As I took a break from struggling through the first few pages of John Thompson's piano book for beginners, she confided that at one time she had been engaged to Gunther, but then the husband of the young German woman to whom he had been ...
In a charming, bittersweet memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, America's Queen of Suspense shares her recollections of her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming ...
Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir
When Mary Higgins Clark's father died, her widowed mother made ends meet by taking in boarders, placing a sigh next to the front door, "Furnished Rooms, Kitchen Privileges."
Tony Ridgway's story of food and cooking from the apple and peach orchards of Chester County Pennsylvania to an almost 50 year career of restaurant ownership in Naples, Florida.
When Mary's father died during the Depression, her mother decided to open the family home to boarders, and placed a discreet sign next to the front door that read, FURNISHED ROOMS. KITCHEN PRIVILEGES.