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Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking
“This is a pleasure of a cookbook full of great recipes . . .” Jacques Pépin, winner of 16 James Beard Awards and author of over 30 cookbooks, has taken his considerable skills and created Cooking My Way, a charming cookbook of easy-to-make recipes designed not only to save money but also time and effort.…
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Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury
A travel guide for the intellectually curious, Tony Burton’s Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury provides an insider’s entry to this extraordinary region of Mexico. The book, published by Sombrero Press and now in its fourth edition is less about logistics and instead focuses on the myriad of reasons–historical, ecological, cultural, and/or scenic–that make each place…
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Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Two fraternity brothers taking a drunken joyride after too much Captain Morgan Spiced Rum crash their Jeep in the mountains of New Mexico on a freezing winter night. With no cell service available, they manage to find a cave to spend the night. Unfortunately for them they discover several other things as well. Besides ancient…
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Three Charming Villages on the shores of Lake Chapala
Born in the United Kingdom, Tony Burton, a Cambridge University-educated geographer with a teaching certificate from University of London, first traveled to Mexico after spending three years as a VSO [Voluntary Service Overseas] volunteer teaching geography, and writing a local geography text, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. From there his travels took him…
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C-SPAN’s Book TV is again partnering with the Library of Congress to bring the 2023 National Book Festival to a national television audience, live and on-site.
As an original supporter of the National Book Festival, C-SPAN’s Book TV is contributing the following for this year’s event – held on Saturday, August 12, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center: • live coverage of author interviews and panel discussions.• lengthy live call-in interviews with nonfiction authors on location from the grand lobby.•…
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Henry VIII’s Children: Legitimate & Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Tudor King
“This book is a compelling read as Angus is a clear, concise, and talented writer who makes even small facets of long ago lives fascinating.” The irony of Henry VIII is acute. The once dashing heroic young man who succumbed to gluttony, cruelty, and, though it was done in a state-sanctioned manner, the murder of…
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Buy on Amazon “The Green Book was more than just a road trip guide but a way of survival. Hall hopes that its history will live on.” The road, a symbol of freedom, was fraught with dangers for Black travelers in the time when Jim Crow laws still existed. Not much is known about Victor Hugo…
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Book Riot: Criminally Hot: 15 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023
https://bookriot.com/new-mystery-books-august-2023/
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Glamour: Mindy Kaling’s Summer Reading List Includes Murder Mysteries and Oprah Book Club Picks
https://www.glamour.com/story/mindy-kaling-reading-list
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