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Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street, 228-1110 "Deceptively Delicious" by Jessica Seinfeld Awonderful new cookbook for parents of picky eaters, "Deceptively Delicious" offers proven recipes that hide nutritious fruit and vegetable purees in foods popular with children. The book has a '50s-style design with simple drawings accompanied by fullpage photos of the recipes, and an inner wire binding that makes for easy use. Definitely geared for busy families with young children, this cookbook offers loads of good advice about efficient, nutritious cooking. - Maggie Head, Nantucket Atheneu Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Book of General Ignorance" by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd There's more to a New Year's Resolution than a diet. How about resolving to learn something new every day? This book can provide the framework for such an intellectual objective. "The Book of General Ignorance" ($19.95) is an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions - all those things we think we know but don't. You think Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Or that Henry the VIII had six wives? Or that Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong and wrong again.
videos Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street, 228-5806 "Eastern Promises" (Rated R for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity) Wa London hospital, nurse Anna (Naomi Watts) tries to help a young girl through a complicated childbirth. However, when the young woman dies, leaving behind her orphaned child, Anna refuses to give up on the baby. By translating the mother's diary, Anna hopes to find some family for the child but instead she gets sucked into the world of the Russian Mob. Mob driver Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) is given the job of retrieving the diary and silencing Anna. As with previous David Cronenberg films, no one is as simple as they seem and even though Nikolai has wanted into the family for years this simple job becomes quite complicated.
Nantucket Video 32 Main Street, 228-0101 "The Kingdom" (Rated R for intense sequences of graphic brutal violence and for violence) "The Kingdom," an action/drama directed by Peter Berg, has an all-star cast with Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper. After a suicide mission in Riyadh that kills and wounds hundreds of Western workers in a segregated and guarded compound, FBI agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) organizes a secret team to investigate the bombing that killed his best friend but it's against the wishes of high US officials and they are faced with a five day limit to complete their task. They battle resistance from every side until the Saudi colonel assigned to the team helps them locate a terrorist cell responsible for the attack. The friendship between Fleury and the colonel provides some of the drama but with Michael Mann as the producer you can count on some spectacular thrill ride action.
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