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With its kraft paper covers, fine color line drawings by French artist Alain Bouldouyre, elastic band, and tiny accessory notebook tucked into a pocket inside the back cover, the Authentik series' Artistik New York is a unique package.

The content is also unique. Its ten chapters deliver highly selective information, written with the authoritative voice of the denizens of New York chic, on the most elegant, hippest, and most happening spots around town. Discerning travelers with an eye for the unusual and a hankering after off-the-beaten-track treasures will find it an invaluable accessory. There's a selection of the best fashion and design stores, fine restaurants with fabulous settings, intimate cafes, cutting-edge cultural spaces, and the best spas--everything that's chic around New York.

Chapters consist of evocative text followed by a directory listing the addresses and contact information for the places mentioned as well as URLs (plus details about still other essential stops). Also included are grid codes showing where the sites are located.

The book also includes a 2D Bar Code which allows readers with Internet-enabled phones to actually download all the addresses onto their cellphones.

Authentik / Gourmet London

Gourmet London is for sophisticated and intrepid lovers of fine food in all its variety. The guide highlights fabulous feasting places, fine food and wine stores, markets, culinary neighborhoods, cooking schools and star chefs that make London a gourmet traveller's mecca. Full of tips on taste, it's a one-stop gastronomic globe trot.

Authentik / Artistik Paris

Artistik Paris is for nomads with a passion for culture. The guide describes the city's vibrant art scene and provides all the key addresses; hotels designed by artists; private contemporary art galleries; cutting edge venues for music and the performing arts; landmark movie theatres and film locations in the capital of film noir.

Authentik / Chic Paris

Chic Paris is for anyone whose leitmotif is style. To live a chic life in Paris is to live a life loaded with gesture and nuance. The guide explores this singular art with a selection of shops, restaurants, bars, hotels, and services that have indefinable allure. Chic Paris is an irresistible accessory for aficionados of the finest.

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Joshua and Isadora

Traveling through the Ukraine, Romania, and Turkey, Michael Benanav documents the incredible story of his grandmother Isadora, who was deported along with every Jew in Romania and held captive in a frozen Ukrainian area called Transnistria. Near the end of the Nazi occupation, Isa returned to Bucharest. She emigrated to Palestine on the Toros, the ship on which she met the author’s grandfather, Joshua. Letters chronicle both the love affair, the birth of the Zionist movement, and the resurgence of Jewish writers in Europe.

This story is a beautiful tapestry woven by an award-winning young writer, accompanied by vivid full-color photographs.

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Kristina Sauerwein

Invisible Chains

The riveting story of the Shawn Hornbeck kidnapping case, which grabbed national headlines in January 2007 when Shawn and another boy were found in the home of Michael J. Devlin. Hornbeck had been in captivity for four years, was gradually given more and more freedom, but never tried to escape.

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Mom Is Always Right

Mom Is Always Right gathers together the wisest and most memorable words ever said by and about the women who have held our hands along the obstacle course of life. At turns heartwarming and inspiring, humorous and profound, this little gem of a book makes the perfect gift for any mother or grandmother.

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Stud Muffins

Fifty recipes are presented by sexy men—stud muffins—who are poised to give you an adrenaline-pumping sugar rush. The tempting treats (we’re talking about the muffins!) include an array of ingredients—from berries to cream to nuts and chocolate—for any kind of heart’s desire.