From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called "radiant, wise, and passionate" by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to c…
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventi…
Shelve Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world. Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade. Th…
Shelve At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
This book is an abridged translation of 'Uddat as-Sabirin wa dhakhirat ash-shakirin, a work which is well-known in the Arab world but which has been inaccessible to English-speaking Muslims until now.…
يجمع المؤلف بين طياته هذا كتابين الأول "شرح الصدور بشرح حال الموتى والقبور" والثاني "بشرى الكئيب بلقاء الحبيب". للعلامة الشيخ جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السُيوطي الشافعي. في الأول تحدث المصنف عن علم البرزخ…
When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when she tried going back to her apartment in Seattle …
Shelve A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again--in order to truly heal and move on.
Jackson MacKenzie has helped million…
Shelve Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privil…
Shelve Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memo…
Shelve Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, reve…
When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful -- if rebellious -- Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart,…
Shelve Snobbery with Violence (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #1)
This world can be ugly, despairing, and cynical--but you can cultivate resilient joy that will give you peace and delight in times of turmoil. Through memorable storytelling and humor, Joy Clarkson of…
Shelve Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life
Men dominate history because they write it. Women’s vital part in the shaping of the world has been consistently undervalued or ignored. Rosalind Miles now offers a fundamental reappraisal that sets t…
Shelve Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position …
Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himself as a reasonably comfortable cook when in 2002 he finally decided to answer a question that had nagg…
Shelve Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Don Ascher is a young American living in Kyoto in the 1970s. He is a student of Japanese. He also teaches English, works at a shabu-shabu restaurant, and hangs out in the company of gangsters, hostess…
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healthy food is far from the primary driver of nutritional inequality in America.
Inequality in America ma…
Shelve How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East
The Arab Revolt a…
Shelve Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like real glass on this lavish book’s cover, and explore the dollhouse-like world of a beloved farmhouse …
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making th…
