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Published by Brand: Villard, 2010
ISBN 10: 1400061040ISBN 13: 9781400061044
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to societys expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts, their outrage, their desires and their dreams, to be polite, to obey the rules. I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby.Through rants, poetry, questions, and facts, we come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: their resiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all.
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Published by Brand: Villard Books, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679743111ISBN 13: 9780679743118
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. What kid of any age can resist a book guaranteed to make fellow diners blanch at restaurants or at the family dinner table? Mean, disgusting, vile, hilarious. The book that makes CRUEL TRICKS look like an etiquette guide. 35 black-and-white photos.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679456511ISBN 13: 9780679456513
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and --not coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland--or Area 51. For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually visit was irresistible. What he found was a world where Chick Yeager and the secret planes of the Cold War converged with the Nevada Test Site and alien landings at Roswell.A think tank for aviation engineering, Dreamland can be seen from a summit outside the base's perimeter, a hundred miles north of Las Vegas. On Freedom Ridge, groups of airplane buffs gather with their camouflage outfits and binoculars. These are the Stealth chasers, the Skunkers, guys with code names like Agent X and Zero, hoping for a glimpse of the rumored raylike shapes of planes like Black Manta and "the mother ship." The most mysterious craft is Aurora, the successor to the legendary U-2, said to run on methane and fly as fast as Mach 6. Scanning the same horizon, the UFO buffs are looking for the hovering lights and doughnut-shaped contrails of alien aircraft. Are they looking at something sinister and mysterious? Imagined? Or more terrestrial than they think? Dreamland shows how much we need mystery in the information age, and how the cultures of nuclear power and airpower merge with the folklores of extraterrestrials and earthly conspiracies.Patton found people who found themselves in the mysteries of the place. John Lear, the son of aviation pioneer Bill Lear--who gave his name to the jet--served as a pilot for the CIA's Air America, but back home, he became fascinated by UFOs and eventually believed in it all: the underground bases, the alien-human hybrids, the secret treaties. But was he a true believer, or part of a disinformation campaign? Bob Lazar seems to know when the saucers will come, and has made three clear sightings at night along Dreamland's perimeter, but is his story real, or a vision of what's possible?Dreamland is an exploration of America's most secret place: the base for our experimental airplanes, the fount of UFO rumors, an offshoot of the Nevada Test Site. How this "blackspot" came to exist--its history, its creators, its spies and counterspies--is Phil Patton's tale. He tunnels into the subcultures of the conspiracy buffs, the true believers, and the aeronautic geniuses, creating a novelistic tour de force destined to make us all rethink our convictions about American know-how--and alien inventiveness.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2006
ISBN 10: 0812976592ISBN 13: 9780812976595
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Your friends neglect to RSVP to your party invitation . . . co-workers munch their pungent meals near your office . . . pedestrians shout into their cell phones and practically knock you to the pavement.Wishing that friends, family, colleagues, and oblivious strangers would mind their manners is lovely, but what about your own? You dont mean to be rude, but in todays carefree, high-tech, fast-paced world, how are you supposed to know what to do?Thankfully, Englishman Thomas Blaikies witty and insightful guide will help you steer through this minefield of uncertainty and back onto the path toward civility-without a lot of fuss and bother. No need to worry about the proper way to eat soup or which is the salad fork. What Blaikie teaches you is more important: how and when to drop in on a friend, how to turn down suitors graciously, how to move on at a party, how to end a text-message conversation thats gone on just a bit too long, and how to cope with myriad other twenty-first-century social traumas.Always positive and cheerful, To the Manner Born offers commonsense, practical solutions. And if you dont like someone elses manners, yes, you really should try to do something about it-in the nicest way possible, of course.Thomas Blaikie is the perfect guide through the treacherous minefield of contemporary social mores: witty, amusingly abstruse, stylish and most importantly knowledgeable.-Will Self, author of Cock and BullIf everyone followed the rules of this book, well, I would certainly go out more. It is packed with good sense, sharp observation, and genuine helpfulness.-Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679455620ISBN 13: 9780679455622
