Appetite for Murder:
A Mystery Lover's Cookbook
by Kathy Borich
A tantalizing slant on cooking and crime. Relive your favorite classic detective stories and then whip up the food that caught the culprit.
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An Illustrated Introduction to Classical Horsemanship: Concepts and Skills from A to Z
by Gary Borich
A comprehensive resource in a succinct alphabetical format that brings the beginning rider through every aspect of learning to train and ride for show and trail.
Often been surprised by a movie after what a film critic said about it? Ever felt cheated out of big bucks on the recommendations of a punk 24-year-old? Or really loved the ones they panned? Well, you no longer need to feel out of step with the current movie review band. Different Drummer is for you. Read more about our take on the film world. And get ready to relive your favorite movies with the recipes that follow each review.
Director Clint Eastwood resurrects a winning formula that seems to have been forgotten in recent Hollywood. Miraculously free of gratuitous plot twists, ear-splitting explosions, cartoon inspired characters, or incipient nihilism, his film is about real people, real events, and real human emotions.
Montreal-born Leonard Cohen, who died yesterday at age 82, is Canada’s Bob Dylan, but he never went electric, sold out, or even yearned for fame. As his sage comments interspersed throughout reveal, Cohen the man is definitely more interesting than the film that pays him tribute, showing us that some aging icons actually achieve both wisdom and humility.
Featured, Rainy Day Rentals | Recipe: Supporting Cast | Permalink | Share Post | Email Post This 2014 spy thriller marries the hard-hitting action of 007 with the world-weariness of John le Carré’s spies. It avoids the over the top camp of some Bond adventures and refuses to yield to the cynical despair of the more recent le Carré.
If you can survive the freezing wind, the Russian criminal gangs running the barracks are ready to stab you for your threadbare sweater, and then there’re the mines, great sulfurous pits where every breath is a taste of fire. Those Cyrillic letters on the archway above the Siberian prison camp might as well say, “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”
You will be transfixed by this gripping tale of a “wealthy Jewish businessman summarily jailed and tortured” in Iran shortly after the Islamist Revolution. The vague accusations, the dark and solitary cell, the irrational swiftness between feigned friendship and brutality all exude a timeless quality that supersedes any specific setting.
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