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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

by Ruth Reichl

Published: 2019-04-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of ...

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Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

by Jimmy Casas

Published: 2017-11-22

Paperback: 214 pages

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Eradicate Average! CULTURIZE Your School. Average schools don't inspire greatness--and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of ...

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Comfort Me With Apples : A True Story of Love, Adventure and a Passion for Cooking

by Ruth Reichl

Published: 2002-01-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In this engaging memoir, food writer Ruth Reichl, author of the acclaimed "Tender at the Bone", dishes up a celebration of love, life, humour and the pleasures of the table. Ruth Reichl's pursuit of good food and good company takes her from New York to China and from France to Los Angeles. Along the...

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The Jungle Book: The Original Illustrated 1894 Edition

by Rudyard Kipling

Published: 2018-09-28

Hardcover: 186 pages

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Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is a childhood classic that has seen many adaptations since it was first published. This is the original 1894 edition that started it all. It includes the original illustrations which introduced the imagination of Kipling to a generation of readers. Whil...

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal"E...

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Baltimore: A Political History

by Matthew A. Crenson

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 632 pages

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Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimo...

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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

by A. J. Baime

Published: 2017-10-24

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust int...

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A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals

by Alyssa Cole

Published: 2018-07-31

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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A NPR Best Books of 2018 A Bookish's Favorite Books of 2018A Bookpage Best Romances of 2018Award-winning author Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the heroine of her own story and the duke in shining armor she rescues along the way…New York Ci...

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The Art of the Wasted Day

by Patricia Hampl

Published: 2018-04-17

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure wr...

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She Said She Said: Love, Loss, & Living My New Normal

by Anne M Reid

Published: 2018-04-08

Paperback: 388 pages

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"My husband wanted to be a girl!"Imagine discovering the love of your life, the father of your three children, the person you devoted your life to and moved halfway across the world to be with, was living a deeply concealed lie. Late one night, without warning, Anne's husband of ten years ...