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Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle
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Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novels,
The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.
The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world.
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Interesting Read........2007-06-17
I knew nothing of these two novels until just a few short days ago when I fell for the charms of Nancy Mitford. It was really interesting to learn that both The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are semi-autobiographical.
Both novels were a classic read. Maybe they were a little boring in parts, but then so is life at times. Anyway, I am a huge sucker for love stories, and that's exactly what these were. I absolutely love how Ms. Mitford shows the two different sides of the narrator, Fanny in each novel. It definitely makes the entire book much more heart warming.
Overall, it was a challenging, and interesting read. (I even had to consult my dictionary several times for new and interesting words.)
funny, charming and touching.......2007-02-23
Mitford has a deft touch with comedy, romance and pathos. Her scenes of an eccentric upper-class British family are delightful (and she obviously knows this subject). Worth reading on its own, and especially if you are interested in the amazing Mitford sisters.
Love in an Ambivalent Climate.......2006-09-05
England between first and second world wars: few girls were as famous as the Mitfords, five beautiful daughters of a well-known upper class "county family" as the British would call them. Nancy, writer of the family, knew her debutante balls well. In fact, she later came up with a way to define English social class by defining speech as "U"for upper class; and "non-U" for those who weren't.
The Mitford girls were "brought up to marry,not fall in love,"Nancy once wrote. Unfortunately, of the actual Mitford girls, only one did as she was expected to do. Deborah (Debo) married the eleventh Duke of Devonsheer. Unity, however, hung around Germany, striking up warmer friendships with the Nazis, and expressing herself more forcefully in their support, than suited the British public. Diana went and married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascists, who was "detained" for WWII. Jessica ran off to Hollywood, no less, took American citizenship, and wrote the whistle-blowing "The American Way of Death,"a very inflential indictment of the funeral business. Nancy did marry an "Honorable," but then she turned around and published "The Pursuit of Love," and "Love in a Cold Climate,"two novels that pretty well blew the whistle on society, and on the Mitfords.
For everyone agrees that the central family of these novels, the Radletts, are the Mitfords to the life. Eccentric, choleric father; vague amiable mother; clamorous, animal-loving, quicksilver charming children. The action is narrated by a cousin who seems to resemble Nancy Mitford, and she seems to get most of the action too. As heroine of "In Pursuit of Love" she seems to have pursued love in most of the same places her creator did, though she knew what was expected of her.
How could she not? At one point, a powerful peeress advises Fanny, the narrator,"'Don't you go marrying anybody, for love. Remember that love cannot last; it never, never does; but if you marry all this it's for your life. One day, don't forget,you'll be middle-aged and think what that must be like for a woman who can't have, say, a pair of diamond earrings. A woman of my age needs diamonds near her face, to give a sparkle. Then at mealtimes, sitting with all the unimportant people for ever and ever. And no car. Not a very nice prospect,you know.'"
But Fanny, our narrator, hardly seems to need warning. She remarks at one point,"'always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,'" is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.'"
On a deeper level, however, Fanny seems to reflect her creator's ambivalence on whether to marry for love, or "all this." But there's still substantial ambivalence on that question.
These novels are undeniably bright and charming, and they seem to pick up right where tv's "Upstairs Downstairs" left off. Not to mention Evelyn Waugh's "Bright Young Things,"and "Brideshead revisited". If you liked them, you'll love this.
Light and entertaining read.......2006-06-05
I bought this book after I became acquainted with Mitford sisters through a biography I have read.
After reading the biography, the first novel, "Pursuit of Love" seemed very familiar to me because in some parts it is almost a narration of the Mitford history. Some characters are given a different history but it is easy to recognize Jessica or Nancy herself.
I wouldn't go so far as to call these novels masterpieces but they are very witty and enjoyable. Especially if you are an Anglophile like me, you will most certainly enjoy this humorous depiction of upper class society in England.
Both novels are narrated by Fanny, cousin/friend to the heroines of the novels. "Pursuit of Love" is about Linda's love affairs and "Love in a Cold Climate" is about Polly's scandalous marriage. Both novels contain very enjoyable side characters like the bellowing Uncle Matthew, the health-conscious Uncle Davey and the lovable sissy Cedric Hampton. In fact the leading ladies are not explored so well as these characters. In the case of Polly we know very little about what goes in her mind.
