"100 craveable recipes to kick-start baking, cooking, and eating ancient grains, from a celebrated California baker. Owner of the popular Los Angeles bakery Friends & Family, Roxana Jullapat knows that all-purpose flour is an easy route to success. But for cooks eager to use the new array of grains grown locally in the United States and their flours, she has more than eighty creations, many drawn from the familiar pastry case of cookies, cakes, scones,...

Presents recipes for whole grain dishes, including brown rice congee, reuben salad, and buckwheat hash.

"Detective Peter Diamond goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet conclusion to the multi-award-winning series. Detective Peter Diamond, chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is taking a short holiday in the country. His former colleague Julie Hargreaves has invited Diamond and his partner, Paloma, to visit the idyllic village of Baskerville (no relation to the Sherlock Holmes story, so he's told). It turns...

A whole-grain cookbook featuring recipes inspired by the Mediterranean cuisines of Greece, southern France, Italy, and Turkey.

Meals Made Simple answers the age-old question: "What's for dinner?" Danielle Walker takes the guesswork out of meal planning with eight weeks' worth of dinner ideas, complete with full shopping lists and recipes for using up leftovers. Whether we're moms, students, or business owners, at the end of the day we all want fresh, home-cooked meals that are easy to prepare. And we want lots of variety. Preparing real foods can be time-consuming and monotonous,...

After a flood destroys their home in Vietnam, a young girl and her family make a perilous trip on the high seas as they attempt to reach Malaysia.

The celebrated poet behind such classics as "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This Is Just to Say" presents a collection of essays about North American history. In the American Grain is, as William Carlos Williams said, "a study to try to find out for myself what the land of my more or less accidental birth might signify." Although Williams wrote poetry and prose-and was a doctor-he was not a historian. In this book, he applies a fresh, lyrical perspective...

A multicourse Paleo culinary journey from appetizers to dessert that omits grains, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar.

Barack Obama, via Facebook: “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”
The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s best-known novel, featuring an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat...

When a humble farmer named Pong Lo asks for the hand of the Emperoŕs beautiful daughter, the Emperor is enraged. Whoever heard of a peasant marrying a princess? But Pong Lo is wiser than the Emperor knows. And when he concocts a potion that saves the Princesśs life, the Emperor gladly offers him any reward he chooseśexcept the Princess. Pong Lo makes a surprising request. He asks for a single grain of rice, doubled every day for one hundred days....