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Women in the Kitchen
Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
by Anne Willan
Pub Date 05 May 2020
Culinary historian Anne Willan traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve essential women cookbook writers—from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters—highlighting their key historical contributions and most representative recipes.
Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook...
Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook...
Women in the Kitchen
Anne Willan
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Pub Date 23 Jun 2020
“[An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once…This singular, spellbinding novel is…an exploration of identity itself.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the...
“Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the...
Mother Daughter Widow Wife
Robin Wasserman
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Pub Date 26 May 2020
A sweeping, definitive biography of Samuel Colt—the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter)—which changed the US forever, triggering the industrial revolution and the settlement of the American West.
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without...
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without...
Revolver
Jim Rasenberger
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Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world’s great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major...
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major...
The Year 1000
Valerie Hansen
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Those Who Forget
My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Geraldine Schwarz
Pub Date 05 May 2020
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz’s riveting account of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe’s post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today’s rise of far-right nationalism.
During World War...
During World War...
Those Who Forget
Geraldine Schwarz
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Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number.
It’s sweltering...
It’s sweltering...
A Conspiracy of Bones
Kathy Reichs
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Pub Date 14 Jan 2020
Colin O’Brady’s awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica.
Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support and completely human powered. Yet, Colin O’Brady was determined to do just that, even if, ten years earlier...
Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support and completely human powered. Yet, Colin O’Brady was determined to do just that, even if, ten years earlier...
The Impossible First
Colin O'Brady
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Death in Mud Lick
A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by Eric Eyre
Pub Date 31 Mar 2020
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
Death in Mud Lick is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West...
Death in Mud Lick is the story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West...
Death in Mud Lick
Eric Eyre
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Pub Date 19 May 2020
From internationally bestselling author Sandrone Dazieri comes the thrilling conclusion to the “unrelentingly suspenseful” (Booklist, starred review) Caselli and Torre trilogy in which two damaged but deductively brilliant detectives must sort out what is real and what is imagined.
Reeling from a deadly bombing in Venice and her investigative partner Dante’s...
Reeling from a deadly bombing in Venice and her investigative partner Dante’s...
Kill the King
Sandrone Dazieri
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Pub Date 11 Feb 2020
Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn tells the astonishing true story of George Washington’s forgotten last years—the personalities, plotting, and private torment that unraveled America’s first post-presidency.
Washington’s End begins where most biographies of George Washington leave off, with the first president exiting office...
Washington’s End begins where most biographies of George Washington leave off, with the first president exiting office...
Washington's End
Jonathan Horn
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Pub Date 11 Feb 2020
“The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up.” —Hilary Mantel
An irresistibly charming debut novel set in a department store in Sydney in the 1950s.
The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode’s, are run off their feet selling ladies’ cocktail dresses during the busy...
An irresistibly charming debut novel set in a department store in Sydney in the 1950s.
The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode’s, are run off their feet selling ladies’ cocktail dresses during the busy...
The Women in Black
Madeleine St John
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The Hunt for History
On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures—from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air Force One
by Nathan Raab; Luke Barr
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts—questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity—and he shows us what the past can tell us about the present.
A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to...
A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to...
The Hunt for History
Nathan Raab; Luke Barr
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Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
The Millions Most Anticipated of 2020
One of School Library Journal's "2020 Titles To Watch"
One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020”
A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the tragic accident that changes everything.
Rory Ramos...
One of School Library Journal's "2020 Titles To Watch"
One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020”
A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the tragic accident that changes everything.
Rory Ramos...
Kept Animals
Kate Milliken
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Pub Date 04 Feb 2020
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
When Time Stopped
Ariana Neumann
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Pub Date 18 Feb 2020
A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied...
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied...
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
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Palm Beach Post, BuzzFeed, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated of 2020
A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a...
A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a...
Follow Me to Ground
Sue Rainsford
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Pub Date 07 Jan 2020
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A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives.
“Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It’s a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little math, it’s delightfully...
“Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It’s a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little math, it’s delightfully...
The Math of Life and Death
Kit Yates
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Politics Is for Power
How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
by Eitan Hersh
Pub Date 14 Jan 2020
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A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action.
Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes)...
Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes)...
Politics Is for Power
Eitan Hersh
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The timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity—through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages—from World War II to the 1980s.
Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably...
Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably...
Superior Women
Alice Adams
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Disney's Land
Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
by Richard Snow
Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.
One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and...
One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and...
Disney's Land
Richard Snow
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“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and eleven novels illuminate the American Century.
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World...
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World...
Alice Adams
Carol Sklenicka
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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
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A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world—and it changed them.
In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily...
In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily...
Genius & Anxiety
Norman Lebrecht
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Beyond the Known
How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
by Andrew Rader
Pub Date 12 Nov 2019
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From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader—an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager—an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans’ insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization’s earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel.
For the first time in...
For the first time in...
Beyond the Known
Andrew Rader
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In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.
In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and...
In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and...
Finding Meaning
David Kessler
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Checkpoint Charlie
The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
by Iain MacGregor
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
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A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine...
East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine...
Checkpoint Charlie
Iain MacGregor
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Hymns of the Republic
The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by S. C. Gwynne
Pub Date 29 Oct 2019
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From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points...
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points...
Hymns of the Republic
S. C. Gwynne
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A clear, simple, and complete guide for beginning investors from bestselling author Mary Buffett and Sean Seah that explains Warren Buffett’s techniques of Value Investing and his proven strategies to ensure long-term success.
For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle. During that time, she studied Warren’s investment strategies and...
For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle. During that time, she studied Warren’s investment strategies and...
7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett
Mary Buffett; Sean Seah
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a “beguiling memoir about the simple life” (Elle), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community of 250 people.
The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500...
The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500...
Good Husbandry
Kristin Kimball
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More from Less
The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee
Pub Date 08 Oct 2019
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From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a compelling argument—masterfully researched and brilliantly articulated—that we have at last learned how to increase human prosperity while treading more lightly on our planet.
Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests...
Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests...
More from Less
Andrew McAfee
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Pub Date 08 Oct 2019
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For readers of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz’s Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principled—and highly controversial—stand against the types of guns that are too often used in mass shootings and...
It's How We Play the Game
Ed Stack
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Founded by Charles Scribner in 1846, Scribner is the home of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more. In 1978, Scribner acquired Atheneum, and in 1984 merged with Macmillan. Today, under publisher Nan Graham, Scribner has a distinguished list of writers that includes Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, Annie Proulx, Anthony Doerr, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jeannette Walls, and Don DeLillo. www.scribnerbooks.com
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