical collection of recipes, conveniently categorized by time of day: 8:00 AM DETERMINED, 10:33 AM EMO, NOON SENSITIVE, 3:00 PM ASPIRATIONAL, 4:00 PM CURIOUS, 4:20 PM FOUR TWENTY, 6:00 PM HOMESICK, 8:00 PM HONEYMOON, 10:00 PM COMMISERATE, and 11:00 PM AFTERHOURS. All recipes are derived from the Dimes menu, once described by the New York Times Style Magazine as "a useful time capsule of what and how people ate in 2010s New York City."
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorMuch to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly claiming it, Alanis decides to stay and try to find out how her mother died. With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through tarot readings. But the more she uses the deck, the more Alanis begins to find real meaning in the cards.
