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Year of Jewish Joy: Inspired Recipes, Rituals, and Traditions for Beautiful Celebrations
Blending ancient traditions with modern elegance--and featuring more than 75 delicious Jewish recipes--this inspired guide to celebrating Shabbat and the major holidays will infuse your life with more Jewish joy and meaning, every day of the year.
Imagine a year of Jewish joy, anchored with welcoming, weekly Shabbat dinners, and punctuated with holidays imbued with depth and beauty--all enjoyed, of course, with plenty of delicious food.
In A Year of Jewish Joy, Rebekah Lowin--affectionately dubbed a "Jewish Martha Stewart" by her readers--gently explains the various traditions, blessings, and rituals for Shabbat and the major holidays, and shares menu ideas, entertaining tips, DIY crafts, and tablescape inspirations, along with more than 75 delicious Kosher recipes, blending beloved traditions and whimsical new ideas so you can create celebrations that are entirely your own. From Rosh Hashanah to Tu B'Av, Rebekah takes you on a journey through the Jewish calendar, infusing each holiday with creativity, elegance, and infectious enthusiasm.
- Make Shabbat special with homemade challah, Sesame-Crusted Chicken Schnitzel, and Muffin Tin Tahdig.
- Welcome Rosh Hashanah with a crowd-pleasing Caramelized Onion Holiday Brisket, Hawaij-Spiced Apple Galette, and a mini "honey flight."
- Celebrate Purim with Brooklyn Blackout Hamantaschen, Shushan Sours, and a hamantaschen making party.
- Gather for the Passover seder around a table set with Pressed Flower Matzah Place Cards and DIY Ribbon Tambourines, and enjoy Funny Girl Pavlova with Passionfruit Curd and Gilded Matzah Brittle
- Ring in Hanukkah with Gelt Wrapper Flowers, Caviar-Topped Party Latkes, Brigadeiro Sufganiyot, and Olive Oil Martinis.
- Celebrate all year long with Personal Pan Shakshukah, Knish-Kabobs, Perfect Rugelach, and adorable Mezuzah Cookies.
A Year of Jewish Joy is a book you will turn to throughout the year--and year after year--for a more joyous, more meaningful Jewish life.
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What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast
Following the breakout success of the New York Times bestselling What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking, Substack star Caroline Chambers returns with a new cookbook offering 100 more recipes for busy people who love good food--and these can be made even faster! Caroline Chambers is a bestselling author and wildly popular Substack recipe developer who famously doesn't feel like cooking--and she's built a whole brand on that premise. Her superpowers are eliminating unnecessary steps; minimizing dirty dishes; and making dinnertime as simple, stress-free, and fun as possible. While plenty of obstacles stand between you and a delicious meal, being short on time is probably the biggest one. This exciting follow-up cookbook is once again organized into three time-based chapters. You'll find recipes for 100 dinners, all of which are complete meals and can be made with no more than 30 minutes hands-on time in the kitchen--and yes, that includes chopping, marinating, and all other prep!- In 15 minutes, you can have Flank Steak with Elote Salsa on the table.
- When you've got 30 to spare, add Fish and Veggie Curry to your menu.
- And when you're busy but not in a rush, you can let Rotisserie-ish Chicken with Schmaltzy Lemon Dressing roast while you fold that pile of laundry.
