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Bookish Celebrations October
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Appetites
by Anthony Bourdain
Draws on more than four decades of professional cooking and world traveling, as well as the author's more recent experiences as a father, to present a collection of personal home-cooking favorites that deconstructs the structural aspects of satisfying meals.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Salt, fat, acid, heat : mastering the elements of good cooking
by Samin Nosrat
A first book by the acclaimed chef from New York's Chez Panisse distills decades of professional experience into four simple elements that if properly applied can lead to better results in the kitchen, in a reference complemented by 100 essential remedies and dozens of variations.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Magnolia table : a collection of recipes for gathering
by Joanna Gaines
A full-color cookbook is packed with classic staples, family favorites, engaging stories and helpful tips from the Magnolia co-founder and New York Times best-selling author, including recipes for White Cheddar Bisque, Asparagus and Fontina Quiche, Overnight French Toast, Chicken Pot Pie and Lemon Pie.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
by John Le Carré
The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré's Karla trilogy The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement--especially when apretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognizes the hand of Karla--his Moscow Centre nemesis--and sets a trap to catch the traitor. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a heart-stopping tale of international intrigue.
Available in print and on Overdrive. Movie available on DVD.
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A perfect spy
by John Le Carré
When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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The spy who came in from the cold
by John Le Carré
Secret agent Alec Leamas is on a dangerous mission in East Berlin, but he has doubts about the organization he serves.
Available in print and on Overdrive. Movie available on DVD.
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Girl with a pearl earring
by Tracy Chevalier
A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.
Available in print and on Overdrive. Movie available on DVD.
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The last runaway
by Tracy Chevalier
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom. By the best-selling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. (historical fiction).
Available in print (& Large Print), on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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At the edge of the orchard
by Tracy Chevalier
Settling in the swamps of early-nineteenth-century Ohio, the Goodenough family establishes an apple orchard that begins a long family battle, and years later, as their youngest son wanders through Gold Rush California, his family's past makes an unexpected appearance.
Available in print (& Large Print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Jurassic Park : a novel
by Michael Crichton
An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests.
Available in print and on Overdrive and eReadIllinois. Movie available on DVD.
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The Andromeda strain
by Michael Crichton
A team of scientists struggles to define and contain a deadly bacteria brought back from outer space by a satellite.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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The great train robbery
by Michael Crichton
In 1855, master criminal Edward Pierce plans and carries out, with three accomplices, the impossible robbery of the monthly London-to-Paris train carrying gold bullion for the British army in the Crimea.
Available in print and on Overdrive. Movie available on DVD.
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White teeth : a novel
by Zadie Smith
Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England. A first novel.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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On beauty : a novel
by Zadie Smith
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon. By the author of White Teeth.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Swing time
by Zadie Smith
Two dark-skinned dancers with very different talents share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in early adulthood in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa. By the award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. A New York Times best-seller.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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