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The International Raw Food Restaurant Directory
Book Reviews, Books, Food & Cooking, Homepage Sub, Nonfiction, Reviews, Travel •
IR Staff •
Dec 15, 2011
Raw food isn’t just about lettuce leaves, beetroot, and garlic. Nor is it just about juicing. In fact, raw food is a fast-growing culinary trend which many professional chefs are enthusiastically and creatively embracing. Read On
The Frugal Oenophile’s Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms
Book Reviews, Food & Cooking, Nonfiction •
IR Staff •
Oct 28, 2011
A compendium of more than 650 terms and definitions specific to the language of wine. Read On
Delicious Flavors
Book Reviews, Food & Cooking, Nonfiction •
IR Staff •
Great entertaining ideas and personal anecdotes, together with a collection of recipes that are Mediterranean in spirit and American in practicality. Read On
They Cooked the Books by Patrick M. Edwards
Book Reviews, Business, Humor, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Reviews, eBooks •
Kirkus Reviews •
Oct 24, 2011
Edwards presents a novel approach to the financial debacle by analyzing the expressions we’ve come to associate with fraud and dishonesty. Read On
Justice in America: How it Works – How it Fails by Russell F. Moran
Book Reviews, Books, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Reviews, eBooks •
Kirkus Reviews •
The goddess of justice is blind and deaf and very often dumb, according to this savvy critique of the American legal system. Read On
Television Can Blow Me: Reviews That Give TV a Lump in its Throat
Book Reviews, Homepage Sub, Humor, Nonfiction, Reviews, eBooks •
IR Staff •
Oct 17, 2011
Irreverent, witty, at times downright shocking, writer James Donaghy presents his “best” (which does not necessarily mean glowing) reviews in this entertaining and outrageous compendium. Read On
Tales of Chinkapin Creek by Jean Ayer
Book Reviews, Homepage Sub, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Reviews •
Kirkus Reviews •
Oct 04, 2011
Veteran short-story writer Ayer strikes gold with these enchanting sketches of the motley relatives and neighbors who peopled her mother’s rural West Virginia girlhood–back when the 20th century was young and spry. Read On
Heart Refined by Walt Conger
Book Reviews, Inspirational, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Religion •
Kirkus Reviews •
An earnest, if sometimes banal, account of one man’s struggle to get right with his Christian faith. Read On
Poor Widow Me by Carol Scibelli
Book Reviews, Books, Humor, Inspirational, Kirkus Reviewed, Memoir, Nonfiction, Reviews •
Kirkus Reviews •
After the death of her husband, a woman finds humor in everyday situations. Read On
Risk Financial Markets & You by Alan A. Fustey
Book Reviews, Books, Business, Kirkus Reviewed, Nonfiction, Reviews •
Kirkus Reviews •
Financial industry veteran Fustey explains how a naive view of risk and faulty decision-making leads investors down the road to disappointment. Read On
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