The Gift of the Deer
a magical journey: The same helen and Ade Hoover who introduced the reader to a place in the woods, now share their intimate relationships with a deer family in the remote Minnesota forest they live in. After leaving successful careers in Chicago, the [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Look Alikes: The More You Look the More You See
From Amazon.com: "Come along! Jump aboard! Grab hold of my hand. / We're crossing the border into Look-Alike Land." So invites the opening lines of Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes, a three-dimensional miniature metropolis that's meticulously, [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Chocolate American Style
Worthy new book of largely new Chocolate Recipes: In a review of Alice Medrich's book, 'Bittersweet', I said: "No one should try to do any serious work with chocolate without reading this book or another equally good book on the subject. One of the [... more]
CDN$53.00
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Posted To Death
Unusual sleuth: After moving to a small English village, novelist Simon Kirby-Jones is asked to join the Church Restoration Fund Committee. During the committee meeting he discovers that there are disturbing undercurrents and rumors of a tell-all play. [... more]
CDN$6.24
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Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life
From Amazon.com: The simple directions and soothing reassurance in Pie Every Day may single-handedly raise a pie revival. Pat Willard presents easy, convenient techniques. She praises the food processor as an aid to turning out piecrusts with ease. Clear [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and ...
From Amazon.com: Richard Sax has it right: the most accomplished pastry-chef creations don't provide the direct pleasures of good-old homemade desserts. Sax's Classic Home Desserts, first published in 1994, more than makes the point. A classic itself, [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The Whole Foods Market Cookbook: A Guide to Natural ...
From Amazon.com: The first Whole Foods Market, selling only minimally processed natural and organic products, opened in 1980. In response to all the customers who ever asked, "How do I cook this?", chef Steve Petusevsky and the Whole Foods [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The Calcium Key: The Revolutionary Diet Discovery That ...
simple and straightforward: Not having read a whole lot of diet related books I was a bit concerned that this book would be too technical, and the that the diet would be too difficult to try to follow. Neither of these presumptions turned out to be the [... more]
CDN$35.99
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Healthy Food for Healthy Kids: A Practical and Tasty ...
Highly recommend for the cooking impaired!!: I bought this book because I don't like to cook but, gee, had to feed the kids. This book offered quick, very simple recipes that included ingredients I would have on hand. I also liked the variety of recipes [... more]
CDN$13.54
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Cook's Book of Essential Information: A Kitchen Handbook
a great find for any kitchen: This book is exactly what the title says: essential. This has something for beginning to advanced cooks. The first chapter covers definitions. What's the difference between dice and chop? How do you braise? All covered in [... more]
CDN$28.00
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How Do You Compare
Toward a brighter world: For me, this book started off on dangerous ground but handled it well. You see, I'm in Mensa (the High IQ Society) and there are some problems with how we are often portrayed in movies or written about in books and periodicals. [... more]
CDN$24.04
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Ripe for Dessert: 100 Outstanding Desserts with ...
Yummy fruit desserts!: If you love fruit, this is the book for you. But I have to say, the chocolate brownies are truly the best I've ever had!!! Everything is yummy, and unusually for me, everything I made turned out great. Highly recommended. Another [... more]
CDN$41.50
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