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The Chess Artist

Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game

by J. C. Hallman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible...
by Bridget McNulty
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009

You'll not find six more remarkable characters: a cashier-turnedmotivational speaker, an undertaker with a toenail fetish, a girl wrapped in dreams, a man who communicates with whales, a garbage man with a peculiar sense of smell, and a Guinness Book of World Records representative. When a random...

Cheesecake Love

Inventive, Irresistible, and Super-Easy Cheesecake Desserts for Every Day

by Jocelyn Brubaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

Add some cheesecake love to all your favorite desserts with these playful and inventive recipes! "If it doesn't have cheesecake in it, it should" is the baking motto that Jocelyn Brubaker lives by. Over the years, she has baked thousands of cheesecakes and challenged herself to work...

The Sex Life of Food

When Body and Soul Meet to Eat

by Bunny Crumpacker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

"The sex life of food" doesn't mean that the strawberries have fallen in love with the oatmeal. It's a look at food—and sex—and how they go together in our daily lives much more often than we realize. There are so many ways that hunger and desire act on each other, and so many things...

Italian Family Cooking

Unlocking A Treasury Of Recipes and Stories

by Father Giuseppe Orsini
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Father Joseph Orsini, a retired Catholic priest, has found his second calling in the kitchen. In this book, he shares his love of food and family with delicious recipes and delightful anecdotes. With chapters arranged to coincide with the courses of a formal Italian dinner- antipasti (appetizers),...

Cooking Rice with an Italian Accent!

The Grain At Home in Every Course of Italy's Meals

by Father Giuseppe Orsini
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014

It seems safe to say that most Americans whose roots are not in Italy consider pasta the foundation of Italian cuisine (with the possible exception of those who don't see beyond pizza). There's justification in that, of course: In Italy pasta is indeed ever present, in hundreds of forms, served alone...

Making Up with Mom

Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree About Kids, Careers, and Casseroles (and What to Do About It)

by Julie Halpert, Dr. Deborah Carr
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

Young women today have infinitely more options than their mothers and grandmothers did decades ago. "Should I become a doctor, a writer, or a stay-at-home mom?" "Should I get married or live with my boyfriend?" "Do I want children?" Women in their twenties, thirties,...

Dying for a Hamburger

Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease

by Marjorie Lamb, Dr. Murray Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

One in ten people older than sixty-five, and nearly half of those older than eighty-five, have Alzheimer's disease. It's widely accepted nowadays that memory loss comes with age. Alzheimer's currently robs at least 15 million people of their identity worldwide. This book makes the controversial...

Evil: A Primer

A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden

by William Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

"Today our nation saw evil." - President George W. Bush, September 11th 2001 Evil! Like a zombie back from the grave, it has arisen--a word many of us had long ago relegated to Sunday sermons, video games and horror flicks. But of course, evil is not old fashioned, nor has it ever...

A Florida State of Mind

An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

by James D. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes. There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent—and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on...

The Dogs of Windcutter Down

One Shepherd's Struggle for Survival

by David Kennard
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

"There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and no good shepherd without good dogs." These age-old words of wisdom have always guided Devon sheep farmer David Kennard. But as he battles to save his farm from extinction, they take on a greater weight than ever. The storm clouds...

Ted and I

A Brother's Memoir

by Gerald Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

Anecdotal and immensely charming, Ted and I is a unique portrait of a shared childhood between Gerald Hughes and his younger brother Ted, one of the finest and best-loved poets of modern times. Ted's love for Gerald was probably one of the most enduring and sustaining forces in his life. Hughes brings...
by Jenny D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

From author Jenny D. Williams, a fresh new voice in fiction, comes her stunning debut novel The Atlas of Forgotten Places. Set against the backdrop of ivory smuggling and civil war in Uganda and the DR Congo, it is a story of two women from different worlds, bound in a quest to save their loved ones. “Every...
by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

Jeffrey Stepakoff's The Melody of Secrets is an epic love story set against the 1960s U.S. space program, when deeply-buried secrets could threaten not just a marriage, but a country. Maria was barely eighteen as WWII was coming to its explosive end. A brilliant violinist, she tried to comfort...
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