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  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)
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  Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition

  by Christine D. Pohl

  Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. MAKING ROOM revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality today. Christine Pohl traces the eclipse of this significant Christian practice, showing the initial centrality of hospitality... (more)
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  Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way Of Love

  by Daniel Homan

  In an age of terror, it is difficult to look into the eyes of a stranger without cringing. We carefully peruse our fellow passengers before we board a plane. We bolt our doors and feel safest when we are with our close friends and family. It may seem natural, given the devastating recent attacks on our country, but isn't there a better way to live? From the authors who delighted thousands of readers with... (more)
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  A Life That Says Welcome: Simple Ways to Open Your Heart & Home to Others

  by Karen Ehman

  The thought of hosting a dinner party or even having a friend over for coffee is enough to give some women flashbacks of lopsided cakes or doomed casseroles from home economics class. But opening up your home to others doesn't have to be fancy or frightening or cost a fortune, says Karen Ehman. In A Life That Says Welcome, she offers a practical, painless (no crafting or cooking aptitude required) course... (more)
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  Practicing Hospitality: The Joy of Serving Others

  by Pat Ennis

  This practical resource defines biblical hospitality and illustrates how all believers can practice hospitality from a biblical perspective. What makes a person or a home hospitable? Does hospitality call for a beautifully decorated home and a menu filled with gourmet foods, or can it be as simple as offering a friend a cup of tea? In Practicing Hospitality two longtime professors (and ... (more)
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  Open Heart, Open Home: The Hospitable Way to Make Others Feel Welcome & Wanted

  by Karen Burton Mains

  In Open Heart, Open Home Karen Mains steps far beyond how-to-entertain hints to explore the deeper concepts of Christian hospitality--the biblical way to use your home and an open heart to care for others. Countless pastors have recommended this classic resource as the meaningful example of how the Holy Spirit ministers to and through us to make others feel truly welcome and deeply wanted. Wherever you live,... (more)
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  Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring

  by Andi Ashworth

  Because we are made in the image of a creatively caring God, we reflect his love and concern when we respond to the distinct calling to care for families, neighbors, friends, and communities. As society grows increasingly technological, isolated, and lonely, those who take their caregiving gifts seriously can fill a tremendous void. In Real Love for Real Life, caregivers of all kinds can find the help and hope... (more)
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  Lessons in Service from Charlie Trotter

  by Charlie Trotter, Ed Lawler

  As winner of the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Restaurant Award, Charlie Trotter and his service staff run what many consider to be America’s finest restaurant. But it’s not just about food in this renowned Chicago hot spot. It’s about a subtle relationship between food, wine, ambiance, and service—a relationship Trotter has perfected by hiring passionate staff with the ability to surpass his incredibly... (more)
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  Gulliver's Travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels , and... (more)
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  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Bronte

  There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
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  Napkin Folds: Beautiful Styled Napkins for Every Occasion

  by Bridget Jones, Madeline Brehaut

  The art of napkin folding is experiencing a revival , as table decorating becomes ever more sophisticated and stylish. This book presents thirty stunning designs in an easy-to-follow format, with clear concise instructions and step-by-step photographs of every stage of preparation. From the Water Lily to the Bishop's Hat, each napkin fold will delight and amaze your guests and make your table the talk of the... (more)
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  The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, but Could Have, and May Yet

  by Jill Conner Browne

  "I have no pride. I tell anything," Jill Conner Browne is fond of saying. As Her Royal Highness, Boss Queen of the Sweet Potato Queens®, she has told legions of fans, known as "SPQ Wannabes," her delectable secrets to living, loving -- and eating -- like a queen. In her words, "More is more." How much more? The #1 New York Times bestselling author of five works of nonfiction now serves up The Sweet Potato... (more)
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  I Was a Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality

  by Arthur Sutherland

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  The Tiger Who Came to Tea (Collins Picture Lions)

  by Judith Kerr

  The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger! "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" has delighted children for over twenty years. When it was first published, Antonia Fraser called it a "dazzling first book" which would cause children to "scream with delicious pleasure at the dangerous... (more)
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  Check In; Check Out: Managing Hotel Operations (7th Edition)

  by Jerome J. Vallen, Gary K. Vallen

  This book has been a job-training leader and valuable professional reference in rooms management for over two decades. It provides exceptionally complete coverage of the hotel's front office and all of the support positions that make it work—from the international reservation network, to legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, management issues, room rate formulas, control and oversight, etc. In a... (more)
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  Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition (Study Guide)

  by Christine D. Pohl

  Christine Pohl's 1999 book Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition has helped foster renewal of the central but long-neglected practice of Christian hospitality. This new study guide for Making Room provides a variety of ways in which people can learn more about the practice. Designed for use by small groups — though individuals will also profit from it — the study guide is divided into... (more)
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  Crafts and Keepsakes for the Holidays: Christmas with Martha Stewart Living

  by Martha Stewart Living Magazine

  The Best of Martha Stweart Living. Celebrate the spirit of the season with creations from your own hands. Filled with gift ideas for everyone on your list. This collection of projects and recipes--from keepsake ornaments and stockings to table favors and party savories--will make handcrafting gifts a treasured holiday tradition.
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  Christmas with Martha Stewart Living

  by Martha Stewart

  A holiday grab bag of party recipes, entertaining ideas, table settings, decorations, gifts, and wrappings, complemented by step-by-step instructions and how-to color photographs, includes a Christmas calendar for planning ahead. Original. 150,000 first printing."
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  Tourism: Principles, Practices, Philosophies

  by Robert Woodrow McIntosh, Shashikant Gupta, Charles R. Goeldner

  The updated and expanded #1 introduction to tourism principles and practices retains its classic approach in this new tenth edition Virtually every country has taken steps to increase its number of visitors in recent years, and with each new edition, Tourism has remained the must-have resource dedicated to providing an exciting, comprehensive introduction to the world's most rapidly growing industry.... (more)
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  Face to Face: Meditations on Friendship and Hospitality

  by Steve Wilkins

  Today, more and more of us are growing up in abnormal families and hostile environments, and, consequently, we don't understand the basics of friendship or hospitality. Many moderns, even Christians, try to deny the importance of these virtues by sinking deeper into their selfishness, only to complain of greater loneliness. The heart of Christian reality is a society—a Trinity—of persons living with and for... (more)