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Recent Releases

Vegan Baking Classics
Delicious, Easy-to-Make Traditional Favorites
Kelly Rudnicki
Vegan Baking Classics is a one-stop guide to delicious, everyday baked goods free of any animal ingredients.
Diabetes Snacks, Treats, and Easy Eats
130 Recipes You'll Make Again and Again
Barbara Grunes
Following on the success of 1,001 Delicious Recipes for People with Diabetes, this is a compilation of favorite recipes for snacks, appetizers, side dishes, cakes, pies, cookies — even ice cream — that are low in fat, carbs, and sodium.
How to Play the Game at the Top
The 9 Rules for Consummate Corporate Effectiveness
Fenorris Pearson
A reality check about today's corporate America and about how things really get done in the business world.
Flipped
How Bottom-Up Co-Creation is Replacing Top-Down Innovation
John Winsor
Completely updated first paperback edition of a landmark title by the foremost expert on "co-creation."
Racing the Dark
Alaya Dawn Johnson
A brilliant debut fantasy novel with a powerful female sensibility by a youthful writer to watch.
Forward from this Moment
Selected Columns, 1994–2009
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., his first-ever collection.

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    20 Jul 2010
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