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Paintings in the Louvre מאת Lawrence Gowing 120 essays by a distinguished art historian represent a guided tour of more than eight hundred European masterpieces from the art collection of the world-famous Louvre. ...

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CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch מאת Warren Brown Warren Brown wants you to bake your cake and eat it too. And he wants you to conquer your fear of flour and learn to love every step of cake baking—including, of course, the step in which you present your made-from-scratch masterpiece to bedazzled, hungry-eyed family and friends. (Not to ment...

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101 Reasons to Love Notre Dame Football מאת David Green In South Bend, Indiana, home of Notre Dame University, football is a celebration. For more than 120 years, the success of the Fighting Irish football program has helped define the university and the sport of college football. A tradition and heritage exists here that is rivaled by few other ins...

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101 Reasons to Love the Tigers מאת David Green Eager for baseball season to begin and for the Michigan winter to thaw, a record-breaking 44,934 fans poured into Comerica Stadium for the Tigers’ opening game this April. It’s a trend that’s building. After making it to the 2006 World Series, ticket sales have been at all-time ...

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Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950 מאת Mo Lotman What do Barack Obama, Samuel Beckett, Fidel Castro, Joan Baez, Conan O’Brien, Natalie Portman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower have in common? Their footsteps have all crossed paths in Harvard Square. This well-trod patch of Cambridge turf at the corner of the United States’ most renowned uni...

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The Adirondack Chair: A Celebration of a Summer Classic מאת Daniel Mack There’s no competition. When it comes to the American Idyll, the hammock and the Adirondack chair are the shoe-in (and shoes-off!) winners. Built for lazing around in, they’re the classic icons of a summer getaway. And they’re both quintessentially American. The hammock, invented by the n...

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Home from the Honeymoon: The Newlyweds' Guide to the Celebrations and Challenges of the First Year of Marriage מאת Sharon Naylor The honeymoon’s over. Now what? Couples who spend months—even years—planning their weddings are often unprepared for the transition to married life. As Sharon Naylor shows, however, the first year of marriage doesn’t have to be a gauntlet of conflict and unmet expectations.

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Paintings in the hermitage Colin T Eisler

Paintings in the hermitage מאת Colin T Eisler

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The Masters: 101 Reasons to Love Golf's Greatest Tournament מאת Ron Green Sr. According to award-winning sportswriter Ron Green, Sr., “Augusta National is Eden with flagsticks . . . a place where anyone who loves golf should be allowed, by some heavenly intervention, to go at least once.” Or more often. Green himself has covered the Masters tournament at Augusta Nati...

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Donnie Brown Weddings: From the Couture to the Cake מאת Donnie Brown First, a bride-to-be needs a groom. Next—and almost as important—she needs the expert assistance of celebrity wedding planner Donnie Brown. Although other wedding planners may excel at arranging for the flowers, caterer, and music, Donnie stands alone in the charm, good humor, and...

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Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More Than 100 Legendary Recipes מאת Arthur Schwartz Arthur Schwartz is the Big Apple’s official foodie-about-town, a fellow who has fork-and-knived his way through the five boroughs. He knows his knish from his kasha, his bok choy from his bruschetta, his falafel from his frittata. And in Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food, which wo...

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Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special Occasions מאת Jacques Torres Let your New Year’s resolution be “Eat more chocolate.” With Jacques Torres’ A Year in Chocolate as your guide, you won’t have any difficulty sticking with i...

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The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Capacities מאת Amy Hatkoff Chickens can count. Pigs are smarter than poodles. Cows form close friendships. Turkeys know one another by their voices, and sheep recognize faces—of other sheep, and of people. Far from lacking thoughts and feelings, barnyard creatures demonstrate sophisticated problem-solving abilitie...

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101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox (Revised) מאת David Green There is no other stadium like Fenway Park with its wooden seats, manual scoreboard, and the looming green monster; no other history that includes such an infamous trade, a curse, and a penchant for losing critical games; no other group of fans that measure up to the loyal Red Sox Nation. ...

