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Gather
David Robertson of Vancouver’s Dirty Apron Cooking School and Delicatessen shares rustic yet sophisticated recipes and cooking advice in "Gather", an inviting cookbook tailored for relaxed sharing in the “collective joy” of...
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Sallie Ann Robinson's Kitchen
Sixth generation Gullah and Native American Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson’s heartfelt cooking compilation is studded with history, folklore, and color photos of the long-isolated South Carolina sea island, personalized...
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Meat Planet
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s "Meat Planet" is a thoughtful examination of the technological, ethical, and cultural issues swirling around the development of artificial flesh. It’s a quick-witted, journalistic survey of lab-cultured...
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Tree of Life
"Tree of Life" is a dynamic retrospective of Tim Biskup’s paintings, sculptures, and artistic philosophy. His art career balanced chaos with strategy before it veered from showing at galleries to working and interacting with people...
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The Trouble with Becoming a Witch
"The Trouble with Becoming a Witch" focuses on its lead character’s winding, knotty, bumpy path to self-acceptance. In Amy Edwards’s novel "The Trouble with Becoming a Witch", a young mother’s marriage becomes more and more...
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Miss Bunsen's School for Brilliant Girls
Irrepressible ten-year-olds Pearl, Halinka, and Millie are determined to save their beloved school in Miss Bunsen’s School for Brilliant Girls, the first title in Erica-Jane Waters’s lively new chapter book series. It features a trio...
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The Chinese Lady
Nancy E. Davis’s "The Chinese Lady" applies historical detective work to document the life of Afong Moy, who took an unusual journey through nineteenth-century America. It reveals much about the young United States, its view of other...
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Hearts of Our People
Hearts of our People catalogs the first major exhibition focused on Native American women’s art. Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves, and incorporating essays by many Native artists and scholars, this is a landmark...