Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
By: Matt Lee
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets…
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1. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
2. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
By: Melody Warnick
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. The Killing of Polly Carter
By: Robert Thorogood
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, feat… read more
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- audiobook
5. A Meditation on Murder
By: Robert Thorogood
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: Leader of a Spiritual Retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one o… read more
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6. Appetites: A Cookbook
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-… read more
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7. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
By: Zac Bissonnette
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box… read more
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8. Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy
By: Kate Hopkins
3.92
Format: 32 pages,
A cultural history of candy-how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M… read more
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9. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
10. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
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- audiobook
12. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
By: Harold Schechter
3.76
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more
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- audiobook
13. Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
By: Allen Eskens
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his ow… read more
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"There are no miracles, my friend. God's hand is in everything; it's only when we can't explain it that we call it a miracle."-Allen Eskens, Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
15. Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
By: Michael Smith
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- food
- audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
17. Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
By: Matt Lee
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets… read more
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- memoir
- culinary
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- business
- food writing
18. Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
By: Alex Prud'Homme
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising narrative history of presidential food: from Washingto… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
20. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
By: Edward Lee
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee … read more
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- memoir
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
"This is where I disagree with food critics whose mission is to judge only what is on the plate. The story such critics tell is about THEM, THEIR preferences, THEIR expectations, not the chef's. What …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
"I ask the ladies what we lose with each generation. They seem to agree: usually language goes first, then memories of relatives and grandparents, then traditions, then longing for home, then a sense …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
21. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
22. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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- audiobook
"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
23. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
24. Night, Forgotten
By: Meghan Joyce Tozer
3.67
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
A dramatic and undeniably addictive psychological thriller about a young woman whose life changes i… read more
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25. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
26. The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality
By: Frank Lipman, MD
4.16
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
“Essential reading for COVID times. . . . The tool we all need right a smart, straightforward guid… read more
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- audiobook
27. Small Town Sins
By: Ken Jaworowski
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more
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28. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
29. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)
By: Hannah Pittard
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more
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- memoir
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30. Play the Fool
By: Lina Chern
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this … read more
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31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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