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Introducing the James Beard 2024 Book Award Nominees

Baking and Desserts: This award recognizes books with recipes focused on the art and craft of baking, pastries, and desserts, both sweet and savory items, including ingredients, techniques, equipment, and traditions. This year, submissions to the Bread category were included for consideration within the Baking and Desserts category. Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival Baking…
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No Place Like Murder: 20 Historic True Crimes in the Hoosier State

“True crime aficionados are fascinated by the havoc their fellow humans are capable of wreaking,” says author Janis Thornton who takes us beyond high profile crime into lesser known but equally fascinating tales. “For them, learning details of the victims’ worst nightmares is not only tantalizing; in a perverse way, it’s almost comforting because…
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Young Rich Widows: Big Hair, Big Egos, and Big Trouble

“It sounds like the opening of a joke: Four lawyers die in a plane crash. “But no one is laughing inside the brand-new 1985 Cessna careening toward the dark icy Atlantic waters. One engine is already on fire and the other about to blow. “On the manifest: three men, one woman, and a screaming pilot.…
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The Duchess: Scandalous Ladies of London by Sophie Jordan

“I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham. Now a Dowager Duchess following the death of her husband (no great loss there) and the discovery of the nearest male heir means Valencia Dedham must move out of the mansion that has been her…





