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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
by Lucette Lagnado
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In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... ( read more)
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
by Judith Jones
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Judith Jones has lived an amazing life, and she shares it with the reader in a straightforward and almost matter-of-fact way. Jones has been in all of our kitchens, whether it was through her own recipes or the many cookbooks she has edited and helped... ( read more)
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The Beat of a Different Drum
by Jagdish Mehra
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Few would argue that Richard Feynman was one of the greatest American-born theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, and fewer still would dispute that he was the most iconoclastic. In the words of the eminent mathematician Mark Kac, geniuses are... ( read more)
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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse (07 Edition)
by Thomas Mcnamee
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In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented American cuisine Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country... ( read more)
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The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
by Rudolph Chelminski
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In 2003 Bernard Loiseau's suicide made international headlines. The celebrated French chef's restaurant was rumored to potentially lose a coveted Michelin star, and the Gault Millau guidebook had recently lowered its rating. In a compelling look at the... ( read more)
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Heat : an Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and Apprentice To a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany (06 Edition)
by Bill Buford
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A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held... ( read more)
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
by Stefan Gates
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An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, "Gastronaut" is equal parts cookbook and quest book. This hilarious journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is... ( read more)
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Truck: A Love Story
by Michael Perry
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The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track.
"All I wanted to do was fix my old... ( read more)
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Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
by Frank Hilton
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict.... ( read more)
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Nobody Knew
by Win Straube
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Now the founder of an international educational foundation, a
gold-medal winning Senior Olympian and a master of the art of Tai
Chi, Straube's life could have been ended suddenly in his youth in
the fire-bombing of Dresden during World War II. Drawing... ( read more)
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While the Gods Were Silent: Growing Up Under Fascists and Communists
by Julius Scherzer
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This book is an autobiographical and historical narrative that starts in the 1930s and ends in 1963, the year of the author's arrival in the U.S. The narrative combines autobiography, history, and psychology to tell the story of the author's childhood... ( read more)
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Coming Home to Myself
by Wynonna Judd
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From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir that chronicles professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory--a coming-of-age account of a very private search for harmony and a very public rise to... ( read more)
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My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
by Steven Roberts
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Bayonne prepared me well for a larger life and a larger world. I knew who I was and where I was from. I was connected by innumerable little cords to people and places that gave me strength and identity. On The Block I was safe, secure, loved. I even had... ( read more)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe the Story of Her Life
by Charles Edwar Stowe
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1911. With portraits and other illustrations. The story of Stowe's life written by her son and grandson. From the Preface: This life of Harriet Beecher Stowe is not a biography in the ordinary sense. It is rather the story of a real character; telling... ( read more)
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Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician
by Neal I Koblitz
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These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin... ( read more)
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Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner
by M J Andersen
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In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of... ( read more)
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Lessons of Terror a History of Warfare
by Caleb Carr
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In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare... ( read more)
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Sinner, Sailor
by T R Rhoads
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Sinner, Sailor is the autobiographical telling of the author's navy career from 1945 until 1972, from World War II through Viet Nam. He joined the navy at seventeen seeking adventure and romance; he found both and much more. He went to Korea as a navy... ( read more)
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Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears At the World's Most Famous Cooking School (08 Edition)
by Kathleen Flinn
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A delightful true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her... ( read more)
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The J.F.K. Jr. scrapbook
by Stephen Spignesi
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Admirers will discover the many sides of this elusive man in both his public and private incarnations. Color photographs throughout.... ( read more)
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