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Cooking Among Friends® is a meal planning and preparation technique that really works! Gather a group of friends, collaborate, plan a menu of entrées, invidually prepare a large quantity of a single entrée (or two), freeze it in meal-sized portions and then swap! Continue with a food quantity and exchange frequency that is ideal for the group. Cooking Among Friends® shows you how!.
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What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?

We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can’t resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read more than 50 nearly identical books every single year.

In Why We Read What We Read, Lisa Adams and John Heath take an insightful and often hilarious tour through nearly 200 bestselling books, ferreting out their persistent themes and determining what those say about what we believe and how we relate to one another.

Some of our favorite (and revealing) topics include:

* Repeating the Obvious:
Diet, Wealth, and Inspiration

* Black and White and Read All Over:
Good and Evil in Bestselling Adventure Novels and Political Nonfiction

* Soul Train:
Religion and Spirituality

* Hopefully Ever After:
Love, Romance and Relationships

* Reading for Redemption:
Trials and Triumphs in Literary Fiction and Nonfiction

* Controversy and Conspiracy in The Da Vinci Code

Explore the nature of what and how we read-and what it means for our psyches, our society and our future..
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What does Richard Roeper know about the movies? Plenty. As the celebrated syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, Roeper has devoted at least a column a week to the buzz from Hollywood and the countless urban legends that emanate from Tinsel Town. And now, he's the co-host of "Ebert and Roeper and the Movies."

Did Jane Fonda betray American POWs while visiting Hanoi? What's the story behind Tom Green's supposed raid on a bar mitzvah? Was Marilyn Monroe really a size 16? Was Mel Gibson horribly disfigured in a barroom brawl, leading to more than five years of rehab and plastic surgery before he could show his face in public? And what's the truth about the infamous bloopers on such shows as "The Newlywed Game," "Password" and the "Tonight Show"?

Richard Roeper recounts these stories in Hollywood Urban Legends, as he gives us the truth behind the most deliciously false stories about our favorite stars..
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Discover the ghostly past of America's first state, Delaware Fact or fiction, these stories document a legendary relationship between the state and the other world. Just be sure all the lights in the house are turned on while reading!.
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Make it Magical offers an enchanting book filled with delicate treasures and over 30 charming fairy-themed craft projects From cupcakes to jewelry, decorations to dolls, and clothing to beauty products, the projects are both creative and captivating throughout. Readers will be able to craft perfect gifts and embellishments for weddings, anniversaries, Christmas and any other occasion that requires that extra-special touch of ethereal magic. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by stunning photography and unique watercolor artwork are sure to inspire fairy-tale lovers and crafters everywhere..
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This isn't a book of statistics and it isn't a book of science. It has nothing whatsoever to do with actuaries or accountants. Number Freaking is a book of surreal sums and absurd arithmetic: it's doodling with numbers, doing sums in your head just for fun, playing dice with the universe. It's the art of putting numbers where none existed before to take an off-the-wall peek behind the curtains at how numbers rule our lives. It's about taking numbers that were never meant to be in the same room, crashing them together and seeing what comes out the other end. Number Freaking reveals the low drama of life, the unexpected realities and unforeseen truths that emerge only when numbers are tested to destruction.

How long would it take to drive your car to the moon?
How many people on Earth are drunk right now?
If you were falling from the world's tallest building, would you have time to phone a friend to say goodbye?
Which is more crowded: Jakarta, an IKEA store or Hell?
How long will it take for America to eventually collide with Japan?
What's a decent boyfriend worth in chocolate?

Discover for yourself how far you walk in a lifetime, how many people have ever lived and how to cure world debt in this essential guide to modern life.

Gary Rimmer is a journalist, author, and film and television producer. As well as writing for national press he is the author of Lonely Hearts and Thirtysomehow, as well as The A-Z of Street Cred.

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Every year, Americans waste millions of dollars on books that promise to fix all their problems. We buy each new one, believing its promises despite the failures of all the previous tomes, continuing to hope for that nonexistent magic bullet. Tom Tiede, a former syndicated columnist and the recipient of numerous journalism awards, just might be able to cure us of this addiction. In Self-Help Nation, Tiede skewers the authors of self-help books, whom he compares to modern-day snake-oil peddlers exploiting our weaknesses. As he slashes his way merrily through his least favorite books, Tiede posits a larger cultural argument about why we as a nation have fallen prey to the self-help juggernaut. Waging an eloquent attack on the salaciousness and irresponsibility of the media, the self-absorption of the Baby Boom generation, our fascination with celebrity, and other cultural afflictions, Tiede offers insightful commentary on what we've lost in our hyperaccelerated culture and calls for a return to the timeless American value of self-reliance. In urging us to trust ourselves, Tiede is perhaps writing just another self-help book, a sure sign of the mess we've gotten ourselves into. Regardless, Self-Help Nation is a delight to read-wickedly funny, refreshingly candid, and ultimately profound..
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After thirteen visits to Sri Lanka, Paul Harris, an award winning international journalist and author of more than forty books, decided to settle on the Indian Ocean island he had come to love. Working for the London Daily Telegraph and Janes Intelligence Review, he would be there for a year, staying at the renowned Galle Face Hotel, the oldest hotel in the world east of Suez, before being expelled by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on an ultimatum from the rebel Tamil Tigers. This is the story of a remarkable year at the Galle Face Hotel. It not only paints a fascinating inside picture of a legendary hotel, but it also provides a unique perspective on politics and conflict in a troubled tropical island..
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