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Weight Watchers One Pot Cookbook (Weight Watchers Cooking)

One pot and you’re done—delicious recipes using everyday kitchen equipment With every day so busy, wouldn’t you just love to throw everything in one pot and have dinner ready? With Weight Watchers® One Pot Cookbook, you’ll find 300 super-tasty and healthy one-dish recipes that the whole family will love. These no-fuss recipes are more than just easy—they …

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Working the Plate: The Art of Food Presentation

Feast your eyes.Long awaited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions …

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Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant

The eagerly awaited first cookbook from one of Food Network’s favorite competitors on the wildly popular Iron Chef America Chef Marc Forgione opened his eponymous New York City restaurant in 2008 to widespread acclaim, becoming the youngest American-born chef and owner to receive a Michelin star in consecutive years. Upon winning Season 3 of Food Network’s The Next Iron …

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Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen

Over 220 amazing vegan recipes from the the author behind the blog HealthyHappyLife.com More and more people are going vegan, realizing that doing so can mean being healthier and happier. A diet free of animal products also means living a greener life and changing the world for the better—one plate at a time. Kathy Patalsky, creator of the popular vegan food blog …

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Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition

A  few bloody months in South Asia during the summer of 1947 explain the world that troubles us today. Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody — it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s …

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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

From the National Book Award–winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.   The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which …

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Numero Zero

From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news.   A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving …

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The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for his magisterial novel, published on the sixtieth anniversary of The Lord of the Rings As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more finished illustrations. Only a few of these were meant for publication; most were …

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The Hobbit

This lavish gift edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic features cover art, illustrations, and watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee.   Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep …

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The Large Print Roget’s II Thesaurus, Revised Edition

The perfect companion to The Large Print American Heritage® Dictionary, The Large Print Roget’s II Thesaurus, Revised Edition, carries the seal of approval of the National Association for Visually Handicapped. This easy-to-read thesaurus will help anyone searching for just the right word. It contains 6,500 synonyms and antonyms, grouped into paragraphs. Each paragraph explains the differences between synonyms …

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