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Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child

by Jessie Hartland

Published: 2012-05-22

Hardcover: 48 pages

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In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux."Follow Julia Child—chef, author, and television person...

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Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

by Amy Novesky

Published: 2016-03-01

Hardcover: 40 pages

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Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise’s own mother was a weaver of...

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The Constance Howard Book of Stitches

by Constance Howard

Published: 1979-04

Hardcover: 140 pages

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Embroidery legend Constance Howard brings her formidable knowledge of needlework to this creative, innovative, and comprehensive guide to stitching. Using her techniques, and the dozens of close-up photographs and diagrams, it's remarkably easy to create spectacular textures, patterns, and...

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The Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics)

by Anthony Trollope

Published: 2004-02-05

Paperback: 800 pages

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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title prom...

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A View of the Harbour (New York Review Books Classics)

by Elizabeth Taylor

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, depends more and more on the company of he...

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The Heretics of De'Ath (The Chronicles of Brother Hermitage Book 1)

by Howard of Warwick

Published: 2013-11-08

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Special tie-in edition to mark the book being released as a major book. Paperback available through Amazon and all good, average and questionable book shops. England 1066: At the monastery of De'Ath's Dingle, during a completely pointless theological debate, there is a mysterious death. ...

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Celia's House

by D.E. Stevenson

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 320 pages

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There's no place like homeCelia Dunne may be an old spinster, but she's no fool. She knows that changing her will to leave the grand family estate, Dunnian, to her grand-nephew will ruffle feathers within the family. But Celia also knows that Dunnian has stood solemn and empty for far too ...

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And Then Came Paulette

by Barbara Constantine

Published: 2016-06-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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Barbara Constantine's And Then Came Paulette has climbed the European bestseller charts providing many smiles and laughs as along the way. When his son's family move away, widower Ferdinand is left with only a sadistic kitten for company on a farm that was built for a family. Just as lonel...

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Town in Bloom

by Dodie Smith

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle is told with the candour and authenticity that derives from Dodie Smith's own experience of the theatre world. Mouse never did fully suit her nickname. Tiny she may have...

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Mr. Mac and Me

by Esther Freud

Published: 2015-10-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs, son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet--shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come from th...