Carolyn Blaylock

This book has a personalized message, see photo. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Carolyn Blaylock's charming illustrations and heartfelt prayers for a friend are a blessing to give or receive. This book includes prayers for the soaring times, the stormy puddles times, as well as the times in between, all wrapped in the snuggle of friendship.

Blessings and Prayers for You

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Susan Wheeler

This book is personalized on the first page. See photo

Sweet Wishes

Friends, co-workers, and acquaintances touch your life in many wonderful spoken and unspoken ways. Show appreciation by letting each woman know how much she makes your heart smile.

You Put a Smile in My Heart

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Recipes from the Historic Ramos House in San Juan Capistrano. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Recipes from the First 5 Years

The Ramos House Cafe 1881

Alexander McCall Smith

This quirky mystery series has also been turned into a TV series. It’s so much fun to read the books and then watch the characters come to life on TV!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

First 3 books in the series

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Over 300 pages of poetry from dozens of authors including Abraham Lincoln,
Francis Scott Key and Emily
Dickinson. 

The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems

Ree Drummond

Comfort classics, Freezer Food, 16 Minute Meals, and other Delicious Ways to Solve Supper!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Comfort Classics, Freezer Food, 16-Minute Meals, and Other Delicious Ways to Solve Supper!

The #1 bestselling author and Food Network personality at last answers that age-old question—“What's for Dinner?”—bringing together more than 125 simple, scrumptious, step-by-step recipes for delicious dinners the whole family will love. For families juggling school, work, and a host of other time-consuming daily obligations, the idea of making dinner from scratch can be daunting. Ree Drummond makes it easy for families to make simple, scrumptious, homemade meals with minimum fuss and maximum enjoyment. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime! includes delicious, easy-to-make recipes for comfort classics, 16-minute meals, freezer-friendly food, as well as soups, main dish salads, and a favorite of her own family: breakfast for dinner. You’ll find more than 125 fast-and-delicious recipes that combine pantry staples with fresh ingredients, including Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Taco Salad, Pasta Puttanesca, Ready-to-go freezer Meatballs (and many dinners you can make with them!), Oven Barbecue Chicken, Mexican Tortilla Casserole, Veggie Chili, Beef with Snow Peas, and many, many more. Included is a section of mouthwatering quick desserts—literally the icing on the cake. Filled with Ree’s signature step-by-step photos, relatable humor, and irresistible, folksy charm, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime! is the go-to cookbook every home cook can rely on for any—and every—night of the week.

The Pioneer Woman Cooks--Dinnertime

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Stephanie Donaldson

Over 150 glorious designs for pots, boxes, baskets and tubs

A Comprehensive Guide to Container Gardening with over 800 Photographs

Container Gardening

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Ina Garten

Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients: a Cookbook

Explains how to transform readily available ingredients into an easy-to-prepare meal, introducing nearly one hundred original recipes for everything from lobster and corn chowder to easy sticky buns.

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics

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100 favorite recipes of James Beard with variations. Everything you need to know about bread making. If your bread doesn’t measure up to your expectations there is a 12 point list of remedies. 

Beard on Bread

Nan Sterman

Beautiful pictures of every plant in the book. Covers everything from annuals & Biennials to Vines

Volume II

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.

California Gardener's Guide

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Beautiful photos with easy to follow recipes. 

Betty Crocker’s New Chinese Cookbook

Delicious recipes from the Pampered Chef test kitchen. 

Baking with the Family Heritage Collection

Stoneware Sensations

Jan Karon

Bottom R corner of title page is worn. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. Recipes include Esther Bolick’s outrageous Orange Marmalade Cake and Cynthia’s Heavenly Tea. 

Presents recipes from the popular series, a fan's cookbook shares a wealth of tips, culinary quotes, and side-dish sidebars as well as the instructions for such fare as Miss Sadie's apple pie, Puny's cornbread, and Emma's pork roast.

Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader

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Gooseberry Patch

This book is spiral bound with thick, glossy pages. It is more than a paperback but not quite a hard book. 

Goose Berry Patch

Everyone loves a sweet treat! In 101 Cupcake, Cookie & Brownie Recipes, you'll discover a yummy collection of confections you can bake up in a snap. Easy-to-follow recipes...many with ready-made ingredients...and simple decorating ideas make this cookbook an instant favorite for you and your family. Indulge in Special Mocha Cupcakes, The Ultimate Chip Cookies and Divine Praline Brownies. You'll be delighted with simple and scrumptious recipes like Apricot Layer Bars, Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes and Iced Raspberry Delights. Plus, there's a special chapter of goodies just perfect for holidays, parties and other celebrations like Bride & Groom Cookies, 3-D Christmas Tree Cookies and too-cute Turkey Cupcakes. An irresistible photo alongside each recipe will inspire ideas for tempting toppings and other easy yet impressive decorations. With 101 Cupcake, Cookie & Brownie Recipes, every meal will have a sweet ending! Durable softcover, 112 pages.

101 Cupcakes, Cookies and Brownie Recipes

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Williams Sonoma Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen

More than 20 recipes developed for the Instant Pot by Williams Sonoma including Red Bean Chili with Andouille, Coq au Vin and Truffle Gruyère Mac & Cheese. The best recipe is for Cheesecake, so easy when made in the Instant Pot. 

This compact, yet comprehensive guide to the Instant Pot is your new go-to-guide for fast and fresh homemade meals! 

Featuring special sections on Instant Pot care and maintenance, and chapters on Chicken, Pork and Beef, Seafood and Vegetarian, and Breakfast and Dessert recipes.

Sample recipes: Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls; Orange Chicken Lettuce Wraps; Sesame Scallion Ribs; Beef Gyros with Tzatziki; Chorizo Paella; Pork Tamales; Truffle Gruyere Mac and Cheese; Sriracha Deviled Eggs; Summer Corn and Zucchini Chowder; Pasta with Tomatoes, Basil, and Mozzarella; Prosciutto, Pea, and Mushroom Risotto; Lemon Blueberry Cheesecakes; Chocolate Lava Cake; Pumpkin Hazelnut Steel Cut Oats.

The Instant Pot Cookbook

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Artie Bucco

Allen Rucker

Michele Scicolone

David Chase

Includes photos from the old country; the first Bucco’s Vesuvio’s menu from 1926 and much more! 

As Compiled by Artie Bucco

Nuovo Vesuvio. The "family" restaurant, redefined. Home to the finest in Napolitan' cuisine and Essex County's best kept secret. Now Artie Bucco, la cucina's master chef and your personal host, invites you to a special feast...with a little help from his friends. From arancini to zabaglione, from baccala to Quail Sinatra-style, Artie Bucco and his guests, the Sopranos and their associates, offer food lovers one hundred Avellinese-style recipes and valuable preparation tips. But that's not all! Artie also brings you a cornucopia of precious Sopranos artifacts that includes photos from the old country; the first Bucco's Vesuvio's menu from 1926; AJ's school essay on "Why I Like Food"; Bobby Bacala's style tips for big eaters, and much, much more. So share the big table with: Tony Soprano, waste management executive "Most people soak a bagful of discount briquettes with lighter fluid and cook a pork chop until it's shoe leather and think they're Wolfgang Puck." Enjoy his tender Grilled Sausages sizzling with fennel or cheese. Warning: Piercing the skin is a fire hazard. Corrado "Junior" Soprano, Tony's uncle "Mama always cooked. No one died of too much cholesterol or some such crap." Savor his Pasta Fazool, a toothsome marriage of cannellini beans and ditalini pasta, or Giambott', a grand-operatic vegetable medley. Carmela Soprano, Tony's wife "If someone were sick, my inclination would be to send over a pastina and ricotta. It's healing food." Try her Baked Ziti, sinfully enriched with three cheeses, and her earthy 'Shcarole with Garlic. Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri, associate of Tony Soprano "I have heard that Eskimos have fifty words for snow. We have five hundred words for food." Sink your teeth into his Eggs in Purgatory-eight eggs, bubbling tomato sauce, and an experience that's pure heaven. As Artie says, "Enjoy, with a thousand meals and a thousand laughs. Buon' appetito!"

