GLOBAL HOME COOKING: International Families' Favorite Recipes features 41 countries, 140 recipes, from 102 international families - in a gorgeous full color hardback cookbook. Founded in 1962, the International School of Lausanne, Switzerland celebrates an annual tradition of cultural exchange and good eating. This "International Day" compilation of wonderful family recipes from all over the world is a loving tribute to this spirit of sharing and global home cooking. Every recipe is authentic, every recipe is delicious, and many recipes are easy "What is patriotism but the love of the good...

In 76 funny and poignant linked vignettes, 13-year-old agnostic protagonist Sandy Drue delivers the story of her personal quest. Her family has moved from New York City to Small Town USA -- not an easy move, especially for Sandy's artist/intellectual mother who feels, the more her children adapt to their new community, like she's hosting foreign exchange students who never leave. Sandy is in-between -- between her mother's mindset and her own, between childhood and adulthood, between geographical and cultural divisions, and in the 1970s, between political conflicts in American history and a...