Summary: No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential...
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Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the...
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Summary: Beans are being embraced as a delicious, versatile, and environmentally friendly protein alternative. Yonan provides master base recipes for cooking any sort of bean in any sort as appliance -- as...
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Summary: From award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction -- a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.
Summary: With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, simple lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when...
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Summary: When the elite St. Paul's School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered decades...
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Summary: Discover recipes for all types of crusts and pastry, including gluten-free, whole wheat, and extra-flaky. Learn about the best tools and gadgets to make dough and fillings. Step-by-step instructions with photos make it easy for bakers of all levels.
Summary: Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was...
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Summary: We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old post-war alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the...
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Summary: David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day....
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Summary: Every hour of the day, Louisiana loses a football field's worth of land to the Gulf. And so before her hometown disappears entirely, chef Melissa Martin wants to document the recipes, ingredients,...
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Summary: On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and...
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Summary: Includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and...
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Summary: Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues author Mikki Kendall, but...
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Summary: Author R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went -- whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or...
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Summary: Create chef-quality food without spending hours in the kitchen. Over the course of his career, Gordon Ramsay has learned every trick in the trade to create dishes that taste fantastic and that can be...
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Summary: Through 150 decadent and smart recipes, Alex Guarnaschelli explores how the relationships with her family have shaped her as a chef and home cook. "This book is who I am now -- it is a road map to...
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Summary: When Wayetu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother,...
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Summary: Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next-level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements: process, pairing, and produce. For process, Yotam...
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Summary: Teaches handmade artisan bread baking for beginner to intermediate home bakers who want to learn how to bake fermented breads at home with New World twists. With less emphasis on perfecting crumb...
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Summary: Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism.
Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the...
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Summary: Rapinoe was four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball. Her parents encouraged her love for the game, but taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life. Here...
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Summary: It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments -- the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that...
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Summary: At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the...
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Summary: Thirty diverse authors and illustrators invite you into their homes to witness the conversations they have with their children about race in America today in this powerful call-to-action that invites...
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Summary: We swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure, for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not...
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Summary: "A remarkable feat of reporting."—Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises *WINNER OF THE LUKAS PRIZE* The definitive account of the most notorious street gang in America—the...
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Summary: An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long...
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Summary: In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny space in Manhattan's East Village. Chang, the chef-owner, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused...
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Summary: When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape...
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Summary: An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from...
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Summary: Instant New York Times Best-seller "A splendid and invigorating read." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a...
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Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the...
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Summary: A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. "You simply cannot understand China without reading Barbara Demick on...
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Summary: An Instant New York Times Bestseller A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the...
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Summary: For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage...
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Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH; S BOOK CLUB PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America...
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Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH; S BOOK CLUB PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America...
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Summary: John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep...
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