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As publishing folk, we love all of our children equally-each as their own work of genius, humor, instruction or sheer entertainment. The years have taught us the art of extolling all of the books on our list, from the front list blockbuster to the midlist gem. Yet, once every season or so, there's a book (or books) that you think of just a little too often, that creeps into your thoughts time and again like a middle school crush. After 10 years of being in this business, it's always amazing when you fall just a little bit in love all over again (and again, and again).

The most recent object of my affection isn't a gripping memoir, or stunning fiction debut. That's not what we do here at DK. It's a cookbook-and more specifically a baking book. I don't even like to bake, and am certainly not very good at it, but I am confident that Nick Malgieri's The Modern Baker will save me.

At the end of this coming September, home cooks are going to be introduced to a new way to think about baking. With recipes designed to be completed in an hour, for everything from pies to cookies to breads and savory treats, The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri is going to have everyone falling in love with baking again! The staff at DK and friends will also be giving you a chance to take a peek at our kitchen skills as we attempt to become modern bakers with the launch of the Modern Baker Blog later this summer! Follow us through our triumphs (and possible tragedies) along the road to baking mastery. Look out for it. It should be a lot of fun.

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Catherine Coulter's First #1 New York Times Mass Market Fiction Bestseller Leads Strong Week for Berkley/NAL

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Catherine Coulter tops the New York Times mass market fiction bestseller list for the first time with Double Take (Jove), hitting #1 for the week of July 20th, her second week on that list. Coulter's previous high position on the New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list was #2, with her current Putnam hardcover, TailSpin, at #4 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list in its second week. In other Berkley/NAL New York Times bestseller news: Christina Dodd's Into the Shadow (Signet) debuts on the mass market fiction bestseller list at #4, her highest-ever New York Times bestseller list ranking. In addition, two authors achieve their first-ever New York Times bestsellers, with Lynn Viehl debuting at #19 with Twilight Fall (Onyx) and Angela Knight debuting at #20 with Warrior (Berkley Sensation) on the mass market fiction bestseller list.

Greg Mortenson's #1 New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea Messages Continue to Grow, Impacting More Students and Educators

The message of promoting peace through education continues to grow through the Penguin book Three Cups of Tea - which this week returns to the #1 position on the New York Times trade paperback fiction bestseller list in its 75th week. Author Greg Mortensen spent this past weekend in Hawaii at the American Academy of International Achievement Summit whose mission is to bring students fact-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, thinkers, and pioneers who have shaped our world. While there, he spoke with New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof, and also spent time chatting with another Penguin Group (USA) author, Khaled Hosseini. While Greg was in Hawaii, Christiane Leitinger, director of Pennies for Peace, was hard at work at the NEA (National Education Association) conference sharing the message of Three Cups of Tea by handing out about 800 copies of the book (which were purchased by Mortenson's charity, Pennies for Peace) to teachers who were lining up for copies of the book.