Prospect Books imprint: 68 books
by Linda Lee Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Magazine editor and amateur sleuth Maggie Fiori returns in a “deliciously entertaining” mystery that takes her into her own dark family history (Naomi Hirahara).
San Francisco magazine editor Maggie Fiori is stunned when she receives a package from her Aunt Phoebe containing evidence that her...
by Linda Lee Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
“If you are a Susan Isaacs fan, you will love” this knockout debut whodunit introducing witty magazine editor and amateur sleuth Maggie Fiori (Jacqueline Winspear).
If Maggie Fiori doesn’t have it all, she’s got plenty: a writing job at a San Francisco’s chic Small Town magazine,...
Non-Essential Mnemonics
An Unnecessary Journey into Senseless Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
From the popular column on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the humor website from the literary darling publisher of the same name
Will be endorsed by McSweeney's web editor Chris Monks, as well as promised promotion on the acclaimed literature and humor site.
Along with collection of...
EAT: Los Angeles
The Food Lover's Guide to Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The essential handbook for any food lover in Los Angeles, with more than 1,300 concise, clever reviews of the best places to eat, drink, shop, and taste.
Daditude
The Joys & Absurdities of Modern Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it, except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune (and now and then in many other...
The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions
Strategies for Helicoptering, Hot-housing & Micromanaging
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Admissions rates of 6 percent? Kids applying to thirty-two colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive resumes than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has! J.D. Rothman, the Neurotic Parent of blog fame, takes readers on a hilarious satiric journey through today’s insane...
Drink: Los Angeles
The Drink Lover's Guide to L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Created by the folks behind the very successful Eat: Los Angeles guidebook, Drink: Los Angeles is a nifty pocket guide to the best pubs, cocktail bars, coffeehouses, wine bars, dive bars, tea houses, juice cafes, boba spots, and neighborhood watering holes across Los Angeles. Smart, curated, honest, and reliable.
The Spa Less Traveled
Discovering Ethnic Los Angeles, One Massage at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Los Angeles’ remarkable ethnic diversity has brought more than exotic food and rich cultural traditions—it’s led to a wealth of incredible (and incredibly inexpensive) therapeutic massage treatments. Gail Herndon and Brenda Goldstein, both health-care professionals, spent five years visiting...
So Happiness to Meet You
Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
“A lighthearted memoir of new friends, delicious food, and culture shock . . . A brisk chronicle of a family’s (mis)adventures in Vietnam” (Kirkus Reviews).
During the 2008 recession, Karin Esterhammer was laid off from her job as a travel writer for the Los Angeles Times. No longer able...
by Quinton Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Written by a seasoned writer, Odd One Out will appeal to a broad audience
An alternately funny and warm novel that plays out like a mystery
A perfect fit for contemporary trade sales that will be look perfect next Tom Perotta or David Nichols on the fiction table
First We Surf, Then We Eat
Recipes From a Lifetime of Surf Travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Jim Kempton has spent his life traveling and surfing the world, along the way learning to cook the world's best beach-loving dishes. Now he's sharing his vividly colorful, richly flavorful, and vibrantly healthful collection of more than 90 recipes, along with stories of the best waves, markets, restaurants,...
Famous Baby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The daughter of a mommy blogger escapes fame—and gets even—in this “satirical exploration of the modern American family” (Publisher’s Weekly).
Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, there was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or as Ruth’s...
Das Cookbook
German Cooking . . . California Style
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This cookbook is “filled with fantastic versions of the chef’s singular California-European cooking” that made his beloved restaurants and cafes so famous (LA Weekly).
One of Eater National’s Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2014
One of Tasting Table’s Best Upcoming Cookbooks
In...
Paperback L.A. Book 3
A Casual Anthology: Secrets, SigAlerts, Ravines, Records
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The third in the Paperback L.A. series focusing on culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A.
Editor is respected as a former magazine editor and communications chief for a prominent social-justice nonprofit
Focus will be on smart, entertaining short pieces, not esoteric or archly...