Exploring thousands of names from Aaliyah to Zuri, this guide provides insightful commentary and analysis on first names. Authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran, known for their previous works, deliver a fresh perspective, making it an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the significance and trends behind first names.
Linda Rosenkrantz Books




With a reputation as baby-name experts, the authors provide a comprehensive guide filled with unique name lists and their signature humor. This expanded edition addresses key questions for expectant parents, offering insights and advice that go beyond traditional naming conventions. Their extensive experience, evidenced by over a million copies sold, makes this a valuable resource for anyone seeking the perfect name for their child.
Beyond Ava & Aiden
- 302 pages
- 11 hours of reading
This updated edition of a renowned baby-name guide offers a fresh take on naming trends and inspirations. It features an extensive list of names, including their meanings and origins, making it an invaluable resource for expectant parents. Enhanced with contemporary insights, this guide aims to help parents navigate the often overwhelming process of choosing the perfect name for their child, reflecting both tradition and modernity.
Talk
- 215 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships. It’s the summer of 1965 and Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. All three are ambitious and artistic; all are hovering around thirty; and all are deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves and everyone around them. The friends discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S and M in an ongoing dialogue where anything goes and no topic is off limits. Talk is the result of these conversations, recorded by Linda Rosenkrantz and transformed into a novel whose form and content put it well ahead of its time. Controversial upon its first publication in 1968, Talk remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.