book
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Caring for body and home
NONFICTION
Joy Bauer’s Food Cures: Treat Common Health
Concerns, Look Younger and Live Longer and
Prevention’s 3-2-1 Weight Loss Plan: Eat Your
Favorite Foods to Cut Cravings, Improve
Energy, and Lose Weight, by Joy Bauer. Food
Cures is the ultimate guide to using food as
medicine from the nutrition expert for the
Today show. She explains what to eat to lower
cholesterol, sleep better, sharpen memory and
more. Use the 3-2-1 Plan for food and exercise
management and safe and steady weight loss.
JUVENILE
Alive: The Living, Breathing Human Body
Book, by DK Publishing. Travel through the
body’s systems using a host of novelty features: pop-ups, flaps, sound chips,
acetate overlays, pull-tabs and
fiber optics that illustrate, inform,
stimulate and entertain.
Marlene Koch’s Sensational Splenda Recipes:
Over 375 Recipes Low in Sugar, Fat and Calories, 2nd Edition, by Marlene Koch. This new
edition is the most complete Splenda cookbook on the market, with recipes for appetizers, snacks, main dishes, side dishes and, of
course, desserts.
Signed book
giveaway
COSTCO HAS ONE limited-edition
signed copy of Anne Geddes’ A Labor
of Love in a leather slipcase
to give away. To enter,
print your name, member-
ship number, address and
daytime phone number on
a postcard or letter and
send it to: Anne Geddes,
The Costco Connection,
P.O. Box 34088, Seattle,
WA 98124-1088. Or send
an e-mail to giveaway@
costco.com, with “Anne
Geddes” in the subject line.
No purchase is necessary. Open to legal
residents of the U.S. (except Puerto Rico) who
are age 18 or older at the time of entry and
who are current Costco members. One entry
per household. Entries must be received or
postmarked by February 1, 2008. Winners
will be randomly selected and notified by
mail on or before March 3, 2008. The value
of the prize is $40. Void where prohibited.
Winners are responsible for all applicable
federal, state and local taxes. Odds of winning
depend on the number of eligible entries
received. Employees of Costco or Andrews
McMeel and their families are not eligible.
FICTION
The Friday Night Knitting Club, by
Kate Jacobs. Between running her
Manhattan yarn shop and raising her
12-year-old daughter, Dakota, Georgia
Walker has plenty on her plate. Suddenly, Dakota’s father reappears, a former friend contacts her and things start to fall
apart. Her support system is her staff and the
knitting club that meets at her store.
Real Simple: Cleaning, from the editors of
Real Simple. There’s a lot of satisfaction in
having a spotless home, but what a pain it
can be to get there. Here is a fresh start with
room-by-room strategies, methods for maintenance, troubleshooting tips and advice for
granite, hardwood and other finishes.
Duma Key, by Stephen King. Six months after
a crane crushes his body, self-made millionaire
Edgar Freemantle launches a new life in Duma
Key, a remote stretch of the Florida coast where
he has rented a house. All of the land and
the few houses there are owned by Elizabeth
Eastlake, an octogenarian whose tragic and
mysterious past unfolds eerily.—Valerie Ryan
