Powell, Julie. (2005). Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. New York: Back Bay Books. ISBN: 978-0316109697 Child, Julia with Alex Prud’ Homme. (2006). My Life in France. New York: Knopf. ISBN: 978-1400043460 I picked up an advanced copy of Julie and Julia at the ALA Conference in Chicago in the summer of 2005. [...]
Bibliography: Hertzberg, Jeff, and Zoe Francois. (2007). Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN: 978-0312362911 Review: While I am a fairly accomplished cook, and a very good baker, one thing I never conquered in the kitchen was the making of yeast bread. When I was very small, my mother [...]
Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, P. Kahumbu, and Peter Greste. 2006. Owen & Mzee: the true story of a remarkable friendship. New York: Scholastic Press. Plot Summary: After the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December of 2004, a baby hippopotamus was stranded on the coast near a Kenyan town called Malindi. Villagers helped to [...]
Fritz, Jean. 2001. Leonardo’s Horse. New York: Putnam. ISBN: 0399235760. Plot summary: This book begins with the story of Leonardo da Vinci and his lifelong mission to complete a bronze horse statue. The famous artist became busy completing other masterpieces for which he is well-known, but he continued to work on his idea for the [...]
Bibliography: Freedman, Russell. 1987. Lincoln: A photobiography. New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books. ISBN: 0899193803. Plot Summary: This award winning biography covers the life of one of the most important figures in American history with high-resolution mid-19th century photography and reprints of handwritten documents composed by Lincoln. The life of the sixteenth president is covered from [...]
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