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In Hometown Revelations, you will find out how America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names. Most of the major U.S. cities are included but you will find answers why they named their town Peculiar, Happy or even Monkeys Eyebrow! In addition, you will learn how the states aquired their names. Not everybody's hometown may be included but the clues and mysteries revealed of other communities may lead you to your own revelation!.
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Stories from a Place That Feels Like Home

Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what was right—no matter the cost.

When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.

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This collection is the best of what real hometown cooks are feeding their families American Profile magazine has over 22 million readers in rural America. It is a celebration of everything hometown, which includes a weekly recipe submitted by a reader. The weekly recipe is the most read, and saved, part of the publication.

Reader submitted recipes feature not only great, do-able and affordable meals, but also a glimpse into the life and hometown of the cook. Each state is represented at least twice. Short biographies, quotes, and friendly comments from the cooks enhance the community feel.

The cookbook features a 16-page insert with full-color photographs of selected recipes. Additional features include stories, recipe tips, and regional facts about recipes.

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Middleburg Mystique reveals the charms, gossip, and scandals of this small well-to-do village, and the surrounding swath of horse farms just 50 miles west of Washington, D.C. It tells of scandalous divorces (like actor Robert Duvall s wife running off with the poolman) and racy murders (like arms heiress Susan Cummings shooting her Argentinean polo-playing lover). Middleburg has captivated the Kennedys, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, and Oliver North. It has gossiped about misdeeds, then turned around and protected both rich and lowly as if they were all family. "Middleburg Mystique" also provides an insider s peek behind the grand stone entrances of massive estates with names such as 'The Meadows' or 'Heathfield' that belong to families such as the Firestones, Mellons, and Marriotts..
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Hometown Pasadena is a guidebook like no other. Not content to simply profile another picturesque foothill enclave with ocean views and Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Hometown Pasadena takes the reader inside the real Pasadena... pulsating with arts, architecture, nature, science, food and international culture. Its 256 color-charged pages celebrate the savvy, the friendly, the smart, the fashionable and the historic in Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Eagle Rock, La Cañada... in fact, throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Hometown Pasadena's five authors--locals all--have spent a combined 91 years eating in the restaurants and dim sum cafes, prowling the art galleries, antiques shops and flea markets, and discovering the gardens, colleges, architectural masterpieces, hotels, coffeehouses, museums, mountain trails, parades, libraries, children's activities, wine bars, boutiques, jazz clubs, lectures, golf courses, theaters and bookstores. But there's more. Much more. * Lively, engaging features, such as Six Caltech Smarty-Pants, where Caltech's finest professors explain an area of their expertise--in words regular people can understand
* Insightful Q&As with Pasadena's best and brightest, including actress/mom Jane Kaczmarek, architectural historian Robert Winter, earthquake expert Lucy Jones, philanthropist Jaylene Moseley, horticulturist Clair Martin and novelist Michelle Huneven
* A lovely and iconic cover showcasing work by acclaimed painter R. Kenton Nelson
* Forewords by Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's acclaimed NPR radio show AirTalk, and Larry Wilson, editor of the Pasadena Star-News
* In-depth explorations of the communities and characters that make the SG Valley tick
* Hundreds of vibrant color photographs
* Detailed color maps to the city, the region, the architectural walking tours, the Gold Line and the ARTs bus.
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You can go home again...back to Main Street, the local diner and the bakery on the corner with Hometown Favorites Cookbook We've gathered a collection of simple, all-American recipes like roast beef sandwiches, old-fashioned cream of tomato soup, country potato bake and caramel crunch apple pie. You'll also find nostalgic memories of home and a sprinkling of vintage photos to take you back to your own hometown..
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Every recipe gets two thumbs up!

Only in the Recipe Hall of Fame can you find tried-and-true, All-American recipes like these!

Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, editors Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley have done it again! The Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook II brings you more of the family favorites you have come to expect...Apple Pan Dowdy, Southern Corn Bread Dressing, Strawberry Chocolate Mousse Cake.... Each of these newly selected Hall of Fame recipes were chosen from over 14,000 recipes that were already winners in the acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series. The editors have traveled America in search of recipes that contribute to their goal of Preserving America's Food Heritage.

Like its predecessors, the renowned Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook, the Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook, and the Recipe Hall of Fame Quick & Easy Cookbook, this latest in the Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook Collection has earned its place in the winner's circle. You'll give every recipe a two-thumbs-up vote of approval..
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