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Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques

by Jacques Pépin

Published: 2001-05-01

Paperback: 848 pages

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The fully illustrated bible of cooking techniques from the world's best-known French cook is now in paperback and in one volume for the first time ever. From a master chef and the current co-star (with Julia Child) of the hit television series "Cooking at Home," comes everything the h...

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The Jade Peony

by Wayson Choy

Published: 2007-02-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Beautifully written?.It renders a complex and complete human world, which by the end we have learned to love."?The Boston Book ReviewChinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the backdrop for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid reminiscences of the three youn...

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Jaguar

by Roland Smith

Published: 1999-02-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Jakarta Pandemic

by Steven Konkoly

Published: 2014-02-12

Paperback: 347 pages

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"I never read a book so fast. This book grabs you right away and had my adrenaline flowing through the whole book!" Amazon reviewer"The book just pulled you in from the beginning. And, there was a scene which also brought me to tears." Amazon reviewer"The Jakarta Pandemic is a terrifying, ...

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Jamacia Inn

by Daphne du Maurier

Published: 1996-04-01

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Jamaica Inn

by Daphne Du Maurier

Published: 1995-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimps...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

Published: 2000-04-26

Paperback: 144 pages

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Roald Dahl's children's classic will be rediscovered with wonder and delight in this handsome gift edition with all-new black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor Book artist Lane Smith (who also designed the characters for the Disney animated film).��How James escapes from his miser...

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James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)

by James Baldwin

Published: 1998-02-01

Hardcover: 869 pages

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"Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stra...

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James T Farrell: Studs Lonigan a Trilogy (Library of America)

by James T. Farrell

Published: 2004-02-09

Hardcover: 1024 pages

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An unparalleled example of American naturalism, the Studs Lonigan trilogy follows the hopes and dissipations of its remarkable main character—a would-be “tough guy” and archetypal adolescent, born to Irish-American parents on Chicago's South Side—through the turbulent y...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel

by Carol Birch

Published: 2011-06-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for FictionA thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-cent...