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  The God of Small Things

  by Arundhati Roy

  Southern India 1969. Here, armed only with the invincible innocence of children, Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, who loves by night the same man her children adore by day...their blind grandmother, who plays Handel on her violin...their beloved uncle, A Rhodes Scholar pickle baron, radical Marxist,... (more)
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  B. Smith's Entertaining and Cooking for Friends

  by Barbara Smith

  Here's the long-awaited paperback edition of the hugely popular guide to entertaining by the urbane restaurateur and television celebrity who epitomizes style and grace to millions of television fans and the patrons of her three acclaimed restaurants. In B. Smith's Entertaining and Cooking for Friends, she has poured her limitless talent and boundless energy into a lively volume that instructs and inspires. ... (more)
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  Aristotle's Children

  How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

  by Richard E. Rubenstein

  Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient... (more)
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  Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication

  by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

  What happens when a four-star chef and a culinary minimalist decide to join forces to create something different? They invent a new style that adapts to every occasion and every level of cooking expertise. Simple to Spectacular introduces a unique concept developed by one of the world's top chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything and the New York Times's hugely... (more)
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  Hunger's Brides

  A Novel of the Baroque

  by Paul Anderson

  Three Starred Reviews for Hunger’s Brides "One of the most remarkable books in recent memory…. Impressive . . . Stands proudly alongside such works as Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE and Eduardo Galeano’s MEMORY OF FIRE." —(starred review) Quill & Quire "A tour de force. . . . A DA VINCI CODE for the literate, reminiscent of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Fuentes at their best."... (more)
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  The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook

  by Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins

  The exciting sequel to The Silver Palate Cookbook, this 450-recipe collection--acclaimed by critics nationwide--transforms any occasion into something magical. Winner of a 1986 Duncan Hines IACP Cookbook Award.
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  The Silver Palate Cookbook

  Delicious Recipes, Menus, Tips, Lore from Manhattan's Celebrated Gourmet Food Shop

  by Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Michael McLaughlin

  Now in its second decade, celebrate one of America's favorite cookbooks. The Silver Palate Cookbook with its 350 recipes is the widely-acclaimed contemporary classic that brought a new passion for food and hospitality into American homes. A James Beard Book Awards inductee into the cookbook Hall of Fame.
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  Hershey's Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

  Cook Book, Cooking, Chocolate, Deserts
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  iPod

  by J. D. Biersdorfer

  The iPod is the world's bestselling music player. But if you think that it's just a music player, then you must think Clark Kent is just a newspaperman. In this freshly updated edition, New York Times tech columnist J. D. Biersdorfer blows open the secret doors of this gleaming, chrome-and-white beauty. With humor and authority, she lays bare an astonishing collection of useful tips, tricks, and shortcuts... (more)
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  The new Ford treasury of favorite recipes from famous restaurants

  by Nancy Kennedy

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  The Potted Herb

  by Abbie Zabar

  Since its publication in 1988, The Potted Herb has become a classic gardening and gift book. Beloved for its delicate line drawings and accessible size, this beginner's guide to growing your own herbs has sold more than 65,000 hard-cover copies. Now, in an affordable paperback format with a fresh cover design, the popular title will reach a new readership. Zabar, who tends to her own patio garden in Manhattan,... (more)
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  Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

  by Suzie Gilbert

  In this captivating memoir, Suzie Gilbert tells the rollicking story of how she turned her family life upside down to pursue her unusual passion for rehabilitating wild birds. Through adolescence and into adulthood, Suzie Gilbert struggled to find her calling. But when she took a job working at the animal hospital near her home in New York's Hudson Valley, her passion was born. She began bringing abused and... (more)
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  La Cuidad De Las Bestias

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  The new Boston globe cookbook : more than 200 classic New England recipes, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie

  by Sheryl Julian

  The classic cookbook, now fully updated and revised—with old New England favorites adapted for the modern kitchen, plus ethnic specialties.
• 10,001 Food Facts, Chefs' Secrets and Household HintsMyles. Reader's Digest Association. Bader

  

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  10,001 Food Facts, Chefs' Secrets and Household Hints

  by Myles. Reader's Digest Association. Bader

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  Crisco Cookies for a Year of Celebrations

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• Recipes from Bon Appetit Too Busy to Cook (2-Volume Set)Mary Lou Bon

  

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  Recipes from Bon Appetit Too Busy to Cook (2-Volume Set)

  by Mary Lou Bon

• GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'S COOKIE- JAR COOKBOOKGOOD HOUSEKEEPING

  

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  GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'S COOKIE- JAR COOKBOOK

  by GOOD HOUSEKEEPING