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I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

by Amy Sedaris

Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the grieving? Don't despair. Take a cue from entertaining expert Amy Sedaris and host an unforgettable fete that will have your guests raving. No matter the style or size of the gathering--from the straightforward to the bizarre--I LIKE YOU provides jackpot recipes... (more)

Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun

Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun

by Ina Garten, James Merrell

After more than twenty years of running Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, Ina Garten published her first collection of recipes. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was an overnight sensation, but it's the kind of success that can only be grounded in years of experience. In it, Ina shared her ideas for familiar food but with outstanding flavor and -- most important of all -- recipes that really... (more)

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

by Ina Garten

For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and style that make Barefoot Contessa such a special place are shown here, with dozens of recipes and... (more)

Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233

Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233

by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman

This stunning debut combines reading with the world of internet gaming to create a masterful new genre that will allow teens to take the story from the page into the world of cyberspace and beyond. Things weren’t so peachy in Cathy’s life before Victor broke up with her. Her father died unexpectedly, she’s failing school, and her best friend is mad at her. But when Cathy decides to investigate Victor’s reasons... (more)

Freakin' Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better than Everyone Else

Freakin' Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better than Everyone Else

by Clinton Kelly

Clinton Kelly won't just revamp your wardrobe -- he'll revamp your life! The huddled masses yearn to be fabulous, and finally Clinton Kelly is heeding their call. As co-host of TLC's popular What Not to Wear, he regularly transforms dumpy fashion disasters into traffic-stopping, get-an-instant-promotion, reignite-the-passion-in-that-relationship makeovers. But fabulousness doesn't stop with style. Let's face it:... (more)

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes)

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes)

by Anne Mazer

When Abby¹s class starts a newspaper, Abby envisions herself as the star reporter. But she¹s only given an advice column to write and that is not good. (Dear Abby isn¹t her first choice in nicknames!) Just as she suspects, the column gets Abby in some trouble with her classmates. But, surprisingly, it also gives her a chance to help a friend.

Friendship According to Humphrey

by Betty G. Birney

After a long winter vacation, Humphrey the hamster can’t wait to see his friends in Room 26 again. But on the first day back he gets a big surprise: Room 26 has a new class pet, Og the frog! Humphrey can’t wait to be friends with Og, but Og doesn’t seem interested. To make matters worse, the students are so interested in Og, they almost stop paying attention to Humphrey altogether. Luckily he still gets to... (more)

The Clique: Book 9

Bratfest at Tiffany's

by Lisi Harrison

Massie Block: The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee's alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Massie lays out a New Year-New Pretty Committee rule: Anyone caught crushing on a boy will be thrown out of the NPC- forever . But will she be able to follow her own decree when she sees that Derrington has ditched his... (more)

The Daring Book for Girls

by Alexis Seabrook, Miriam Peskowitz, Andrea J. Buchanan

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's... (more)

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

by Tyler Perry

If you can count on one thing from "Madea" Mabel Simmons, star of the smash hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion , it's that she's got something to say. Now the beloved, sharp-tongued, pistol-packing grandmother has her own book-part memoir, many parts hard-won, hilarious, straight-up in-your-face words of wisdom.

In Style Parties (The Complete Guide to Easy, Elegant Entertaining)

In Style Parties (The Complete Guide to Easy, Elegant Entertaining)

by Editors of In Style Magazine

Want to throw an A-list party without spending heaps of time and money? In Style Parties: The Complete Guide to Easy, Elegant Entertaining is the one-stop guide to making every event stylish and personal, and it proves once and for all that entertaining at home can be easy, fabulous, and fun. Organized in three sections, the book includes:¥ The basics of party preparation, including what to serve and how to create... (more)

Occasions (New Series of Lifestyle Books)

Occasions (New Series of Lifestyle Books)

by Ruth A. Peltason, Kate Spade

Every occasion calls out for something extra, whether it's flowers you set on the table, foods to honor a special gathering, or the selection of music. For both hostess and guest, consideration of those around you is among the most important qualities for any enjoyable occasion. A smile and sense of humor are also essential, and before the canapés and night lighting a good hostess is ultimately defined by a... (more)

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

by E. L. Konigsburg

I Prefer Not To.... That's Margaret Rose Kane's response to every activity she's asked to participate in at the summer camp to which she's been exiled while her parents are in Peru. So Margaret Rose is delighted when her beloved uncles rescue her from Camp Talequa, with its uptight camp director and cruel cabinmates, and bring her to stay with them at their wonderful house at 19 Schuyler Place. But Margaret Rose... (more)

Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

by Chris Heimerdinger

Jim Hawkins is bad and Garth plimpton love the church. when they discover an anchient world with jims little sister jenny, they have to save jenny from the lamonites.thats basicly it :)

Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres Handbook

Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres Handbook

by Martha Stewart

No one knows better how to give a party than Martha Stewart-and as she proves in this comprehensive and visually dazzling handbook, great parties begin with great hors d'oeuvres. Three hundred all-new recipes, each photographed in full color, show why Martha Stewart is still America's style authority and most trusted party host. It was fifteen years ago that Martha Stewart first turned her creativity and... (more)

The Declaration of Independence (The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes)

The Declaration of Independence (The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes)

by Anne Mazer

HOME: A MEMOIR OF MY EARLY YEARS

by Julie Andrews

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins , Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years , Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international... (more)

One of Those Malibu Nights

by Elizabeth Adler

New York Times Bestselling Author of Meet Me in Venice It was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kitten’s breath.... But when Private Investigator to the stars, Mac Reilly, hears the sound of a woman’s scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distraught woman wearing only a... (more)

Stir, Laugh, Repeat

by Martha A. Cheves

Find out why her food testers celebrate these all-too-often occasions in Stir, Laugh, Repeat. Following her passion for cooking and in hot pursuit of just the right taste, Martha Cheves composed one hundred recipes for cooks of all ages that are sure to satiate appetites of any kind. Try her quick and easy bacon, egg, and cheese mini pies for breakfast; rabbit food sandwich for a healthy, take-to-the-office lunch;... (more)

Lights out

by Jane B. Mason

It's Halloween and following PCA tradition, the upperclassmen are creating a haunted house for the younger kids. Logan is determined that it's going to be the scariest, spookiest, creepiest night of the little kids' lives. But when two of them vanish, including Zoey's little brother, the night takes a turn that no one imagined! Then let the debate begin: it's... (more)

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by Amy Sedaris

by Ina Garten, James Merrell

by Ina Garten

by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman

by Clinton Kelly

by Anne Mazer

by Betty G. Birney

by Lisi Harrison

by Alexis Seabrook, Miriam Peskowitz, Andrea J. Buchanan

by Tyler Perry

by Editors of In Style Magazine

by Ruth A. Peltason, Kate Spade

by E. L. Konigsburg

by Chris Heimerdinger

by Martha Stewart

by Anne Mazer

by Julie Andrews

by Elizabeth Adler

by Martha A. Cheves

by Jane B. Mason