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Catherine Blake is the model war widow. Ever since she lost her RAF pilot husband in the Battle of Britain, this beautiful aristocrat has kept a stiff upper lip while caring for victims of the blitz in London's hospitals. The problem is that Catherine Blake is also a deep-cover Nazi spy, charged by Hitler with uncovering the details of D-Day.Her nemesis is Alfred Vicary, a fumbling professor of history barely able to remember where he placed his threadbare tweed jacket, let alone sustain a relationship. But Vicary is also a confidant of Winston Churchill's, who has chosen this reclusive don to run England's critical counterintelligence operations.Against this backdrop comes Daniel Silva's The Unlikely Spy, a sophisticated and altogether exceptional World War II thriller. Based on fact, Silva's fast-paced novel moves effortlessly from the Berlin High Command's espionage centers to the U-boat-infested North Sea, from the privileged playgrounds of Long Island to Hyde Park's shadowy paths -- a grand canvas of intrigue that sweeps the reader along in a breathtaking race against time. If Catherine escapes to Germany, the Nazis will know the Allied invasion will be at Normandy; and if Vicary doesn't stop her, all of Britain's greatest wartime deceptions and ploys will have been for naught.But why does it seem as if Vicary's superiors want him to fail?For lovers of Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsyth, and Len Deighton, The Unlikely Spy is a masterpiece of war and deception, a wholly original and spellbinding tale of the Allies' finest hour.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679450122ISBN 13: 9780679450122
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Is home a place, a state of mind, or a way of participating in the natural world?In Heart of Home, Ted Kerasote makes the case for all three. These thoughtful, provocative essays and stories showcase Kerasote at his best, probing the evolving relationship between humans and na-ture. Whether fly-fishing for trout, frolicking with coyotes, gauging the costs of logging, agriculture, and hunting, or fantasy-camping with the fathers of conservation, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, Kerasote eloquently illuminates an engrossing central theme: how we stay connected to the Earth's cycles of life and death through mindful participation. Kerasote discards the easy labels of hunters versus vegetarians, loggers versus environmentalists, and zeroes in on the interconnectedness of all human beings and their home, the Earth. In twenty reflective pieces, half of which have never before been published, Heart of Home solidifies Ted Kera-sote's place among the best of American nature writers.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679411445ISBN 13: 9780679411444
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A journalist goes inside the mind of a killer in a portrait of Mark David Chapman--drawn from interviews with Chapman, his family, and friends--that reveals a man driven to murder in a fruitless, obsessive quest for identity. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679457534ISBN 13: 9780679457534
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. As it is the only major golf tournament to return to the same site year after year, much of the fascination is historical.But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum faade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago. Club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts, a New York stockbroker, still seems to run the place from his grave. Roberts, an elusive and reclusive figure, pulled the strings that made the Masters the greatest golf tournament in the world. His story--including his relationships with presidents, power brokers, and every golf champion from Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus--has never been told. Until now.No mere recitation of birdies, bogeys, and tourna-ment winners, The Masters is the intricate tale of the interplay among the town, the tournament, and the club. It is an amazing slice of history, taking us inside the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta's most famous member. It is a look at how the new South coexists with the old South: the relationships between blacks and whites, between Southerners and North-erners, between rich and poor. It is a portrait of a tournament unlike any other as well as the town in which it lives and breathes--with such characters as James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; the great boxer Beau Jack; and Frank Stranahan, the playboy golfer and the only white pro ever banned from the tournament.The Masters is a book that is certain to cause controversy yet will reinforce one's love for and dedication to the sport's greatest event. It is just as certain that The Masters will be the golf book of the year.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679448438ISBN 13: 9780679448433
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In his posthumous memoir, one of the world's great master runners tells the honest and moving story of his battle against cancer and the final race of his life. A book for anyone touched by major illness or death, Going the Distance is an inspiring book by a man who wrote eloquently about the experience of living, of pushing to the limit as an athlete, and arriving at the finish line a changed person.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679419993ISBN 13: 9780679419990
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. With an extraordinary candor intended to set the record straight, one of the most popular performers in the history of contemporary music tells of the decadence and destructive trappings of fame--the bucks, the booze, the cocaine, the women--of religious conversion, and of the marriage that literally saved his life. 16-page photo insert.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679416013ISBN 13: 9780679416012
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Integrating courtroom drama and psychological analysis, this portrait of Betty Broderick describes her trial for killing her ex-husband and his new wife, the motivations for the murders, and the sociological implications of the crime. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679411976ISBN 13: 9780679411970
