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"With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of...
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Discusses the challenges and provides insight for adult children who face the role reversal of parent and child, examining what questions to ask when researching assisted care facilities or nursing homes, explaining the intricacies of Medicare and Medicaid, and sharing lessons based on the author's experiences during the last years of her mother's life.
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Algonquin Books
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English
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American chef Marlena de Blasi and her Venetian husband, Fernando, married rather late in life. In search of the rhythms of country living, the couple moves to a barely renovated former stable in Tuscany with no phone, no central heating, and something resembling a playhouse kitchen. They dwell among two hundred villagers, ancient olive groves, and hot Etruscan springs. In this patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio collide, there is much...
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Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2009
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x, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Sugar" offers a compelling and surprising look at the sweet commodity, from the ways in which it Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fueled the Industrial Revolution and jump-started the fast-food craze.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
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vi, 312 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The author of 99 Drams of Whiskey and popular Accidental Hedonist food blogger presents a cultural history of candy that traces how it evolved from a medicine and luxury to today's commercial treats, providing coverage of the industry's darker side while exploring the role of candy in the growth of the Western world.
17) La Boheme
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Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
1988.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni's incomparable partnership as Rodolfo and Mimi, the tragic lovers in Puccini's much-loved bittersweet opera, is captured for posterity in this live recording from the San Francisco opera. Francesca Zambello's production boasts a superlative cast with Gino Quilico as Marcello, Nicolai Ghiaurov as Colline, Stephen Dickson as Schaunard and Sandra Pacetti as Musetta. The Italian conductor Tiziano Severini drew critical...
18) Cubamerican
Publisher
ÑO Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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CUBAMERICAN is the stirring story of how the Cuban Revolution shattered the Cuban family. Spanning the past 60 years of Cuban history, the film evokes this tragedy and its universal themes of loss, freedom, assimilation, struggle and triumph through the stories of Cuban exiles that have achieved acclaim in diverse fields in the U.S.A. and beyond, rendering a mosaic of a bittersweet exile experience. A pro-immigrant story that grapples with the agony...
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The perfect primer to all things dark chocolate, plus an array of indulgent recipes to satisfy all your dark chocolate cravings.
Deep Dark Chocolate is overflowing with irresistible recipes using bittersweet and semisweet chocolate, cacao nibs, and beans—the darker the better. These sinfully decadent desserts include such indulgences as Black Magic Chocolate Espresso Cookies and Crunchy Nut Bittersweet Caramel Bars, and that...
Deep Dark Chocolate is overflowing with irresistible recipes using bittersweet and semisweet chocolate, cacao nibs, and beans—the darker the better. These sinfully decadent desserts include such indulgences as Black Magic Chocolate Espresso Cookies and Crunchy Nut Bittersweet Caramel Bars, and that...
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