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Nonfiction A to Z February 2026 |
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Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
by Keza MacDonald
What magical mushroom could have turned an unassuming playing card company into one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century? In Super Nintendo, lifelong gamer and a renowned video games journalist Keza MacDonald traces Nintendo back to its quirky beginnings in 1889, illuminating its singular ethos, its endlessly innovative leaders and developers, its massive cultural impact, and, most of all, the video games themselves, which have inspired joy and creativity in millions.
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Breaking the Rules: A Fresh Take on Italian Classics (a Cookbook)
by Joe Sasto
Known for his signature curled mustache and dynamic presence on shows like Bravo's Top Chef and Food Network's Tournament of Champions, Joe Sasto brings his culinary expertise and passion for pasta to your kitchen. From classic Italian recipes like meatballs and focaccia to innovative creations such as corn cacio e pepe, marinated tomato 'Amatriciana,' and pesto pinwheel pull-apart bread, Joe's recipes are designed to inspire both novice and experienced cooks.
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Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
by Neil Shea
Neil Shea blends natural history, anthropology, and travel writing to explore how the beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the lives of people and animals. He sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada's Ellesmere Island and travels with Indigenous hunters in Alaska, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. He tracks dwindling caribou herds across the top of North America, searches for vanished Vikings in Greenland, and visits the front line of the new Cold War rising between Russia and Europe. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many--all still linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and a pure, inimitable light.
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How to Cook a Coyote: The Joy of Old Age
by Betty Fussell
From telling what it's like to go blind to confronting the ongoing erosion of time and the mystery of what's to come, How to Cook a Coyote recounts a decade of change as the celebrated food writer and critic Betty Fussell moves from Manhattan to the Montecito retirement community where Julia Child once resided. As Fussell recalls family, friends, enemies, and lovers with wry humor, affection, and a sharp-eyed confrontation with mortality, all the while, the coyote watches. An emblem of the wild and her metaphor for all the things one can't control--this coyote stalks her, taking on greater emotional and metaphorical resonance as the days progress. U
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