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OverDrive Audiobooks August 2016
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"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." -- Julia Child
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Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
by Bob Spitz
The best-selling author of The Beatles draws on the iconic culinary figure's personal diaries and letters to present a 100th-birthday commemoration that explores her private life to offer insight into her role in shaping women's views and influencing American approaches to cooking.
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Fresh off the boat : a memoir
by Eddie Huang
A Taiwanese-American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
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Stuffed : Adventures of a restaurant family
by Patricia Volk
The journalist-author chronicles her restaurant family's arrival in America from Austria at the turn of the century and their subsequent struggle to survive and prosper in a poignant but humorous celebration of family life and history.
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Blood, bones & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant.
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Made from scratch
by Sandra Lee
A celebrity chef describes her struggle to achieve success, from a difficult childhood with an abusive mother, to her early attempts to establish her own business, and to her rise as a best-selling author and television food icon.
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Cat's eye
by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A national best-seller first published in 1989 tells the story of a controversial painter who struggles to come to terms with the betrayals of her childhood and her identity as a daughter, lover, artist, and woman.
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The art forger
by Barbara A. Shapiro
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.
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Cascade
by Maryanne O'Hara
Struggling to protect her family's theater from a reservoir plan and married to a man desperate for children, would-be artist Desdemona Hart of 1935 Massachusetts is drawn to creative newcomer Jacob, who is wrongly implicated by anti-Semitic townspeople in the wake of a local murder.
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Blindspot : by a gentleman in exile & a lady in disguise
by Jane Kamensky
In Boston on the eve of the Revolution, when revolutionary leader Samuel Bradstreet dies suddenly and his slaves are accused of murder, Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson, his apprentice Francis Weston--who is really Fanny Easton, a fallen woman from an elite family disguised as a boy--and doctor Ignatius Alexander search for the truth.
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Now you see her
by Linda Howard
The author of the New York Times best-seller Kill and Tell, makes her hardcover debut with the story of a female artist who, under a trance, paints a murder scene that foreshadows a real crime.
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