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New York: Hermes House, 2002. First. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. This comprehensive collection of first and second course recipes is a substantive resource for cooks. Featuring recipes for soups, starters, and salads, from all around the world and at all levels of difficulty, this book is encyclopedic in its depth. Recipes such as Thai Scented Fish Salad, Marinated Mussels, and Italian Pea and Basil Soup are accompanied by step-by-step color photographs that guide the cook through the process. In addition to over 400 recipes and 1,500 photographs, the book includes helpful introductory sections on stocks, garnishes, and ingredients. The book includes meat, fish, and vegetarian options, and quantities are listed in both metric and imperial measures. An impressive resource and reference.

London: Merrell, 2007. New. New, shrink wrapped. Portraits and biographical details of 75 of the most well-known and accomplished women of the 20th century. Subjects include Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Billie Holiday, and many more. A compact edition of the best seller. ABEDESC Published in association with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Portraits and biographical details of 75 of the most well-known and accomplished women of the 20th century. Subjects include Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Billie Holiday, and many more. A compact edition of the best seller. New, still shrink wrapped.

New York: ECCO Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of every day American life. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest too much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone-his past links with radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes. About the author: Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The… Read More