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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. And in this tender story, Myron, the library director, tells of the impact the cat, named DeweyReadmore Books, had on the [...]

State Series Quarters Collector Map (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

This is the State Series Quarters Collector Map by Whitman®. FEATURES: A beautiful, 4-color, oversized 3-fold folder with snap latch. Color-coded map of the United States will showcase one of each state quarter design. Each coin opening located on the map has the state’s logo. Educational detail of each state including their [...]

The Barbecue! Bible (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Now the biggest and the best recipe collection for the grill is getting better: Announcing the full-color edition of The Barbecue! Bible, the 900,000-copy bestseller and winner of the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award. Redesigned inside and out for its 10th anniversary, The Barbecue! Bible now [...]

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at [...]

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
Lauren Bacall gets cranky when Barefoot Contessa, an East Hampton specialty food store/institution for more than 20 years, is sold out of Indonesian Ginger Chicken. She can now thank her lucky stars that exuberant owner Ina Garten has written The Barefoot Contessa [...]

The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night (Paperback)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

A breakthrough approach for a good night’s sleep–with no tears There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby “cry it out,” or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to [...]

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

From Booklist
They may look sweet and innocent, but anyone who has ever broken out in a rash after picking a hyacinth blossom or burst into violent sneezing after sniffing a chrysanthemum knows that often the most beautiful flowers can pack the nastiest punch. This comes as no [...]