The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States
By: Giselle Kennedy Lord
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Explore and enjoy the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, from heirlo…
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1. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
2. 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
3. The Fiction Writer
By: Jillian Cantor
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo… read more
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"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rul…"-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer
4. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
By: Heather Webber
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives … read more
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5. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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- nonfiction
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
6. One Puzzling Afternoon
By: Emily Critchley
3.86
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A mystery she can't remember. A friend she can't forget. I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it f… read more
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7. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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8. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- food
- nonfiction
9. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
By: Elizabeth Passarella
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more
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- nonfiction
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
10. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
By: Charlotte Vassell
3.35
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more
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"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
11. The Little Italian Hotel
By: Phaedra Patrick
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When a relationship expert’s own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a va… read more
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"She now knew that heartache could be loud or quiet. Sometimes it needed to make itself known to the world, and other varieties needed space and time to settle down on their own."-Phaedra Patrick, The Little Italian Hotel
12. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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13. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
14. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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15. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
By: Crystal Wilkinson
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more
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- history
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
16. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more
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- history
- foodie
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- nature
17. The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
By: Breanne Randall
3.21
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic… read more
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"Death doesn’t stop you from loving. It makes the love more important."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"It was summer. And freedom. And youth. And heartbreak so hot it cauterized."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"Looking at him was like stretching your limbs after a long nap. The first heartbreak that had sparked her curse to life."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
"Time ceases to exist for you in bookstores, and I am not sitting by for three hours while you get hot over books you have no intention of buying."-Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
18. 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
19. True North
By: Andrew J. Graff
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more
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- nature
20. How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms
By: Frank Hyman
4.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to … read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- reference
- nature
21. Middletide
By: Sarah Crouch
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more
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22. The Endless Vessel
By: Charles Soule
3.79
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that p… read more
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23. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
By: Thea Glassman
3.84
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. Women of the Post
By: Joshunda Sanders
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps w… read more
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"Support units are the spine of the war effort. Because we do a job that is invisible and does not take place on the battlefield does not mean what we do isn't difficult or dangerous."-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"It is the fight of his life - of our lives - to defend our country and maybe it will show white people that we can also belong to and defend this place. We built it too, after all. It is as much our …"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"We all found ways to mirror her contributions to America, even when our country never gave us back all that we gave it. It's a shame that it takes going to other places to help us see how to transfor…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"The most important thing is those letters... They keep soldiers connected to the most significant people in their lives. Their families, their children, their wives and mothers. That keeps them motiv…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
25. The Witches at the End of the World
By: Chelsea Iversen
3.52
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Rage burns brighter than any spellfire… Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the… read more
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26. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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27. Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods
By: Sarah Lohman
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them? Apples, a common New Eng… read more
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- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- nature
28. The Truth According to Ember
By: Danica Nava
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more
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29. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
30. The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States
By: Giselle Kennedy Lord
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Explore and enjoy the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, from heirlo… read more
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- foodie
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- reference
- nature
31. The Bog Wife
By: Kay Chronister
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more
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