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Death Al Dente (Food Lovers' Village Mystery)

by Leslie Budewitz

Published: 2013-08-06

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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FIRST IN THE NEW CULINARY MYSTERY SERIES!--WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELThe town of Jewel Bay, Montana—known as a Food Lovers' Village—is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family’s century-old general store, she tu...

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Crime Rib (Food Lovers' Village Mystery)

by Leslie Budewitz

Published: 2014-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Gourmet food market owner Erin Murphy is determined to get Jewel Bay, Montana’s, scrumptious local fare some national attention. But her scheme for culinary celebrity goes up in flames when the town’s big break is interrupted by murder . . .Food Preneurs, one of the hottest cooking sho...

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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

by Nicholas Thompson

Published: 2010-09-28

Paperback: 432 pages

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Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends.Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who be...

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The Invisible Circus

by Jennifer Egan

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in...

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A Curious History of Food and Drink

by Ian Crofton

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Ever wondered where noodles came from? How Worcester Sauce was invented? Or even who the "Cucumber King of Burma" was? Beginning with the hippo soup eaten in Africa in 6000 BC, through to the dangerous blowfish enjoyed in contemporary Japan, A Curious History of Food and Drink reveals the ...

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Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2006-12-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Powerful and controversial from its 1895 publication to the present, Jude the Obscure scandalized Victorian critics, who condemned it as decadent, indecent, and degenerate. Between its frank portrayals of sexuality and its indictments of marriage, religion, and England's class system, the ...

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On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

by Tim Cope

Published: 2015-07-21

Paperback: 528 pages

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Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Festival Book CompetitionThe relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century--a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Gen...

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The Pope's Daughter

by Dario Fo

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 241 pages

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Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified women in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own bro...

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Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World

by Seth Andrews

Published: 2015-06-10

Hardcover: 212 pages

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Did you know God forbids the tying of shoelaces on Saturday? Or that humans emit an color aura which can only be discerned with a Third Eye? That bountiful harvest requires the flinging of a live goat from a church bell tower? That instead of wishing upon a star, we can wish upon a...cow? Well into...

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The Handbook (The Encheiridion) (Hackett Classics)

by Epictetus

Published: 1983-06-01

Paperback: 35 pages

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From the Introduction: "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50 130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 b....