The Sopranos Family Cookbook

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Betty Crocker Editors

Spiral bound, easy to read with colorful pages and easy to follow instructions 

More and more kids are in the kitchen, and they want to have fun. What to do? Turn to Betty Crocker, who makes cooking fun as well as delicious and dependable. With Betty, learning the basics was never so painless, and never so tasty. Not only do kids want fun foods such as Squeeze and Scribble Pancakes, Caramel Corn Commotion, Flying Saucer Chicken Quesadillas, Whatever Pizza and Dalmatian Cupcakes-they want to have fun reading the recipes. Every page is lavishly illustrated with characters and icons that appeal to the hip 8-12 set. Great colors and a photo of every recipe make this book jump off the shelf -- it practically boogies through the kitchen. Not only do the recipes look great -- they really work. Why? Because every recipe has been kid-tested. Say good-bye to lead-balloon cakes, cookies that only crumble, or main dishes that are mainly disappointing-any kid can tackle these recipes with confidence. In addition to the fifty terrific recipes, there are great party ideas complete with tempting treats. Try indoor camping or a spooky Halloween party-everything you'll need is right here. And, formatted in a sturdy, concealed spiral binding, this book takes it lying down-on the counter, on the table-wherever it's easiest for busy cooks. If your kids are ready to go wild in the kitchen, take Betty Crocker along! The results will be fantastic, and your kids will have a blast. Best of all, you can feel confident that the recipes will work, that your kids will enjoy themselves, and that your kitchen will still be one piece when the cooking is done!

Betty Crocker's Kids Cook!

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Multiple chefs contributed recipes. Many recipes do not need Costco products to make the recipe. 

Favorite recipes using Costco

Creative Cooking the Costco Way

Susan Branson

Book has a few pink highlights scattered throughout the book. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Reduce Stress, Boost Memory, Repel Mosquitoes and 98 More!

Uncover 101 amazing ways to use Essential Oils to reduce stress, promote healthy skin, boost your memory and much much more!

101 Amazing Uses for Essential Oils

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Debbi Fields

100 Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields

From the creative force behind those famous cookies, 100 kitchen-tested recipes -- from elegant tea cookies to fun cookies for baking with kids.

Mrs. Fields' Cookie Book

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Marion Rombauer Becker

Ethan Becker

Irma S. Rombauer

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Joy of Cooking

Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It''s the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when she got married. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever.

Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It''s the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when she got married. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever. Here''s why:

-Every chapter has been rethought with an emphasis on freshness, convenience, and health.

-All the recipes have been reconceived and tested with an eye to modern taste, and the cooking knowledge imparted with each subject enriched to the point where everyone from a beginning to an experienced cook will feel completely supported.

-The new Joy continues the vision of American cooking that began with the first edition of Joy. It is still the book you can turn to for perfect Beef Wellington and Baked Macaroni and Cheese. It''s also the book where you can now find Turkey on the Grill, Spicy Peanut Sesame Noodles, and vegetarian meals.

-The new Joy provides more thorough descriptions of ingredients, from the familiar to the most exotic. For instance, almost all the varieties of apples grown domestically are described--the months they become available, how they taste, what they are best used for, and how long they keep. But for the first time Joy features a complete section on fresh and dried chili peppers: how to roast and grill them, how to store them, and how long they keep--with illustrations of each pepper.

-An all-new "RULES" section in many chapters gives essential cooking basics at a glance: washing and storing salad greens, selecting a pasta and a matching sauce, determining when a piece of fish is cooked through, stuffing a chicken, and making a perfect souffle.

