Answers such food questions as what makes popcorn pop, what head cheese is, how olive oil can be virgin, and what makes bagels chewy

Everything You Pretend to Know About Food: And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask

Engineering & Transportation

Rommelmann, Nancy

Engineering

Penguin Group USA

WHERE TO GO TONIGHT The ultimate lowdown on L.A.'s rich and varied going-out scene--from the laid-back to what's hot, hot, hot, Rommelmann covers it all in over 200 listings. Bars Clubs Lounges Live Music Venues Late-Night Eating Spots From Hollywood to Glendale, Santa Monica to Silverlake, Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar &amp; Nightlife Guide is the fully cross-referenced and indispensable companion you need for hundreds of happy nights out. Whether you're looking for something on the down low or going for broke, Rommelmann has seen and done it all so you never have to spend another night in a wasteland. Get in the know. Know where to go with Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar &amp; Nightlife Guide.

Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar & Nightlife Guide

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

St. Martin's: Griffin

Goes behind the scenes of MTV's reality-based television series, and explains how they were selected

MTV's The Real Real World

Johnson, Hillary

Humor & Entertainment

A novel by the award-winning Los Angeles journalist. Nancy Rommelmann’s articles and profiles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Reason and other publications. The idea for this novel grew out of her non-fiction work, which often explores the story behind the story when it comes to Los Angeles’s more interstitial populations: LAPD officers and the refuge that is the cop bar; the itinerant inhabitants of a Sunset Boulevard motel; the workaday lives of a Mexican gardening crew in the Hollywood Hills.

The Bad Mother: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Dymaxicon

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?
On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.
Embarking on a seven-year quest for the truth, Rommelmann traced the roots of Amanda’s fury and desperation through thousands of pages of records, withheld documents, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who felt shocked, confused, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose entire life was now defined by an unspeakable crime. At the heart of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast track to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and lies as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River.

To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Little A

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Short stories by the author of THE BAD MOTHER and THE QUEENS OF MONTAGUE STREET  "Nancy Rommelmann's startling stories are as compelling as they are unsettling.  The worlds she creates are recognizable but also completely and wonderfully unfamiliar.  She writes close to the body, and we are made to feel each uncanny detail.  Transportation is a fascinating, fierce, and original collection of stories."  --Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia  "I inhaled this book in one sitting, thoroughly hypnotized. Rommelmann has the uncanny ability to tease out the nightmarish moments of everyday life in stories that are audacious, darkly hilarious, surprisingly tender and HDTV sharp. Fiction doesn't get any better than this."  --Karen Karbo, author of How Georgia Became O'Keeffe  "Somewhere between gritty and your mother's kiss on your forehead lies Transportation, Rommelmann's startling new collection. Each story crackles with violence, folding over into realms of otherworldliness, where the reader dare not look away. As the voice in the title story claims, 'There is only one escape and that is to brush away the sentimental cobwebs, get them out of your eyes quickly,' which Rommelmann does with razor-sharp precision."  --Deborah Reed, author of Carry Yourself Back to Me  Author and journalist Nancy Rommelmann is known for her unflinching documentarian gaze, usually focused on subjects like serial killers and Munchausen moms, con-men and homeless teens. But the stories in Transportation have an elevated, untethered quality—they are transported, and transporting. The storytelling surges at times toward sci-fi; at others, toward an unadorned magical realism. The first story in the collection, “The White Coyote,” is an intense, black-humored study of shame that takes place in a Catholic grade school gymnasium. The title story, “Transportation,” documents the metaphysical journey of two grieving parents who must literally circumnavigate the globe, on separate paths, in order to heal.

Transportation: Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

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