title: The Wasp Cookbook
author: Alexandra Wentworth
description: ... this blue-blooded blond sure knows her mimosas. She minds her peas and onions. She'd eaten creamed chipped beef!... Why return to the Docksider fold and document the finer points of ... toast points? "It had never been done," says Wentworth. -- <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>
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  Copyright © 2009 by Iain M. Banks
  
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  By Iain Banks
  
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