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. "The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money that's in it - not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it."That quote does not come from Fay Vincent or Bud Selig in the 1990s. Nor was it said by Marge Schott in the 1980s. Nor by Bowie Kuhn or Calvin Griffith in the 1970s or Walter O'Malley in the 1960s. Those prophetic words were uttered by none other than the great Ty Cobb - in 1925.John Helyar, reporter for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the number one bestseller Barbarians at the Gate, says in Lords of the Realm, "Before it was a business, it was a game." But as Helyar discovered, and as he shows in his extraordinary new book, baseball has also been a business for a long, long time.Lords of the Realm is not a sobersided look at the problems of high salaries and free agency. It's also not a romantic homage to the heroes of the game. It is a penetrating, take-no-prisoners look at the hundred-year history of what's become a billion-dollar machine, a cutthroat industry that, while supposedly capturing the soul of America, is and has always been dominated by such greed, back-stabbing, and double-dealing that it puts the insanity of the RJR Nabisco takeover to shame.As Richard Moss, a baseball agent, has said about his chosen line of work: "There's so much money and so many good people. Why does this work so badly?" After hundreds of interviews and several years of research and digging, John Helyar knows the answer to Moss's question - and lays it all out before us in a way that is both horrific and hilarious.From the despotic lunacy of Gussie Busch, George Steinbrenner, and Peter Ueberroth and the maverick antics of Branch Rickey, Charlie Finley, and Ted Turner to the chaotic, yet near-heroic rise of the union, the ever-more-mysterious dealings that baseball maintains with television, and the murky back-room maneuvers behind collusion, expansion, and the battle for and against profit-sharing, Lords of the Realm is an utterly compelling, picaresque epic that perhaps does discover the real soul of America.
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Published by Brand: Villard Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679449531ISBN 13: 9780679449539
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. Thoroughly updated and revised, a complete feline medical reference furnishes timely imformation on cat nutrition, reproduction, genetics, first aid, breeds, anatomy, medical advances, preventive care, and more. 25,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679734783ISBN 13: 9780679734789
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The author of "Adventures in the Screen Trade" provides an inside look at the Cannes Film Festivals and the Miss America Pageant from his unique perspective as a judge, offering anecdotes about the judging process.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400060028ISBN 13: 9781400060023
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rockman, Alexis (illustrator). Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This mysterious, striped predator was once the worlds largest carnivorous marsupial. It had a pouch like a kangaroo and a jaw that opened impossibly wide to reveal terrifying choppers. Tragically, this rare and powerful animal was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it?Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast.From an ancient cave featuring an aboriginal painting of the tiger to a lab in Sydney where maverick scientists are trying to resurrect the animal through cloning, this intrepid trio comes face-to-face with blood-sucking land leeches and venomous bull ants, a misbehaving wallaby who invades their motel room, and a crew of flesh-eating, bone-crunching Tasmanian devils gorging on roadkill.They bond with trappers, bushwackers, and wildlife experts who refuse to abandon the tiger hunt, despite the paucity of evidence. Sifting through local myths, bar-room banter, and historical accounts, these environmental detectives sweep readers into a world where platypus swim, kangaroos roam, and a large predator with a pouch was-or perhaps still is-queen of the jungle.Filled with Alexis Rockmans stunning drawings of flora and fauna--made from soil, wombat scat, and the artists own blood-Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2000
ISBN 10: 0679783628ISBN 13: 9780679783626
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. While playing in a celebrity golf tournament, former U.S. presidents Bush, Reagan, Carter, and Ford are stuck by radioactive lightning and transformed into the X-Presidents, superheroes dedicated to ridding the world of evil threats, including Saddam Hussein, Reptilio, Manuel Noriega, and Imelda Marcos, in an entertaining, comic-book adventure. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679451420ISBN 13: 9780679451426
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Created for Tsar Nicholas's children in 1918, when they were held captive in Siberia, Botkin's poignant tales are by turns allegorical and political. Smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1919, the beautifully illustrated tales are being published here for the first time. Foreword by acclaimed Romanov biographer Robert K. Massie. 50 color illustrations.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679413472ISBN 13: 9780679413479
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A sweeping social history that readers of bestsellers will love, American Empress chronicles the story of Marjorie Merriweather Post--the force behind the growth of General Foods--in an irresistible rags-to-riches saga that captures the age of opulence. 16 pages of photos. Ties in with the A&E documentary "America's Castles" in January and with the 100th anniversary of Post Cereals.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679401288ISBN 13: 9780679401285
