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The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen
by Kevin Conley  Publisher Comments A thrillingly written look inside the crash-bang world of the professional stuntman—the first reported book to venture into this wild corner of the movie business. In The Full Burn, bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Kevin Conley takes...
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a...
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How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table
by Russ Parsons Publisher Comments Eat locally, eat seasonally. A simple slogan that is backed up by science and by taste. The farther away from the market something is grown, the longer it must spend getting to us, and what eventually arrives will be less than satisfying. Although we can...
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a...
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The Best Game Ever: Giants Vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America’s postwar economic boom, was still greatly overshadowed by the country&#...
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
by Sun Publisher Comments Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate — bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the...
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Good Dog. Stay.
by Anna Quindlen Publisher Comments "The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on...
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
by Julia Flynn Siler Publisher Comments An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built — and then spectacularly lost — a global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of...
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Animal Liberation ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Peter Singer Publisher Comments The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the...
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Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
by Taylor Clark Publisher Comments Part "Fast Food Nation," part "Bobos in Paradise," this book provides an objective, meticulously reported story of how the coffeehouse movement changed everyday lives, from evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways people shop, socialize, and...
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Fool's Paradise
by John Gierach Publisher Comments If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering. Laced with the inimitable blend of wit and wisdom that have made him fly-fishing's foremost scribe...
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The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
by Mark Frost Publisher Comments Frost, bestselling author of "The Greatest Game Ever Played," returns with the story of the match that turned the pastime of golf into a professional sport--when Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi played against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson in the greatest...
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The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef
by Marco Pierre White Publisher Comments “There hasn’t been a food memoir this deliciously wicked since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.”—Portland Oregonian The Devil in the Kitchen is legendary chef Marco Pierre White’s memoir of growing up working...
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
by Jennifer 8. Lee Publisher Comments There are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonald's, Burger Kings, and Wendy's combined. Egg rolls are as American as apple pie, and for New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee, the story of the Chinese-American experience can be told through...
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My Lucky Dog
by Mellon Tytell Publisher Comments Hunter, my majestic eighty-six-pound mutt, was the love of my life for thirteen years. I was addicted to looking at him—every twitch of his ear was fascinating to me. I've taken thousands of photographs of him, dozens even in the same position. He...
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Canoe and Kayak Routes of Northwest Oregon: Including Southwest Washington
by Philip N. Jones Book News Annotation Clear line maps and some b&w photos supplement the thorough descriptions of 74 paddle routes (eight are new to this edition). This is a guide that's had time to mature as the first edition was published in 1982, under the title Canoe Routes: Northwest...
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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
by Herv This Publisher Comments An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Hervé is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted...
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
by Fuschia Dunlop Publisher Comments A new memoir by the most talented and respected British food writer of her generation. Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning she vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter...
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
by Nick Trout Publisher Comments It's 2: 47 a.m. when Dr. Nick Trout takes the phone call that starts another hectic day at the Angell Animal Medical Center. Sage, a ten-year old German shepherd, will die without emergency surgery for a serious stomach condition. Over the next twenty...
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An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: And Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood
by Kenny Mayne Publisher Comments Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne's book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sports, many sports are never mentioned. There's not a word about rugby, volleyball, Roller Derby,...
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