The Orange Cat Bistro


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Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror Claire’s own. As the novel progresses and Nevada takes on a life of her own, Claire finds herself changing as she realizes how much her life has been affected by a dark secret from her past. As she struggles to fully become her own woman within the whirlwind of the Manhattan art scene, Claire knows that the character she has created will only be able to come to life when she acknowledges her difficult past.




North Wild Kitchen


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Selected as one of the New York Times best cookbooks of Fall 2018 This alluring, elegant cookbook by Nevada Berg, one of today's most celebrated food bloggers, features recipes and beautifully photographed dishes that delve into the heart of Norwegian food culture. Named by Saveur magazine as the 2016 Blog of the Year and Best New Voice, North Wild Kitchen and its author Nevada Berg have become one of the best-known voices of Norwegian cooking around the world. Written from her 17th-century mountain farm in rural Norway, Nevada Berg's blog and Instagram feed are brimming with gorgeous--and achievable--ideas for home cooking and entertaining. Berg is a self-taught cook, and her simple and charming approach focuses on seasonal food prepared without a lot of fuss. With dozens of mouthwatering recipes for Norwegian-inspired dishes, this book features equally enticing photography of the food and the country's landscape. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Norwegian food culture--foraging, fishing, and farming; hunting, harvesting, and camping; baking, grilling, and frying. Along the way, Berg comments on the unique pleasures of Nordic life as she tends to her chickens, explores the outdoors, or sets a welcoming table. Berg is both inviting and entertaining as she weaves her own experiences into each recipe, delivering a beautiful collection of good food and great living from the heart of Norway.







Collier's


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The Nevadan


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The Nevadan is an accurate account of Johann Schmidt's experiences in 1866 and 1867 as he left Virginia City, Nevada Territory, astride his California horse 'Franky' in a diary kept by one of America's many rugged pioneers. In this case, the work covers his trek from Virginia City, Nevada, to the east coast of the United States by horse, on foot, by wagon train, and by railroad as he overcame the problems of crossing the hot, flat country of Nevada; the notorious forty-mile Utah desert; mountains and plains with their wildlife; Indians; and the cities he had never been in before. He utilized whatever was at hand for food, transportation, communication, shelter, and protection. Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schmidt, AKA 'Henry Smith, ' kept a very detailed diary in which he chronicled a myriad of events, places and people that picture the historical, communications, transportation, geographical and even political growth of the United States in 1866 through early 1867. 'Henry Smith' was a rugged pioneer and he unceremoniously captures the old west in the narrative of this diary. He has left an entertaining dialogue describing the perils and hardships of travel across the developing American west in 1866. He exemplifies the fortitude, determination and honesty that early Americans brought to this country and gave it the name of a country 'run by the people, for the people and of the people.




Gourmet


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Gay Travel A to Z


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The most complete coverage of gay and lesbian travel options available anywhere is detailed in this comprehensive guide produced by a gay publisher who has specialized exclusively in gay and lesbian travel since 1980. The features most remarked upon are the multiple indexes that allow readers to find things in different ways.




Bright Lights, Big City


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You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.




To-day in America


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Bed & Breakfasts and Country Inns


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Provides information on the locations, facilities, services, decor, food, and rates of bed-and-breakfasts and country inns in the United States and Canada.