Uncommon Courtesy: The Basics of Good Behavior for a Badly Behaved World by Jennifer M. Wood from Adams Media is $2.99 (US Kindle)
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This book is the short slap to the back of the head most people need nowadays. In a world that’s more likely to flip the bird than hold the door, it’s their reminder of proper behavior. You’ll receive a (re-)schooling in manners with lessons split up by situation, then tackled by topic. Each note corrects conduct that’s become all too common, like . . .
Bad Behavior: Popping a piece of gum into your mouth midconversation, and stressing your point by snapping it.
Courteous Fix: If you’re going to have a piece of gum while talking to someone, be sure to offer your companion a piece–and keep your mouth closed as you chew. You want your breath to be fresh. Not your attitude.
It’s a reminder that it wasn’t always out of place to be polite.
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book by Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield and Nancy Stevens from Workman Publishing Company is $2.24 (US Kindle)
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With little skill, surprisingly few ingredients, and even the most unsophisticated of ice-cream makers, you can make the scrumptious ice creams that have made Ben & Jerry’s an American legend.
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book tells fans the story behind the company and the two men who built it-from their first meeting in 7th-grade gym class (they were already the two widest kids on the field) to their “graduation” from a $5.00 ice-cream-making correspondence course to their first ice-cream shop in a renovated gas station.
But the best part comes next. Dastardly Mash, featuring nuts, raisins, and hunks of chocolate. The celebrated Heath Bar Crunch. New York Super Fudge Chunk. Oreo Mint. In addition to Ben & Jerry’s 11 greatest hits, here are recipes for ice creams made with fresh fruit, with chocolate, with candies and cookies, and recipes for sorbets, sundaes, and baked goods.
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Vanishing and Other Stories (P.S.) by Deborah Willis from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)
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Evocative and passionately written, “Vanishing and Other Stories” by debut Canadian author Deborah Willis explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave, are left, and whether or not it’s ever possible to move on.
Readers will encounter a skinny, freckled ice-cream scooper named Nina Simone, a vanishing visionary of social utopia, a French teacher who collects fiances, and a fortune-telling mother who fails to predict the heartbreak of her own daughter. The characters in this collection will linger in the imagination “like the smell of lavender and molasses,” proving that nothing is ever truly forgotten.
Written with a remarkable economy of words, Willis’ prose will draw comparisons to early Alice Munro.
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