I must also note that these novels are more about characters than plots. Nancy Mitford writes along about the characters and when there is nothing more to say, she abruptly ends the novels. Besides if you haven't read them one after the other, some of the points Fanny makes will be quite irrelevant as in the case of Fanny's meeting Fabrice in "Love in a Cold Climate" and mentioning that she will be adopting his son years later. First novel's heroine Linda is just a distant character in the second novel but the other, funnier characters appear in both novels.
All in all an enjoyable read but do not expect a literary masterpiece.
Both are fantastic.......2006-04-18
I had read Love in a Cold Climate years ago, but hadn't read The Pursuit of Love. They are both hilarious.
The Pursuit of Love is the stronger book, but Love in a Cold Climate I found more amusing. I believe these were written in the 1930s, so the style and language can seem a little dated at times, but quaintly so. If you know anything about the British Upper Class, they are satirically hilarious.
Enjoy.
As other reviews more than adequately cover the two novels, my review gives you some background on the author and the circumstances that shaped her.
Love in a Cold Climate is loosely based on Mitford's own family. Famous or infamous depending on your point of view, their father did march them around the house. As a matter of interest two of the sisters were facists Unity shot herself, Diana married Oswald Moseley. Another Decca (Jessica) wrote for articles and books including "The American Way of Dying" and Nancy is the author of numerous books, including these. Sister Debo (Deborah) is the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.
The Mitfords were a wonderfully eccentric minor aristocratic family. Nancy Mitford wrote the famous "Noblesse Oblige" about U and non-U in 1956. It is a glimpse into how the British could instantly tell if someone is truly an aristocratic/upper class or a pretender. Upper Classes would, and often still do, say lavatory and not toilet, rich and not wealthy, spectacles and not glasses, looking glass and not mirror, drawing room and not living room or lounge and so forth. Amazing, but true!
Understanding these codes, may help you understand the books and nuances a little better. Nancy Mitford has considerable insight and sends up her own class relentlessly.
If you want another great book with charming and hilarious antics of a young female relative forced to live with rustic eccentrics in 1930s England, read Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm". A true gem.
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Why isn't T. Jefferson Parker as famous as, say, James Patterson or Robert B. Parker? He's that good, and in some ways better. In Cold Pursuit, his 11th novel, San Diego homicide cop Tom McMichael finds himself investigating the bludgeoning death of Pete Braga, a prominent city patriarch who was also a blood enemy of the McMichael family. It's a complex case fraught with political and economic pressures, ugly family history, police corruption, and multiple red herrings, made more complex by McMichael's romantic attraction to a key suspect.
Parker's writing is a pleasure from the first sentence to the last: intelligent, often quietly poetic, cliché-free, and as crisp and dry as a good Pinot Gris. Here is the book's opening paragraph, which accomplishes several scene-setting tasks while pleasing both ear and brain:
That night the wind came hard off the Pacific, an El Nino event that would blow three inches of rain onto the roofs of San Diego. It was the first big storm of the season, early January and overdue. Palm fronds lifted with a plastic hiss and slapped against the windows of McMichael's apartment. The digitized chirp of his phone sounded ridiculous against the steady wind outside.
At times the book's richly complex plot gets confusing, and some sections aren't especially suspenseful. However, every page is absorbing and affecting, and the ending is a shocker. Peopled by a teeming cast of full-blooded characters and set in a San Diego so vivid you can smell the beach and the blood, Cold Pursuit may be Parker's subtlest, most satisfying tale yet. --Nicholas H. Allison
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California Homicide Detective Tom McMichael has every good reason to pass on the investigation of slain city patriarch Pete Braga. After all, it was former mayor and self-made millionaire Braga who killed Tom's grandfather in a dispute over money -- and Tom's own father who, allegedly, sought revenge by savagely beating Braga's son into imbecility. But there are others who hated the old man as well. And McMichael is a good cop determined to perform his duty to the best of his abilities -- despite his growing feelings for the beautiful nurse who is the prime suspect in the brutal bludgeoning death ... and despite a twisting trail that is leading him into deadly, dark, and very private places where he dearly wishes not to go.
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Homicide cop Tom McMichael is on the rotation when Pete Braga, an 84-year-old city patriarch, businessman and former mayor is found by the beautiful young nurse hired to watch after him-bludgeoned to death. The Irish McMichaels and Portuguese Bragas share a violent history: as a commercial tuna clipper captain way back in 1952 Pete Braga shot dead a young crewman who believed he was owed a paycheck. That man was Franklin McMichael, Tom's grandfather. Pete Braga's son, Victor, who was then thirteen, is then severely beaten behind a waterfront bar one night. Most people believe that Franklin's son-Tom's father-did it in revenge. Victor survives the attack, but he's mentally stunted. Though his body matured, his mind remains that of a ten-year-old. The alleged attacker-Gabriel-has denied it for his whole dissolute, wasted, booze-filled life. The nurse looks good as a suspect. She claims to have gone out for firewood that night, then returned from the store to find Pete dead. She's covered with blood and not forthcoming with McMichael and his partner, Hector Paz. The investigation expands to Pete's business acquaintances, his family, the Catholic diocese in San Diego, a multi-million-dollar Indian casino manager, an old cop buddy, a prostitute, and some expanding incongruities between the nurse's story and the evidence that they continue to find. It's a tale of blood feuds, secret passions and long-held resentment that will have readers spellbound until the final shocking pages.
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Spectacularly scenic and humanistic.......2006-11-02
A thriller straight out of San Diego, California, that finds its last leg on the Coronado Bridge over Glorietta Bay. Spectacular, dramatic, a real calamity in all directions and dimensions. Once again with that new generation of American detective novels, we are less interested in the particular details of the case, and at times we may overlook the implications of one particular fact to go on a useless loop that any serious police work would have avoided. The book is more interested in the social behaviorism that it tries to expose and reject. The big family of San Diego, that started as fishermen , is the locale of all kinds of criminal activities and acts, inside the family and outside. The author explores some like the organ trafficking across the Mexican boarder performed by cops, customs officers, etc..., behind the back of this big covering family, with or without their agreement but with their knowledge of it. Then it explores the tremendous poverty from which the Irish have tried to escape, but with mixed and limited results over three generations instead of one for their non-Irish counterparts, because of the deep hostility of the formerly presented family clan. Finally the book shows how a girl from a poor "white trash" family in Kentucky will manage to get out of her social fatality, in spite of the relapse of the police who will consider her as suspicious because of these family antecedents, thus proving there is no predestination or irrevocable destiny even for those who come from the scum of the earth. Parker tries to show that we are always the prisoners of habits that are transmitted to us from one generation to the next, not so much by genes as by education, positive and negative, because education can be both positive and negative. For him we are free to get out of this fatality and build our own future. And yet he insists that it is not that easy to achieve. So the crimes become the pretext, or the go-between, for the author to speak of deep social evil facts. We will regret though a few clichés that could have easily been avoided: alcoholic, hot-blooded Irish people for example. Easy to read and easy to figure out, the book is entertaining indeed.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Engaging Story with a Few Issues.......2006-06-05
I really love mystery novels, especially ones with depth and history to them. Cold Pursuit by T. Jefferson Parker is a homicide cop story, with Tom McMichael as a mid-30s Irishman, newly divorced. The dead guy is an 80-something Portuguese fisherman named Braga who is the grandfather of Tom's childhood sweetheart. It's a Romeo-Juliet history, with Tom's grandfather being slain by this fisherman, and Tom's father getting revenge by beating senseless Braga's eldest son. The two families have been hostile ever since.
There is of course the young nurse who the family is all jealous of, the various criminal activities that Braga was a partner to, and the political ramifications of various land deals. The number of people who could have killed Braga stack up by the moment. Tom and his partner try to track down each lead, but Tom of course gets tangled up with Nurse Rainwater, breaking every cop's first rule - don't get involved with a suspect.
