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BOOKS  |  Biography/Memoir
	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores, those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one's own produce but also of harvesting one's own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatise, the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormous, it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. PRICE: $14.95
	Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch This is a satisfying read if you appreciate language and character. It is a collection of views and vignettes of the author's life when he lived in Big Sur. Miller's unique personality and interests come through in his language that makes even ordinary things come more to life. It was interesting to discover what seemed like proto-new age thinking in some of this, written in the 1950's. His evocations of character are great and so is the feel of the environment. PRICE: $16.95
	Frank Lloyd Wright Interactive Portfolio [With CD] This unique book experience contains 25 interactive, three-dimensional features, removable facsimiles of original documents, never-before-published architectural sketches, and an audio CD containing excerpts from Wright's weekly addresses at his architectural compound, as well as television interviews. PRICE: $40.00
	Lucy & Desi: The Real Life Scrapbook of America's Favorite TV Couple ;During their marriage, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz filled over 100 scrapbooks with all manner of memorabilia. Now fans can take a rare peek at the details of the famous TV couple's lives with this fantastic replica composite. PRICE: $35.00
	My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur My Nepenthe weaves together stories and tales about the famous California restaurant perched on the majestic cliffs of Big Sur. It celebrates the magic and history of place through food and the Fassett family who started Nepenthe. PRICE: $35.00
	The Audrey Hepburn Treasures The first-ever souvenir album from the Audrey Hepburn Estate is a unique keepsake collection of interviews, memories, unseen family photos, and beautifully reproduced replicas of Hepburn memorabilia. PRICE: $49.95
	The Chief The Chief:The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw is an outstandingly researched biography, elegantly but not flamboyantly written and fair in its conclusions about Hearst's astonishing career. It is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive study of its subject. Mr. Nasaw takes no psychological liberties and leaves it to the reader to judge the ultimate effects upon Hearst of his distant father, who made his fortune in mining and prospecting. This book readably and exactly connects the legend to the facts. PRICE: $16.95
	The Times We Had She was the unofficial empress of Hollywood, and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men. Gathered from tapes recorded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read in her own words, this is the story of a fantastic and glittering life, as never told before. PRICE: $7.99
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. PRICE: $15.00