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Summer Cooking
By Elizabeth David
Foreword by Molly O'Neill

Divided into such sections as Soup, Poultry and Game, Vegetables, and Dessert, her 1955 classic includes an overview of herbs as well as chapters on impromptu cooking for holidays and picnics.

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A Book of Mediterranean Food
By Elizabeth David
Foreword by Clarissa Dickson Wright

Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk.

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Red Lights
By Georges Simenon
Translated by Norman Denny
Introduction by Anita Brookner

Red Lights, one of Simenon's romans durs, is a dark and brilliant gaze at marriage, and is Simenon writing the American psyche at his best.

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The Dud Avocado
By Elaine Dundy
Introduction by Terry Teachout

Elaine Dundy's hilarious novel follows the misadventures of an American girl who impulsively quits college and heads off to conquer Paris in the 1950s. "A delightful few hours of sparkling reading entertainment. Summing up: Froth and frolic." —Newsweek

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Afloat
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK)

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The Summer Book
By Tove Jansson
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman

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Names on the Land
By George R. Stewart
Introduction by Matt Weiland

Organized thematically (sample chapters: "Yankee Flavor," "America Discovers Columbus," and "How Names Were Symbols of Empire") this lighthearted book will be a delight for anyone who ever wondered how their hometown, or (more likely) the next town over, could be called that.

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A Meaningful Life
By L. J. Davis
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem

A black comedy about real estate and redemption and the pitfalls of using the one to get the other. Lowell Lake (from Idaho) thinks that he has found the cure for the quarter-life doldrums in the form of a fixer-upper in Brooklyn, but soon discovers that he has lost his livelihood, his wife, and possibly his sanity.

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The Old Man and Me
By Elaine Dundy

In Elaine Dundy's follow-up to her best-selling The Dud Avocado, a young American named Honey Flood arrives in London with the goal of seducing its brightest literary star. "A witty black comedy of errors."—Gore Vidal

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The D'Aulaires Picture Book Collection
Written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

For ages 2-6. Buy all 4 books at a special discount.

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Fantasy and Time Travel Collection



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Complete NYRB D'Aulaires Collection

Get all seven d'Aulaires titles at a special discount.

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NYRB Classics 1-200



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