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Lunch & a Book July 2012
On Thursday, July 12 at Noon we'll be discussing:
Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison — According to the publisher, Random House, the book can be described as "Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history in a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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Healthy Cooking
Veggie burgers every which way by Lukas Volger ; photographs by Christina Heaston
The get healthy go vegan cookbook by Neal Barnard and Robyn Webb
Chloe's kitchen: 125 easy, delicious recipes for making the food you love the vegan way by Chloe Coscarelli ; foreword by Neal D.
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Preserving Summer's Bounty
The preservation kitchen: the craft of making and cooking with pickles, preserves, and aigre-doux by Paul Virant with Kate Leahy
Can it, bottle it, smoke it: and other kitchen projects by Karen Solomon
Backyard harvest by Jo Whittingham
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Home Improvement
52 weekend makeovers: easy projects to transform your home inside and out
52 weekend decorating projects: a do-it-yourself guide to adding style to your home by edited by Jean Nayar
Refresh your home: simple projects and tips to save money, update, and renovate by editors of the Family handyman
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Write It
Is life like this?: a guide to writing your first novel in six months by John Dufresne
This year you write your novel by Walter Mosley
Fiction writer's workshop: the key elements of a writing workshop: 2nd edition by Josip Novakovich
The story structure architect: a writer's guide to building dr
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Sew Awesome
The Liberty book of home sewing by text by Lucina Ganderston ; photography by Kristin Perers ; illustrations by Richard Merritt
Sewing in a straight line: quick & crafty projects you can make by simply sewing straight by Brett Bara
Bags in bloom: create 20 unique flower purses with simple embroidery stitches and easy-to-sew patterns by Susan Cariello
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Adventurous Travel
Lost on planet China: the strange and true story of one man's attempt to understand the world's most mystifying nation, or how he became comfortable eating live squid by J. Maarten Troost
Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
Sea of glory [Large print]: America's voyage of discovery: the U.S.
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Debut Novelists
Ready player one by Ernest Cline
The family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The tiger's wife: a novel by Téa Obreht
In Zanesville: a novel by Jo Ann Beard
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Historical Romances
The gowns, the carriages, the manners of another age — be whisked off to another time with an historical romance.
Trouble at the wedding by Laura Lee Guhrke
The price of temptation by Lecia Cornwall
How the marquess was won by Julie Anne Long
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Make a Cake
Sugarlicious: 50 cute and clever treats for every occasion by Meaghan Mountford
The complete photo guide to cake decorating by [Autumn Carpenter]
Special cupcakes by Wendy Sweetser
What's new, cupcake? by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson ; text and photographs by Alan Richardson ; recipes and
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Fiction about Films and Filmmaking
The extra by Michael Shea
Infamous by Suzanne Brockmann
Adored by Tilly Bagshawe
Whitby vampyrrhic by Simon Clark
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Great Cookbooks for Kids
The budding chef by edited by Kate Kuhn ; [illustrated by Jane Dippold]
Cooking with kids by from the experts at FamilyFun magazine
Emeril's there's a chef in my family!: recipes to get everybody cooking by Emeril Lagasse ; illustrated by Charles Yuen ; photographs by Quentin Bacon
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Films for Foodies
Ratatouille [videodisc] by Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film
Babette's feast [videodisc] by Just Betzer, præsenterer ; en film af Gabriel Axel ; A-S Panorama Film International
Nina's heavenly delights [videodisc] by a Here! Films/ Regent release of a Scion Films and Scottish Screen production with Kali Films and Priority Pictures in association with Sky Movies present a Pratibha Parmar film
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Mysteries for Foodies
Sprinkle with murder by Jenn McKinlay
Chocolate chip cookie murder by Joanne Fluke
Devil's food: a Corinna Chapman mystery by Kerry Greenwood
A good day to pie: a pie shop mystery by Carol Culver
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Fiction for Cat People
Family affair by Debbie Macomber
Cupid Cats by Katie MacAlister, Vicki Lewis Thompson & Connie Brockway
Tails of wonder and imagination by edited by Ellen Datlow
The cat's meow by Emily Carmichael
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