The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by . The delightful, amusing and deeply mysterious follow-up to The Case of the Missing Servant (2009), featuring Vish Puri. When the goddess Kali appears from the mist at Dr. Suresh Jha's morning yoga class and plunges a sword into his chest, Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators, is called in to investigate the bizarre murder. To get at the truth, Puri and his team of operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum to the holy city of Haridwar where they enter a world in which illusion and the supernatural are virtually indistinguishable.
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Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as "The national anthem for working mothers." Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter's school, she has to admit her life has become unrecognizable. With panache, wisdom, and uproarious wit, I Don't Know How She Does It brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of every working mom.
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Cookook of the Day is Mission Street Food by and
This book, the first of the as-yet-unnamed McSweeney's food imprint, captures the story and the spirit of San Francisco's Mission Street Food and thoughtful and hilarious discussions of contemporary food issues, tongue-in-cheek manifestos, and a bevy of worthwhile and tasty recipes.
Two years after sublet a Salvadoran taco truck for a night so he could serve his own brand of inspired street food, he and his wife have turned Mission Street Food into four wildly different and exciting restaurant incarnations. The food has remained bold and innovative throughout, and the mission has always been the same: To provide good, affordable food, while giving back to the community. Each Mission Street Food project has donated a significant portion of its profits to charities around San Francisco.
"Mission Street Food is an uncommonly generous read. When I finished it, I felt like I'd drained a cold can of beer at the end of a shift at the restaurant. The interplay of narrative, design, and photography is more compelling and candid than any food book I've ever seen; the focus on fundamental techniques and how to think in the kitchen is more truthful, accurate, and contemporary than almost any basic cookbook; in fact, the whole package, powered by the exuberance of and , is infectious, inspiring, something apart from the rest. This is a special book." , co-author of Momofuku
"An amazing story. An amazing institution. And now a book that's as creative and pioneering as its subjects. Let us hope that Mission Street Food's uniquely American success story points the way to a brighter, and delightfully stranger, future."
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I'm fond of non-fiction, particularly history and religion. But then, you probably would have guessed that.
Misquoting Jesus/Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman (HarperCollins / Oxford University Press)
Bart Ehrman is a Biblical scholar with a populist touch. His books are little primers in the methods employed used by those who pore over Scripture to separate the oldest writings from later additions and translator's mistakes. Although Ehrman has also written about his own theological ideas, in books like Misquoting Jesus he is more intent on in guiding readers through the basic principles of scholarship and explaining why and how scholars come to their conclusions about the validity of Gospel passages. Lost Christianities focuses on the many gospels that never made the Biblical cut, including the entertaining "infancy gospels" in which little Jesus is revealed as a dangerous playmate to cross.
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latest novel, Fauna, unites misfits and dreamers in a visceral connection to the forgotten animals that live in our big cities. When Edal Jones can't cope with the casual cruelty she encounters in her job as a federal wildlife officer, she finds herself drawn to a beacon of solace nestled in the valley under the unlikely banner of an auto-wrecker's yard. But lost souls come in many shapes and sizes, and when the brutal backwoods childhood of another sanctuary-seeker causes him to persecute the creatures of the valley, the little community struggles to come to terms with both him and themselves.
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