Essays & Narratives
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Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet
$20.00 Add to cartWhen famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary–and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.
Farmers in some of th
- Author: Thurow, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843403
- Language: English
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Broken Heart, Shared Heart, Healing Heart: Navigating the Loss of Your Pet
$22.99 Read moreExperiencing the death of a beloved pet can be profoundly difficult, and it can be challenging to find real support and comfort during this time. Where do you turn?
Written by Barbara Allen, creator
- Author: Allen, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1506493564
- Language: English
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Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion
$35.00 Add to cartWhen a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper’s garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, m… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 050002751X
- Language: English
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Mattie, Milo, and Me: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartAnne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years s… [more below]
- Author: Abel, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1647426227
- Language: English
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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
$16.95 Read more** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES **
“An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.” — Nigella Lawson “One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intel- Author: Johnson, Rebecca May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1911590499
- Language: English
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A Dog Named Mattis: 12 Lessons for Living Courageously, Serving Selflessly, and Building Bridges from a Heroic K9 Officer
$19.99 Add to cartTake a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (
- Author: Tappan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1400246687
- Language: English
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Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians
$27.95 Add to cartIn this unique and deeply thoughtful collection, musician Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and food and travel journalist Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) take readers on tour with a diverse lineup… [more below]
- Author: Pyenson, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1797224573
- Language: English
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A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
$30.00 Add to cartIn this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he kn… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240286
- Language: English
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The Memory of Taste: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quoc, Oakland, and the Spaces Between [A Cookbook]
$32.50 Add to cartA playful collection of over 85 Vietnamese and Viet American dishes and immersive travel photography from Top Chef alum Tu David Phu that blends the Oakland native’s modern culinary style with the foo… [more below]
- Author: Phu, Tu David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1984861905
- Language: English
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Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartA spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning of family and home.
Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both
- Author: Milholland, Lola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1954118570
- Language: English
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Observations of an Accidental Farmer–And a Mindful Reader
$19.95 Read moreIn forty short and charming chapters, a former “great books” teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his re… [more below]
- Author: Kavros, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881915
- Language: English
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Me and My Cat
$16.99 Add to cartThe magic of life with a cat! They keep us company, provide unconditional love, share in the ups and downs of our lives, and make every day an adventure.
How do cats do it? They brighten our days, act- Author: Newmark, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1611591112
- Language: English
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This Is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature
$19.95 Read moreNature isn’t only in a park or wilderness. It’s right outside our door. Sometimes it’s on the door or comes inside to find us. Nature is the jumping spider on the screen, the assassin bug in the showe
- Author: Brichetto, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1595342990
- Language: English
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In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why Flavour Holds the Answer to Fixing Our Food System
$28.00 Read moreWITH A FOREWORD FROM TIM SPECTOR, author of The Diet Myth, Spoon-Fed and Food for Life
‘This book is a passionate rallying call for a change of mindset…’ Mail on Sunday
“A pioneering approach.”–An
- Author: Fubini, Franco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1915294290
- Language: English
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Cat Party!: Cats We’ve Known in Words and Pictures
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Haegele, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1648413102
- Language: English
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The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital
$19.99 Add to cartA veterinarian’s fight for his patients and staff lays bare the power of the human-animal bond.
As one of the few exotic animal experts in California during his time running Noah’s Ark Veterinary Hospi
- Author: Mader, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1954641826
- Language: English
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Healing Wisdom for Pet Loss: An Animal Lover’s Guide to Grief
$17.95 Add to cartFor those who have lost a cherished pet or who know that loss is on the horizon, this guidebook offers compassionate guidance for how to work through the associated grief, as well as an extensive list… [more below]
- Author: Farage-Smith, Anne Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1647426766
- Language: English
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Pawverbs: 100 Inspirations to Delight an Animal Lover’s Heart
$17.99 Read moreA charming and wise collection of lessons from Proverbs . . . taught by teachers with paws.
Many of us believe a house isn’t a home unless there is fur on the floor. Pawverbs, a collection of 100 short… [more below]- Author: Bleakley, Jennifer Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1496441052
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes
$40.00 Add to cart“I bake because it connects my soul to my hands, and my heart to my mouth.” –Martin Philip
A brilliant, moving meditation on craft and love, and an intimate portrait of baking and our communion with f
- Author: Philip, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062447920
- Language: English
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Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit
$27.95 Add to cartThe largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropic
- Author: Moore, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1603587039
- Language: English
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