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  A London Country Diary - Mundane...

  Tim Bradford

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  For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out
  
  the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old man in Holloway, breaks up a fight in Stoke Newington and has issues with foxes in Highbury. And that's just the beginning.
  
  All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, this book is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.

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  From Baghdad to America - Life...

  Jay Kopelman

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  Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman won the hearts of readers with his moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava in a hellish corner of Iraq. For this Marine and his comrades, the puppy served as an important emotional touchstone in a grim and seemingly endless war.Kopelman now writes about what it's like to be home. He credits his canine best friend with finding his wife—in the park, Lava began playing with her dog and the two owners met—and for keeping him sane as he readjusted. With the same intelligence and insight he showed in From Baghdad, With Love, Kopelman sets forth more than a dozen lessons, including: Life can change in an instant, but you'll be able to handle it; passion for something can help you tap into your most powerful reserve of energy; have a standard operating procedure for everything; and never forget who you are or how you got here. Active and retired troops, soldiers' friends and families, and everyone who has ever loved a dog will embrace this book.

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  The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook

  Bonnie Tawse

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  A compendium of traditional midwestern cookies “along with the poignant and heartwarming stories behind each recipe” (Mary Bilyeu, Toledo Blade).  The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook celebrates the tradition of the cookie table with forty-one classic recipes from authentic Mahoning Valley cookie tables and cooks. What’s a cookie table? Funny you should ask! The cookie table is a tradition beloved by residents of Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and parts in between. It has its roots in a time when wedding cakes were far too dear for newly arrived immigrants to purchase. Instead, family and friends showed their love for a bride and groom by baking from scratch hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cookies and other small sweet treats to be shared at the reception. The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook is an international baking guide, including cookies from different cultures, cookies with different textures, spices, shapes, and backstories. Simple cookies, ridiculously indulgent cookies, experimental cookies―they’re all here. And most of all it shares the tradition of the cookie table, a heartfelt way of building community that has endured through generations.   In the tradition of the community cookbook, The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook is a must for any kitchen large or small, and a great gift for bakers and home cooks.

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  Snowflakes & Quilts

  Paula Nadelstern

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  The author of Kaleidoscope Quilts shows how to create a stunning snowflake quilt, including how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully. 
   
  Paula’s incredible quilts capture the delicate, three-dimensional effect of winter’s snowflakes. Learn how to create the endless variations found in snowflakes using the techniques and materials of quilt making! 
   
  • Full-size patterns for making 11 of the snowflake designs from Paula’s quilts 
   
  • Step-by-step instructions explain how to draft a design, make templates, and piece successfully 
   
  • Paula reveals her strip-piecing techniques for “Power Stitching” 
   
  • Learn methods for using your fabrics to create “Seemingly Seamless Seams” 
   
  “Paula explores the collision of precise geometry and lush splinters of color and pattern. In this book, she reveals her unique technique with characteristic intelligence and humor.” —Stacy C. Hollander, Senior Curator, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City 
   
  “Much like a child mesmerized by fireflies, I cannot get enough of looking when I see [Paula’s] quilts. Riveting, dazzling, hypnotizing—these are the words that spring to mind when I behold Paula’s art.” —Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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  Good Boy - My Life in Seven Dogs

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

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  This program includes an introduction read by the author.From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been.It’s in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the bottomless, unfathomable desires that once haunted me.There are times when it is hard for me to fully remember that love, which was once so fragile, and so fierce.  Sometimes it seems to fade before me, like breath on a mirror.But I remember the dogs.In her New York Times opinion column, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her relationship with her beloved dog Indigo, and her wise, funny, heartbreaking piece went viral. In Good Boy, Boylan explores what should be the simplest topic in the world, but never is: finding and giving love.Good Boy is a universal account of a remarkable story: showing how a young boy became a middle-aged woman—accompanied at seven crucial moments of growth and transformation by seven memorable dogs. “Everything I know about love,” she writes, “I learned from dogs.” Their love enables us pull off what seem like impossible feats: to find our way home when we are lost, to live our lives with humor and courage, and above all, to best become our true selves. A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

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  Cinco

  Jim Gaffigan

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  America's king of clean comedy delivers wickedly funny jokes in his fifth hour-long special.

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