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Best Food Writing 2006 (Best Food Writing)

1 review

Da Capo Press, 2006

Terrible beginning, tasty middle
I like to read during my lunch hour at work, and usually choose something food-related to take me away from reality. I've read through my beloved Jeffrey Steingarten and Ruth Reichl's books, and thought this would be a good choice. Maybe you're thinking so too. Well, be advised it has a rough beginning. I nearly put this book away. I'm a meat-eater, but love the animal more than the food. I ...

O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance

Grove Press, 1998

O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep ? from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who ...

Best Food Writing 2008 (Best Food Writing)

Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2008

Best Food Writing 2008 once more authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year?s books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. This anthology features both established food writers and rising stars addressing everything from celebrated chefs to the travails of the home cook, and from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs. By turns opinionated, evocative, nostalgic, sensuous, and ...

Best Food Writing 2007 (Best Food Writing)

5 reviews

Da Capo Press, 2007

Lover of Gourmet foods/ writing
Really liked this book- Perfect for those who just enjoy reading cookbooks for relaxation or the journalist- which my husband was for 20 years and thought the writing was excellent!

Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up (500 Places)

16 reviews
Holly Hughes

Frommer's, 2006

I find nothing wrong with this book
I put off the purchase of the book based on the other reviews. I purchased a fodors family travel book instead. I hated that book so I decided to go back with my gut instinct and purchased this one. I gave it five stars because I thought the other reviews were harsh and unjust. I don't feel the sections need to be in any particular order. Start at page one and read. Mark or just take note ...

Best Food Writing 2000 (Best Food Writing)

3 reviews

Da Capo Press, 2000

The Best of the Best of Food Writing Series (So Far)
This is my favorite volume of the Best of Food Writing series so far (late 2003). It introduced me to Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain, whose books I might not have discovered if I had not read their excerpts here first. By collecting material from a variety of sources (books, magazines, webzines, newspapers), Hughes has given us access to more, and better, food writing than we would have hunted ...

Frommer's New York City with Kids (Frommer's With Kids)

17 reviews
Holly Hughes

Frommer's, 2007

From NYC
I grew up in the area, and surpised myself by purchasing this book before a trip back with my than 2 year old son...needless to say, in the past 3 years, every time I have taken him to NYC, we have had really fun filled, well organized plans thanks to this book...when traveling (anywhere) with children, there is nothing better than knowing exactly where you are going to eat at the end of the day, ...

Frommers 500 Places to See Before They Disappear (500 Places)
Holly Hughes

Frommers, 2008

500 Places to See Before They Disappear enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever. Here are one-of-a-kind landscapes, fragile ecosystems, rare bird habitats, places to see the last remaining species of big game in the wild, cityscapes in peril, vanishing cultural kitsch, petroglyphs, and more?500 ...

Best Food Writing 2005 (Best Food Writing)

2 reviews

Da Capo Press, 2005

Best of the Bests
Best Food Writing is NOT a part of the Best American Series (Essays, Travel Writing, Mysteries, Short Stories, Non-required Reading, etc.) The Best American series does include a best recipes edition, but those of us who don't actually cook aren't interested in reading recipes. On the other hand, the Best Food Writing series, which debuted in 2000 with Holly Hughes doing the editing each year, is ...

Hoofbeats of Danger (American Girl History Mysteries)

6 reviews
Holly Hughes

American Girl, 1999

History Mysteries: A Good Series For Kids
I read "Hoofbeats Of Danger" with my nine-year-old daughter. It was the first book in this series we read together. Since then, we have read a couple of others in the series and I imagine we will get to all of them. I know my daughter is enjoying these books because she always wants to keep going when it's time to stop. These books have three very positive aspects to them. First, they are good ...

The Reading Group Book: The Comp Gd to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group...

2 reviews
David Laskin, Holly Hughes

Plume, 1995

Worked Great for Me!!
I started a reading group about 6 months ago. I started with two friends and recruited the rest of the group over the Internet. This was a great guide and probably prevented me from making a lot of mistakes. I'd never even been in a reading group, so I had no idea there was so much to consider in forming and sustaining a group. Our group is going great, we're still a bit too large, but I'm ...

History Mysteries, Books 1-3: The Smuggler's Treasure/Hoofbeats of Danger/the Night Flyers (History Mysteries)

2 reviews
Sarah Masters Buckey, Holly Hughes, ...

American Girl, 2000

Cooool!
The Night Flyers and Hoofbeats of Danger start out more interseting then the other book. The night Flyers is about a young girl named Pam Lowerdy from North Caroline Currituck in the year 1918. She meets a strange man with a german accent who offers 100 dollars for just 1 pigeon. After refusing him many times a couple pigeons went missing. After finding out that the stranger was actually working ...

Gardens: Quotations on the Perennial Pleasures of Soil, Seed, and Sun
Holly Hughes

Running Pr, 1994

This abundant collection of more than 400 quotations and essays gathers the words and meditations of gardeners who have savored the joys of planting, pruning, and picking. The contributions of May Sarton, Rudyard Kipling, and other enlightened gardeners are complemented by brilliant full-color illustrations.

Out Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays
Robert Chesley, Harvey Fierstein, ...

Grove Press, 1988

Optimal Control, Expectations and Uncertainty
Sean Holly, Andrew Hughes Hallet

Cambridge University Press, 1989

The rational expectations revolution and other developments in economics (notably game theory) have fundamentally altered the application of optimal control theory to economic forecasting and planning. In particular, they have shown that economic systems cannot be modeled simplistically on physical systems. However, as the authors show, these developments have greatly enhanced our understanding of how an economy functions, and now make it ...

Meditations on the Earth: A Book of Quotations, Poetry and Prose
Holly Hughes

The Nature Company, 1994

"Nature provides the inspiration for this eloquent collection of thoughts from naturalists, writers, philosophers, and scientists." [Excerpt from dust jacket's back cover.]

Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler

4 reviews
Holly Hughes

Grove Press, 1996

Had me laughing out loud and made me wish I was a lesbian!
Holly Hughes' Clit Notes is an intelligent, moving, and sharply funny collection of monolouges and personal stories. Cutting and in the same turn of phrase totally vulnerable, her work creates the portrait of a new woman of the '90's, an in your face, smart, funny, sensitive, lesbian. Anybody, male or female, gay or not should pick up this book! Highly recommended!!!

Witch at the Door (Spell Casters)

1 review
Mercer Warriner, Holly Hughes

Aladdin, 1998

Witch at The Door
This was a very good book. It had a full plot and a descent description of the charachters and their sorroundings. It Was very Interesting. i couldn't put it down!

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