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If the Buddha Dated
A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Zen and the art of falling in love . . .
At once practical, playful, and spiritually sound, this book is about creating a new love story in your life. Drawing from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi and other spiritual traditions, If the Buddha Dated shows how to find a partner without losing yourself....
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The companion how-to guide to the hit TV series-with advice for anyone starting their own genealogical search.
In the groundbreaking NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? seven celebrities-Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and...
by Ruth Reichl
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women
A former New York Times restaurant critic, editor in chief of Gourmet, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure...
Twin
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism.
When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible...
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
BRAND NEW FOR 2018: A fully revised edition of the most comprehensive guide to sensory processing challenges
"At last, here are the insights and answers parents have been searching for." -Dr. Temple Grandin
For children with sensory difficulties - those who struggle process...
My Teenage Werewolf
A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
A veteran journalist navigates the mother-daughter relationship at its most crucial moment
With the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open (and sometimes wounded) heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler embeds herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter's...
Conquering Infertility
Dr. Alice Domar's Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility and Coping with Inferti lity
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Infertility is a heartbreaking condition that affects nine million American couples each year. It causes tremendous stress, can trigger debilitating sadness and depression, and can tear a marriage to shreds. In Conquering Infertility, Harvard psychologist Alice Domar-whom Vogue calls the “Fertility...
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook.
After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a...
Cooked
A Natural History of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
**Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked.
Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations"...
Cork Dork
A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK
“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably...
Cod
A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
**An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and *The Basque History of the World
Cod*,** Mark Kurlansky’s third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award**,** is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may...
For All the Tea in China
How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory...
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Kathleen Flinn's unforgettable, New York Times Bestselling account of her French culinary adventures
Kathleen Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder - until her boss eliminated her job. Instead of sulking, she took the opportunity to check out of the...
The Soul of a Chef
The Journey Toward Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens...