Locavore: From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens - How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat
10 best books like Locavore: From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens - How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat (Sarah Elton): My Ántonia, Brick Lane, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, A Red Herring Without Mustard, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, Notes from a Young Black Chef
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1583485090 |
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...
| Author | Monica Ali |
| ISBN | 0743243315 |
A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lane brings the immigrant milieu of East London to vibrant life. With great poignancy, Ali illuminates a foreign world; her well-developed characters pull readers along on a deeply psychological, almost spiritual journey. Through the eyes of two Bangladeshi...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385342314 |
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate...
Speaking from Among the Bones
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385344031 |
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary...
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0345540042 |
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce’s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. “A church is a wonderful place for a wedding,” muses Flavia, “surrounded as it is by the legions...
A Red Herring Without Mustard
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385342322 |
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey--mysteries involving...
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger...
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces'...
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 1409149501 |
In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while...
Notes from a Young Black Chef
| Author | Kwame Onwuachi |
| ISBN | 1524732621 |
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree
By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...
| Author | Ann Claycomb |
| ISBN | 0062560697 |
A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations of women...
