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Food: A Love Story

Jim Gaffigan · Three Rivers Press
Format: Print book

Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn't have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? If you answered yes to any of the following...
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Hermione Lee · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most...
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts--From FDR to Obama

Mel Ayton · Regnery History
Format: Book

In American history, four U.S. Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin. In each case the assassinations changed the course of American history.But most historians have overlooked or downplayed the many threats modern presidents have faced, and survived. Author Mel Ayton...
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Stirring the Pot: My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life

Jenny McCarthy · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much...
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Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem

Paul Martin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters:...
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My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants

Colman Andrews · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat - from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli - and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.For reviewer,...
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Dream Weaver: A Memoir; Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison

Gary Wright · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

Music legend Gary Wright reflects on his professional collaboration, friendship, and spiritual journey with "quiet Beatle" George Harrison, and releases for the first time a recording of a song they wrote together. Best known for his multiplatinum hits "Dream Weaver"...
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

Martin Dugard · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of one of history's greatest adventures - and a study of the seven character traits all great explorers share.In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown:...
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

Walter Kirn · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

A Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then...
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