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The Shun Lee Cookbook - Michael Tong; Elaine Louie; Rog
Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restauran... -
The Secret Knowledge - David Mamet
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-cal... -
The Price of Everything - Eduardo Porter
Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar.... -
The Perfect Murder - Peter James
Product DescriptionVictor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fe... -
The Pearl - John Steinbeck; Linda Wagner-Ma
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The Middle Way_ Faith Grounded - Dalai Lama; Geshe Thupten Jinpa
Product DescriptionFor nearly 2,000 years, Nagarjuna's teachings have occupied a central position in Mahayana Buddhism. An essential part of the study and practice in the great Ind... -
The Lady in the Tower_ The Fall - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines.... -
The Heavens Are Empty_ Discover - Avrom Bendavid-Val
In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of which are ingrained in p... -
The Great Game_ On Secret Servi - Peter Hopkirk
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those eng... -
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaís greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works p...