Books like Donuts by John T. Edge

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews’ first Gothic novel, follows the Dollanganger siblings through Cathy’s first‑person voice.

Petals on the Wind, released in 1980, continues the Dollanganger family saga after their escape from the attic in 1960, chronicling their trials and secrets through 1975.

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion.At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.From the Hardcover edition.

Shirley Temple’s radiant optimism lit up 1930s America, offering hope amid the Great Depression and leaving a lasting imprint on Hollywood and popular culture.

A spiritual memoir of the American writer and Presbyterianminister from the time of his father's suicide. Also includes information on his schooling, his writings, his depressions, and his faithful dependence on God.

David Halberstam’s The Fifties maps the decade that shaped modern America, blending social, political, economic and cultural history with portraits of key figures from Eisenhower to the Pill inventors.

A crime‑mystery novel where a private investigator in North Carolina tackles murders linked to a local coffee shop and doughnut shop, featuring the character Suzanne Hart.

Recipes for glazed, sprinkled, and jelly-filled treats.