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OverDrive eBooks July 2019
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"It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about." -- Anthony Bourdain
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July is National Culinary Arts Month
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Climbing the Mango Trees : A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
The best-selling author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking offers a charming memoir of growing up in Delhi, India, detailing life in a large family marked by dinners in which forty or more members of her extended family would enjoy the savory dishes of the region, recalling her childhood through the window of the food she experienced.
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Yes, Chef : a Memoir
by Marcus Samuelsson
The Top Chef: Masters winner and James Beard Award-winning proprietor of Harlem's Red Rooster traces his Ethiopian birth, upbringing by an adoptive family in Sweden and rise to a famous New York chef, sharing personal insights into his challenges as a black man in a deeply prejudiced industry.
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Gordon Ramsay : On Top of the World
by Neil Simpson
An in-depth and affectionate look at what lies behind the man in the chef's whites and just how he manoeuvred himself into such a prominent position in the culinary world.
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Coming to My Senses : the Making of a Counterculture Cook
by Alice Waters
The award-winning executive chef of Chez Panisse in California presents the story of her tumultuous culinary journey, describing her efforts to promote distinctive flavors in a time of uniform convenience foods, her achievements within the bohemian 1960s cultural circuit and her ongoing reflections as the head of one of the world's most influential restaurants.
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July is National Family Reunion Month
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The Art of Mending
by Elizabeth Berg
Returning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as the painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness.
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Beach House Reunion
by Mary Alice Monroe
"Continuing the saga of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of continuance, resilience, and one family's enduring love."
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The Ghost at the Table : A Novel
by Suzanne Berne
Thanksgiving at the New England home of the second of three sisters marks a reunion between the three Fiske sisters--including Cynthia, the youngest, an author writing a book about Mark Twain's daughters--and their long-estranged father, in a portrait of the unraveling of a family, set against the famous nineteenth-century author's own family dysfunction.
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Winter Street : a Novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
A family reunion at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity. By the best-selling author of Beautiful Day and The Matchmaker.
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The Body in the Snowdrift : a Faith Fairchild Mystery
by Katherine Hall Page
Traveling to Vermont to attend her father-in-law's birthday, caterer Faith Fairchild stumbles upon the dead body of a local lawyer and wonders if his death was accidental or intentional, in a case that is complicated by the disappearance of a ski slope resort's star chef. By the author of The Body in the Attic.
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