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Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival -- and she has the scars to prove it.In Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress -- part memoir, part social commentary, part guide on how to behave when dining out-Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate journey of her twenty years as a waitress at the ding...

Grade Level: 7-9 Age Level: 12-14 Listening Level: 7-9 A memoir written by a 22-year-old high functioning autistic student about his freshman through senior year of high school. Inspired by IMDB.com and TV.com, it is written in episodes about his quest for the perfect trio of friends, his love of Hilary Duff, and his never-ending search for a girlfriend.

Set against the backdrop of the deadly 2007 wildfires that forced the evacuation of half a million San Diego residents, Debra Ginsberg's new novel, The Neighbors Are Watching, examines the dark side of suburbia-a place where everyone has something to hide. Aside from their annual block party, the neighbors on Fuller Court tend to keep to themselves-which doesn't mean that they aren't all watching and judging each other on the sly. So when preg...

Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, this book--now in paperback--takes readers on an intimate journey through Ginsberg's two decades of waitressing. Includes a new Epilogue.

When you have a child that doesn't fit in, what do you do? Debra Ginsberg knew that her son, Blaze, was unique from the moment he was born in 1987. What she didn't know was that Blaze's differences would be regarded by the outside world not as gifts, but as impediments to social and academic success. Blaze never crawled. He just got up and walked when he turned one. He called his mother 'Zsa Zsa' until he was three. By kindergarten, he loved t...

Like many women, Debra Ginsberg shares a special bond with her three sisters. As their free-spirited parents traveled the world, Debra, the eldest of five children, formed deep and unbreakable ties with Maya, Lavander, and Dé ja that last to this day. Ginsberg examines these bonds through a prism of events that occur over the course of one year: birthdays, breakups, career changes, holidays, pain, and joy. About My Sisters reveals not only the...

Whispers of the past… When young Eden Harrison receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor, her seemingly charmed life falls apart. Haunted by dreams of people and places she doesn't recognize, Eden is convinced that her new heart carries the memories of its original owner. Eden leaves her old life behind as she is mysteriously drawn to the city of San Diego. Whispers of the mind… There, Eden becomes fast friends with Darcy, a young woma...

Marina Marks has been on the grift since she was a child, forced into the psychic business by a junkie mother who was always willing to use her daughter to scam an extra buck. But when Marina wakes up one day with the actual ability to see the future, she finds her freedom-and her life-in danger. After predicting a murder exactly as it happens, Marina becomes the sole suspect. Now she's desperate to clear her name-and to discover the meaning b...

Set against the backdrop of the deadly 2007 wildfires that forced the evacuation of half-a-million San Diego residents, Ginsberg's new novel examines the dark side of suburbia--a place where everyone has something to hide.