Every quick and easy recipe features Caro's signature swaps, riffs, tips, and shortcuts to empower you to make these recipes work for you--not the other way around! You'll also find special treasures throughout the book, including anchor recipes you can spin into five different dishes, such as Smoky Black Beans, and formula sidebars like Fried Rice Is Always Nice (and Other Grains, Too) so you can DIY your favorites. Plus, helpful back-of-book indexes allow you to search by both ingredient--useful when, say, you've got ground meat in the freezer--and occasion or mood--like when you cannot be bothered to chop a single thing. Even on the nights when you think there's no way, no how, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast will help you get a full, flavorful meal on the table in basically no time. -
Protein Meal Prep Plan: 30 Weekly Plans + 180 Recipes to Eat Better, Stress Less, and Save Money (Packed with Fiber and 35g+ Protein Per Serving)
Meet and exceed your protein and fiber goals while saving money (and stress!) with this ingenious cookbook devoted to high protein meal prep plans. From the bestselling author behind Cook Once, Eat All Week, holistic nutritionist Cassy Joy Garcia delivers 30 weeks of protein-packed recipes in The Protein Meal Prep Plan--your go-to guide for powerhouse dinners that are big on comfort and flavor. Each recipe delivers a minimum of 35g of protein per serving as well as plenty of gut-friendly fiber to keep you feeling full and energized. Every plan centers on three main ingredients: a protein (chicken, beef, or pork), a starch (such as potatoes, brown rice, chickpeas) and a vegetable to keep your weekly supermarket shop affordable and minimize end-of-week waste. Then those main ingredients are creatively configured into three meals. For example, a week including ground beef, bell peppers, and cannellini beans becomes: Honey-Harissa Meatballs with a Lemon-Dill Bean Salad (44.8g protein per serving), a Creamy Ground Beef Taco Soup (55.5g protein per serving), and Philly Cheesesteaks with a Champagne Vinegar Side Salad (55.4g protein per serving). In addition to a detailed grocery list, each plan includes an easy-to-follow prep-day guide, options for adjusting meals to suit dietary needs (gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, lower-carb, lower-fat, and vegetarian) as well as swaps, skips, and tips for fine tuning. Protein and fiber charts, a comprehensive nutritional index, and key information about maximum assimilation, resistant carbohydrates, and plant-based protein sources gives you everything you need to plan, prep, and power through your week with confidence.
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These Ancient Bones
The X-Files meets Dan Brown in this suspenseful tale of dark magic, ancient curses, and modern murder, as two agents with unusual talents investigate a series of sensational crimes in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. The case is sensational. Whistle-blower investigative journalist George Maynard has been killed in his St. Augustine home, his body so badly burned the morgue is needed to verify his identity. Paranormal investigator Shelly Mahoney has been transferred to a special unit to help law enforcement. Off the books, the unit is called the Krewe of Hunters and deals with "strange" cases. At the murder scene with federal agent Grant Markham, Shelly makes an odd discovery: a stone etched with what appears to be a curse that invokes flames. If Shelly can use her ability to summon the dead--providing they have remained behind--she may unearth what happened. Grant, too, has an unique ability. By holding the hand of the recently deceased, he can see what has happened to them. Yet in this case, neither of their gifts is of any help. As they set out to question those who might have had a motive, they also study ancient "curse tablets"--often used in the Greco-Roman world to cause death or warfare. What ensues is a shocking discovery by the medical examiner and a search that takes the team to Italy where a similar murder may reveal the creators of the mystical tablets--made deadly with a little human assistance. But soon, the danger is closer than ever--because the target is Shelly . . . -
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
A bold and visionary account of how genome writing can help preserve the planet--but may also undermine human nature and disrupt ecosystems. From a scientist at the forefront of synthetic genomics. Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are alive, clothing has opinions and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA. A world where disease is a thing of the past and the human lifespan is dramatically extended. To achieve this, says Adrian Woolfson, founder of the genome writing company Genyro, we must transform biology into a predictive, programmable engineering material. That means decoding the generative grammar of DNA: the language of life itself. We will then be able to author genomes--and, if we choose, even rewrite our own. In On the Future of Species, Woolfson describes how we are at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Currently at the scribbling phase--writing the genomes of viruses, bacteria and yeast--we will eventually author the genomes of extinct and never-before-realized species. Life will become computable, detached from its past and no longer bound by Darwinian evolution. While offering extraordinary opportunities, this power also carries great risk, and it is vital for everyone to understand what the future might hold. In this groundbreaking work, Woolfson provides a guide to this bold new world, offering a moral compass to help us do so safely, wisely and ethically.Sold out -
Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska
The stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Iñupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States--written by the public defender at its center Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Iñupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power. Though she'll always be a tanik--an outsider--she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home. When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time--or even the day--they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Wright must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide. Weaving a detailed portrait of Utqiagvik alongside Wright's complex self-portrait of an outsider in an isolated community, Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a riveting true account that brings to vivid life a land at the edge of the habitable world.Sold out -
Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable
On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden's world cleaved in two: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. With unflinching honesty and unexpected grace, she chronicles the shattering impact of a child's death and the strange afterlife of grief itself: how it infiltrates grocery stores and dinner parties, transforms friendships, and ultimately reshapes the mourner as fundamentally as the world.
