Books published by publisher Putnam Pub Group

A Treasury of Great Recipes contains famous specialties of the world's foremost restaurants adapted for the American kitchen. This collection of recipes was culled from the chefs at Vincent Price's favorite classy restaurants. Included are anecdotes about the restaurants, the foods and his friends, as well as photos of some of the best restaurants in the world and their menus. Many of these restaurants are gone now.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency—Pearl Harbor—and America's subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the events—historic, humorous, and tragic—and personalities of the American home front. From V-girls and V-mail, blackouts and the internment of the Japanese, to new opportunities for African-Americans and women, Lingeman recaptures a unique time in American history in this New York Times Notable Book.

One day they were there, the next they were gone-all but a small tribe of American Indians, family and friends gathered for a party, and the ubiquitous robots. Whatever mysterious power it was that had snatched up eight billion human souls and spirited them away had overlooked very few. Deprived of a labor force, technology disintegrated. The Indians went back to nature, the others ... something very strange happened to them. In exchange for the overpowering presence of the vanished hordes, they acquired mental powers beyond imagining which whisked them through the stars, extraordinary longevity, and a painfully garnered wisdom. As for the robots, some went to live with the remnants of humanity, though the Indians forthrightly rejected their services; others gathered into a robot community and commenced work on the Project, a work baffling to human understanding, but in all its fantastic electronic complexity an apotheosis of robotry; still others. a very few, stubbornly maintained the old religion and lived as monks, worshiping they knew not what by who knows what right. Then one day a traveler returned from the stars. The people had been found and were planning to return. More important and more dreadful, a Principle had been discovered in the center of the Galaxy, a disembodied intelligence of awesome capacity and godlike indifference. The idyllic existence of the last of Earth's humans was threatened. The carefully composed elegy to mankind was under siege. In this outstanding novel, Clifford D. Simak has revealed a warmth, a charm, and a compassion rare in science fiction. Winner of the Hugo Award for his outstanding novel Way Station and the International Fantasy Award for City, CLIFFORD SIMAK has nineteen published books to his credit. A journalist ever since college, he now writes a science column for the Minneapolis Star and is also in charge of a science education program for the Minneapolis Tribune.