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Best Holiday Sweets & Treats: Good and Simple Family Favorites to Bake and Share
Daniella Malfitano · The Countryman Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
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Embrace the spirit of the season with the sweet scents and decadent tastes of your favorite holiday treats. The holidays can be stressful, but baking a batch of cookies, fudge, or bars for your family doesn't have to be. With classic ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, Best Holiday... |
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The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik · Other Press; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers.... |
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Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth
Margaret McLean · Forge
Pages: 367
Format: Print book |
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J Bacevich · Random House
Pages: 453
Format: Print book |
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Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving... |
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Marked for Death: My War with Jim Jones the Devil of Jonestown
Timothy Oliver Stoen · Timothy Oliver Stoen
Pages: 361
Format: Print book |
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"I have Tim Stoen... in my psyche tonight... I'm a man filled with rage... I could kill him. I could really kill him. Literally kill him... I got the man that'll get him. All I got to do is say the word, 'Go. '... Tim Stoen... hasn't made a move in the United States,... |
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 277
Format: Print book |
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile... |
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Hermione Lee · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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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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Country Living Pies & Tarts
Country Living. · Hearst Books, 2016.
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
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Nothing says "home sweet home" like the aroma of a freshly baked pie. Now this revised version of a classic Country Living cookbook features 70 foolproof recipes (25 of them new) , making it easy to bring that sweetness into your kitchen! From basic tools and ingredients to essential... |
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The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice
Polly Coles · Robert Hale
Format: Book |
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A riveting account of ordinary life in an extraordinary place, packed with charming anecdotes that will have readers hooked on Venetian life The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move... |
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Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
Glenn Berger · Schaffner Pr Inc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "Schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul... |
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
Janice Hadlow · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover |
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The Times Best Books of the Year * The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC History Magazine Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport"A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction... |
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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
Ziony Zevit · Yale University Press |
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The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity’s fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how ancient Israelites understood the early... |
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Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players
Steve Cameron · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback |
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Profiles, stories, artifacts and archival images of every player in the Hockey Hall of Fame. The greatest individual honor that can be bestowed upon a professional hockey player is to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players celebrates each and every... |
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