New chapters reflect changing American tastes and lifestyles:

-Separate new chapters on grains, beans, and pasta include recipes for grits, polenta, pilafs, risottos, vegetarian chills, bean casseroles, and make-ahead lasagnes.

-New baking and dessert chapters promise to enhance Joy of Cooking''s reputation as a bible for bakers. Quick and yeast bread recipes range from focaccia, pizza, and sourdoughs to muffins and coffee cakes. Separate chapters cover custards and puddings, pies and tarts, cookies, cakes, cobblers, and other American fruit desserts revived for this edition. Recipes include one-bowl cakes, gingerbread, angel and sponge cakes, meringues, pound cakes, fruitcakes, 6 different kinds of cheesecake--there''s even an illustrated wedding cake recipe, which takes you through all the stages from building a stand, making and decorating the cake, to transporting it to the reception without a hitch.

-Little Dishes showcases foods from around the world: hummus, baba ghanoush, bruschetta, tacos, empanadas, and fried wontons.

-AII new drawings of techniques, ingredients, and equipment, integrated throughout an elegant new design, and over 300 more pages round out the new Joy.

Among this book''s other unique features: microwave instructions for preparing beans, grains, and vegetables; dozens of new recipes for people who are lactose intolerant and allergic to gluten; expanded ingredients chart now features calories, essential vitamins, and levels of fats and cholesterol. There are ideas for substitutions to lower fat in recipes and reduced-fat recipes in the baking sections.

From cover to cover, Joy''s chapters have been imbued with the knowledge and passion of America''s greatest cooks and cooking teachers. An invaluable combination of old and new, this edition of Joy of Cooking promises to keep you cooking for years to come.

JOC All New Rev. - 1997

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Bill O'Reilly

Martin Dugard

The End of Camelot

"Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath...The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. A page-turner from beginning to end, Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader." -- Book jacket.

Killing Kennedy

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Marvin & Walter Rosen

Hardback book with paper book cover. Remembering Brooklyn with recipes and memories from its favorite restaurant. 

Remembering Brooklyn with Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant

Welcome to Junior's! is a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn from the 1930s to the 1990s with reminiscences and recipes from the legendary restaurant renowned for its rich and creamy cheesecake. Junior's holds a special place in Brooklyn, also home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge. As well as a decade-by-decade history of the golden age of Brooklyn with wonderful photographs from the past fifty years, scattered throughout are memories and stories of how Junior's grew from its modest beginnings to its success today.

From the very first day Junior's opened its doors in 1950 on the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension in downtown Brooklyn, three generations of the Rosen family have worked hand in hand to build their restaurant into one of the most popular eateries in the borough today. First Harry Rosen, then his sons, Marvin and Walter, and now his grandsons, Kevin and Alan, have worked tirelessly to create and continue a famous Brooklyn neighborhood tradition -- a family restaurant that commands loyalty from its customers, and one to which they return day after day.

Going to junior's is an event. It is a place that has become a home-away-from-home for Brooklynites over the years and is a popular destination for people from the entire New York metropolitan area. Today, just as on the day it opened, Junior's remains a quintessential Brooklyn phenomenon. It even looks remarkably like it did in the fifties -- bright orange booths that seat nearly four hundred, a glistening counter surrounded with diners, a busy soda fountain, and, of course, the bakery, brimming with all kinds of cheesecakes, homemade pies, towering layer cakes, and buttery pastries. Not only does Junior's stand for the best of ethnic, down-home fare but it also serves the best cheesecake in New York -- at the last count over four million slices each year.

Welcome to Junior's! is not only a memory book to treasure but a cookbook with over one hundred favorite recipes. From Junior's signature cornbread, matzoh ball soup, crisp fried chicken, cheese blintzes, and baked stuffed shrimp to its legendary desserts -- Junior's famous #1 pure cream cheesecake, lemon meringue pie, strawberry shortcake, chocolate fudge layer cake, and ice-cream sundaes -- these recipes allow you to re-create a small slice of Junior's right in your own home kitchen.

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