Booklists, read-alikes, and dishes from favorite restaurants
November 9, 2022 | Cookbooks as Tour Guides | Destination Reading and Eating By Sarah Tansley The restaurant cookbook is a classic subgenre. This menu of titles is designed to highlight recent restaurant cookbooks that include a true sense of place and impressive recipes. The books evoke memories of restaurant visits past with their beautiful photography, and also share their locale, as they center the communities that influenced them. Steeped in the inspiration that chef-authors used to open their restaurants and create signature recipes, these books will motivate readers to recreate wonderful meals in their home kitchens. |
SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA The Discovery of Practical Reason Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits. The Greeks and the Rational offers a revisionist history with implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality.
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SPONSORED BY FOX CHAPEL PUBLISHING Serving up the Best in Cooking From delicious chili recipes dished out by “The Office” actor Brian Baumgartner to marvelous mocktails, tempting tailgating cuisine, kid-friendly cuisine and a comprehensive guide to garden to table cooking, Fox Chapel has a feast of new titles that library patrons will love.
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Read-Alikes for Desert Star by Michael Connelly | LibraryReads By Andrienne Cruz, Kelly Currie, Debbie Haupt, and Kimberly McGee Desert Star, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown; LJ starred review), is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. |
SPONSORED CONTENT Living Your Best Life: Lifestyle Content Surges in Last Two Years The pandemic has inspired people to learn new hobbies and skills as a strategy for coping with isolation. It’s also prompted readers to seek out advice on how to manage wellness as the events of the last few years have taken a huge toll on our collective mental, spiritual, and emotional health.
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dadf Call for Reference Reviewers Do you love print reference books? If so, we want to hear from you. We are looking for reference reviewers across all subject areas. If you are interested, please contact our print reference editor, Jill Cox-Cordova ([email protected]). |
Mock True Crime | The Reader’s Shelf By Steven Jablonski From the earliest days of the novel, works of fiction have attempted to pass themselves off as nonfiction. These fictional works all imitate that most popular form of nonfiction, true crime. |
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