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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second...

Lily Vanilli, aka Lily Jones, is a baker and cake designer. Originally a graphic designer, she began baking as a hobby and then started selling her cakes at Swanfield market near Brick Lane. Her cakes are now available online and from Harrods food hall. She is known for her unusu...

"As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had-vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture-and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment...

"Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars. Often products weren't safe because unregulated, unethical com...

"Our marriage started out as a scandal. He was my professor, and I was his student. But every scandal eventually fades. I just didn't know our love would, too. We had it all -- a lake house, two kids, and twenty years of marriage. Except, our marriage was no longer exciting. We s...

"The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite...

"For the whole of human history, we have shared our world with birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food, fuel and feathers; placed them at the heart of our rituals, religions, myths and legends; poisoned, persecuted and often demonized them; and celebrated them in our...

"As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had-vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture-and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment...

"As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had-vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture-and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment...

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt...

"Sa kabila ng lahat ng pagkakaiba natin, ng paniniwala, at takot ko sa pag-ibig, hindi ko kayang palagpasin ang pagkakataong mahalin ka." Sa edad na beinte-kuwatro ay alam na ni Cake ang gusto niya sa buhay: she wanted to find her future husband. Ayaw niyang matulad sa ate at ila...

"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In h...

These memoirs of James Houston’s life in the Canadian Arctic from 1948 to 1962 present a colorful and compelling adventure story of real people living through a time of great change. It is extraordinarily rich material about a fascinating, distant world. Houston, a young Canadian...

When what she thought was a sinus infection lasted for three long years, Amy Graves knew something was wrong. What she found was that her body was hiding a secret-one that changed the way she shopped, ate, and interacted with food and products for the rest of her life. ????Amy is...

"Best-known for his social critiques and his efforts to increase government and corporate accountability, what some might not know about Ralph Nader is his lifelong commitment to healthy eating. In The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook, Nader shares recipes of his upbringing, along...

From UK-based nutritional therapist and healthy eating expert to the stars Amelia Freer comes the #1 international bestselling guidebook to ditching fad diets and getting on a path to long-term weight loss. Bestselling author Amelia Freer's simple and delicious 10-step plan to...

"Rose Previte introduces readers to the eclectic cultures of the region spanning North Africa, the Caucuses, and the Middle East through food, offering a nuanced, informed, and yet entirely warm and personal way in. Before opening her beloved Washington, DC, restaurants Maydn and...