It is said that half of all unused Christmas gifts can be found on tie racks, the other half on bookshelves. We don't have any tie tips but herewith offer suggestions for children's literature, cookbooks and that hardy anachronism, the gift book. Today, when a coffee table is more likely to be the counter at Starbucks than a piece of home furniture, coffee-table books may seem of use only to their authors and reviewers (we get to keep 'em or give 'em away). But these handsome, weighty volumes provide testimony that far from being obsolete, they can still be a treat.
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