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A natural and wondrous relationship exists between love and food, between the heart and the palate. No truly passionate life is complete without the pleasures that fine food provides. Imagine a quiet candlelight dinner with the one you love, or a lazy Sunday brunch for two. The ambiance, the artful preparation, the anticipation of delightful tastes, both familiar and different, all merge together to indulge the senses and help create a complet...

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219 B.C. These are trying times for the Phoenician city-state of Carthage. Soon there will be another war with Rome. The brilliant young general, Hannibal is preparing to advance across the Alps to approach Rome from the north. Can this bold, dangerous march succeed? In A SPY FOR HANIBAL, Elisabeth Roberts Craft has skillfully blended the story of Hannibal's famous march with the creation of an interesting and accurate historical sidelight. Th...

Here is a fast-moving spy story with a difference. Russell Jack Smith deftly reveals the human side of espionage with this portrayal of a CIA operative torn between his work in exotic Singapore and the solid satisfactions of a crusading newspaper editor in small-town Maine..

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Herman Yablokoff was a master of his craft. He was an actor, singer, songwriter, playwright, director and producer in a world that has virtually disappeared. In Der Payatz, his autobiography, Yablokoff the showman stages a vivid recreation of his times. The result is breathtaking and captivating as Yablokoff, with genuine theatrical style offers the story of his life. He introduces himself in 1960. In Warsaw, Poland for a concert tour, Yabloko...

In a time when standards are being applied to everything from the manufacturing of your car to the management of your portfolio, it is hard to imagine that your health and well-being are in the hands of men and women who follow no professional standards. When your life is at risk, such standards may mean the difference between proper care and malpractice. In a series of truthful--and shocking--accounts detailing the failures of doctors to prop...

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When he wrote this memoir over sixty years ago, the author planned a privately printed edition as gifts for his friends. He chose a pseudonym, W. W. Windstaff, to avoid embarrassing his socially prominent family. He did not view himself as a writer, and wrote his story with an intensity and honesty innocent of literary pretension. Windstaff led a colorful life. Entranced by airplanes, he joined the British air force as a pilot during World War...

2000 B.C. The old queen of Ur is nearing the end of her days. Ten beautiful, young virgins have been chosen to live in the palace to comfort and entertain her. Hana-Ad leaves behind her rural life and enters an opulent world of lavish meals, expensive garments, and hours of leisure interrupted only by lessons in harp and dance. But what Hana-Ad does not realize is that this new life involves a great sacrifice. In the tradition of a renowned pa...

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