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by Floyd Cardoz with Jane Daniels Lear - Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

Floyd Cardoz, chef and co-owner of New York City's Tabla restaurant, is one of the most exciting innovators working behind a stove today. And now, for the first time, he shares the extraordinary recipes that have established his reputation. The collection, ONE SPICE, TWO SPICE, is an amalgam of two cuisines by a man who has mastered the flavors of each.

by Staci McLaughlin - Fiction, Mystery

When Dana Lewis learns about the death of Monster Truck driver Bobby Joe Jones, frequent philanderer and boyfriend to Dana's sister, Ashlee, she has no choice but to wipe up the mess. Especially when witnesses last saw Ashlee angrily up in Bobby Joe's grill at the fairgrounds. With dizzying speed, Dana's life skids out of control. What else can she do but go into overdrive to save Ashlee's soy bacon and stop a deadly killer in his tracks.

by Kate Ayers - Fiction, Mystery

A group of privileged car fanatics takes an overnight trip to the Oregon coast. One of them doesn't come back. The missing man was a high-profile Portland attorney with well-publicized shady tactics. Did his new wife get tired of him? Did he have a girlfriend? Or which of his many dissatisfied clients offed him? It falls to Carlton's wise-cracking PI Cade Blackstone to find out, but the stakes are higher than anyone imagined.

by Susan Wiggs - Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction

Tess Delaney loves illuminating history; returning stolen treasures to their rightful owners and filling the spaces in people’s hearts with stories of their family legacies. But Tess’ own history is filled with gaps. Then the enigmatic Dominic Rossi arrives on her San Francisco doorstep with the news that the grandfather she’s never met is in a coma and that she’s destined to inherit half of a hundred-acre apple orchard estate called Bella Vista. The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen, the half-sister she never knew she had.

by Chris Kyle - Autobiography, Military

AMERICAN SNIPER is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle’s riveting first-person account of how he went from Texas rodeo cowboy to expert marksman and feared assassin offers a fascinating view of modern-day warfare and one of the most in-depth and illuminating looks into the secret world of Special Ops ever written.

by Anthony Bourdain - Fiction, Graphic Novel, Superhero

In a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords, a bloody culinary war is raging. On one side are the Internationalists, who blend foods from all over the world. On the other, the "Vertical Farm," who prepare nothing but organic, vegetarian, macrobiotic dishes. Into this maelstrom steps Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef. Both sides want Jiro to join their factions. 

by Jenny Lawson - Nonfiction

In the irreverent LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.

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In IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls.