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Wayne Thiebaud rolls out a dessert cart overflowing with pinwheel lollipops, pastel-frosted pastries and the promise of an endless summer.

Wayne Thiebaud rolls out a dessert cart overflowing with pinwheel lollipops, pastel-frosted pastries and the promise of an endless summer.

It may take you a while to bring your knife skills up to pro level, but this book will aid you at every step.

It may take you a while to bring your knife skills up to pro level, but this book will aid you at every step.

Anthony Bourdain’s words serve as a good guide in a person’s eating life.

Anthony Bourdain’s words serve as a good guide in a person’s eating life.

This stunning cookbook gathers profiles of 40 of the best foreign-born chefs working in cities across the U.S. today and shares recipes from each.

This stunning cookbook gathers profiles of 40 of the best foreign-born chefs working in cities across the U.S. today and shares recipes from each.

Stephen Kinzer’s new biography of Sidney Gottlieb, Poisoner in Chief, is shocking in its vivid detail.

Stephen Kinzer’s new biography of Sidney Gottlieb, Poisoner in Chief, is shocking in its vivid detail.

Benjamin Moser’s biography Sontag: Her Life and Work reveals with illuminating clarity Susan Sontag’s ceaseless quest to understand and be understood.

Benjamin Moser’s biography Sontag: Her Life and Work reveals with illuminating clarity Susan Sontag’s ceaseless quest to understand and be understood.

Megan Phelps-Roper writes movingly about the searing pain of separation from those she continues to love—the notorious Westboro Baptist Church.

Megan Phelps-Roper writes movingly about the searing pain of separation from those she continues to love—the notorious Westboro Baptist Church.

In Think Black, Clyde W. Ford blends personal experience with technological and racial history to reveal how these things influenced one another.

In Think Black, Clyde W. Ford blends personal experience with technological and racial history to reveal how these things influenced one another.

Nefertiti Austin provides valuable firsthand insight into what it means to be a black single mother and to reject the constraints of societal expectations.

Nefertiti Austin provides valuable firsthand insight into what it means to be a black single mother and to reject the constraints of societal expectations.

Leslie Jamison explores longing, connection and distance in 14 breathtaking essays.

Leslie Jamison explores longing, connection and distance in 14 breathtaking essays.

Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.

Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.

Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.

Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.

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