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A study of the rise and fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, discusses their complex lives and political careers, their reign of terror over Romania, and their fate during the 1989 revolution.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1992
ISBN 10: 0679408614ISBN 13: 9780679408611
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A real-life account of a miscarriage of justice details the conviction of Tommy Ziegler for the murders of his wife, in-laws, and a bystander and presents evidence that could reopen the case, clear Ziegler, and save him from death row. 25,000 first printing.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1991
ISBN 10: 067940094XISBN 13: 9780679400943
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. It's a hoot. Wolf obviously gets as big a kick out of the convoluted plotting and the exaggerated private-eye lingo as he does the interactions between humans and Toons. The ingredients make a rich confection for anyone addicted to pop culture.Wichita EagleA marvelous adventure in Toontown, a hare-sute tour de farce. In this latest cotton-tale, Roger is back with the same madcap characterizations we loved in the film.Ottawa CitizenWolf has managed to take a potential one-joke premise and milk it for all it's worth.Wilmington Sunday News JournalThose thespian Toons are back. Readers are going to love it. And the film is going to be great.Washington TimesMurder and mayhem in Hollywood's shady underworld. A humorous and intelligent mystery.Staten Island Sunday Advance.
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Published by Brand: Villard Books, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679748377ISBN 13: 9780679748373
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. To tie-in with The New York Historical Society's exhibit currently traveling across the country through 1996, this lavish volume reproduces, in the original colors, all 470 of Audubon's rarely seen watercolor paintings (not the usual prints found in other books) of birds of America.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679409068ISBN 13: 9780679409069
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The chefs of Los Angeles's famed Campanile restaurant share the recipes for some of their most famous and original dishes, covering everything from soups and salads to main courses, side dishes, and delectable desserts. 20,000 first printing. Good Cook.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2000
ISBN 10: 0375501932ISBN 13: 9780375501937
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. "The pastries we make are deliciously simple and rustic and never too sweet. Woven into many of them are my favorite flavors: butter, cinnamon, nuts, and fruit. They're familiar, uncomplicated, and satisfying. One taste and you're instantly comforted. Inspired by a sweet memory from childhood, a European classic, or a time-honored bakeshop standard, they are flavors you never tire of. Like my bread, these are pastries you want to eat every day." --from the IntroductionWhen celebrated pastry chef and baker Nancy Silverton decided to add sweets to the La Brea Bakery's shelves of artisanal breads, she knew that they couldn't be just any sweets. Instead of baking fastidious and overelaborate desserts, she creates deliciously simple, rustic pastries, full of texture and flavor, that complement perfectly her hearty, country-style breads and have people lining up morning after morning. Now, in Pastries from the La Brea Bakery, Silverton shares her passion and expertise in more than 150 recipes of her most scrumptious favorites--virtually every pastry in the La Brea Bakery's impressive repertoire.Silverton distills years of experimentation and innovation into simple and accessible directions. Many of her recipes are surprisingly quick and easy--not to mention incredibly tasty--like her crisps, cobblers, and crumbles, and her ever-popular scones, which run the gamut from Chocolate-Walnut to Ginger to Mushroom-Onion. Her muffins are moist and distinctive, from the healthful Bran to the rich Crotin de Chocolat. She offers an array of quickbreads and quickcakes for all tastes (including Madeleines, Canellés, and Cranberry-Almond Tea Bread), and her tarts bring out the best qualities of the finest ingredients, from the intense, fresh fruit of her Cherry Bundles to her elegant Triple Almond Tart. Beautiful cookies, such as Almond Sunflowers, Nun's Breasts, and Swedish Ginger Wafers, are centerpiece desserts on their own. Silverton also deftly teaches the delicate art of confections--here you'll find Almond Bark, English Toffee, and Lollipops--and demystifies the sometimes intimidating technique of doughnut making.The crowning touch is her detailed section on Morn-ing Pastries, where she guides us to mastery of the classic doughs: the quick and rich bobka, the fine-textured traditional brioche, the famous and flexible croissant, and the pice de résistance: puff pastry.An important book from a baking and pastry icon, Pastries from the La Brea Bakery, like Nancy Silver-ton's acclaimed Breads from the La Brea Bakery, is a bible of the craft for bakers everywhere.A selection of recipes fromNancy Silverton's Pastries from the La Brea BakeryApple Fritters * Asparagus-Egg Pie with Potato Crust * Black Currant Silk TartBlueberry-Almond Muffins * Brownies with Irish Whiskey and Currants * CanellésCaramel Candy Kisses * Cheese Croissants * Chocolate-Walnut Scones * Cinnamon Custard Tart Country Feta Pies * Crme Frache Coffee Cake * Croissants * Crotin de Chocolat Espresso Wheels * Everyone's Mother's Berry Cobbler * Ginger Scones * Hazelnut-Banana Tart Iced Raisin Squares * Jelly Doughnuts * Lemon Turnovers * Madeleines * Moravian Ginger Snaps Nectarine-Ginger Crisp * Nun's Breasts * Parma Braids * Pecan Sticky Buns * Ricotta Muffins Rosemary Corncakes * Rugelach * Sesame-Pumpkin Seed Brittle Sticky Toffee Pudding * Viennese Cream Brioche.
