Bring warmth and sweetness into your home during the most festive months of the year with a whole host of delights, including Matcha & Coconut Trees, Apple Gingerbread, Chocolate & Pecan Snowballs and Pistachio Raspberry Rings. The recipes in Let it Snow are simple, fun, and will feed a whole Christmas party; and come accompanied by cute decoration ideas and transporting photographs of beautiful snowy scenes.

Julie Reiner, the co-owner of The Clover Club in Brooklyn and The Flatiron Lounge in Manhattan, has written a book that provides inspiration for the rest of us, not only the cocktail geeks. She wants to balance the needs of the everyday drinker with those of the passionate mixologist. Recipes are organized around seasonality and occasion, with different events and themes appropriate to the specific time of the year. Each section will include a mixture of holiday-inspired drinks, classic cocktails, and innovative new drinks, all along with fun cocktail lore. Tricks, tips, and techniques--such as batching and infusions, tools of the trade, notes on spirit types, and easy substitutions to utilize what you already have on hand--will round out the amazing amount of information in Reiner's book.

An edition of Caxton's delightful Book of Curtesye, originally "printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A.D." As well as the usual instructions on good manners and behaviour (Lose not your gyrdel / sittyng at your mete - Don't undo your girdle at the table), this guide includes a charming and clearly heartfelt section advising which poets should be read, with Chaucer, Lydgate, Gower and Occleve being judged the finest and most important.

Etiquette isn't just something to turn to when we're expected to behave formally. It exists to ease social tension in daily life and make interactions between people easy, with no ruffled feathers or hurt feelings. "Everyday Etiquette" understands that etiquette is about real life, and will be an essential, streamlined resource. "Everyday Etiquette" decodes the smooth, easy way to: "petiquette," having the best pooch in the neighbourhood; saying the perfect thing at a funeral; acknowledge a gift; respond to a request for a favour and to say no; smoke a cigar in public; attend a bat mitzvah or confirmation ceremony; and, remember someone's name on the spot.