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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

My Life as a Furry Red Monster
by Kevin Clash and Gary Brozek

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Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8
by Rachael Ray

Christmas Carol Audio
by Charles Dickens and read by Jim Dale

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
by Bethesda Softworks

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H.R.H.
by Danielle Steel

Flags of our Fathers
by James Bradley with Ron Powers

Christmas in Camelot
by Mary Pope Osborne

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Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
by Georgeanne Brennan

Fodor's Hawaii 2007
by Fodor's

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- Collector's Edition
by David Hodgson and Stephen Stratton

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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham

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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Written by Ina Garten
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400054350
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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Price: $35.00

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.

Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have con-sistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made... Read more >

Giada's Kitchen
Giada's Kitchen
Written by Giada De Laurentiis
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307346599
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Giada's Kitchen
Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Price: $35.00

She’s taught us every facet of Italian cooking—from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don’t weigh us down. Now the Food Network star and bestselling author of Everyday Pasta, Giada De... Read more >

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Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
Written by Rachael Ray
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307383198
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Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
Written by Rachael Ray

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Price: $24.95

In the 10 years since she served up her first 30-minute meal—and thousands of delectable dinners later— Rachael Ray has learned just about all there is to know about getting a great tasting meal on the table in a hurry, whether it is one of her patented 30-minute miracles or something... Read more >

Think Like a Chef
Think Like a Chef
Written by Tom Colicchio
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307406958
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Think Like a Chef
Written by Tom Colicchio

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Price: $22.50

With Think Like a Chef, Tom Colicchio has created a new kind of cookbook. Rather than list a series of restaurant recipes, he uses simple steps to deconstruct a chef's creative process, making it easily available to any home cook.

He starts with techniques: What's roasting, for example, and how do you... Read more >

Martha Stewart's Cooking School
Martha Stewart's Cooking School
Written by Martha Stewart
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307396440
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School
Written by Martha Stewart

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Price: $45.00

Imagine having Martha Stewart at your side in the kitchen, teaching you how to hold a chef’s knife, select the very best ingredients, truss a chicken, make a perfect pot roast, prepare every vegetable, bake a flawless pie crust, and much more.

In Martha Stewart’s Cooking School, you get just that: a... Read more >

The Complete Robuchon
The Complete Robuchon
Written by Joel Robuchon, Translated by Robin H. R. Bellinger
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307267191
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The Complete Robuchon
Written by Joel Robuchon
Translated by Robin H. R. Bellinger


Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
Price: $37.50

An incomparable culinary treasury: the definitive guide to French cooking for the way we live now, from the man the Gault Millau guide has proclaimed “Chef of the Century.”

Joël Robuchon’s restaurant empire stretches from Paris to New York, Las Vegas to Tokyo, London to Hong Kong. He holds more Michelin stars... Read more >

The Book of New Israeli Food
The Book of New Israeli Food
Written by Janna Gur
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780805212242
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The Book of New Israeli Food
Written by Janna Gur

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Price: $35.00

In this stunning new work that is at once a coffee-table book to browse and a complete cookbook, Janna Gur brings us the sumptuous color, variety, and history of today’s Israeli cuisine, beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz, a photographer who is intimate with the local scene.

In Gur’s captivating introduction, she describes... Read more >

Eat Me
Eat Me
Written by Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreno
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307264930
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Eat Me
Written by Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreno

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $24.95

"Pancakes are a luxury, like smoking marijuana or having sex. That’s why I came up with the names Ho Cakes and Slutty Cakes. These are extra decadent, but in a way, every pancake is a Ho Cake.” Thus speaks Kenny Shopsin, legendary (and legendarily eccentric, ill-tempered, and lovable) chef and owner... Read more >

The Essential Cocktail
The Essential Cocktail
Written by Dale DeGroff
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307405739
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The Essential Cocktail
Written by Dale DeGroff

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Price: $35.00

Dale DeGroff is widely regarded as the world’s foremost mixologist. Hailed by the New York Times as “single-handedly responsible for what’s been called the cocktail renaissance,” he earned this reputation during his twelve years at the fashionable Promenade Bar in New York City’s Rainbow Room. It was there in 1987 that... Read more >

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The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook
The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook
Written by Paula Deen, Introduction by John Berendt
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400068234
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The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook
Written by Paula Deen
Introduction by John Berendt


Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Price: $20.00

For the first time in a beautiful, gift-quality hardcover, the beloved cookbook by the Food Network superstar–with 5 million copies in print!

Down-home and downright delicious, the recipes in The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook have become classics of their kind–Southern meals from the heart of Georgia and the heart of... Read more >

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Secret Ingredients
Secret Ingredients
Edited by David Remnick
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400065479
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Secret Ingredients
Edited by David Remnick

Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Price: $30.00

Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane... Read more >

The Wine Snob's Dictionary
The Wine Snob's Dictionary
Written by David Kamp and David Lynch
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767926928
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The Wine Snob's Dictionary
Written by David Kamp and David Lynch

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Price: $12.95

A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snob’s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z.

Wine Snob. The very phrase seems redundant, doesn't it? When faced with this snobbiest of snobberies, the civilian wine enthusiast needs the help of savvy translators like David Kamp and...

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The Gingerbread Architect
The Gingerbread Architect
Written by Susan Matheson and Lauren Chattman
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307406781
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The Gingerbread Architect
Written by Susan Matheson and Lauren Chattman

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Price: $22.50

What happens when an architect who is also an avid baker gets together with a house-obsessed pastry chef? Twelve classic American homes rendered in gingerbread.

Are you dreaming of a colonial Christmas? Here’s your chance to build a traditional Cape Cod house in freshly baked gingerbread, complete with breath-mint pinnacles, Twizzler... Read more >


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