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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
List Price: $7.00
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Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.

Introduction by Nina Baym
Notes by Thomas E. Connolly

A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue (Children's/Life Skills)
By: Julia Cook
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Amazon Price: $6.84

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“Josh the Tattler” doesn’t have any friends. He tattles on his classmates, on his brother, and even on his dog! He tattles so much that he wakes up one night to find that his tongue is yellow, unusually long, and covered in bright purple spots! Will a bad case of Tattle Tongue teach him a lesson? A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue gives teachers and counselors a humorous, cleverly creative way to address the time-consuming tattling-related issues that often sap classroom energy and thwart teaching opportunities. Parents who “battle the tattle” at home, on the playground, in the grocery store, or anywhere else, can use this book to both entertain and enlighten their children about “The Tattle Rules.” Every adult that desires to help children understand the differences between unnecessary tattling and the necessity of warning others about important matters needs this book!

Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Annive...
By: Julia Child
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“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for forty years, has been teaching Americans how.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the savory delights of the classic cuisine, from the historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. This beautiful book, with more than one hundred instructive illustrations, is revolutionary in its approach because:

• It leads the cook infallibly from the buying and handling of raw ingredients, through each essential step of a recipe, to the final creation of a delicate confection.
• It breaks down the classic cuisine into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of recipes; the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations—bound to increase anyone’s culinary repertoire.
• It adapts classical techniques, wherever possible, to modern American conveniences.
• It shows Americans how to buy products, from any supermarket in the U.S.A., that reproduce the exact taste and texture of the French ingredients: equivalent meat cuts, for example; the right beans for a cassoulet; the appropriate fish and shellfish for a bouillabaisse.
• It offers suggestions for just the right accompaniment to each dish, including proper wines.

Since there has never been a book as instructive and as workable as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the techniques learned here can be applied to recipes in all other French cookbooks, making them infinitely more usable. In compiling the secrets of famous cordons bleus, the authors have produced a magnificent volume that is sure to find the place of honor in every kitchen in America.

My Life in France
By: Julia Child
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Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.

Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story – struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took them across the globe – unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.

The Snail and the Whale
By: Julia Donaldson
List Price: $6.99
Amazon Price: $3.26

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This is the tale of a tiny snail and a great big whale. The snail may be small, but she has huge dreams of seeing the world. So she hitches a ride on a friendly whale's back to see amazing sights. Icebergs and volcanoes, storms and sharks—the two friends see it all together. And when the whale runs into trouble, the snail proves that even the tiniest creature can help a friend in a very big way. The creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom have teamed up again to bring you this whale of a tale.

• Palin seeks truth from state agency with jurisdiction, refuses to cooperate w...
A blogospheric friend sent me this link to an op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News, asking me for my thoughts on what a columnist there was describing as Gov. Palin "stonewalling" the state legislature's investigation into "Tasergate," a non-scandal I blogged about on the evening of August 29th, immediately after Sen. McCain's Veep choice was revealed. (I won't call it "Troopergate." For one thing, that's confusing, because there have been previous controversies called that, including one invol • Julia Got Her Mail
And Astrud the Kittybear approves! Julia is the lovely and talented sister of the lovely and talented Alden. Them's some good genes running in that family tree. Being an only child, I've always been sort of fascinated by the dynamic of siblings. When I'm around siblings, I sometimes catch myself observing them and making mental notes about how the interact with each other. Like Jane Goodall watching the gorillas. But I'm sure Julia and Alden don't pick things out of each other's hair. At l • Top Cheffage: Grub Street tracked down Food &...
Grub Street tracked down Food & Wine's Gail Simmons, otherwise known as Top Chef judge #3, for a little insight into this season: She loved filming in New York if only to sleep in her own bed; would want Julia Child as a guest judge (obviously not going to happen), or Alice Waters or Thomas Keller (obviously didn't happen). She also divulges what makes a good Top Chef: "There's a lot of really not-good contestants. I think you need to be someone who plays it for what it is. It's a competition b • Top Cheffage: One of NYMag's cadre of nightlife...
One of NYMag's cadre of nightlife reporters caught up with Gail Simmons last night and chatted up the newlywed on the NYC Top Chef experience. Turns out filming in New York had its pluses (sleeping in their own beds) and some minuses (not as much hang out time with the crew) for the judges. More interesting, though, is who Simmons' dream guest chef would be: "Julia Child! The classic. These people who were at the beginning of making good food accessible to Americans...I'd love to have Alice Wat • Gail Simmons Recommends an All-Cheeseburger Fashion Week Diet
We caught up with Gail Simmons at last night?s premiere party for The Rachel Zoe Project, and while Simmons didn?t reveal much about the recently wrapped season of Top Chef, we do find out that Thomas Keller and Alice Waters probably won?t be appearing this time around. Drat. What can you tell us [about the new season]? Nothing! [laughs] But it was in New York, and Padma, Tom, and I are all from New York, so it was a long time coming. Sleeping in our own beds was awesome, but it changed the sh

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