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A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships — with her parents, with her husband, and with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch Publisher Comments Dust to Dust is an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch—a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance by Tom Mcnamee Publisher Comments In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus “Continental” cuisine. Authentic French, Italian... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide by Doug Mack Publisher Comments Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path... When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns Publisher Comments Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life. Getting shot in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alice Waters & Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas Mcnamee Publisher Comments The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times) This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski Staff Pick 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) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme Publisher Comments In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversations with William F. Buckley JR. (Literary Conversations) by William F Iii Meehan Publisher Comments Conversations with the conservative founder of the National Review, host of television's The Firing Line, and author of fifty-seven books of fiction and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Vilayur to Baltimore: A Lifelong Journey of Learning & Discovery by Gopal Dorai Synopsis Dorai's personal journey of achievement spans across several decades and is educational as well as entertaining. His touching honesty allows readers the opportunity to experience America through an immigrant's eyes. Vividly depicted and overflowing with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of Dr. Phil: The Straight-Talking True Story of Everyone's Favorite Therapist by Sophia Dembling Publisher Comments Although he was virtually unknown just a few short years ago, Dr. Phil McGraw has become a media sensation. Since his first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1998, Dr. Phil has made himself into the man people turn to for help in solving the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conrad II, 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms by Herwig Wolfram Publisher Comments In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990-"1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium. Conrad was the... (read more) List Price $83.75 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Eating (Vintage) by Jason Epstein Publisher Comments Jason Epstein, legendary publisher of Norman Mailer and Vladimir Nabokov, editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life. From the great restaurants of postwar Paris... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dellabate Publisher Comments One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes Publisher Comments In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beetons Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Byron and the Websters: The Letters and Entangled Lives of the Poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster by John Stewart Synopsis Arguably the most offensive, despised, and ridiculed dandy of the Regency period, Sir James Webster-Wedderburn would likely be forgotten were it not for an affair between his wife and his close friend, the poet Lord Byron. This unique work lays out the... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm No Saint: A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving by Elizabeth Hayt Publisher Comments Itís Sex and the City for the post-marriage crowd in an eye-opening memoir of one womanís journey from wife and mother to sexy single. Elizabeth Hayt embarked upon wifehood with reservations. Once there, she found herself drowning in an ocean of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Women of Taste: Recipes and Profiles of Famous Women Chefs by Beverly Russell Publisher Comments Women chefs have finally gained the world's esteem as serious exemplars of their craft. Women chefs proliferate the ranks of all kinds of cooking, from classic French to country Italian to designer Californian. These chefs had to jump extra hurdles in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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