Here is grief in all its terrible specificity: the police call that changes everything, the surreal task of choosing a burial dress, the well-meaning friends who "griefsplain." But here too is love distilled: a mother's meditation on a daughter who commanded dinner tables at twelve, who interviewed Dick Cheney with a child's notebook, who transformed into a luminous young woman living her dreams in New York. She writes of joining "the world's worst club"--parents who have lost children--and the terrible wisdom its members share.
Written with the narrative power that has made Crittenden one of our most incisive observers of family and culture, Dispatches from Grief brings a journalist's eye to the landscape of loss. For those walking through grief, for those who love someone grieving, and for all who dare imagine how precious and precarious our time together is, this book stands as both singular portrait and universal truth.
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Major Bricket and the Body in the Bell Tower: A Cozy Crime Mystery Set in an English Village
'A new Simon Brett novel is an event for mystery fans!'P.D. James 'Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories. I would recommend them to anyone' Jilly Cooper
'Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted' Sunday Times
_______________________ For Major Bricket, attending church in his village of Stunston Peveril in Suffolk is a good way to keep up with the village gossip. Having only recently retired from a career where he was privy to many international secrets, the Major likes to stay in the know. Events take a turn one Sunday though when, after the morning service, Major Bricket notices the door to the bell tower open... and finds a body at the bottom of the stairs. The dead man is dressed in a suit and dog collar. But who is he? And could someone in Stunston Peveril have killed him? Perhaps predictably, most of the village residents seem more concerned with the Parish Council flower arranging rota than the mysterious corpse. Major Bricket will have to rely on his long-nurtured detection skills, and his trusted friends Nga Luong and Rod, to solve the case. -
Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire
From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic in the 1890s. What would drive a man to exhume the body of his daughter and remove her heart? That question has haunted Aaron Mahnke, creator and host of the award-winning podcast Lore. Fueled by a decade of research, Mahnke excavates the past to understand the hysteria that fueled the ghastly exhumation of Mercy Brown in 1892, who like her mother and sister before her, succumbed to "consumption" at the age of 19. With Exhumed, Mahnke presents a unique history of the intersection of folklore and science, and how pop culture and both genuine medical advancements and pseudoscience of the time shaped the perspectives of people in 19th century America. From the death of George Washington to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein, Mahnke leads reads on a fascinating journey through history, touching on methods of mummification, the multifaceted role of executioners, medicine made from corpses, European folklore that traveled across the Atlantic, and so much more. He reveals that as shocking as Brown's exhumation might seem, it also reflected surprisingly common attitudes and beliefs about the relationship between the dead and the living, the nature of science and magic, and the fate of a human soul. It all builds to a revelatory understanding of human behavior that continues to this very day. Possessing an irreverent view of science, history, and the human condition, Exhumed is perfect for fans of Mary Roach's Stiff, as well as readers of forgotten American histories like Brad Meltzer's New York Times-bestselling The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington.
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Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age
"AI won't replace you. Someone using AI will replace you."
As the artificial intelligence typhoon descends upon us, this has become the mantra of tech CEOs and business pundits.
Here's the twist: They're wrong.
As AI excels at technical tasks like data analysis and coding, the future of work will be won by those who lead, persuade, influence, and inspire. And there's one cognitive superpower that improves all those crucial soft skills: storytelling.
