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  How to be an Alien in England -...

  Angéla Kiss

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  A wry, often affectionate view on the English, and how to navigate our national personality.
  
  'In England everything is typical. If your train is late, it is typical. If there are no seats on the upper deck of a bus, it is typical. If it starts to rain at five o'clock just before you leave work, it is typical.'
  
  'The English do not like to be wished "Have a nice day", because to them it sounds like a command. They think, Who the hell do you think you are to order me to have a nice day?'
  
  Ten years ago, Angela Kiss arrived in the UK without a word of English. All she brought with her was a small bag, a sense of adventure, a desire to work and a copy of George Mikes' classic 1940s' humour book about the peculiarities of the British, How to be an Alien.
  
  Through every dodgy flat share, low-paid waitressing job, awkward date and office mishap, Angela held tight to George's wit and wisdom. With his help she began to understand how to live amongst the English - with their eccentricity, spirit and singing train drivers - and fell in love with a land rich in green spaces, pubs and puddings.

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  Sugar Sugar - Every Recipe Has a...

  Kimberly "Momma" Reiner

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  The Sugar Momma duo and authors of Home for the Holidays share 100 recipes for vintage American sweets and the even sweeter stories behind them. 
   
  In Sugar, Sugar, two sassy sugar mommas are on a mission to preserve America’s heirloom sweets. From desserts that saw families through bad times to never-before-transcribed sugar concoctions, each recipe conveys the unique personality of the person who made it legendary. Here you’ll find Buffalo Chip Cookies, Chocolate Hydrogen Bombs, Scrumdilliomptious White Chocolate Cake, and dozens of other fascinating and oh-so-delicious desserts. 
   
  “The mission of the ‘Sugar Mommas’ . . . is to bring readers vintage treats and the stories behind them. The result is a book filled with tempting cakes, pies, cookies, and candies. These ladies don’t always follow the rules, and it’s refreshing to see that their approach to baking comes with a sense of humor.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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  Kongo Class Battlecruisers

  Steve Wiper

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  The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references—books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. The subject of this volume is the Japanese Kongo class, four ships built during the First World War as battlecruisers, but extensively modified and reconstructed between the wars as fast battleships, so that each ship presented a different appearance. They were the chosen escorts for the elite IJN carrier forces, and saw much action during the Pacific War.

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  Two Old Fools - Olé!

  Victoria Twead

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  Never believe that life in a tiny Spanish mountain village is predictable. Vicky and Joe have finished fixing up their house and look forward to peaceful days enjoying their retirement. Then the fish van arrives, and instead of delivering fresh fish, disgorges the Ufarte family. The peace of El Hoyo is shattered. Packed with badly behaved humans and animals, irreverent humour and sunshine, 'Two Old Fools — Olé!' will make you laugh out loud.

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  The Red Hat Society Cookbook

  Society The Red Hat

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  This cheery cookbook is the brainchild of the Red Hat Society, a nationwide organization of women who like to wear silly hats, enjoy each other's company, and eat dessert first."Life is short; eat dessert first," says Sue Ellen Cooper, Exalted Queen Mother of the Red Hat Society, which is the most fun phenomenon to happen to women over 50 in this century. This cookbook has more than 250 desserts at the beginning of a collection of more than 1,000 recipes.Red Hat editors selected the best recipes, stories, and photographs submitted by members from all over the world.In The Red Hat Society Cookbook, you’ll find recipes including:Cantaloupe Chiffon PieIce Cream Crunch TorteCookie Dough Cream Cheese PuffsStrawberry Yaya CakePopcorn Candy CakeTheir compilation has the feel of an enormous community cookbook, with the same lack of focus, mixed bag of recipes, and overriding spirit of goodwill.

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  Sovereign of the Seas 1637 - A...

  John McKay

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  “McKay’s artful renderings provide a fitting tribute to this amazing vessel and those who participated in her planning and construction.” —Pirates and Privateers 
   
  Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige project, whose armament was increased by the King’s decree to the unheard-of figure of 100 guns, the ship finally cost the equivalent of ten more conventional warships. A significant proportion of this total was spent on her gilded decoration, which gave the ship a unique combination of firepower and visual impact in battle that led her Dutch opponents to dub her the “Golden Devil.”  
   
  It is unsurprising that such a high-profile ship should be well-documented, but there are no contemporary plans and much of the visual evidence is contradictory. In this book, John McKay sets out to analyze the data and reconstruct the design and appearance of the ship in a degree of detail never previously attempted. The results are presented as a folio of superbly drafted plans, isometric drawings and colored renderings, covering every aspect of the design from the hull form to the minutiae of sails and rigging. Each section is accompanied by an explanatory text, setting out the rationale for his conclusions, so the book will be of value to historians of the period as well as providing superb reference for any modeler tackling of one of the most popular of all sailing ship subjects. 
   
  “A magnificent book on a magnificent ship.” —Nautical Research Journal 
   
  “Very few books of warships contain the level of detail provided here.” —Firetrench

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