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One2One - One2One Elodie Mailliet and William Hannigan I want
Opening Belle - SMALL WORLD: Maureen Sherry, author of "Opening Belle," wrote one of the three books that I was able to read all the way to the end to The Small Person
Out Stealing Horses - I've had this book for two years. Every once in a while, I've picked it up, but never for long. I can't say why. Certainly not the length, for the
Outcasts United: A holiday letter from the Fugees - This is not about the Fugees, the hip-hop group that sold a trillion CDs. This is about the Fugees, a ragtag soccer club for kids started by Luma Mufleh in
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town - How does a soccer coach find a practice field for her team? Google Earth. But why, in a town that's not short of parks, is she looking for a field on
Outcasts United: Q&A with Warren St. John - White people under siege --- that's one of the themes of Warren St. John's book about the struggle of mostly African kids and their Jordanian coach to
Paige Peterson’s Interior Landscapes - Fifteen years ago, after a long and harrowing brain surgery, Paige Peterson had a revelation. In her hospital bed, using a sketchbook more as therapy than a record of creation,
Paint It Black - A mutual friend said we'd like one another, so when Janet Fitch came to New York shortly before the publication of her first novel, I went
Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi - I've had a soft spot for 'Autobiography of a Yogi' ever since I was a kid. It was the first non-Western spiritual memoir I read, and its
Pardon the Ravens - When I met Alan Hruska, the law was far behind him. Very far --- I know him as a novelist and film director. Were you to meet him, you’d never
Paris and her Remarkable Women: A Guide - I flicked on the TV and there was Isabelle Adjani, one of my favorite actresses, in a film I’d never seen. A little application of Google, and I learned the
Paris Patisseries: History, Shops, Recipes - "Paris Patisseries: History, Shops, Recipes" is 160 oversized pages of exquisite food porn. Recipes? Twenty five of them are sandwiched in the back of the book, in smallish type. Preparation?
Paris Quiz: How Well Do You Know Paris? - Dominique Lesbros annoys me. I’ve been to Paris a gazillion times, lived there for months, get around without a map. I not only have favorite restaurants, I have favorite dishes at
Paris: A Reading List - Mission to Paris The first paragraph of Alan Furst’s novel should convince you: In Paris, the evenings of September are sometimes warm, excessively gentle, and, in the magic particular to that city,
Paris: Made by Hand: 50 Shops Where Decorators and Stylists Source the Chic & Unique - Unless you shopped at high-end boutiques and specialty stores in a handful of large American cities, it used to be that you had to go to Paris to
Parisian Chic: A Style Guide - "The book is dedicated “to my new best friend..." and then there’s a dotted line for you to fill in. Cringe-worthy? Yes, if the author of a book intended to get you
Parisian Hideaways: Exquisite Rooms in Enchanting Hotels - Once you have a kid, you make overnight flights less often. And when you do make them, your destination is not some cushy hotel, it’s an apartment --- for less
Parisians’ Paris - We have all read a zillion guidebooks directing us to the best stuff, the special stuff, even the secret stuff in Paris, and if we’re jaded, we can hardly be
Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations: Entertaining at Home with New York’s Savviest Hostesses - "Park Avenue Potluck: Recipes from New York's Savviest Hostesses" was the most surprising cookbook I encountered in 2008. Despite its title, it wasn’t at all grand --- the cover may
Park Avenue Potluck: Recipes from New York’s Savviest Hostesses - In the silver serving bowl on the cover of “Park Avenue Potluck," there's a....could that really be a casserole? For that matter, when was the last time you saw “Park Avenue”
