With Betty Crocker's Easy Entertaining you can relax, knowing that Betty Crocker will provide delicious recipes, and easy-to-follow tips for nearly effortless entertaining. From a casual dinner to holiday meals to a summer wedding, you'll find complete menus and entertaining ideas for successful occasions. Both beginners giving a first dinner party and experienced entertainers alike will find these menus foolproof, creative and deliciously satisfying. 32 complete menus, with innovative and easy-to-follow entertaining ideas. More than 75 full-color photographs detail delightful and exciting new food ideas plus decorating ideas for your parties. Unusual and appealing suggestios for seasonal occasions, such as a Maple Sytruping Breakfast, Spring Planting Party, Halloween Bereakfast, Earth Day Picinic, Summer Wedding, Garden Harvest Dinner, Scandinavian Smorgasbord, Dinner for a Frosty Nigh and more. Tempting holiday menus such as Memorial Day Weekend Barbecue, Fourth of July Picnic and Thanksgiving Dinner, blend the traditional and the contemporary in exciting new ways.

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Dieting With the Duchess Macmi

Duchess, of York Sarah Ferguson

Discover and identify New Zealand's amazing insects, by best-selling author Andrew Crowe. Ninety percent of New Zealand's insects are unique. Many of these little-known creatures play an important part in our ecology. Which New Zealand Insect? showcases the variety and beauty of this often overlooked side of our wildlife heritage. With over 650 life-size colour photographs and three times as many species as the author's The Life-Size Guide to Insects this is an ideal field guide for children, trampers, mountaineers and conservation workers.

Which New Zealand Insect?

Science & Math

Andrew Crowe

Biological Sciences

Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia as seen through Trim's eyes, Billy is drawn deeply into Ryan's life and into the Sydney underworld. Over several months the two begin the mutual process of rehabilitation. Matthew Flinders' Cat is a modern-day story of a city, its crime, the plight of the homeless and the politics of greed and perversion. It is also a story of the human heart, with an enchanting glimpse into our past form the viewpoint of a famous cat.

Matthew Flinders' Cat

Literature & Fiction

Bryce, Courtenay

Contemporary

One of America's most popular humor series returns with a brand-new collection of hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures. Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest shows once more how uncommon common sense still is. Featuring science and safety discussions, and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III includes over one hundred all-new stories. Readers will celebrate Darwin Award winners who made the "ultimate sacrifice," wonder at the misguided pluck of Honorable Mentions who survived their own bad judgment, and look on in awestruck amusement at Personal Accounts shared with the world by the perpetrators themselves. From the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice, to the highway robbers who blocked traffic with their car and were hit by a truck; from the artist who strung a "shell" necklace of live ammunition, to the man crushed by the branch he'd just severed, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it like we do.

The Darwin Awards III: Even More Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker

Humor & Entertainment

wendy-northcutt

Humor

Alex

Set in 1959 this is story of fifteen year old Alex, a champion swimmer who is swimming to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rome. This book won the New Zealand Story Book of the Year Award in 1988. The author has also written "Night Race to Kawau".

Tessa Duder

Alex In Rome

Duder, Tessa

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in “an adventurous and inspiring tale” (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

The Physician

GORDON, NOAH.

Genre Fiction

SINCE HER BIRTH IN 1900, HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER HAS CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF THE PUBLIC WORLDWIDE. HER WARMTH AND CHARM HAVE BEEN A CONSTANT COMFORT TO THE NATION. THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED ALBUM CAPTURES THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER, RECORDING HER LIFE AND WORK WITH THE MOST EXQUISITE AND EXPRESSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS.

The Queen Mother : A Special Photographic Celebration

WARWICK, CHRISTOPHER

Biographies & Memoirs

Rice Crispy, Fred T-Shirt (St 20)

William. Shakespeare

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