This isn't a thriller or a film noir, but that's fine - it's more a Law & Order episode where you piece through the clues and try to decipher what is meaningful. I enjoyed the very detailed descriptions of San Diego, a place I've only been to once but found quite fascinating. I appreciated how vividly Parker played out the life in this corner of the US vs the squalor of Tiajuana, and this difference does become quite important to the plot.
That being said, part of the appeal of cop stories or who-killed-him tales is the deciphering of the clues. You should at least be able to pick up on hints and see what's going on. Not here. He gives a ton of clues, but the connection isn't revealed until the 'a-ha' moment. There were very few times that he foreshadowed and each time it was rather blatant.
On the other hand, I did enjoy the detail put into the life of a fisherman, and the troubles caused by changing times. I enjoyed the active participation of the 'seniors' of the family in the storyline, and their problems and worries discussed with insight. I found it amusing that numerous women seemed to be flinging themselves at Tom at various points in the story. I suppose that happens in most books of this genre though.
As a life-long owner of parakeets I did have one problem that bothered me - parakeets do NOT need grit!! It seems like a silly little error, but I hope people with parakeets who read this book don't read that section and think "Oh I didn't know parakeets needed grit, I'll go get some". It's pigeons who need grit, not parakeets. That mistaken idea is back from the 1950s.
In any case, while there were some contrived sections, I did enjoy the story and the atmosphere. It was an enjoyable afternoon read!
Yawn.......2006-05-01
I see the Publishers Weekly review of the book calls it a thriller. Huh? Parker writes well and fleshes out characters well. He has a good feel for throwing in regional and historical data and setting scene with solid descriptive skills. He gives you the sense that a good mystery is forming. But this is where he falls short, as in Herv? Villechaize short.
First, there are MAYBE two tense moments in this book and they are both over in a couple of pages. That's it. So if this book is intended as a suspense or thriller, forget it. And forget the book jacket references to noir--the word, and genre, deserve more respect than that. This is a mystery, no more, and to pull that off requires, well, a mystery. A mystery is more than a guy dead and a whodunit. It's intrigue and suspense and misdirection and escalating threats. That's what make a mystery worthy of 350 pages, and it never comes here.
The protagonist here is not "pro" anything--he doesn't make things happen, just reacts. And the resolution really comes to him, rather than him figuring it out. I am tired of the convenient writer's technique where killers keep our hero alive when they could have killed him, and then volunteer their reasons for doing the other murders. This is only necessary because the protagonist is clueless and we wouldn't have a conclusion otherwise. I struggled to keep reading this one and in the end thought maybe next time I struggle I will put the book down and move on.
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The first in Greg Davenport's Books for the Wilderness series, Surviving Cold Weather covers the techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in ice and snow. Photos and drawings illustrate gear and techniques. The book covers the five survival essentials--personal protection, signaling, sustenance, navigation, and health--as they relate to the cold. Upcoming books in the series are Surviving Open and Coastal Waters, Surviving the Desert, and Surviving the Jungle.
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Detailed info for the prepared - or unprepared - adventurer.......2006-07-07
The best part about this survival guide is Davenport's descriptions of "improvised" items. Most people don't plan to be in a survival situation in freezing temperatures, and may not have the proper equipment. He teaches you how to use survival items you have purchased and may have with you (such as an avalanche beacon or a signal flare), but also what to do in a situtation in which you don't have what you need (improvising snowshoes, stick and shadow compass, etc). The section on constructing emergency shelters gave detailed instructions for many options depending on what resources are available - trees, ice, and/or deep snow. He even provides pictures as proof of his methods. The information on how to obtain food, especially berries, and how to navigate without a map or compass was also extremely helpful. The only disappointing thing for me in this book was the information on animals. Many of the descriptions seemed cut-and-pasted, with really no specific tips on how to avoid polar bear attacks versus brown bears versus pumas.
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Very Cool Book.......2003-01-12
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Sarah Andrews is well known for her popular mystery series featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen. With In Cold Pursuit, she builds on that foundation and introduces a new lead character in this compelling mystery from the last continent.
