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Excerpt From the Receptionist by Janet Groth
In 1957, a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker. She didn't expect to stay long at the reception desk . . . But stay she did, for twenty-one years. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine's eccentric luminaries. Here is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.
Category:BiographyReads:55Uploaded:05 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionHighbridge Audio Fall 2012
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Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:55Uploaded:05 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Ultimate Burger Recipe From Charred and Scruffed by Adam Perry Lang
A RT I SA N C O O K B O O K C LUB e-Newsletter No. 5 • May 2012 ARTISAN COOKBOOK CLUB EXCLUSIVE RECIPE Adam Perry Lang’s Ultimate Burger Serves 6 Build your burger with elements that complement rather than compete with the integrity of the meat. The cheese on a burger is strictly to add texture, so use something that melts well, like Jack cheese. I don’t find that lettuce or tomato adds anything, and I’ve never liked ketchup, so I make what I call Tomato Spackle. It’s a highly concentrated bur
Category:Recipes/MenusReads:66Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionSwim to Me
It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida. Leaving the Bronx far behind, she's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, frayed roadside attraction in danger of becoming obsolete with the opening of Walt Disney's latest creation, only miles up the road. Always more suited for a life underwater, Delores joins a group of other aquatic hopefuls in this City of Live Mermaids, where she discovers a world of sequined tails and amphibious theme shows that even Disney couldn't dream up. It's in this fantastic place of make-believe and reinvention that Delores Walker becomes Delores Taurus, Florida's most unlikely celebrity. Bringing together an eccentric assortment of outcasts, poseurs, and underdogs, this wise and poignant novel conjures up a time in America when anything was possible, especially in the Sunshine State. A story of family, chasing dreams and finding your way, Swim To Me will have you believing the impossible—even in mermaids from the Bronx.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:102Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionBattles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781
The Americans didn't simply outlast the British, nor was the war just a glorified guerrilla action with sporadic skirmishes, says W. J. Wood. Americans won their independence on the battlefield by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership in the battles of Bunker Hill, Quebec, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, and Cowpens, among many others. Here in this groundbreaking book are detailed accounts of attempts by commanders to adapt their forces to the ever-shifting battlefield of the Revolutionary War, as well as analyses of the factors that determined the eventual American victory.Battles of the Revolutionary War is designed for "armchair strategist," with dozens of illustrations and maps--many specially prepared for this volume--of the weapons, battle plans, and combatants. It's an insider's look at the dramatic times and colorful personalities that accompanied the birth of this country.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:44Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Ghost at the Table
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:29Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collection8,789 Words of Wisdom
8,789 Words Of Wisdom is brimming with great advice, maxims, sayings and saws, proverbs, precepts and truths-8,789 of them, to be exact. Turn to any spot in the book and there is the secret to living a happier, healthier, saner, more productive life. Learn to unlearn. Appreciate the questions as much as the answers. Stretch beyond what is comfortable. There are folksy expressions polished smooth over time: If you think you can, you can. Experience is the best teacher. Quotes: Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know (Lao-tzu). Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there (Will Rogers). Unexpected turns: Listen with your eyes. Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Taken together it's the ultimate source of self-improvement.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:36Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionHome Plan Doctor
Every new house begins with a dream—and a home plan. But it can be terrifying to commit a lifetime of savings to a two-dimensional drawing that's difficult to interpret and visualize. Will the space meet your needs? Is the plan well-designed? Will it really turn out to be your dream house, or is it a potential nightmare? In Home Plan Doctor, Larry Garnett makes basic design principles accessible, explaining in clear language how to navigate every stage of the planning process, from selecting a plan to evaluating the suitability of the design, room by room, and requesting needed modifications. Using sample floor plans and illustrations from readily available plans, this book is a practical guide for everything from placing the kitchen island to evaluating the effect of the roof pitch on the proportions of the house. And Garnett doesn't overlook the basics; he includes sections on what to look for in a building site, how to read a basic floor plan, and what to expect when you order the "blueprints," or construction documents.Whether you're purchasing a stock plan or working with an architect, and whether you're buying a design for am entire house or an addition, you'll find this handbook to be an indispensable guide.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:48Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionTending to Virginia
We always knew Southern women were different, but now we know why: They don't have babies, they have generations!When Virginia Turner Ballard has a baby, it's a grand occasion. Her mother and grandmother come to the lying in to help her prepare for the new arrival. And what help! It is more physic than physical, more familial than either, and it reawakens memories of kith and clan in all of us.For family members are real, and as this story has it, are a legacy passed down among a family's women. They are a gift in the celebration of growing up, a process in which the generations participate, a participation that Jill McCorkle shows us lasts into old age and give us hope that those last years may really be golden.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:27Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt From Matti Friedman's the Aleppo Codex
1 Flushing Meadow Th e fi r sT li mousi n e s pulled up beside bare trees and a grove of flagpoles at Flushing Meadow, on the outskirts of New York City, discharging their passengers into a gray building that had once housed a skating rink. Crowds gathered in the chill outside. An auditorium inside was full of spectators and delegates. It was November 29, 1947, a Saturday afternoon. Grainy footage filmed that day shows men in suits seated in rows before a raised podium where three officials had
Category:Books - FictionReads:76Uploaded:05 / 15 / 2012ShareAdd to collection
