Harvard Law School is one of the premier law schools in the world. It as well as other top schools draws thousands of applicants from the best colleges and companies. With only a limited number of slots for so many talented applicants, the admissions officers have become more and more selective... Read More →

An inspirational, hands-on how-to guide for making and praying with beads, for people of all faiths and traditions.   There are almost as many forms of prayer beads as there are religions. In Bead One, Pray Too , author Kimberly Winston shows with stories and pictures how people of many faiths... Read More →

A collection of four novels from the New York Times –bestselling, Edgar Award–winning mystery series starring a rabbi in a tiny New England town.   Spend a long weekend with the scholar and spiritual leader who watches over the Jewish community in 1960s Barnard’s Crossing,... Read More →

Following the international success of the Noir Series, this volumes marks the launch of a new drug-based sister series. Speed: the most demonized—and misunderstood—drug in the land. Deprived of the ingrained romantic mysticism of the opiate or the cosmopolitan chic of cocaine or the mundane... Read More →

Wise advice on plot, character, and style from a legendary Esquire editor: “Every aspiring fiction writer ought to read this.” — Writer’s Digest Over the course of his long and colorful career as fiction editor for Esquire magazine, L. Rust Hills championed the early work of literary... Read More →

The Cocaine Chronicles joins The Speed Chronicles in launching Akashic’s new anthology series styled after the Noir Series. Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most... Read More →

First published between 1927 and 1958, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig have delighted five generations of children and are now going on to delight a sixth. Walter R. Brooks introduced Freddy the Pig in  Freddy Goes to Florida . Freddy and his friends from Bean Farm migrate south for the... Read More →

The modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of  BUST , the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In  The BUST DIY Guide to Life ,... Read More →