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June 19, 2010

Book cover of Good Eats: The Early Years by Alton Brown

Good Eats: The Early Years
by Alton Brown

Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon: a great cook, a very funny guy, and a science geek who's as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. This cookbook has more than 140 recipes and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, along with explanations of techniques, and lots of food-science information.

Bookcover for The Ride of a Lifetime: Doing Business the Orange County Choppers Way by Paul Teutul with Mark Yost

The Ride of a Lifetime:
Doing Business the Orange County Choppers Way
by Paul Teutul with Mark Yost

Since founding Orange County Choppers in Upstate New York in 1999, Teutul has grown the business from a hobby into a 70-person-plus operation that produces and sells 150 custom bikes a year at retail prices starting at $30,000 and quickly escalating to six figures. Teutul and his team not only sell their choppers from their world headquarters in Newburgh, New York, but throughout a multi-country dealership network in the US and abroad.

Bookcover of The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Devil's Highway: A True Story
by Luis Alberto Urrea

In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it.