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Book cover for "The coworker"
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4 stars
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"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrel--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything. Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds...
Book cover for "Designing clothes with the flat pattern method"
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"The Flat Pattern Method teaches you to customize your clothes with new pattern shapes, style lines, and details with step-by-step instructions!"--
Book cover for "The dumb things smart people do with their money"
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4.3 stars
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"After decades working as a Wall Street trader, investment adviser, and money expert for CBS, Jill Schlesinger reveals thirteen costly mistakes you're probably making right now with your money without even knowing it. Drawing on heartfelt personal stories (yes, money experts screw up, too), Schlesinger argues that it's not lack of smarts that causes even the brightest, most accomplished people among us to behave like financial dumb-asses, but simple...
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4.7 stars
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Recipes organized around time-of-day from The Food Network stalwart.
Book cover for "Invest like a girl"
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4.5 stars
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An approachable, empowering guide to investing that helps you level the financial playing field, move toward financial independence, and grow your money, from one of the internets favorite personal finance educators. An approachable, empowering guide to investing that helps you level the financial playing field, move toward financial independence, and grow your money, from one of the internets favorite personal finance educators.
Book cover for "Once upon a chef"
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5 stars
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Jen Segal can make anyone believe they are a world class chef!
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"With the authority of a professional chef and the practicality of a busy working mom, [the author] teaches you to improve your cooking one recipe at a time, with helpful tips on topics such as how to season correctly with salt, how to balance flavors, and how to make the most of leftovers"--Amazon.com.
Book cover for "Oona out of order"
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4.1 stars
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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
Book cover for "Reclaimed quilts"
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4 stars
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"Build a one-of-a-kind quilted wardrobe with vintage quilts! Join Kat and Dale in exploring the world of one-of-kind, work-of-art garments and building a stunning wardrobe. Ten projects are included inside that span from simple accessories, like totes and small bags, to full outfits, including jackets, and dresses"--
Book cover for "Salt, fat, acid, heat"
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4.5 stars
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Life-changing!
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"Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will make you a better cook" (Bon Apetit). Millions of readers and cooks of all levels have radically transformed their skillset thanks to this indispensable cookbook from the chef NPR called "the next Julia Child."

Transform how you prep, cook, and think about food with this visionary master class in cooking by Samin Nosrat that distills decades of professional experience into just four...
Book cover for "The skinnytaste cookbook"
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5 stars
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A collection of 150 amazing recipes (125 all-new dishes and 25 must-have favorites ) from the Skinnytaste blogger Gina Homolka.