Running Press: 812 books
Sober Stick Figure
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Sober Stick Figure is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery- starting with her first drink at the age of seven-all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh truths of being raised...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
Wisdom, Humor, and Inspiration from Women with Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Women with attitude; chicks with balls; and spirited females who proudly own the word bitches.” Bad Girls Go Everywhere is a collection of 300 kick-ass quotes with words of wisdom, inspiration, humor, and sass from past and present-day women who aren't afraid to tell it like it is. From Queen...
Must-See Musicals
50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can't Forget
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Spanning nine decades and showcasing the most memorable songs, dazzling dancing, and brightest stars ever to grace the silver screen, Must-See Musicals is the guide to the greatest musicals of all time from the most trusted authority on film: Turner Classic Movies.
Movie musicals have been a part...
VHS
Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The decade of 1988-1998 was the Golden Age of VHS, a time when anybody with a pulse, a camcorder, and a few bucks could market a video. Comedy writers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have spent the last 20 years collecting the best odd and unintentionally hilarious videotapes ever produced. Since 2004,...
Still Hot
The Uncensored Girl's Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
One day you log onto the computer and notice that your husband has a secret screen name: HotRod287. Next thing you know, black turtlenecks and a leather bomber jacket are his hip new signature look. And those long blonde hairs in his sports car? Sorry sweetie, but they're not from your golden retriever....
by wireless G
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In this instantly relatable and hilariously true compendium of clever one-liners, a frustrated anthropologist identifies all the people who confound him with their continued, persistent existence. Whether it’s the people who listen to cassette tapes for the hipster irony or the people who decide...
Creative Girl
The Ultimate Guide for Turning Talent and Creativity into a Real Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
If there’s no stability in the corporate world, why not do what you love? Creative Girl shows women how to turn their talents into a money-making career…smartly. Whether readers are just tapping into their creativity and want to see where it takes them, or if they’re already making a creative...
Build Your Dreams
How To Make a Living Doing What You Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Dream Share Project, a documentary and career workshop created by Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin, has inspired thousands of college students across the U.S. In Build Your Dreams, Chip and Alexis transform their program into the ultimate career guide for a generation of rebels” seeking passionate...
The Wawa Way
How a Funny Name and Six Core Values Revolutionized Convenience
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Grahame Wood opened the first Wawa Food Market in 1964 as an outlet for Wawa dairy products. Since then, the convenience store has grown into a well-known company that competes against the biggest industry players in the world in three areas: fuel, convenience, and food, all while maintaining their...
The Real Mad Men
The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Advertising is a business rooted in art, an art rooted in business, and it reached its peak in a specific place at a specific time: New York City at the end of the 1950s and through the '60s.
AMC's award-winning drama Mad Men has garnered awards for its portrayal of advertising executives....
Broke Is Beautiful
Living and Loving the Cash-Strapped Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The economic downturn has forced nearly everyone into a life of limited means, but author Laura Lee was broke before it was cool. She won't tell anyone to clip coupons or forego their morning latte—in fact, she won't give any guidance on how to be saved from a dark financial destiny. Instead she...
New York Fashion Week
The Designers, the Models, the Fashions of the Bryant Park Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Since 1993, Bryant Park has been the event's home, but in 2010 relocated to Lincoln Center. New York Fashion Week focuses on what's already been termed the Golden Era” of Fashion Week, the Bryant Park Years. It is filled with hundreds of never-before-seen photos and never-before-told stories and...
Retail Anarchy
A Radical Shopper's Adventures in Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Why does no one blink when they are charged three dollars for a cup of coffee?
Why do grown men sleep on the street overnight to buy video game systems?
How do Dollar Stores cheerfully charge a dollar for a 25 cent pack of gum?
What are the pitfalls of Brand Name Loyalty?
And...
Sea and Smoke
Flavors from the Untamed Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
**2015 GOURMAND AWARDS NATIONAL WINNER: FISH
2015 JAMES BEARD WINNER BEST CHEF: NORTHWEST
Part culinary adventure, part serious cookbook, Sea and Smoke chronicles the plucky ambition of a young chef to establish a world-class dining destination in an unlikely place.**
A native of the...