Valena Walker is a dedicated master’s student in geology headed to Antarctica to study glaciology with the venerable Dr. Emmett Vanderzee. Being on the ice is something she’s dreamed about since she was a little girl. But when she finally arrives at McMurdo, she discovers that her professor has been arrested for murder, and what’s more, that the incident happened a year ago. A newspaper reporter who’d visited Antarctica the previous winter had died from exposure, and though no one was a fan of the guy---he was attempting to contradict Vanderzee’s research---by all accounts, everyone was devastated to lose someone on the ice.
Valena quickly realizes that in order to avoid being shipped north immediately and having her grant canceled, she must embrace the role of detective and work to clear his name---and save herself in the process.
Sarah Andrews received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation to spend two months on Antarctica to research In Cold Pursuit, and the authenticity of her portrait of this unforgiving land is breathtaking, making for her most compelling novel to date.
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another heroine with everything.......2007-10-10
The research and Antartic information is wonderful. And the preachiness (global warming being the theme here) not too bad, quite bearable. But do we really need a new heroine who is intelligent, beautiful, resourceful, and has all kinds of unusual knowledge of unusual subjects, like driving heavy equipment amd lots else?? Give me Em Hansen back (PLEASE!!!), who has only OK looks, is very intelligent, and specializes in various and interesting geological fields, like oil exploration and forensic geology. People don't seem to fall all over themselves to help her. She's quite extraordinary enough, but not nearly so enviably so as this heroine, whose name is escaping me right now. Nevertheless, the book was good enough reading,lots of good info re ice and the like, I'll buy the next one no matter what, but really hope it's an Em Hansen.
Difficult to figure out.......2007-09-30
I thought this was an odd book and found it very difficult to figure out the plot. I'm still not really sure what the main thrust of the book was, other than sub zero temperatures and tractors.
The characters seemed confused, the plot meandered and, in the end, I just quit trying and returned the book to the library.
Poor editing!.......2007-09-23
"In Cold Pursuit" was a frustrating book to read. There were so many punctuation errors that forced me to stop and reread sentences and paragraphs that they interrupted the flow of the story. It was a nuisance.
The setting and story are quite interesting. Valena Walker, grad student, finally makes it to Antarctica for her studies in glaciology only to discover her professor has been taken and charged with murder. There was great research and information regarding living and surviving in the Antarctic. I feel I learned a lot from this book but overall, the quotation marks, or lack thereof, drove me crazy.
Excellent mystery.......2007-08-12
Geology graduate student Valena Walker is euphoric with the grant that enables her to perform glaciology research in Antarctica. As quick as possible she travels to the American scientific base on the frozen continent McMurdo Station. However, even faster she learns her graduate advisor, renowned rapid climate change scientist Dr. Emmett Vanderzee was arrested for the alleged murder of a journalist who died in his camp site last year. At the station George Bellamy informs her Emmett is heading north to a hearing and she will head north by the end of the week.
Valena needs Vanderzee's oversight or she will not just get kicked off Antarctica, but lose her grant and her chance to obtain employment at the Desert research Institute in the States. After a restless first night, Valena begins investigating by asking questions of Vanderzee's research team and other scientists and support in hopes of proving her mentor is innocent.
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- The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
- The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life
- The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening, Step One: FREE YOUR MIND: 10 Keys for Unlocking Your Personal Potential, Achieving Spiritual Awakening, ... of Humanity's Ultimate Cosmic Destiny
- The Stone Monkey (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
- The Story of Little Black Sambo
- The Story Teller (Arapaho Indian Mysteries)
- The Terror That Comes in the Night (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series)
- The Tortilla Curtain
- The Wine of Angels (A Merrily Watkins Mystery)
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Recommended Books
- My Name Is Child of God...Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty
- Come Back to Sorrento
- The Chemical Bond: Structure and Dynamics
- Tom Kundig: Houses
- Alexej Von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings: Volume Two 1914-1933
- Daddy's Girl
- Burrito Lovers Cook Book: Fantastic Flavorful Fillings
- Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages
- Verb Matters
- Wild Mushrooms of the Central Midwest
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics)
A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
Burger's Daughter
Madame de Pompadour (New York Review Books Classics)