Published by Brand: Villard, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679451501ISBN 13: 9780679451501
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.
Published by Brand: Villard, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812967666ISBN 13: 9780812967661
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This is not a story about foiled plans and whats the use of trying anyway. This is precisely a story about making things-making stories, making plans, making lists, and making love-in the face of the inevitable messiness we will encounter.-from the Foreword by Laurie WagnerSabrina Ward Harrison, creator of the stunning visual memoirs Spilling Open and Brave on the Rocks, now shares her vibrant new work, which continues her personal journey of growth and discovery. Through striking multimedia collages and prose that is raw and touching and refreshingly authentic, Sabrina explores aspirations, dreams, and commitment-and brings herself to the threshold of true independence.In the summer of 2001, Sabrina moved from California to New York City, the place where, she felt, any serious artist must eventually wind up. The city struck her as exhilarating and daunting, a brilliant assault on the senses, a concrete landscape of hope and failure. Three months later the horror of September 11 unfolded a few blocks away. Like the rest of the world, Sabrina began to look outside herself with a new clarity and urgency. And on the horizon appeared a man who looked like The One-friend, lover, life partner. With this relationship came larger, more complicated and unanswerable questions: Am I ready for marriage? Where does a career fit in? Does love mean losing my self? Does permanent mean forever? What will I never know about where Im going if I dont go?Harrison reflects on her journey from starry-eyed innocent to responsible adult and expresses it with dazzling visuals and candid insights in Messy Thrilling Life. It is a singular book sure to resonate with readers who have laughed, wept, and grown along with her.
Published by Brand: Villard, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679420592ISBN 13: 9780679420590
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A companion volume to The New-York Historical Society's exhibition of the paintings of John James Audubon features full-color reproductions of all 470 original watercolors created for The Birds of America. 75,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 1996
ISBN 10: 067944839XISBN 13: 9780679448396
Seller: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2003
ISBN 10: 1400060311ISBN 13: 9781400060313
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summers delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco-and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed.Donna Summer was born on New Years Eve in Boston. Her childhood was filled with music. Inspired by Mahalia Jackson, she began singing in church choirs at the age of ten. A few years later she joined a Boston rock group, and by the end of the 1960s she was living the life of an artist in New York Citys Greenwich Village.Soon after, Donna left the United States to join the German cast of Hair. She was still in her teens, a shy, ordinary girl who was suddenly feeling the jolt of the sexual revolution. She lived in Germany for seven and a half years, modeling, acting, falling in love, getting married, and giving birth to a daughter. She met a producer named Giorgio Moroder, and together they created a song called Love to Love You Baby. It became one of the worlds premier disco hits.Donna Summer returned to America as a star, a sex goddess who bore little resemblance to her own sense of who she was. She describes what that personal transformation felt like from the white-hot center of the disco era, and how, over the next two decades, it contributed to a sometimes harrowing spiritual journey.With heart and humor, Donna Summer relives the decadent days of disco and shows how she transcended them. This is the inspiring tale of an ordinary girl on an extraordinary journey.
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Published by Brand: Villard, 2003
ISBN 10: 1400060400ISBN 13: 9781400060405
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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