Essays & Narratives
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A Countryman’s Journal: Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm
$18.95 Read moreIn A Countryman’s Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard animals, a library full of his favorite liter… [more below]
- Author: Barrette, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143446
- Language: English
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You Were Always There: Notes and Recipes for Living a Life You Love
$16.99 Add to cart“In ten years of tender lessons, I have learned to hear this message: You were always there. You never left. You were never not you. Now walk with me a while and uncover that girl again. She’s not far
- Author: Kartes, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1728243874
- Language: English
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A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster
$26.95 Add to cartOysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that’s just the beginning. Andr? Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off poin
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Gallant, Andr? Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357839
- Language: English
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Burn the Place: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place and what happens once she does. Burn the Place is a galvani- Author: Regan, Iliana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1572842679
- Language: English
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My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories
$45.00 Add to cartA new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history–and at her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Nathan, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 052565898X
- Language: English
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Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A “haunting meditation on trust, hope, and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People).
In the wake of the Okla… [more below]
- Author: Charleson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0547422571
- Language: English
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Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy
$19.99 Add to cartA leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of cont
- Author: Rosenthal, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531781
- Language: English
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Life Is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration to Bake Your Way to the Top: A Baking Book
$29.99 Add to cartONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Boston Globe – ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Food Network, The Washington Post, Time Out, Glamour, Taste of Home, Southern Living, Library Journ… [more below]
- Author: Lomas, Vallery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 059313768X
- Language: English
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Living Within the Wild: Personal Stories & Beloved Recipes from Alaska
$34.99 Add to cartLiving Within the Wild features over 100 original recipes, accompanied by personal stories and stunning photographs, to illustrate the lives of one Alaska family that has learned to live well amidst t
- Author: Dixon, Kirsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513264370
- Language: English
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Oh, La La!: Homegrown Stories, Helpful Tips, and Garden Wisdom
$19.95 Add to cartThe most beloved and respected gardening expert of the Pacific Northwest, Ciscoe Morris, entertains us with gardening stories and shares advice, information, and wisdom from a career that has spanned … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Ciscoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632172798
- Language: English
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
$17.95 Add to cartExtraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.
A Mail on Sunday “Critic’s Pick” Be
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1603587551
- Language: English
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Street Cat Named Bob
$35.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times bestseller! A Street Cat Named Bob is now a major motion picture, the film’s all-star cast includes Luke Treadway (Unbroken, Clash of the Titans), Joanne Froggatt (Downton A
- Author: Bowen, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250029465
- Language: English
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The Last Garden: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartEmbark on a writer’s personal garden journey! Liza Ketchum’s story begins and ends in Vermont, with settings as varied as the Adirondacks, a New York suburb, an urban yard, coastal Florida, and Oxford
- Author: Ketchum, Liza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1578691419
- Language: English
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Paws of Firefighters: The Dogs & Other Animals of New York Firehouses
$29.99 Read moreIn this book, Emmy Park has combined her love for dogs and cats and her passion for documenting the relationship between pets and their families in this unique journey with the firefighters who serve
- Author: Park, Emmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28, 2024
- ISBN10: 076436734X
- Language: English
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Barn Dance: Nickers, brays, bleats, howls, and quacks: Tales from the herd.
$15.95 Add to cartThis collection of musings and essays includes the nine species that live on the farm: A small herd of horses, led by the Grandfather Horse, ancient and failing, and Bhim, a rescue mini who is both un
- Author: Blake, Anna M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0996491244
- Language: English
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An Alphabet for Gourmets
$18.00 Add to cartIn Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, “a Russian
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 10 1989
- ISBN10: 0865473919
- Language: English
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Life in the Garden
$17.00 Read moreFrom the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life
Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions- Author: Lively, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 052555839X
- Language: English
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Food in History
$18.00 Add to cartAn enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed with intriguing information, lore, and startlin… [more below]
- Author: Tannahill, Reay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 10 1995
- ISBN10: 0517884046
- Language: English
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
$36.00 Add to cartExperience the uplifting, “unforgettable” New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world — with over 2 million copies s… [more below]
- Author: Myron, Vicki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0446407410
- Language: English
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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity
$19.95 Read moreA thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality–at the table and beyond–that’s part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our da… [more below]
- Author: Basil, Priya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525657851
- Language: English
