Pfp Publishing: 12 books

Cover of Lunch with Buddha
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Heartbreaking in places, hilarious in others, Lunch with Buddha takes its readers on a quintessentially American road trip across the Northwest. That outer journey, complete with good and bad meals, various outdoor adventures, and an amusing cast of quirky characters, mirrors a more interior journey--a...
Cover of Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016

Rinpoche's Remarkable Ten-Week Weight Loss Clinic brings back two main characters from Roland Merullo's beloved Buddha Trilogy (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with Buddha). This time, though, instead of cruising the American road together, Otto Ringling and Volya Rinpoche are part of the famous meditation...
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Big City Cat

My Life in Folk Rock

by Steve Forbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018

As a young man from Meridian, Mississippi, Steve Forbert managed to carve out a niche in New York City’s vibrant club scene, playing now-iconic venues like Gerde’s Folk City and CBGB’s during a time when rootsy rock was fading out and the Ramones, Talking Heads, and other New Wave and punk acts...
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The Winding Stream

An Oral History of the Carter and Cash Family

by Beth Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

There is a stream that courses through American roots music. Its source is in the Appalachian foothills in a place called Maces Springs, Virginia. It was there that A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law Maybelle began their careers as three of the earliest stars of country music. These...
Cover of Talk Show
by Jaime Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013

In direct contrast to the venerable Paris Review interviews, Talk Show puts contemporary writers on the late night couch and poses questions about everything except writing.  Tune in for questions and answers about first concerts, movie remakes, childhood heroes, family myths, worst jobs, first...
Cover of Vatican Waltz
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017

The Wall Street Journal called Vatican Waltz "a welcoming place for parishioners and interlopers alike," continuing "Catholics will identify with its plaintive call for this kind of renewal . . . But others, too, if they have kept their minds open, will be surprised at how uplifted they are by its...
Cover of The Family Business
by John DiNatale
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

More than a series of engaging anecdotes, The Family Business gives readers a glimpse into the real world of the private investigator, and how that profession's stresses can bear on family life.  Funny, poignant, and informative, it taps into the bottomless curiosity readers and viewers have...
Cover of Taking the Kids to Italy
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013

A hilarious account of one absolutely disastrous Italian vacation, a story full of illness and good food, cold houses and warm people, bad decisions, marital spats, and family love. True in every detail, it is the tale of a trip award-winning author Roland Merullo made with his wife of many years,...
Cover of The Italian Summer

The Italian Summer

Golf, Food, and Family at Lake Como

by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015

A charming narrative of a glorious summer of golfing, eating, and learning how to slow down and enjoy life. The best-selling author of Breakfast with Buddha, Golfing with God, Revere Beach Boulevard and others, combines two of his greatest passions—travel and golf—in this humorous and...
Cover of Make a Wish But Not For Money
by Suzanne Strempek Shea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Rosie Pilch’s lifelong job as a bank teller is lost in the recession, and her subsequent depression ends only when a friend elopes, moves and leaves Rosie her palm-reading business at Orchard Mall, once a groundbreaking shopping experience touted as “Main Street Recreated,” now a sluggish “dead...
Cover of This Is Paradise

This Is Paradise

An Irish Mother’s Grief, an African Village’s Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both

by Suzanne Strempek Shea
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

Your brakes fail and your car plunges from a pier into a February-frigid harbor. You are thrown to safety but your four-month old daughter, trapped in her car seat, drowns. Four years after that horror, you return from a trip to the shore and lift your four-month-old son from his carrier only to realize...
Cover of excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature
by Askold Melnyczuk
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016

Why is everyone angry with Jonathan? Suspended from school a week before Memorial Day, the savvy and cyber-sexed fifteen-year old is charged by his poet-father to write a history of literature in the age of Twitter. Jonathan absconds to Manhattan to care for his high-living godfather, who recently...
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