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About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

by Donna Leon

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 278 pages

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The eighteenth enthralling installment of "one of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever" (The Washington Post) The Publication of each Commissario Brunetti mystery is an event antici­pated by Donna Leon's many readers. In About Face, she returns with a dazzling mystery tha...

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Don't Lick the Minivan: And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids

by Leanne Shirtliffe

Published: 2013-05-22

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Leanne Shirtliffe writes with hilarity and poignancy as to the trials and pains (literally) of motherhood. She is our new Erma Bombeck!"--Elizabeth Boyle, New York Times best-selling authorAs a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the c...

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Lost & Found

by Brooke Davis

Published: 2015-01-27

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An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is lookingMillie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of...

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Mist or Niebla

by Miguel de Unamuno

Published: 2014-01-10

Paperback: 168 pages

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Mist (1914) is not a novel, but rather a ‘Nivola,’ a neologism invented by Miguel de Unamuno to taunt his critics. We cannot say it’s a new genre, because no other author has ever written a 'Nivola.' What is certain is that Mist is one of the most important works of fiction of the Basque writer....

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Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking

by Simon Quellen Field

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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When you’re cooking, you’re a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired micro...

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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

by Michael Ruhlman

Published: 2009-03-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."—The New York Times Book ReviewJust over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef’s jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students at the...

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Hannah's Dream: A Novel

by Diane Hammond

Published: 2008-09-02

Paperback: 319 pages

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An elephant never forgets . . . but can she dream?For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is found to replace him, Sam rejoices wh...

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Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Published: 2014-09-04

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or...

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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night: A Novel

by Heather O'Neill

Published: 2014-06-03

Hardcover: 416 pages

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An enchanting story of twins, fame, and heartache by the much-praised author of Lullabies for Little CriminalsHeather O’Neill charmed readers in the hundreds of thousands with her sleeper hit, Lullabies for Little Criminals, which documented with a rare and elusive magic the life of ...

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Master Harold and the Boys (Vintage International)

by Athol Fugard

Published: 2009-10-13

Paperback: 64 pages

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This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story.  Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse...