<div>Hundreds of recipes to take you through winter, spring, summer, and fall: &ldquo;A book no cook should be able to do without&rdquo; (Nigella Lawson). This volume brings the cycles of nature back to the kitchen. It is written for people who care about eating well by using fresh foods in season&mdash;and about feeding their families with good meals that are neither elaborate nor time-consuming. Whether it&rsquo;s cold soups for summer or Dutch Apple Squares for an autumn treat, this book offers an extensive collection of recipes organized by the seasons as well as by featured ingredients.</div>

Margaret Costa's Four Seasons Cookery Book

<div>An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in &ldquo;a genuinely brilliant novel&rdquo; from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Mar&ccedil;al in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Mar&ccedil;al works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work&mdash;until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Mar&ccedil;al investigate; what they find transforms the family&rsquo;s life, in a novel that is both &ldquo;irrepressibly funny&rdquo; (The Christian Science Monitor) and a &ldquo;triumph&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). &ldquo;The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn&rsquo;t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato&rsquo;s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa</div>

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The Cave

<div>A &ldquo;wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality&rdquo; from a Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits (The Boston Globe). As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano M&aacute;ximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him&mdash;or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face&mdash;appears on the screen. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man&rsquo;s identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human. Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences? The inspiration for the film Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve, The Double is a timeless novel from a writer John Updike described in The New Yorker as &ldquo;like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tempting to think of [The Double] as his masterpiece.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa </div>

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