Available April 2012, wherever books are sold

These enlightening write-in quiz books offer a daily dose of self-discovery and intellectual challenges.

Each book comes with attractive rounded corners, an elastic closure, and is small enough to fit in a purse or bag for mental stimulation during your commute, in waiting rooms, or during any chance you can sneak a short break for self-discovery into your day. To top it all off, each book comes with an afforable price tag, but is attractive enough to give as a gift.

Who Are You? Test Your Personality is an enlightening collection of simple personality tests designed to answer who you are, how you got that way, and what, if anything, you can or should do to change.

Who Are You? Test Your Emotional Intelligence includes tests that will analyze your emotional intelligence from a variety of perspectives, help pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses, and reveal  hidden aspects of your personality.

How Smart Are You? Test Your IQ offers brain-stumping questions to help determine whether you are a logical thinker, numerical whiz, or spatially-inclined, as well as other strengths.

How Smart Are You? Test Your Math IQ collects challenging tests and puzzles to help you hone your math skills, which are used daily, from shopping to budgeting to bill paying, not to mention (shudder) tax season.

“It’s like seeing the movie all over again, but with Francis Ford Coppola sitting next to you on the couch.” —Daniel Okrent, Fortune Magazine

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The Annotated Godfather

The Complete Screenplay

By Jenny M. Jones

with commentary on every scene, interviews, and little-known facts

The illustrated and fully authorized edition of the complete screenplay of The Godfather.

“Jones offers a streamlined version of the backstory, highlighting the difficulties that swirled around the production. The beauty of The Annotated Godfather is that it puts all this in context…. It’s a delicate dance, but she pulls it off, allowing us to see it fresh after all these years.”

—David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times

The Godfather is one of the greatest movies ever made—celebrated for its brilliant cinematic innovations and unforgettable script to its magnificent cast. Yet the history of its creation is so chaotic, so turbulent, that one cannot help but marvel at the seemingly insurmountable odds that had to be overcome for the film to make it to the silver screen, let alone to become a cinematic masterpiece that continues to captivate viewers more than four decades after its release.

The Annotated Godfather presents all the little-known details and off-screen intrigue surrounding this landmark film, including:

• The complete screenplay (with scenes that didn’t make the cut)
• Technical details about filming and locations
• Interviews with former Paramount Pictures executives, cast, crewmembers, and director Francis Ford Coppola
• Tales from the set, including arguments, accidents, and practical jokes
• Profiles of the actors and how they were cast
• Goofs and gaffes that made it into the film
• More than 200 stills, behind-the-scenes photographs, and cutting room-floor gems
• and much more

Excerpt: Casting the Don

“The casting of the title character from the novel was quite contentious. A plethora of actors were interviewed for the part, including Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Quinn, and Raf Vallone. Every older Italian actor in existence was considered. Two actors who were in contention but then hired for smaller parts in the picture were Richard Conte (Barzini) and John Marley (Woltz), who had appeared in Paramount’s extremely successful Love Story. Evans had the idea of Sophia Loren’s husband, producer Carlo Ponti. Coppola pointed out that he spoke like an Italian, but not a New Yorker. Besides, he wasn’t well-known enough. George C. Scott was also at the top of the list. Even Frank  Sinatra was rumored to want to play him. Of course, Marlon Brando finally got the part, over strenuous Paramount objections. The role garnered him an Academy Award® and a firm place in film history.”

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Kama Sutra: The Perfect Bedside Companion

Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, is one of the most widely read and enjoyed of the ancient classics. Written in India nearly two centuries ago and translated by the great Richard Burton, this landmark of sensuality explores the rules and commandments of love, pleasure, and mutual gratification with frankness and celebration.

In this beautiful new rendering, traditional art and illustrations provide a pleasing accompaniment throughout. The text has not be “modernized” and remains true to the original and set in the culture of India and Hinduism.

Kama Sutra is packaged with a beautiful and sensual satin-bound cover and matching clasp.

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The Big Book of Relationship Quizzes

Explore the person in your life with these 100 tests and quizzes. And, singletons, discover hidden meanings about your own opinions and actions and find out just what qualities your “Mr. Right” should have!

Relationships not only define who we are, they are the source of our deepest happiness. The entertaining and enlightening quizzes collected here will help you explore who you are and how you relate to those around you. They provide a quick way to examine what you can do to strengthen relationships, and how to view yourself through the eyes of others.

• Do you keep the door to romance open?
• Do you try too hard to please?
• Would you marry for money?
• Do you have the “compassion gene?”
• What kind of man do you attract?
• How passionate are you?
• How mysterious are you?
• Are you too busy to socialize?
• How easily are you turned on?
• What kind of first impression do you make?
• What’s the secret to your attraction?
• What kind of advice do you give?
• Are you a giver or a taker?
• Can you resist temptation?
• How easy are you to live with?
• Do you court danger?
• Are you good mommy material?
• How much do you know about the birds and the bees?
• Just how mellow are you–really?
• Will your love last?
• …and more…

We suggest the following goodies to share with your sweetie or your favorite girlfriends (while taking relationship quizzes!):

Chocolate Cherry Velvetini

Excerpted from The Martini Book

• 1/2 ounce chocolate syrup
• 2 ounces chocolate-flavored liqueur
• 2 ounces cherry wine
• 2 ounces vodka
• chocolate-covered cherries

Drizzle the chocolate syrup in a chilled cocktail or martini glass. Combine the liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice and shake vigorously. Strain into the cocktail glass and garnish with chocolate-covered cherries.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Excerpted from Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters

For cake:

• 1 3/4 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup chunky peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 oz. bitter chocolate, melted
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

For frosting:

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 oz. bitter chocolate, melted
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream (optional, use if needed to thin frosting)
• 3/4 cup salted peanuts

Cake directions:

1. Set the oven rack in the middle position. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut a wax paper liner to fit the bottom of an 8-inch cake pan. Coat the pan and liner with vegetable spray. Dust pan with flour and tap out the excess.
2. To make the cake: Sift together cake flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugar in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add chocolate and mix well. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk and vanilla and beat vigorously.
4. Pour batter into cake pan. Bake 45 minutes, or until a tester inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool on a rack.
5. To add frosting: Frost completely cooled cake and press peanuts into frosting on top of cake. Store loosely covered with wax paper at room temperature.

Frosting directions:

Place brown sugar in a saucepan with a heavy bottom, add water, and whisk to combine. Add chocolate and bring to a boil. Boil 3 minutes, stirring to prevent mixture from sticking to bottom of pot. Remove from heat. Whisk in butter. Add vanilla and salt and whisk again. Add confectioners’ sugar and mix thoroughly. Frosting may be thinned with heavy cream if it appears too stiff.