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September 05, 2009

Martha Stewart's Cupcakes:
175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat
by Martha Stewart

This book includes recipes for the cakes, frostings, and fillings, along with a trove of suggestions for tastefully decorating and embellishing them. From classics such as devil's food cupcakes to sweet surprises like peanut butter and jelly cupcakes, there are recipes to please everyone.

Homework for Grown-ups:
Everything you Learned at School and Promptly Forgot
by E. Foley and B. Coates

Packed with all the basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, this is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. In fact, there's even a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure you've been paying attention.

Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
by John Robert Soennichsen

Channeled Scablands, between Idaho and the Cascades, is a unique landscape of basalt cliffs, dry waterfalls, canyons, and coulees. This dramatic book tells the story of how legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz came to study the region in the 1920s, and his radical theory that a flood of biblical proportions created it.