Not only are the Oak Tree Press authors wonderful writers, they are also great cooks. Meals often appear in their books. This cookbook assembles the best of their recipes along with author profiles and a bit about their books. contributors include: Amy Bennett, Holli Castillo, Lorna Collins, Lesley A. Diehl, Michael Eldridge, Nicola Furlong, J.L. (Janet) Greger, Shirley Skufca Hickman, Ann K. Howley, Marilyn Levinson, J. R. (John) Lindermuth, Nancy LiPetri, F. M. (Marilyn) Meredith, Sharon...

Confessions of A Do-Gooder Gone Bad, a 2014 TAZ Award winner, is a wry, humorous coming of age memoir about a well-intentioned "problem child" raised by conservative, evangelical Christian parents in Southern California during the Sixties and Seventies. As she naively stumbles through her youth and young adulthood, one misadventure after another, she also struggles to reconcile her ultra-Christian upbringing with women's liberation, prejudice, protest and poverty during this turbulent era,...

When 15-year-old Shelby inadvertently finds something shocking in her grandmother's house, she and her best friend, Darrin, drive traumatized Grandma to her hometown in North Carolina to help her make amends with the past. But the murderous secret that Grandma divulges is only half the truth, and when the teens jump into the mystery and piece together what happened in 1956, Grandma reveals a shocking twist that forces the kids to confront their own deepest fears.

When 15-year-old Shelby inadvertently finds something shocking in her grandmother's house, she and her best friend, Darrin, drive traumatized Grandma to her hometown in North Carolina to help her make amends with the past. But the murderous secret that Grandma divulges is only half the truth, and when the teens jump into the mystery and piece together what happened in 1956, Grandma reveals a shocking twist that forces the kids to confront their own deepest fears.