How To Eat Better For Less Money by James A. Beard and Sam Aaron was published in 1954. I bet there’s no recipe for avocado toast in this book!
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Nancy Mitford was an English novelist, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England
and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also
established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical
biographies.
Have you read any of her work? We just love these reissued copies published by Penguin in 2015.
First edition of the author’s first book.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the
Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.”
Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old
life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that
sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.
It
begins, “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll
probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood
was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me,
and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going
into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff
bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two
hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”.
A Dell Murder Mystery. Classic 1940s vintage cover art of the phantom of the opera playing the keyboard.
These Penguin Clothbound Classics never grow old.
Did anyone else see the Google doodle today? It features German artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker. Here is a painting of hers that is available on a book that is for sale on AbeBooks.
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This week we continue to spotlight neighborhood book exchanges across our city, here is one situated at the entrance to a children’s play park.
“You’re never too old, too wacky, to wild, to pick up a book and read to a child” - Dr. Seuss
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