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Monday Hearts for Madalene מאת Page Hodel When a person falls in love, the universe—and everything in it—come vividly alive. It happened to San Francisco artist Page Hodel when she found the love of her life, Madalene Rodriguez. She expressed her devotion in an unusual way: Early every Monday morning, Page would create a ...

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The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet. מאת Josh Dorfman In The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget, Josh Dorfman takes you inside the latest developments in green living to demonstrate how you can easily and affordably have your designer jeans and your planet too. From raising eco-conscious kids to greening your daily commute, Dorfman...

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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living מאת Josh Dorfman "Josh Dorfman’s perspective is a leading voice for anyone involved in new consumer-based environmentalism.”—Tom Arnold, TerraPassWe can’t all camp out in old-growth forests, lying down in front of the bulldozers. And it’s not only that we’re too busy: Some of us just don’t want our fab...

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Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes מאת Giuliano Hazan Now that America’s low-carb obsession is over, home cooks are once again looking to prepare well-balanced meals that include everyone’s favorite food—pasta. Few of us, though, have the leisure to create a classic Bolognese meat sauce from scratch. For those who are as pressed fo...

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101 Reasons to Love the Mets מאת David Green The exodus of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers to the west after the 1957 season left a gaping hole in the fabric of the New York sports community. In 1962, the New York Mets stepped in to fill the void – an impossible task for any expansion team, but especially for this band...

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Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person מאת Jeanne Martinet How can it be that you receive dozens of personal e-mails or texts every day but have nothing to do come Saturday night? Or that you’re constantly juggling a jam-packed schedule while always feeling that something essential is missing? Who the heck took the social o...

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Knitting Lingerie Style: More Than 30 Basic and Lingerie-Inspired Designs מאת Joan McGowan-Michael The only knitting book focused on lingerie and lingerie-inspired designsUnderwear has come out. Once kept demurely concealed, lingerie now pervades every fashion category, inspiring designs for day looks, loungewear, evening clothes, and accessories. Slips have become dresses unto themselves. Bra st...

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You Are My World: How a Parent's Love Shapes a Baby's Mind מאת Amy Hatkoff Together, the pictures and words of You Are My World lend a whole new meaning to the phrase “baby talk.” By pairing lovely black-and-white photographs of infants with captions that reflect reality as seen through their newborn eyes, the book celebrates the continually miraculous inte...

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Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia מאת Julia Ruth Stevens The Bambino . . . The Sultan of Swat . . . The Colossus of Clout . . . Babe Ruth is widely regarded as the #1 baseball player of all time. His contribution to the sport simpl...

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Beautiful Bedrooms Around the World מאת Francesca Torre Whether in a cave, alcove, boudoir, or four-poster bed, humans have always created sleeping places that shield us from the elements, from light and noise, and protect ou...

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Green Wedding: Planning Your Eco-Friendly Celebration מאת Mireya Navarro Green is the new white for today's brides--metaphorically speaking. Environmentally conscious couples are often appalled by the carbon footprint of traditional weddings and are seeking ways to express their earth-friendly values as they express their love. As Green Wedding shows, there <...

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La Maison du Chocolat: Timeless Classics with a Twist מאת Gilles Marchal La Maison du Chocolat is one of the best-known high-end chocolate makers in the world. With eight shops in Paris and six in other locations (including New York), their award-winning creations are synonymous with gourmet chocolate. In this luxurious book, the brilliant chocolatier and ...

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Almost First Dog: The Secret (Rejected) Portuguese Water Dog Applications מאת Spencer Starr One of the most closely watched developments of Obama's first 100 days has been the arrival of the first dog. Before Portuguese Water Dog Bo was chosen, there were months of speculation over what privileged pooch would be The One. Now that we know, the popularity of "Porties" is expe...

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Frenemies: Cats, Dogs, and Lessons in Getting Along מאת Christine Montaquila Relationships aren’t always easy. But if cats and dogs can make them work, so can the rest of us. In Frenemies, the new book by creative partners Kim Levin and Christine Montaquila, we get an inside look at how our furry domestic friends manage to coexist on the same planet...