Make AI your primary skillset, and you'll become an assistant to a machine. Master storytelling first--and then amplify your abilities with AI--and you'll make yourself irreplaceable. The clock is ticking. Which path will you take?
In Super Skill, Joe Lazer reveals 15 storytelling principles that will help you win in the AI Age. Through science-backed techniques, cutting-edge AI applications, and real-world stories of neuroscientists, Neanderthals, founders, and filmmakers, he'll show you how to hone your storytelling superpowers, build a following, and future-proof your career.
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From Italy with Amore: Seasonal Italian Recipes for Those You Love
Dai, amore! Savor the flavors of Italy in this love letter to seasonal cooking from Jessi and Alessio Pasini. You may think you know what a real Italian meal looks like, but would it pass Alessio's approval? Join the Pasinis on a culinary adventure as they guide you toward the best ingredients and recipes for the perfect Italian dining experience. Jessi and Alessio bring their endearing intersection of cultures into your kitchen with their debut cookbook. You'll learn:- How to identify the most authentic Italian ingredients, sauces, products, and more in American grocery stores
- The best Italian cooking tricks (never break the pasta)
- How to taste for the best olive oil
- How to prepare the most delicious Italian foods, from appetizers to mains, homemade pasta, pizzas, desserts, and more
Along the way, you'll be charmed by Jessi and Alessio's funny, tender tales of travel, family, cultural clashes, and the many meals that shape their life together. Filled with approachable recipes for family-friendly Italian cuisine and a deep reverence for the beauty of the most authentic ingredients, this cookbook is a love letter to Italian food and the people you gather around the table. Buon appetito! -
Boat House
Running their inherited marina in a quirky, picturesque New Jersey shore town, siblings Madison and Lincoln Wainright discover what could be a map to Captain Kidd's lost treasure in this fresh, adventure-filled Twin Lights novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. An unexpected inheritance from their late uncle brought Madison (Taylor) Wainwright and her brother Lincoln to Smuggler's Cove. But it's the quirky, close-knit locals who've convinced them to stay for the summer. The little town may be worlds away from the privileged existence the siblings knew before their father was arrested for fraud, but here, they've found a sense of belonging. After renovating the dilapidated boat house that once served as a local marina for crabbers and clammers, Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a true Jersey Shore summer, complete with the town's famous Seafood Festival. Visitors love learning about the area's history--the tales of pirates and privateers, cryptic maps and buried treasure. Those stories seem like harmless fantasy until a seemingly worthless map is stolen from their boathouse. Could their uncle's rudimentary map show the true location of Captain Kidd's treasure? Or was there another, more sinister motive behind the theft? As Madison and Lincoln dig deeper, they learn that the legends underpinning Smuggler's Cove's history may also have the power to tear it apart, unless they can quickly separate fiction from fact, and guilty from innocent... -
Brona: The First Druids of Shannara
Return to the world of Shannara with the sequel to Galaphile, and discover how the seeds of the greatest evil that the Four Lands has ever known inadvertently grew out of Galaphileʼs dream for peace--from the New York Times bestselling authors Terry Brooks and Delilah S. Dawson. Years have passed since Galaphile Joss and his life partner, Nirianne, established Paranor as a way to bring harmony to the Four Lands. Now their two sons are becoming men in a land of peace and plenty. Admittedly, it is a land that their eldest child, Abronja, finds rather boring. At sixteen, he longs for a way to prove himself--a chance to show he is every bit the equal of his famous father. But when the excitement he has been longing for materializes, it is in the form of an old evil: a dark sorcerer whom his father had defeated but not destroyed. And who is now back, stronger and deadlier than ever. Galaphile has always dreaded this wicked resurgence--and not just because of what it means for the wider world. Abronja was conceived while the dark sorcerer had control of Nirianne, and Galaphile has always feared that a spark of malevolence lives on in his beloved child. Abronja, for his part, is certain he will never be corrupted by evil. He is fully committed to his fatherʼs vision for peace and is determined to make his name by finally destroying the monster that has targeted his family. But tangling with dark magic is not a thing to be taken lightly--especially for a young man as yet untested in the ways of the world. And when the repercussions of this encounter could have consequences for centuries to come . . . -
Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times From Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, a sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character. Senator Warnock argues that we suffer not from a paucity of resources but from a poverty of moral imagination. His sermon on the book of Isaiah draws from ideals resonant in his own faith and all the great faiths and other moral traditions, offering a bold vision of how to live and relate to one another in the land. A moral topography, he calls it, a geopolitics that centers love and justice, or as Dr. King would so often say, the beloved community. The Crooked Places Made Straight examines six crises at the center of American life: voting rights and voter suppression, gun violence, mass incarceration, the persistence of poverty, dark money in politics, and the climate emergency. This is not a naive faith, either. As Senator Warnock writes: Isaiah is no stranger to frustration with institutional leadership. He knows well the perils of public corruption, sophisticated legalized bribery, and a political class more interested in preserving its own power than in serving the people. . . . He's fed up with political leaders who are focused on their own gain at the expense of the people. "Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves," he says. For Senator Warnock, democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. A vote is a kind of prayer. The Crooked Places Made Straight is his inspiring vision for a more just and equitable America where communities thrive with hope and possibility and every child has a chance.Sold out -
Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers: The Self-Love Guide to Growing, Healing and Learning to Put Yourself First
Social media star Tam Kaur's ultimate guide to self-love, helping you find yourself through dating, breakups, bad relationships and so much more. I know exactly what it's like to put others first, to settle for less than you deserve and to navigate relationships while trying to balance your independence and goals. But we are worth more than this. Having embarked on my self-love journey, I found that women often lacked clarity on what self-love really means and how to achieve it and this needs to change. I've packed Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers with lessons and methods I've learnt so that no woman is left accepting what life throws at her, but rather can use every moment as a tool to craft her dream self and reality. Whether you're single, taken, heartbroken, healing or trying to level up into the best version of yourself, this book is for you. Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers is an in-depth, comprehensive guide for all things self-love, including actionable homework, transformative tools and reassuring information that will help every woman learn to:
- set boundaries
- escape external validation
- build confidence
- transform pain into power
- maintain loving yourself whilst loving others, and so much more. Every woman deserves to cultivate a lasting love for the person who matters most: you. It's finally time to buy yourself the damn flowers. Tam x
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No-Nonsense Nutrition: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. the Science-Based Plan to Transform Health, Lose Weight, Feel Amazing
Over 100 healthy recipes to stay fuller, longer.
Acclaimed nutritionist Dominique Ludwig @dominiqueludwig_nutrition has helped thousands of people transform their health, end food noise, shed weight, boost energy and mood. Her 6 principles will revolutionise your approach to food and introduce you to eating that fuels your body and promotes longevity and happiness, without ever missing out. Recipes include: Carrot and Courgette Loaf, Sweet Potato and Feta Frittata, Jewelled Granola, Chicken and Yellow Rea Curry, Pork Loin with Smoky Beans, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies, Two-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge. The delicious balanced recipes have been developed following Dominique's science-proven method: combining fibre, protein, plants and healthy fats to satisfy and energise. With a real-life track record helping thousands of people, Dominique's no-nonsense method: Boosts your body's natural GLP-1, the hormone that signals fullnessSilences food noise and ends the cycle of constant hungerNatural weight loss learning to eat balanced plates and stop grazingIncreases energy and aids good sleep, improving your mood in less than two weeksReduces inflammation and promotes healthy gut microbiomePromotes longevity, helping us to be healthier into old age
Includes macro counts, two weekly meal plans and meal prep advice.
'Dominique has helped thousands of people take control of their health through simple dietary changes - with life-changing results.' The TelegraphSold out