Locals know it, and newcomers learn it fast: we live in one of America's great cities. Beyond the obvious and outside your own daily routine, wouldn't it be great to have an insider's view into all the great neighborhoods around town? Finally, you can. With the arrival of "Finally! A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis, By and For St. Louisans, Neighborhood By Neighborhood," you can get the skinny on exploring our town, from the Metro East to the urban core to daytrips worth the drive. Folks often say St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own character (and characters!); let this be your handbook to the highlights and hidden treasures of them all. Our opinionated overview points out the best dining, dives, shopping and gawking, from just-so touches for the home to cool gifts for kids to the no-sign bars and restaurants no tourist would ever find. Tidbits of local lore are sprinkled throughout: want to see where a young Steve McQueen filmed one of his first breakout roles? Get contact caffeination from a district of coffee roasters? Partake of an absinthe cocktail, spiked milkshake or salt-therapy session? Catch a drag show? Eat cheap pizza? Finally, you've got an in-the-know best friend at your fingertips.

In The Skin Commandments: 10 Rules to Healthy, Beautiful Skin, Dr. Tony Nakhla simplifies complex principles of modern dermatologic theory and provides ten practical steps, or commandments, to help you achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful skin regardless of your age. By incorporating advanced cosmetic enhancements with practical wellness and nutritional tips, The Skin Commandments encompasses the entire spectrum of integrative skin-care therapy like no other book. Readers will learn how to: reduce signs of aging, prevent and detect skin cancer, choose the best skin-care products and advanced treatments, eat foods that are good for your skin, maintain internal and external hydration, achieve beautiful skin by living a healthy lifestyle. This essential guide reveals all the right steps to optimal skin care. Everyone wants healthy, beautiful skin-follow The Skin Commandments, and you can have it.

Soccer Made in St. Louis covers the history, playing styles, and evolution of the world's most popular sport in the nation's original soccer capital, St. Louis. Starting with the first reported game in 1875, the book details the teams, the players, and the organizers who brought home national championships at every level of soccer. Author and longtime St. Louis soccer writer Dave Lange tells the stories of those who took the game from the sandlots of St. Louis to soccer's biggest stage, the World Cup. From Harry Ratican, the first St. Louisan to gain nationwide soccer fame; to the six St. Louisans who led the United States to the biggest upset in World Cup history; to Lori Chalupny, who helped the U.S. Women's National Team to Olympic gold; the book covers the rich heritage of soccer in St. Louis and shows how the sport is woven into the fabric of the city's makeup. Dave Lange has covered soccer in St. Louis since the1970s, primarily for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Beginning in 1997, he also coached club soccer in St. Louis for a dozen years. He holds a U.S. Soccer Federation D national coaching license and a coaching certificate from the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB). He and his wife, Janet, and their son, Will, live in the St. Louis area.

The most important meal of the day is taken seriously in the Show Me State. Just ask Missouri author Ann M. Hazelwood, who spent more than a year seeking places in Missouri that do breakfast best. She compiles her findings in Best Breakfast Eats in Missouri, a book that features everything from popular brunch destinations, to bed and breakfasts, to neighborhood diners. Discover gems like Lady Di's Tea Room in St. Charles, which offers a 13-egg omelet; drop by Aunt Martha's Pancake House in Springfield for a delicious chocolate pancake with a scoop of ice cream; bring the whole family to Pumpernickles Deli in St. Louis for matzo and eggs or challah French toast; and when you're in Cottleville pull up a chair to the five-course brunch at Stone Soup Cottage. You don't want to skip breakfast. Don't skip Best Breakfast Eats in Missouri!

10 Rings: Stories of the St. Louis Cardinals' World Championships is like ten adventure novels with different plots that all have the same ending - and a happy one at that. The Cardinals were the last of the original National League teams to get to the World Series. Since that late beginning they've become the most successful N.L. team in World Series history with ten championships. They've been world champs during both good and bad economic times, as well as in times of war and peace. Twice they've christened a new stadium by bringing to it a World Series trophy during its first full year. In 10 Rings, veteran newspaperman Jim Rygelski and the eminent baseball historian Bob Tiemann have culled this rich history to bring stories not just of the hits, runs, and errors but, more importantly, the drama involving the personalities that drove these Cardinal teams to the heights. Sam Breadon, Branch Rickey, and Rogers Hornsby battle each other for control of the team while the Cardinals subdue Murderers' Row. Pepper Martin runs wild on the bases and steals the trophy coveted by Mr. Mack's Athletics. Dizzy and Paul Dean tame some Tigers. The St. Louis Swifties led by Stan Musial vanquish the Browns. El Birdos turn Boston's Impossible Dream into a nightmare. Whitey Ball turns the tables on Harvey's Wallbangers. And Tony LaRussa's improbable Redbirds shock the world. The text includes a summary of how the Cardinals won each pennant, the linescore of each World Series game of those championship years, and great photos.

Arguably, the American quilt is the quintessential example of folk art. And beyond argument, quilting is crucial to the study of the history of American women. Like all folk art, quilting established a defined culture with tangible traditions. You Did What in the Ditch? relays the folklore of this culture. Author John Oldani, Ph.D., a folklore archivist who has produced and judged national quilt shows, examines the vocabulary, sayings, folk beliefs, superstitions, folk poetry, historical significance, and even the graffiti of the American quilter. Find out what quilters do "in the ditch," what they do with "betweens," and where they hide their "pigs".