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The Confessions

Not since Michael Crichton entertained and thrilled readers with science-driven novels like Sphere and Jurassic Park has there been anything this frightfully fun.
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My Creole-Cali Kitchen: Louisiana Roots with California Flavors

Adventurous and ambitious home cooks with some experience in the kitchen will find a wealth of inspiration in Rondeno’s bold flavor pairings and clever cuisine fusions.

Garlic, Olive Oil + Everything Mediterranean: Simple Recipes for the Home Cook

Adopting a similar ingredient-centered approach to Anna Jones’s Easy Wins and written in the same engaging tone as Nigella Lawson’s beloved books, Lia’s comfortable and comforting brand of home cooking will be a welcome addition to any cookbook collection.

Cold Canning: The Easy Way To Preserve the Seasons Without Hot Water Processing

There are a number of excellent guides to traditional canning available, including Ball Canning Back to Basics and Marisa McClellan’s Preserving by the Pint, but Weinstein and Scarbrough’s superb book opens the world of canning and preserving to a whole new crop of cooks.
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Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine

From Amelia Simmons’s 1798 American Cookery to Gabrielle Langholtz’s 2017 America: The Cookbook, numerous attempts have been made to define a U.S. national cuisine. Harris offers up her selective (by necessity) but informative take on the country’s cooks and what they have whipped up in the kitchen.
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The Guide to Chinese Cooking: A Journey Through China’s Favorite Dishes

Even with the incredible number of excellent Chinese cookbooks available, including the brand new, encyclopedic China: The Cookbook and the wonderfully entertaining A Very Chinese Cookbook, Cheng’s marvelous debut cookbook is an excellent starting point for any cook journeying into the richly rewarding world of Chinese cuisine.
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The 5-Minute Japanese Noodles Cookbook: Ramen, Soba, Udon, Somen and More!

Ichise’s concisely written and clearly focused cookbook will have readers slurping down tasty noodle dishes in no time.
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PizzaPedia: Favorite Recipes from Across America

Cooks who can’t get their oven mitts on The Pizza Bible, Pizza from the Heart, or We the Pizza (or even those who can) will find this offering to be an equally indispensable introduction to the wide, wonderful world of pizza.
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Dying To Meet You

Readers who crave suspense novels written with an acerbic sense of wit and graced with a compelling cast of characters are in for a treat.
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