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• Pie Is Messy

  Recipes From the Pie Hole

  Grasley, Rebecca

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  Author Rebecca Grasley is the founder of the famous L.A. bakery The Pie Hole. With 100 pie recipes, this book encourages you to embrace the wonderfully messy world of baking.

• America Walks Into a Bar

  a Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies, and Grog Shops

  Sismondo, Christine

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  America Walks into a Bar explores the central role that alcohol culture and communal drinking spots have played in shaping American identity and history.

• Furiously Happy

  a Funny Book About Horrible Things

  Lawson, Jenny, 1973-

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  You don’t have to be familiar with Jenny Lawson to enjoy her humour-memoir. Balancing laugh-out-loud comedy and raw honesty about her lifelong struggles with severe clinical depression, anxiety, ADHD and other conditions.

• Negatives

  a Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)

  Madden, Amy Fleisher

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  This coffee-table book serves as a definitive visual history and time capsule of the Emo music scene during its highly influential second and third waves. The author also describes the book as a “rescue mission” to preserve the photos contained…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Talking Pictures

  Images and Messages Rescued From the Past

  Riggs, Ransom

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  Written and curated by Ransom Riggs, who is known for his Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series, this book acts as a beautiful, haunting, and sometimes heartbreaking time capsule of humanity.

• The Book of Marvels

  a Compendium of Everyday Things

  Crozier, Lorna, 1948-

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  This collection of poetic “prose meditations” transforms common household items into extraordinary subjects.

• Traveling With Pomegranates

  [a Mother-daughter Story]

  Kidd, Sue Monk

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  Sue Monk Kidd coauthored this dual memoir with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. Alternating chapters from one distinct perspective to the other, as they both navigate their lives and personal identities.

• A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

  One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

  Harris, Will, III

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  This memoir from Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures in Georgia, U.S.A, chronicles his dramatic transformation as a conventional, industrial cattle rancher to a world-renowned pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement.

• Assyria

  the Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

  Frahm, Eckart

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  The author, Eckart Fram, is a leading Yale University professor of Assyriology. Through this title he delivers a comprehensive and accessible study of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

• Summer With the Leprechauns

  a True Story

  Helliwell, Tanis

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  This short spiritual memoir and travelogue, presented by the author as an entirely factual account, follows her journey to a remote Irish village and her introduction to a leprechaun named Lloyd.

• Gardens of the National Trust

  Lacey, Stephen, 1957-

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  This gorgeous and comprehensive illustrated guide and reference book is the definitive profile of the hundreds of world-class, historic gardens preserved under the care of the UK’s National Trust.

• Why We Swim

  Tsui, Bonnie

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  The central premise of this book is an evolutionary paradox: humans are not natural-born swimmers and must be taught to swim, and yet we routinely submerge ourselves in freezing oceans and dangerous rivers. Author and journalist, Bonnie Tsui…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Body

  Kaur, Rupi

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  This collection of poetry and prose serves as a raw, intimate journey of self-reflection that guides readers through past traumas toward a state of self-acceptance and belonging.

• The Beautiful Dream

  a Memoir

  Hutchinson, Atiba

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  This autobiography chronicles soccer star Atiba Hutchinson’s journey from a soccer-obsessed kid in the suburbs to the most-capped men’s player in Canadian soccer history.

• Mortality

  Hitchens, Christopher

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  This poignant, masterfully written book was published posthumously and details the author’s final year of life after being diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer.

• Sabai

  100 Simple Thai Recipes for Any Day of the Week

  Chongchitnant, Pailin

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  This highly accessible guide strips away the common misconception that authentic Thai food is too time-consuming, complex, or intimidating for casual weeknight home cooking.

• Wee Felt Worlds

  Sweet Little Scenes to Needle Felt

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  This book focuses on creating whimsical three-dimensional dioramas. The crafting community appreciates it for breaking down a seemingly complex fiber art into an approachable, highly rewarding hobby that requires minimal tools.

• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican

  Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

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  Legendary Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei presented this scientific treatise in 1632, proving for the first time that Earth revolves around the sun. It’s considered one of the most influential works in the history of science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brain on Fire

  My Month of Madness

  Cahalan, Susannah

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  This medical memoir tells of the author’s sudden and horrifying descent into severe psychosis and her race against time to find a diagnosis before being permanently institutionalized.

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

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  Science journalist Rebecca Skloot chronicles the collision between modern medicine, corporate greed, and systemic racism through the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge and without recompense.…Read moreRead more of this annotation