The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside
10 best books like The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside (Amanda Hesser): As I Lay Dying, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, The Cricket in Times Square, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant, The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee:, New Passages, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others, the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Author | Adam Higginbotham |
ISBN | 1501134612 |
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
The Cricket in Times Square
Author | George Selden |
ISBN | 0440228891 |
One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama...
Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
Author | Carolyn B. Mitchell |
ISBN | 0671679902 |
Since its opening in 1973, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been synonymous with creative cuisine with a healthful, vegetarian emphasis.
Each Sunday at Moosewood Restaurant, diners experience a new ethnic or regional cuisine, sometimes exotic, sometimes familiar. From...
The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
Author | Mollie Katzen |
ISBN | 0913668680 |
Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper with it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the...
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf— written in 1942 during wartime shortages—An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.
Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks....
Author | Thomas Mallon |
ISBN | 1886913021 |
Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon...
A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee:
Author | Chris Van Dusen |
ISBN | 0811836037 |
The second book in the much-loved Mr. Magee series
A new adventure with Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee: In A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee, Mr. Magee and his trusty dog, Dee, are enjoying a peaceful camping trip when along comes a lumbering, marshmallow-loving bear and the excitement begins. The next...
Author | Gail Sheehy |
ISBN | 0345404459 |
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . .
People are taking longer to grow...
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...
Author | Corinna Luyken |
ISBN | 0735227926 |
Zoom meets Beautiful Oops! in this memorable picture book debut about the creative process, and the way in which "mistakes" can blossom into inspiration.
One eye was bigger than the other. That was a mistake.
The weird frog-cat-cow thing? It made an excellent bush.
And the inky smudges......