The Garden of Evening Mists
Winner of the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and finalist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize!
“Guarding its mysteries until the very end, this is a novel of subtle power and redemptive grace.” -Prize Chair Maya Jaggi
Consider the Fork
A History of How We Cook and Eat
Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies—from the fork to the microwave and beyond—have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat
"Clearly-written and methodically researched, Consider the Fork fills a real void in culinary literature." -The Toronto Star
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The River Swimmer
Novellas
"The River Swimmer . . . is as thoughtfully written as his other 30-plus books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction." -Macleans
"The River Swimmer . . . contains some of the best writing of his career. Both novellas burn brightly." -New York Times
If You Hold a Seed
" . . . destined to become a classic." -Quill and Quire, starred review
"Glowing paper dioramas are the heart and soul of MacKay’s debut, a quiet, reader-directed contemplation of a seed’s slow growth into a tree . . ." Read the full Publishers Weekly review
Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye
A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows
“Zac Unger’s deep dive into the health of polar bear populations around the world cuts through the sound-bite science typically reported by the mainstream media . . . It’s also a very engaging and entertaining book to read.” -Dan Rubinstein, former managing editor at Canadian Geographic
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Consider the Fork
Bee Wilson
The River Swimmer
Jim Harrison
If You Hold a Seed
Elly MacKay
Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye
Zac Unger
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery
by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fifty percent of the material removed to save space, as well as to... more
Rick Steves’ Italy 2013
by Rick Steves
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Italy. From the beaches to the Alps, from fine art to fine... more
Say Her Name
by Francisco Goldman
Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited... more
Vegan Indian Cooking
by Anupy Singla
This beautiful follow-up to Anupy Singla's widely praised first cookbook, The Indian Slow Cooker, is a unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using entirely vegan... more
Little Bird
by Germano Zullo
Illustrated by Albertine
A man drives his truck up to a cliff's edge. Unable to go any further, he opens the back door of his truck and a flock of birds flies... more