In post–World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there’s a little place that draws people from all over—not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee. An in-between place that’s only there when you need it, Bailey’s Cafe is a crossroads where patrons stay for a while before making a choice: Move on or check out?

In this novel, National Book Award–winning author Gloria Naylor’s expertly crafted characters experience a journey full of beauty and heartbreak. Touching on gender, race, and the African American experience, Bailey’s Cafe is “a sublime achievement” about the resilience of the human spirit (People).

This is the best introductory book you will find on the Enneagram. Wagner’s guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching ID for workshop presenters and counselors.

This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet descriptions, yields an experiential understanding of basic Enneagram principles such as:

•Authentic values and their personality substitutes

•Resourceful and non-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and behavioral schemas and how they shift under stressful and flow conditions

•Developmental influences

•The three centers of sorting and deciding

•The defense mechanisms, principles and paradigms, virtues, passions, and both healthy and maladaptive instincts of each of the nine Enneagram personality types.

In Love Day, twenty-year-old Paul Whitehurst is a Marine lieutenant during World War II, waiting to land on Okinawa, wrestling with anxiety and memories of his boyhood in Virginia.

In Shadrach, ten-year-old Paul witnesses his neighbors as they welcome a guest: a ninety-nine-year-old former slave who has walked nine hundred miles from Alabama so that he may die on the land of his childhood owner.

And in A Tidewater Morning, Paul is thirteen and struggling to deal with his mother’s impending death from cancer.

They were the princes of their high school in Fort Worth, Texas. Valedictorian Kleber Cantrell became a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who befriended the famous and exposed the notorious. Mack Crawford, teenage Adonis and University of Texas football hero, used his good looks to jumpstart an acting career. And T.J. Luther, voted “most popular” by the senior class, fell into a lurid life of crime but found God in prison and reinvented himself as the nation’s leading right-wing televangelist, his message of faith masking an all-consuming desire for power and revenge.

The different routes Kleber, Mack, and T.J. took to celebrity share common signposts: personal upheavals, ruinous marriages, petty jealousies, and blind ambition. Now, on the eve of their twenty-fifth high school reunion, their separate paths will cross to devastating effect—because these three friends have something else in common.

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A burger is a classic dish, whether it’s for a Sunday supper or a backyard barbecue. Burger Night is the comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to great burgers. There’s something to please every burger lover: from meaty to vegetarian, classic to creative and simple to elaborate.

More than 60 recipes will inspire you to up your bun game, including Gorgonzola-Stuffed Burgers with Grilled Nectarines, Breakfast Burgers, Spiced Lamb Sliders with Romesco Sauce, Crab Burgers with Smashed Avocado, Falafel Burgers with Tahini Cilantro Sauce, and Miso Tofu Burgers with Sauteed Chard & Asian Mayonnaise. Also included are delectable side dishes—from salads to fries—and burger essentials like ketchup, onions, and even vanilla milkshakes.