It's. Nice. Outside. explores that universal tension between being a parent and keeping true to yourself. In this laugh-out-loud, heartbreaking, generous family novel, Jim Kokoris returns to the heartfelt writing of The Rich Part of Life.Meet John Nichols. He's 50-something years old, an ex-basketball player, ex-author, ex-philanderer, ex-husband, ex-high school English teacher. And he's father to three: two overachieving adult da...

"[A] poignant story about sons and fathers and the push-me, pull-me nature of relationships . . . Kokoris has an ear for how people talk and think." — The Chicago TribuneTeddy Pappas is an eleven-year-old boy forced into maturity before his time. He lives with his younger brother and their eccentric Civil War historian father, a man more comfortable with discussing Confederate footwear than what kind of day his sons had. Their lives have ...

Shaken by tragedy, a lawyer seeks spiritual guidance from a TV nun in this "charmingly profound yet deviously humorous portrait of redemption and renewal" ( Booklist ).Sam is an indifferent Chicago divorce lawyer content to drift though life on his good looks and his wife's money—until a violent incident shatters his world. Suddenly, his only hope in life rests with Sister North, a no-nonsense nun who dispenses advice on T...

Charlie Baker is a neurotic but charming 50-year-old workaholic CEO of a major Chicago ad agency who seems to have it all: an impressive house in an upscale suburb, an equally impressive salary, the requisite pretty wife and accomplished son. All of this comes crashing down when Charlie is unceremoniously fired. In an instant, his life is transformed from corporate titan to just another out of work American.For Charlie—an admitted workaholic—a world without a job is a strange world ...

Lessons on product, quality, innovation, and longevity from the "First Family of Bourbon"The Big Man of Jim Beam delves into the life and times of legendary distiller F. Booker Noe III, grandson of Jim Beam and father of the bourbon boom. A true American original who left his mark on everything he did and everyone he met, this charismatic, opinionated man turned the Jim Beam company into the world's largest bourbon distillery and secured his product's plac...

An insider's look at the Jim Beam brand, from a 7th generation Master DistillerWritten by the 7th generation Beam family member and Master Distiller, Frederick Booker Noe III, Beam, Straight Up is the first book to be written by a Beam, the family behind the 217-year whiskey dynasty and makers of one of the world's best-selling bourbons. This book features family history and the evolution of bourbon, including Fred's storied youth "growing up Beam" in Bard...

This book is an entertaining and informative look at the First Family of Bourbon - the Beams - written by the colorful, seventh generation Beam family member and Master Distiller, Frederick Booker Noe III. It is the first book to be written by a Beam, the family behind the 217-year whiskey dynasty, and makers of one of the world's best-selling bourbon, Jim Beam. The book features family and bourbon history, stories about Fred's youth "growing up Beam" in Bardstown, Kentucky, his transition...