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  • The Gardener of Versailles

    My Life in the World's Grandest Garden

    by Alain Baraton ...
    Translated by Christopher Brent Murray ...
    Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief of 40 years describes its fascinating history in this “eccentric and charming” love letter for gardeners and Francophiles (New York Times).In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Turning Pages

    The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher

    by John Sargent ...
    Take a peek behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty years in the publishing business. For twenty-four of those years, John Sargent ran one of America’s largest publishing companies. Rather than a straight ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Wingmen

    The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

    by Adam Lazarus ...
    CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the YearThe untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history.It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milk Street Vegetables

    250 Bold, Simple Recipes for Every Season

    Move vegetables into the center of your plate from the realm of sides and salads with this vegetable-cooking bible of more than 250 full-flavor recipes, from James Beard and IACP award winner Christopher Kimball's Milk Street**.**Chili-spiked carrots. Skillet-charred Brussels sprouts. Mashed potatoes brightened with harissa and pistachios. These are just three ways to put vegetables in the center ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Women Warriors

    An Unexpected History

    Discover the incredible stories of warrior women throughout history—from Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII fighter pilots.Who says women don’t go to war? These “exhilarating accounts . . . finally put to rest the tired old arguments that only men are fit for combat” (Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons).The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Path Leads to Tibet

    The Inspiring Story of the Blind Woman Who Brought Hope to the Children of Tibet

    While studying Chinese and Asian civilizations in college, Sabriye Tenberken was stunned to learn that in Tibet blind children were living in appalling conditions—shunned by society, abandoned, and left to their own devices. Sabriye, who had lost her sight at the age of twelve as the result of a retinal disease, promised herself early on that she would never allow her blindness to turn her into an ... Read more

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  • The Year Without Summer

    1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

    Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by historyIn the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in ... Read more

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  • As If It Were Life

    A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    by Philipp Manes ...
    In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich. This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely. The ghetto was run by a council of Jewish elders, and organized like an idyllic ... Read more

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  • Immortalised to Death

    The Dunston Burnett Trilogy

    by Lyn Squire ...
    Series Book 1 - The Dunston Burnett Trilogy
    Death strikes England's foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within the evolving and ultimately tragic consequences of a ... Read more

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  • Death and the Sisters

    Series Book 1 - A Mary Shelley Mystery
    Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating new historical mystery revolving around the real-life trio who would later scandalize 19th century England even as they transformed the literary world.London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milk Street Bakes

    A Baking Book with 200 Sweet and Savory Recipes

    **Turn your kitchen into the world's best bakery with this collection of 200 sweet and savory baking recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street."Comprehensive [and] extraordinarily useful." —Booklist, starred review**The American baking repertoire may be unparalleled in our claim to pies, biscuits, and cakes. But step off a plane in London, Mexico City, Istanbul, or Paris, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Pretty Delicious

    Simple, Modern Mediterranean, Served with Style: A Cookbook

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The debut cookbook from social media sensations Food Dolls, with more than 110 simply sophisticated, fresh, and vibrant Mediterranean dishes with a Middle Eastern twist.Born and raised in the Midwest to parents originally from Egypt, sisters Alia and Radwa Elkaffas created their Food Dolls platform to answer the question of how to put an exciting and healthful meal on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD