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In Scarlet Street a lonely bank clerk is ensnarled in an embezzlement scheme by an alluring streetwalker. In The Red House a reclusive farmer living with his spinster sister and adopted daughter goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret of a decaying house on his propert...

The popular newspaper advice columnist shares anecdotes, advice, answers, and columns dealing with such issues as marital infidelity, AIDS, and homosexuality, along with some of the memorable essays and aphorisms from her column.

Take my advice: Twin sisters Esther and Pauline were inseparable as children, teenagers, and adults until they both became advice columnists. Esther writing as Ann Landers, and Pauline for "Dear Abby." The competition for readers, success and fame led to a public, decades-long fe...

We've always loved seeking advice-- so long as it's anonymous, and as long as it's clear that we're not asking for ourselves; we're just asking for a friend. And from the colonial era on, there have always been people eager to step up and offer advice, some of it lousy, some of i...

A collection of inspirational stories exemplifying the human spirit at its best, from such people as Ann Landers, Art Linkletter, M. Scott Peck, and Harold Bloomfield.

America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir.

Five years ago, after an exhaustive search, the Chicago Tribune announced Amy Dickinson as the next Ann Landers. Readers love her for her brutal honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is: "I make the mistakes so you don't have to." Now Amy spins those mistake...

"Dear Abby, Dear Ann Landers ... make room for Dear Waldo, the imaginary advice columnist of the woes and foibles of human existence from screenwriter Steve Adams. "Dear Waldo, "My moron brother Lance is obsessed with the idea that there's millions and millions of other planets w...

"Margo Howard, daughter of advice maven Ann Landers and author of the highly syndicated columns 'Dear Prudence' and 'Dear Margo,' chronicles her winding journey to everlasting love--and the three divorces it took to get there--in this disarmingly candid memoir"--Provided by publi...

My mother wrote this book. It took her forty-four years... Three generations of Americans grew up reading Ann Landers. Her advice guided and inspired millions. Now, by reading the letters she wrote to her daughter, everyone who loved her column can get to know the woman behind ...

Dick Capen has had a long, distinguished career during which he has proven time and again to be a wise and effective leader in business, journalism, community affairs, and public service. In every aspect of his life, Dick has incorporated his personal values - values shaped by hi...

Inspiring correspondence from the originator of "The Medium Is the Message," available for the first time in over 25 years Called an "oracle" and a "sage," Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) became one of the most famous men of the sixties and seventies. His reputation as a groundbrea...