ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1938) - These famous culinary Browns have literally eaten their way around the world. They have lived and cooked in Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Russia, China, Japan. They have discovered the secret of excellent food, which does not lie in elaborate or expensive dishes, but in making the most of your market— and your budget. In this new book the authors of The Wine Cook Book, The Country Cook Book and Ten Thousand Snacks tell you how to make inexpensive materials ...

Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that c...

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1936): “ … Italy is the bounteous mother of all continental cooking and her range of viands is greater than that of any other country. There are enough Italian specialties to make sprightly every one of the thousand meals in the year: succulent sausages, salami of Verona, mortadella of Bologna (now exported in cans); ravioli in every imaginable style; chicken livers genovese; capretto (kid); the maremma, tortoise and wild boar of Tuscany; the fish grills of Genoa; Umb...

Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian in Harlem, dreams of being a writer. Torn between her secret passion and the duties of a working wife and mother in 1928, Cora strikes up correspondence with renowned poet Langston Hughes, who encourages her to pursue her dream. Duty frustrates Cora again, this time when she’s called upon to fill in for her cousin Agnes while she recovers from a brutal beating by her husband Bud.Working as a cook for a white woman, Cora discovers both time ...

Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also "in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being," according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with his handy umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human prob...

An extraordinary historical debut for any reader who loves gothic mysteries like Rebecca and Fingersmith, and fiction which shines a light on untold stories.'Intriguingly and superbly plotted . . . Shenjé weaves race, identity, feminism, sexuality and class into a beguiling mystery' WOMAN & HOMEThe library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained.After he brought her home from Jam...

Europa im 13. Jahrhundert auf einer einsamen Insel im Norden. Ulrika, die Tochter eines Wikingeroberhauptes, ist nach der Entführung ihres Bruders verzweifelt. Jedoch findet sie den seebrüchigen adligen Grant an der Küste und hat eine Idee. Wenn sie ihn zum Schein heiratet, bekommt sie von ihrem Vater eine teure Mitgift und kann das Lösegeld bezahlen! Für die Eheschließung mit diesem eleganten Mann von außerordentlicher Schönheit wird ein Festmahl abgehalten, bei dem ihr Herz untypischerwe...