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  • Due South

    Dispatches from Down Home

    Now in paperback — the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called “as charming and welcome as an early spring down home.”As satisfying, soothing, and occasionally suprising as a plate of turnip greens with a dash of pepper sauce, Due South is a book to be read and savored. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Carryin' On

    And Other Strange Things Southerners Do

    Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner’s Due South “delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried”; Rick Bragg said that Brunner “writes like people down here talk, with beauty.” Carryin’ On more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor, with more of the disarming and hilarious insights that made Due South an instant classic. Here are the essays like “Common Is as Common Does” (what ... Read more

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    On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China

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    From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked porkEddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was humming, his OKCupid hand was strong, and he’d even hung ... Read more

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  • Appetites

    A Cookbook

    Written with the no-holds-barred ethos of his beloved series, No Reservations and Parts Unknown, the celebrity chef and culinary explorer’s first cookbook in more than ten years—a collection of recipes for the home cook.Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Perfect Meal

    In Search of the Lost Tastes of France

    by John Baxter ...
    John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely.Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are in danger of disappearing as old ways of agriculture, butchering, and cooking fade and are forgotten. In ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • God of the Rodeo

    The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

    Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole, were thrown, trampled, and gored by bucking bulls and broncos before thousands of cheering ... Read more

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  • My Soul Looks Back

    A Memoir

    In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” (New York magazine)—in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from ... Read more

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  • Japanese Tea Ceremony

    Cha-No-Yu

    by A.L. Sadler ...
    The tea cermony—known as cha-no-yu, or literally "hot water for tea"—has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life.First published in 1933 as Cha-No-Yu, or The Japanese Tea Ceremony, this classic remains the gold standard for books on the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which is itself "an epitome of Japanese civilization." Abundantly illustrated with drawings and photographs showing every ... Read more

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  • The Dominion of Youth

    Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an ... Read more

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  • The Wine Lover's Daughter

    A Memoir

    by Anne Fadiman ...
    In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature—was an essential element of Clifton ... Read more

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  • Mexicans & Americans

    Cracking the Cultural Code

    by Ned Crouch ...
    Understand why good neighbors are separated by the meaning of yesWhether negotiating a delivery date, launching a local franchise or renting a car in Mexico City, speaking the language and knowing the rules of business are not enough. In any culture where yes can mean no - or sometimes maybe - even giants like Wal-Mart and IBM can make costly mistakes.Mexicans and Americans gets to the heart of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD