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Gran Cocina Latina, The Food of Latin America

Maricel E. Presilla

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Alfred Lansing

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Barry Lopez

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Every Day in Tuscany, Seasons of an Italian Life

Frances Mayes

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The Middle Sea

The Middle Sea

by John Julius Norwich

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 720 PAGES

A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the end of the First World War.  (MED98, $21.00)

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