
Featured Book:
For All the Tea in China:
How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Sarah Rose
Viking Adult (March 18, 2010)
ISBN: 0670021520
From Books Quarterly: "Enter Robert Fortune, botanist and plant-hunter extraordinaire -- as diligent, daring and
enterprising a Victorian hero as one could wish for. Sarah Rose tells a stirring tale of individual derring-do and the fate of nations."
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Previously Featured:
Best Friends Forever:
Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend
Irene S. Levine
Overlook Press (September, 2009)
ISBN: 1590200403
From Publisher's Weekly: "Levine's first book is a formidable resource for negotiating the ending of women's friendships. The author, a journalist, psychologist and professor at NYU Medical School, affirms that the grief of ending a close friendship can be as potent as that of a dying romantic relationship. But the former rarely garners the same social support as a divorce or romantic breakup...."
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Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves:
Culinary Adventures in the Dordogne
Kimberley Lovato
Running Press (March 23, 2010)
ISBN: 0762437995
Kimberley Lovato's first book, WALNUT WINE AND TRUFFLE GROVES, is a culinary travel book that invites readers to pull up a chair and visit the Dordogne the way it should be visited... one bite at a time.
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Seafood alla Siciliana:
Recipes and Stories from a Living Tradition
Toni Lydecker, Author
Lake Isle Press, September 2009
ISBN 1891105426
Seafood alla Siciliana was named Food & Wine magazine's "Best of the Best" 2009 Cookbooks Recipe Collection and led the list of best new Italian cookbooks in Cucina Italiana magazine.
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Food Wine Budapest
Carolyn Bánfalvi, Author
Little Bookroom (New York) June 2008
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-892145-56-7 (1-892145-56-1)
Carolyn Bánfalvi's culinary guide to Budapest, Food Wine Budapest, was the first in the Little Bookroom's Terroir Guide series, and it was nominated for a 2009 IACP book award.
Bánfalvi is also the author of The Food and Wine Lover's Guide to Hungary: with Budapest Restaurants and Trips to the Wine Country (Park Kiadó). She also leads food, wine, and market tours in Budapest and Hungary.
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California's Best:
Two Centuries of Great Writing from the Golden State
Peter Fish, Editor
Farcountry Press, July 2009
Paperback Original; $18.95
ISBN 1560374942
Experience California as seen through the eyes of forty-one writers spanning two centuries--from early adventurers to contemporary poets--in this long-awaited anthology.
Edited by Sunset Magazine's Peter Fish, California's Best: Two Centuries of Great Writing from the Golden State features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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At the Edge of Ireland:
Seasons on the Beara Peninsula
David Yeadon, Author
Harper Perennial
Paperback Original; $16.99
ISBN 9780061151279
"There are only two kinds of people in the world. The Irish -- and those who wish they were!" Readers are highly likely to agree with this old adage as author and acclaimed travel writer David Yeadon takes them on a fascinating journey in the Emerald Isle. Yeadon shares a delightful account of his travels through one of the country's lesser-known areas.
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