|
Biography
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey Publisher Comments Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her fathers brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family by Louise Desalvo Publisher Comments During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Wars, Women & Other Wonders by Philip Rushlow Publisher Comments Here is a book written without the slightest nod to political correctness. It assumes that the reader and writer are equals in every way: intelligence, experience and the ability to exert common sense. The author is not trying to sell anything or prove... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Chance Encounters: True Stories of Unforeseen Meetings, with Unanticipated Results by A C Greene Publisher Comments Popular columnist A. C. Greene grew up in a small town in Texas—a place where no one would have expected he might encounter some very important people— but he tells of his unexpected meetings with famous and powerful figures as a young boy in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews Publisher Comments The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities. More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin' by Paula H Deen Publisher Comments • Fans love Paula Deen: Paula Deen: It Ain’t About the Cookin’ spent over 3 months on the New York Times bestseller list: there are over 500,000 hardcovers in print.. • A superstar Author - Paula Deen is an American icon. She is one... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Dare to Succeed: How to Survive and Thrive in the Game of Life by Mark Burnett Publisher Comments The man who has lived a classic rags-to-riches life story turns his passion for daring and challenge into life lessons on personal and professional achievement. The genius behind the wildly popular Survivor series, Mark Burnett is now the hottest... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Pilate the Biography of an Invented Man by Ann Wroe Publisher Comments From the author of "A Fool And His Money" comes this examination of the facts and fictions that are known about Pontius Pilate. Very little is known of him before and after his time as governor of Judea, even whether he was from Rome, Spain or Germany... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Partial to Home: A Memoir of a Charmed Life by Bob Timberlake Publisher Comments Bob Timberlake was 28, married, with three children and a good job in his family's propane gas business, when he came home from work one night and sat down to browse through Life magazine. In it, he came across an article about the painter Andrew Wyeth... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
One Season (in Pinstripes): A Memoir by William Fredrick Cooper Publisher Comments A true story about sports, faith, and redemption, compliments of one season with the New York Yankees. Author William Fredrick Cooper has experienced the loss of employment, painful character assaults on his literary journey and the painful truth that he... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood by Charles Champlin Publisher Comments Back There Where the Past Was is Charles Champlin's sentimental journey through the life and times of his boyhood in Hammondsport, New York. "We are all from somewhere else, " Charles Champlin begins. It is from this idea that we not only can share his... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Politician Extraordinaire: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey by Frank Vazzano Publisher Comments This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the early decades of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Theo: An Autobiography by Theodore Bikel Synopsis An award-winning actor on screen and stage (The Defiant Ones, The African Queen, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof), an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice has won him great applause... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Movers & Shakers of Medieval England: A Who's Who of History's Most Gifted, Famous and Influential People by Think Books Publisher Comments Presented as an accessible miscellany of facts, this book introduces a range of people and topics from the medieval period. It includes the life and death of Chaucer, the inventor of the philosophical concept of Ockham's Razor, and many other themes... (read more) Your price: $9.48 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Jamie Oliver Effect: The Man, the Food, the Revolution by Gilly Smith Publisher Comments By the age of eight, Jamie Oliver was already cooking in his parents' pub and restaurant. By the age of 22, his foul mouth and mischievous image in the kitchens of The River Café won him his own TV series, The Naked Chef... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Barack Obama: The New Face of American Politics (Women and Minorities in Politics) by Martin Dupuis Publisher Comments Barack Obama's election to the U.S. Senate in 2004 is one of the most interesting and colorful political campaigns in recent history. His rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that same year made his name a household word. The... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman by Zac Unger Publisher Comments Zac Unger didn't feel like much of a firefighter at first. Most of his fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to a help-wanted ad at an Oakland bus stop. He couldn't keep his boots... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
M.F.K. Fisher and Me: A Memoir of Food and Friendship by Jeannette Ferrary Publisher Comments In the world of food, M.F.K. Fisher remains the patron saint. No one in our launguage has bestowed such dignity and such mythic dimension upon the taking of our daily bread. M.F.K. Fisher and Me takes us behind the persona of the woman who revolutionized... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Joan Reardon Publisher Comments With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate by Kelly Alexander Publisher Comments The rollicking biography of Clementine Paddleford: a go- anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories. . . . matched as a regional-food pioneer only by James Beard. (R. W... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
