Authors

Patti Novak

2010 | July 10th, 2010
Patti was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and was the star of the critically acclaimed A&E series "Confessions of a Matchmaker." She began matching hearts at age ten and was voted "The Next Ann Landers" by her eighth gr... Read

Whitney Ferre

2010 | June 29th, 2010
Whitney Ferre (www.creativelyfit.com) creative career began in 1996 when she opened The Creative Fitness Center in Nashville, TN. The center provided its clientele with the opportunity to work out their creative muscles with... Read

Gary Earl Ross

2010 | June 15th, 2010
Gary Earl Ross is a language arts professor at the University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center. Named Erie County's 2003 Artist of the Year, Ross has won numerous awards for writing and teaching, including a LIFT Fel... Read

Jane Marinsky

2010 | June 15th, 2010
The Goat-Faced Girl: A Classic Italian Folktale by Leah Marinsky Sharpe & Jane Marinsky Like many good fables, this story opens with a foundling left rather inconveniently, if not surprisingly in the woods. A large lizard,... Read

Clifford Bell

2010 | June 15th, 2010
Bell has been a positive force of leadership and inspiration in the Buffalo area for over 55 years. His poems have touched the lives of the entire Buffalo community. More than just a book, A Full Life includes a free exclus... Read

Charmaine Wheatley

2010 | June 15th, 2010
30% of Buffalo features intimate portraits of adult learners and tutors from Literacy Volunteers of Western New York and Erie County whose stories provide insight into how the ability to read can impact lives. One in three re... Read

Mary Akers

2010 | June 15th, 2010
Women Up On Blocks Whether its a young co-ed who has lived her life succumbing to passion and authority, a woman struggling with the intense demands of motherhood, or a newlywed whose new mirror-filled home proves too much... Read

Andrew Bienkowski

2010 | June 15th, 2010
Andrew Bienkowski with Mary Akers One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was exiled to Siberia with his family. The two years of struggle that f... Read

Terence Samuel

2010 | June 15th, 2010
"In The Upper House" They come to Washington for varied and complex reasonsdriven perhaps by some deep emotional commitment to an issue, or believing that their time in Congress can make their dream of the presidency a reali... Read

Teri Woods

2010 | June 15th, 2010
ALIBI Where were you on the night in question? Revolved around an inquiry echoed on crime dramas like Law & Order and CSI, ALIBI (Grand Central Trade Paperback; $14.99; June 8, 2010) is a tangled tale of a botched robbery go... Read