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The School of Essential Ingredients
by Erica BauermeisterReminiscent of Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, a gorgeously written novel about life, love, and the magic of food. The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. Students include Claire, a young mother struggling with the demands of her family; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer learning to adapt to life in America; and Tom, a widower mourning the loss of his wife to breast cancer. Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students’ lives. One by one the students are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of Lillian’s food, including a white-on-white cake that prompts wistful reflections on the sweet fragility of love and a peppery heirloom tomato sauce that seems to spark one romance but end another. Brought together by the power of food and companionship, the lives of the characters mingle and intertwine, united by the revealing nature of what can be created in the kitchen.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III, Nebula Award Winners 1965-1969
by Arthur C. Clarke George W. ProctorAll of the Nebula award winners for short stories, novellas, and novelets from 1965 to 1969
The Secret Pilgrim
by John Le CarréTo train new agents, one of the old veteran agents recounts his 40 years in the spy game.
The Secret of Pirate Key
by Kathleen Culligan TechlerAdria Miller is spending a couple of weeks on Pirate Key before moving to St. Petersburg, Florida from her home in Minnesota. She and her cousin Toby look for buried treasure.
The Seesaw Syndrome
by Michael MaddenA pharmaceutical company has produced a new drug that needs to be tested on patients but one of its side-effects is death.
The Seizure of Power
by Czeslaw Milosz Celina WieniewskaNovel by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature about the month in 1944 when Nazi rule over Europe was crumbling and the Red Army pushed into Poland to meet the Western Allies on the Elbe.
The Self-Coached Runner
by Allan Lawrence Mark ScheidHere is the first running book to take the place of a coach, because it teaches you to coach yourself.
The Seminary Rule: An Explanation of the Purposes Behind It and How Best to Carry It Out
by Fr. Thomas Dubay Joseph Francis RummelAn explanation of the purposes behind the Seminary Rule and how best to carry it out
The Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert Perdita BurlingameIn mid-19th century Paris, our young hero is swept up by the idealism of the Revolution of 1848, only to fall prey to the banality an cynicism of the counter-revolution that followed.
The Sergeant's Baby
by Bonnie GardnerSergeant Danny Murphey thought he'd found the love of his life, except when he woke up the next morning, she was gone.
The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries
by Stephen R. Spencer Jeffrey P. Greenman Timothy LarsenThe Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries offers an engaging approach to the study of historical theology and biblical exegesis. Stellar contributing scholars examine various interpretative approaches to the Sermon on the Mount, providing glimpses into historical perspectives on a passage that distills the very essence of the teaching of Jesus.
The Serpent and the Rope
by Raja RaoA portrayal of East meeting West through Rama, an Indian, and Madeleine, a French girl, who meet at a French university shortly after World War II.
The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3)
by Rick RiordanHe's b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sade Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. Unfortunately, the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war, the gods are divided, and the young initiates of Brooklyn House stand almost alone against the forces of chaos. The Kanes' only hope is an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon, but the magic has been lost for a millennia. To find the answer they need, the Kanes must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician who might be able to lead them to the serpent's shadow . . . or might lead them to their deaths in the depths of the underworld. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.
The Set-Up
by Paul ErdmanOn a routine visit to an international bank in Switzerland, Charles Black, the just-retired Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, finds himself in jail.
The Seven Daughters of Eve
by Bryan SykesThe identification of a snippet of DNA in mitochondria allows scientists to trace our maternal genetic makeup back to prehistoric times.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
by Sean CoveyA lot of teens read books, but I [author] wasn't one of them. (I did read several Cliffs Notes book summaries, however.) So if you're like me, you may be ready to shelve this book. But before you do that, hear me out. If you promise to read this book, I'll promise to make it an adventure. In fact, to keep it fun, I've stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world ... along with a few other surprises. So will you give it a try? Okay? Okay! Now, back to the book. This book is based on another book that my dad, Stephen R. Covey, wrote several years ago entitled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Surprisingly, that book has become one of the best-selling books of all time.
The Seventh Secret
by Irving WallaceEvery week a tall, attractive, older woman makes her regular visit to West Berlin. She bears a striking resemblance to Eva Braun, but how can that be?
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
by Edward CrankshawA panoramic, illuminating account of a dynasty in decline, that shows how Russia had within it seeds not only of revolution but of many aspects of modern Russia which we think of as peculiar.
The Shattered World
by Michael ReavesA millennium ago magicians fought a war and smashed the world into a thousand pieces. Its pieces are beginning to collide. Soon all will meet and melt into molten Chaos.
The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde PilcherThis is a novel of one family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
The Short Victorious War (Honor Harrington Series, Book #3)
by David WeberThe families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent. All they need is a short victorious war...
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
by David BoyerThe hero of this novel is a 24-year-old underachiever who avoids his well-to-do parents and explores the angst of living a bohemian life in the sixties.
The Sign
by Robert Van KampenRobert Van Kampen takes the Scripture at face value and tells of the dooming end of age and the biblical prophecy concerning the last days.
The Sign of the Seahorse: A Tale of Greed and High Adventure in Two Acts
by Graeme BaseThe inhabitants of a coral reef are threatened when a shady real estate deal started by the greedy Groper floods their area with poisonous waste.