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Simple Stunning Parties at Home: Recipes, Ideas, and Inspirations for Creative Entertaining מאת Karen Bussen "When the opportunity for celebrating knocks, answer the door and offer it some champagne!" says Karen Bussen. Author of the bestselling "Simple Stunning" wedding series, Bussen now directs her expert’s eye to a more intimate kind of festivity: the at-home party. Her sim...

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The Seven Personalities of Golf: Discover Your Inner Golfer to Play Your Best Game מאת Darrin Gee Get in touch with your inner golfer and the personality traits that affect your game. Is your personality affecting your game? Do you approach every shot with a go-for-broke attitude, even when the moment might reward a more deliberate, methodical strategy? Or do you carefully calculate e...

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Beth Levine Shoes מאת Helene Verin If you love shoes—and who doesn't?—you know that nothing says as much about a woman’s style as her taste in footwear. Long before Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin, Beth Levine was designing shoes that were objects of desire and even lust.   Levine, who introduce...

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Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs מאת Linda Meyers What some view as trash, Linda and John Meyers see as raw material. The wife-and-husband team—subscribers to the “reduce, reuse, recycle” ethos—have perfected a design strategy that will save you money, help the planet, and provide hours of DIY fun. The strategy? First, v...

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Nantucket: Island Living מאת Leslie Linsley Imagine a place of unspoiled beaches, windswept dunes, and dramatic natural beauty. A place free of traffic lights and blaring commercial come-ons. A place whose rich historical herita...

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Sandcastles Made Simple: Step-by-Step Instructions, Tips, and Tricks for Building Sensational Sand Creations מאת Lucinda Wierenga A crenellated turret here, a winding, arched staircase there, maybe even a giant turtle—fantasy is at the heart of every sandcastle. Summer after summer, both children and adults make valiant efforts to infuse their sandy structures with inspiration, but the results are generally di...

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The New American Olive Oil: Profiles of Artisan Producers and 75 Recipes מאת Fran Gage American wine and cheese? Sure. But American olive oil? Absolutely. More than a decade ago a California oil won an international competition—in Italy. And upstart American olive-oil producers—many profiled in this book—haven’t looked back, creating artisanal oils that n...

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From B.A. to Payday: Launching Your Career After College מאת D. A. Hayden As college graduates soon find out, the real world is tough. Sure, it was hard getting into the right school. But landing a good job is a lot harder. The number of new college grads no...

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Sow and Grow: A Gardening Book for Children מאת Tina Davis Kids are captivated by growing things. They’re fascinated by the way a seed, when planted, watered, and cared for, sprouts into a baby plant that’s soon putting out its first roots and leaves. Inspired by children’s innate affinity for gardening, Tina Davis has created Sow and Grow...

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Terry John Woods' New Farmhouse Style מאת Terry John Woods Needham House, an 1820s farmhouse nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, is artist Terry John Woods’ beloved home—and it’s the canvas on which he works out his design ideas. Here, Woods has reinvented his family homestead while adding visual and tactile pleasure to every...

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The Spice Bible: Essential Information and More Than 250 Recipes Using Spice, SpiceMixes, and Spice Pastes מאת Jane Lawson The only book on spices that any chef or aspiring cook will ever need, The Spice Bible is a fully comprehensive guide to the fascinating history and enticing culinary uses of 45 fiery foods from around the world. Each entry—from ajowan through wolfberry—includes a description of...

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Colors of provence Michel Biehn

Colors of provence מאת Michel Biehn

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French Feasts: 299 Traditional Recipes for Family Meals and Gatherings מאת Stephane Reynaud In France, where eating is a national pastime, the long, leisurely Sunday lunch is a feast for the senses. It is this quality that acclaimed chef and author Stéphane Reynaud captures so perfectly in his paean to traditional French cooking. Rustic and approachable, humorous and conviv...

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Weddings in Italy מאת Angelo Garini Enzo Miccio and Angelo Garini, partners in an event planning company with offices in Paris and Milan, have an eye for both the sweeping gesture and the subtle detail. Trained as an interior designer and an architect, respectively, Miccio and Garini create weddings that have the beau...

