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"This book is the
story of my life as it relates to the
subject of food. It is my autobiography in
food and meals and restaurants and
countries far and near. Let me take you to
a restaurant on the left bank of Paris
that I found when writing The Lords of
Discipline. There are meals I ate in
Rome while writing The Prince of Tides
that ache in my memory when I resurrect
them. There is a shrimp dish I ate in an
elegant English restaurant, which passed
out Cuban cigars to all the gentlemen in
the room after dinner, that I can taste on
my palate as I write this..."
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Based on a front page Wall
Street Journal article that readers called
"extraordinary," "profound," and "gripping,"
this is a powerfully affecting chronicle of
a young Marine who sacrificed his life for
his comrades-and became the first American
nominated for the Congressional Medal of
Honor during the Iraq War.
Obscured by the ideological fog of war is a
basic fact: Every day ordinary young
Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq,
with the same bravery, honor, and sense of
duty that have distinguished the best
American soldiers throughout history...
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You can't take it with you,
of course, but we certainly do value and
treasure our precious things while we're
here. Salman Akhtar’s beautiful book is a
fascinating historical, cultural, and
psychological exploration of the objects
that occupy our lives from family heirlooms
to everyday objects.
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The sparkling memoir of a
movie icon's life in the footlights and on
camera, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND ME tells the
extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many
years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with
his early days in Brooklyn and his college
years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming
an actor, this book follows his career as
one of the earliest members of the famed
Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner...
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Freudian Matthew von
Unwerth’s FREUD REQUIEM places
Sigmund Freud, the father of
psychoanalysis, on the couch and
reinterprets psychoanalysis as "a
science of mourning," while he explores
the redemptive possibilities of
storytelling, memory, and the creative
process....
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In THE INTERPRETER, Kaplan
tackles an unexplored moment in American
history. Set in the fall of 1944, her
history begins with the hanging of two black
GIs in Brittany, France - one in a farmer’s
field, the other in front of an abandoned
chateau. They were part of the segregated
U.S. army liberating France ...
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"Most makeovers are only
skin deep. But this new guidebook to getting
smarter faster by an acclaimed education
specialist gives readers the tools and
self-knowledge they need to reinvent
themselves from the inside out—and gain new
confidence and success in all aspects of
life..."
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"Leading pulmonologist
Neil Schachter, M.D., explains how to avoid
illness, boost immunity, and combat
congestion, fever,and discomfort when cold,
flu, and other respiratory infections
strike. Among other things, he shows..."
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Would it be possible to
live without the designer coffee, the Kate
Spade bags, the technology that was a part
of my every day existence? Could stripping
away some of those items and habits make me
appreciate what I was so fortunate to have?
I created a plan. Each month for one year, I
would chose one of my favorite things...
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THE POWER OF PURPOSE begins
with a simple but remarkable statement: "The
more you focus on helping others, the more
you will succeed in reaching your own
goals." Peter S. Temes builds on this
fundamental insight to share a simple plan
for living with the truest and most enduring
kind of happiness. At the heart of THE POWER
OF PURPOSE are the “three levels of...
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As a master baker, painter
and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta has been
using the mathematical principles of The
Golden Ratio (an integral plot element in
The Da Vinci Code) for more than 30 years.
His realization that this seemingly magic
formula, used by Da Vinci and other geniuses
of the Renaissance, held the secret to
optimal health and weight loss led him to...
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Everyone has a part of
himself that no one else knows about. In a
teenager, it’s a healthy move towards
becoming independent. In an adult, it can
keep the spark of romance alive. But when do
secrets become destructive? What drives a
person to live a double life – to be a
soccer dad by day and a pimp by night? To
live one part law-abiding, upstanding
citizen while ...
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