Objects of Desire: A Portrait of Love and Marriage by Ralph Graves, ISBN 0740740083
This is a love story, told in a completely different way. Eleanor MacKenzie, just graduated from Barnard, and Ralph Graves, just graduated from Harvard, met as brand-new researchers at Life magazine in September 1948. They soon married other people, but the two couples then became closest friends. After seven years of that closeness, Eleanor and Ralph realized that they were profoundly in love. Both went through bitter and punitive divorces to get to each other. It was worth it. They have now been married for 45 years. This book is the story of their love and marriage, told through the myriad objects that have played a significant role in that story. Gifts, homes, cars, painting, books, furniture, jewelry, clothes--all are invested with a deeply emotional value that grew out of what those objects of desire meant to these two people. But the story does not apply only to these two particular people. As Ralph Graves says about these objects of desire, "They have resonance. Each of us, in every love story, in every marriage, can name special objects that carry that resonance. The objects are different for each of us, but the resonance is the same." The book is an intimate picture of resonance in love and marriage.
The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather, ISBN 0553578901
Dear Reader,
Here is the first of my new "Brides" trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny. Bride #1 is the outspoken Portia....
It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia Worth is taken in by her uncle, the marquis of Granville, after her father dies. As the bastard niece, Portia knows she can expect little beyond a roof over her head and a place at the table.
But it truly adds insult to injury when the Granvilles' archenemy, the outlaw Rufus Decatur, hatches a scheme to abduct the marquis's daughter--only to kidnap Portia by accident.
Portia, who possesses more than a streak of independence as well as a talent for resistance, does not take kindly to being abducted--mistakenly or otherwise.
Decatur will soon find himself facing the challenge of his life, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom, as he contends with this misfit of a girl who has the audacity to believe herself the equal of any...
The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather, ISBN 0553578901 
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Alamein to Tunis: The Eighth Army's in North Africa by Adrian Turner, ISBN 0850526663
The British victory at El Alamein in November, 1942, while a decisive turning point in the war, did not immediately lead to the collapse of Axis forces in North Africa. While much depleted, the Afrika Korps escaped from the El Alamein battlefield in good order and fell back on strong defensive positions in Tunisia, bolstered by some of the world's most difficult terrain. German paratroopers and Hermann Goring Division panzergrenadiers were sent to North Africa as reinforcements, Italian units were more capable in the defensive role, and Montgomery could not be sure of the loyalty of Germany's nominal Vichy French allies.
Not even the creation of a second front in North Africa with the arrival of the Americans and fresh British units was enough to dislodge the Axis forces. The author describes in detail the hard campaigning and desperate battles that were necessary to bring about final victory in North Africa. A full description is given of the often-neglected air aspect of the campaign....
Alamein to Tunis: The Eighth Army's in North Africa by Adrian Turner, ISBN 0850526663
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Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
*Back in print*
In this classic book, readers can experience a grand tour through the history of interiors and interior design by viewing thirty-four spectacular period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the American Wing, these popular galleries can now be viewed at all times through the book's beautiful color photographs and accessible explanatory text.
Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Quality Time Anytime: How to Make the Most of Every Moment with Your Child by Penny Warner, ISBN 0743234510
Any parent can spend quality time with his or her child. All it takes is a little imagination, a minimum of supplies, and the hundreds of ideas inside Quality Time Anytime. This book contains over 200 games and activities to help parents and their children turn moments spent in the car, kitchen, bath, bedroom, outdoors, store -- in short, anytime -- into quality time! Parents can choose an activity from the book and enhance their special bond with their child and teach social skills that will prove valuable the rest of the child's life.
Quality Time Anytime: How to Make the Most of Every Moment with Your Child by Penny Warner, ISBN 0743234510
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The Food of Italy by Waverly Root, ISBN 0679738967
For many years this marvelously evocative book has been essential reading for the traveler wanting to savor the cuisine of Italy as well as to tour its cities and countryside. And it has been equally indispensable for the cook wishing to capture the subtleties of the Italian palate in his or her own kitchen. With great learning and omnivorous curiosity, Waverley Root explores all of the byways of a cuisine so nuanced that event the basic ragu Bolognese has some two hundred variations.
The Food of Italy by Waverly Root, ISBN 0679738967
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Inlands: Visions of Boston by Mimmo Jodice, ISBN 8884911354
The great Italian master of black and white photography Mimmo Jodice was commissioned by the Massachusetts College of Art to capture the heart of contemporary Boston, highlighting the soul of this once maritime town, residence of New England's cultural and historical elite, and now home to a surprising array of innovative architectural design and urban renovation. Jodice's challenge was to portray Boston's past and its future as a unified whole.
A powerful and innovative photographic journey consisting of 50 black and white photographs of urban Boston and the surrounding landscapes, Jodice's pieces are characterized by dramatic contrasts of light and shadow accompanied by fast moving and sometimes fleeting images which playfully bring to life the essence of the modern city. This is a personal vision of Boston: a romantic Gardner Museum, derelict and abandoned waterfronts and piers, and spacious city squares and legendary graveyards: taken together these photographs carefully recount the...
Inlands: Visions of Boston by Mimmo Jodice, ISBN 8884911354
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Sourcebook of Modern Furniture
OVER 2,000 IMPORTANT PIECES arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions.
Sourcebook of Modern Furniture
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