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Color at Home: Creating Style with Paint מאת Meg Roberts Selecting a paint color, whether for a home’s exterior or the bedroom walls, can feel like a perilous venture. For good reason. Like no other aspect of our environment, color has the power to profoundly affect our feeling of well-being. And taste in color is an extremely personal matter:...

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American cars Leon Mandel

American cars מאת Leon Mandel

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The Gardener's Palette: A Year of Color in the Flower Garden מאת Pierre Nessmann Approaching a flower garden as a blank canvas and the gardener as an artist ...

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New Classic Interiors מאת Alessandra Branca For Alessandra Branca, living means living comfortably. Growing up in Rome, Branca was always surrounded by exquisite art and architecture. She learned early on that beauty is meant to intermingle with everyday life, and to this day her interior designs, while abiding by classical pri...

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Feathering the Nest: Tracy Hutson's Earth-Friendly Guide to Decorating Your Baby's Room מאת Tracy Hutson Tracy Hutson is an acclaimed interior designer. She’s also the loving mother of two little boys. When designing their bedroom, she knew precisely what she wanted: a nursery that would be mentally stimulating yet emotionally comforting. A place that would maximize safety, shielding a...

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Good Eats: The Early Years מאת Alton Brown Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon: a great cook, a very funny guy, and—underneath it all—a science geek who’s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, almost.) Here, finally, are the books that Brown’s legion of fans have been salivating for—two ...

49.		Baked: New Frontiers in Baking מאת Matt Lewis As featured on The Martha Stewart Show and The Today Show and in People Magazine!
50.		A Shelter in the Garden: Playhouses, Treehouses, Gazebos, Sheds, and Other Outdoor Structures מאת Pierre Nessmann Whether it’s a treehouse perched among the branches or a rustic gazebo by a pond, a small-scale playhouse or a whimsical dovecote, shelters in the garden conjure thoughts of childhood and long-ago summers. A Shelter in the Garden inspires readers to re-create these bygon...

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An Event to Remember: Designing Spectacular Special Occasions מאת Jerry Sibal Jerry Sibal is no mere party planner. He’s a world-renowned designer of unforgettable celebrations of every description. Each of Sibal’s projects—whether for a private birthday party or holiday dinner, a lavish wedding or bar/bat mitzvah, a corporate retreat or charity ball—is a di...

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101 Reasons to Love the Yankees (Revised) מאת Ron Green Jr. Since their early days at the Polo Grounds, the Yankees have been destined for greatness. As baseball's most successful team, the Yankees have a devoted legion of fans who have endless reasons to cheer them on year after year.This revised and updated edition of 101 Reasons to Love the Yankee...

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Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together מאת Larissa Golden Brown The immensely popular knitalong—an organized event where people knit together for a common goal—has only grown with the explosion of the Internet. Yesterday’s wartime Red Cross sock drives have evolved into today’s meet-ups at locales as diverse as cafes, state fairs, and major league b...

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Girls' Best Book of Knitting, Sewing, and Embroidery מאת Virginie Desmoulins Children are natural do-it-yourselfers, decorating their own rooms, experimenting with arts and crafts, expressing their personalities through all sorts of hands-on activities. Girls’ Best Book of Knitting, Sewing, and Embroidery encourages that creativity while teaching kids the fundamenta...

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Power of Gardens מאת Nancy Goslee Power Nancy Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture, or Bunny Williams to interiors—a master, a visionary, a seasoned professional at the very pinnacle of her craft. The designs Power creates—whether for parklands, playgrounds, or private sanctuaries—reflect the meticulou...

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The Cottage Book: Living Simple and Easy מאת Carol Bass Simplicity, comfort, and intimacy define the cottage—and they are the hottest ideas in domestic design today, as seen in a host of new books and magazines celebrating the not-so-big house. The personal, easy-living style of the cottage has formed a compelling counter-trend to the overblown, o...

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Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run מאת Alton Brown He’s on the road again. This time, Alton Brown and his motorcycle-mounted crew are off on a thousand-mile, south-to-north journey that follows America’s first “superhighway”—the Mississippi. Starting at the great river’s delta on the Gulf of Mexico and ending up near its headwaters ...