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  • Big Appetites

    Five Couples Who Dreamed Up a Revolution in Food

    by Laura Shapiro ...
    From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table.In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their passion for good eating into a public campaign that transformed food culture in America and Britain. Their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • What She Ate

    Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

    by Laura Shapiro ...
    **A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads“How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” *—*Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh AirSix “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Big Appetites

    Five Couples Who Dreamed Up a Revolution in Food

    by Laura Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table.In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their passion for good eating into a public campaign that transformed food culture in America and Britain. Their ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Julia Child

    A Life

    by Laura Shapiro ...
    Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation’s culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child’s unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Uncommon Voyage

    Parenting Children with Special Needs; A Guidebook

    In 1984, when he was ten months old, Laura’s son Seth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Suddenly the direction of Laura’s life changed. She embarked on a journey to improve the quality of Seth’s life, plunging into a world that lacked today’s information-rich internet to get everything she could for Seth—at first within the mainstream and later in a wider world that came to include osteopathy, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Julia Child: A Life

    by Laura Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Julia Prud'homme ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    The delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in twentieth-century American culture. With a swooping voice, an incredible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation’s culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child’s unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in World ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    What She Ate

    Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

    by Laura Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Laura Shapiro, Kimberly Farr ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    **A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads“How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” *—*Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh AirSix “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Uncommon Voyage

    Parenting Children with Special Needs; A Guidebook

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    In 1984, when he was ten months old, Laura’s son Seth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Suddenly the direction of Laura’s life changed. She embarked on a journey to improve the quality of Seth’s life, plunging into a world that lacked today’s information-rich internet to get everything she could for Seth—at first within the mainstream and later in a wider world that came to include osteopathy, ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Female Force: Women of the Eighties

    Series Book 1 - Female Force
    You know their songs, now read their stories. Madonna, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton-John, and Whitney Houston dominated the pop charts during the era daring age of excess, Reagonimcs, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the birth of the internet, proving themselves members of StormFront’s famed Female Force! Special edition pin-up section featuring Joan Jett, Dolly Parton and more. With a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    Why We Read

    On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

    by Shannon Reed ...
    Narrated by Paige McKinney ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 54 min

    A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize SemifinalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Lives Like Loaded Guns

    Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons and reveals Emily to be a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Appetite for Life

    The Biography of Julia Child

    Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon, whose statuesque height and warmly enthused warble have become synonymous with the art of cooking.In this biography we meet the earthy and outrageous Julia, who, at age eighty-five, remains a complex role ... Read more

    $9.99 USD