Essays & Narratives
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Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Wild Plants
$32.00 Add to cartA look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way–and of their amazing afterlife.
Elizabeth Adelman’s Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the- Author: Adelman, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374615020
- Language: English
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Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter
$18.99 Add to cart“A wonderful, unusual, and healing book. . . Read this book to affirm that love never dies, and you are not alone.”–Sy Montgomery
An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pet
- Author: Bartels, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063470756
- Language: English
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How to Cook a Coyote: The Joy of Old Age
$26.00 Add to cartSoign?! A recipe for survival. A juicy, sexy, and wise memoir from the “gifted essayist and meditative thinker” that captures the urgency of life at the age of ninety-eight (The New York Times)
From t- Author: Fussell, Betty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097384
- Language: English
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Rattle of the Sun
$33.32 Add to cartGregg Orifici’s Rattle of the Sun is a meditation on the personal and the monumental. His poems are carefully crafted portraits of longing, discovery, and rambunctious joy, giving voice to misundersto
- Author: Orifici, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: July 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1964003253
- Language: English
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Spam: A Global History
$19.95 Add to cartA cultural history of the celebrated (and derided) canned protein.
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created- Series: Edible
- Author: Spring, Kelly A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390661
- Language: English
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook
$19.99 Add to cartBursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir blends comics with satirical recipes to explore the intersections of food, feminism, frustration, and family.
Jennife- Author: Hayden, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1603095675
- Language: English
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Georgia’s Historical Recipes: Seeking Our State’s Oldest Written Foodways and the Stories Behind Them
$34.95 Add to cartGeorgia’s Historical Recipes is an exploration of our state’s oldest recipes from the antebellum period through World War II, as painstakingly researched by Georgia archivist Valerie J. Frey. This vol
- Author: Frey, Valerie J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820367966
- Language: English
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The Healing Power of Cats
$17.00 Add to cartIn these nine life-fulfilling lessons, learn how your cat can bring you peace, comfort and a unique happiness.
A home without a cat is just a house, as they say. There is something special about our f- Author: Nunstedt, Carina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217253128
- Language: English
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The Science of Pets
$25.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Inside of a Dog, top science writer and TV personality Jay Ingram shares new insights into the hearts, minds, and bodies of the animals who love us (or do they?).
More than one- Author: Ingram, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668069261
- Language: English
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The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories
$20.00 Add to cartThe perfect gift: An illustrated narrative of the life and world of beloved bestselling veterinarian and author, James Herriot, featuring his classic stories and with an introduction written by his ch
- Author: Herriot, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250903718
- Language: English
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Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America
$18.95 Add to cartYour favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
- Author: Asakawa, Gil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1611720680
- Language: English
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Winter in Tuscany: Cozy Recipes and the Quanto Basta Way
$45.00 Add to cartFollowing the success of A House Party in Tuscany and Italian Coastal, Amber Guinness invites us on an artful tour through her beloved Southern Tuscany and favorite pockets of Florence. Winter in Tusc
- Author: Guinness, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 176076521X
- Language: English
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The Gardens of Mien Ruys: Strong Design, Lush Planting, and the Origins of the Modernist Garden
$50.00 Add to cartA celebration of 100 years of the Mien Ruys Gardens, where legendary designer Mien Ruys conducted her lifetime of experimentations and innovations that have deeply informed today’s naturalistic garden… [more below]
- Author: Den Hollander, Conny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1643265334
- Language: English
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Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
$15.95 Add to cartMindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as they work… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Zachiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 093807752X
- Language: English
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets: 101 Entertaining Stories
$16.99 Add to cartThese 101 true entertaining stories celebrate the laughter, love and joy that animals bring into our lives. You’ll enjoy these stories of our furry, feathered, and even scaly companions, from the trad… [more below]
- Author: Newmark, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1611591279
- Language: English
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Seasoned in Appalachia: Delicious Recipes from the Mountains and Hollers
$28.00 Add to cartJourney to the heart of Appalachia through soul-satisfying recipes, charming personal stories, and stunning images of its natural beauty.
Inspired by home-cooked family meals, Seasoned in Appalachia d- Author: Proffitt, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155351
- Language: English
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Inspired by Cats: Writers and Their Mews(es)
$27.99 Add to cartCats and writers are a match made in book heaven. Throughout history, our feline friends have served as trusted desk mates from the composition of a single poem to the creation of the first English di
- Author: Eckstein, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1682689492
- Language: English
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For the Love of Kewpie: A Cookbook and Celebration
$25.00 Add to cartTHE OFFICIAL KEWPIE COOKBOOK! Celebrate the cult-favorite mayonnaise with stories, history, and delicious recipes, all included in this perfect gift and cookbook.
For 100 years, Kewpie Mayonnaise has- Author: Kewpie Corporation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1523533005
- Language: English
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Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day.
“Delight in food, in eating,- Author: Adler, Tamar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668078023
- Language: English
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Flora: The Secret Language of Plants in Art
$35.00 Add to cartPiet Mondrian’s chrysanthemums, Faith Ringgold’s sunflowers, Georgia O’Keefe’s black iris, Salvador Dal?’s narcissus, Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin …these are just a few of the many exemplary pairings that… [more below]
- Author: Werness, Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1643265504
- Language: English
