A good, old-fashioned style murder mystery, Angel with Two Faces is set in mid-1930s Cornwall, England.
This is a silly book. While playing the trivia game of Balderdash, Englishman Rich Smith encounters a question concerning an obscure American law.
Despite its awkward title, pie makers or anyone with nostalgia for southern food should love Southern Pies. It is essentially a collection of recipes culled from both old family cookbo
When Jonell Richardson McLain falls in love with a diamond necklace far outside her price range, she gets the brilliant idea to gather a group of women who, with combined purchasing power, can share the $32,000 necklace.
This is an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man. In May 1943, an Army Air Forces Bomber crashed into the Pacific. One of three survivors was Lieutenant Louis Zamperini. Louis had been an incorrigible child until as a teenager his efforts were channeled into running. His talent and prodigious effort took him to the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
In the last couple weeks, there's been some odd Internet buzz to the effect that Warner Bros. and CBS are trying to turn Stephen King's The Stand into a feature film.
A baby chewing on a human rib bone leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a housing construction site.
This enjoyable Czech comedy concerns an aging man named Fanda, retired from the theater, and his sidekick, who refuse to become emeritus vegetables, living corpses. To stay involved in the world they cook up harebrained schemes that dig them deeper into trouble.
Being a public librarian with access to an unending supply of books, it takes something really special to make me want to part with $27.00 just so I can call it my own. Ruhlman has found the secret in Ratio and my copy should be in my mailbox by tomorrow. It's a weird format for a cookbook in that Ruhlman buries his recipes in parts or chapters that explain the basic ratios for, for instance, doughs and batters.
