The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
By: Kate Lebo
3.77
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culi…
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1. Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed [A Cookbook]
By: Bryant Terry
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Renowned chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry reworks and remixes the favorite staples, ingr… read more
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2. Oaxaca Journal
By: Oliver Sacks
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is w… read more
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3. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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4. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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5. The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1)
By: Ann Swinfen
4.40
Format: 184 pages,
Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Far… read more
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6. The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
By: Donald Maass
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plott… read more
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7. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
By: Noah Strycker
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more
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8. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
9. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love: Recipes to Unlock the Secrets of Your Pantry, Fridge, and Freezer: A Cookbook
By: Yotam Ottolenghi
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
12. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
13. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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15. Plain Jane and the Mermaid
By: Vera Brosgol
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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16. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
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"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
17. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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18. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
19. Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes
By: Max Miller
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the … read more
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20. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more
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21. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
By: Rebecca May Johnson
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more
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"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
22. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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23. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
By: Elizabeth Flock
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more
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"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
24. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
25. Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things
By: Kelly Williams Brown
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something wh… read more
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26. The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
By: Kate Lebo
3.77
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culi… read more
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27. New World Sourdough: Artisan Techniques for Creative Homemade Fermented Breads; With Recipes for Birote, Bagels, Pan de Coco, Beignets, and More
By: Bryan Ford
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
New World Sourdough is your go-to guide to baking delicious, inventive sourdough breads at home. Le… read more
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28. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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29. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Colin Elliott
3.76
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more
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30. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
By: June Thomas
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more
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31. Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
By: Lisa Margonelli
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This book is about termites the way the Bible is about men with beards. Yes, it takes you into the … read more
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