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The permaculture garden : a practical approach to year-round harvests
by Huw Richards
Explores regenerative methods to create a sustainable, productive kitchen garden year-round, with advice on growing diverse edible plants, incorporating perennials, optimizing garden design, and enhancing aesthetics and environmental benefits through seasonal planning and mixed planting techniques.
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Dopamine Home : A Bold Guide to Mood Boosting Interiors
by Rachel Verney
Bold use of colour, energetic patterns, a mixture of textures: dopamine décor is all about getting your neurotransmitters pumping to unlock joy and showcasing your personal style. In this inspirational book, interiors expert Rachel Verney (aka @the_shoestring_home) shares the core principles of dopamine décor, her creative ideas and hacks, colour theory, and DIY projects for every budget.
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The Big Hop : the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean and into the future
by David Rooney
In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made it to Ireland.
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Fatherhood: a History of Love and Power
by Augustine Sedgewick
A bold and original history of fatherhood, exploring its invention and transformation from the Bronze Age to the present through a collective portrait of emblematic fathers who have helped to define how the world should be ruled and what it means to be a man. Fatherhood is one of the most meaningful aspects of human culture, but we know little about when or where fatherhood first emerged, or even how or why.
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The World of Nancy Kwan : A Memoir by Hollywood's Asian Superstar
by Nancy Kwan
A Hollywood icon and Asian superstar shares the inspiring story of her groundbreaking career. When Nancy Kwan burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, Asian characters in film were portrayed by white actors in makeup playing "yellowface," and those minor roles were the stuff of cliché: shopkeepers, maids, prostitutes, servants. When--against all odds--Nancy landed the lead role in the much-anticipated 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, she became an international superstar and was celebrated for her beauty, grace, authenticity, and spunk.
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My childhood in pieces : a stand-up comedy, a Skokie elegy
by Edward Hirsch
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of a not quite middle-class Jewish family whose hardboiled American brutality and wit were the forge of a poet's coming of age "My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water on the first day of the New Year. They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsh says in the "prologue" to this glorious festival of knife-sharp observations.
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Little bosses everywhere : how the pyramid scheme shaped America
by Bridget Read
A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing, from the shadowy cabals at the top to the strivers at the bottom, whose deferred dreams churn a massive money-making scam that has remade American society.
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Daughters of the bamboo grove : from China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption, and separated twins
by Barbara Demick
On a warm day in September 2000, a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut nestled in bamboo behind her brother's rural home in China's Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions to her young family but also not her first children. Hidden in the hut, they were born under the shadow of China's notorious one-child policy. Fearing the ire of family planning officials, Zanhua and her husband decided to leave one twin in the care of relatives, hoping each toddler on their own might stay under the radar. But, in late 2002, Fangfang was violently snatched away from her aunt's care. The family worried they would never see her again, but they didn't imagine she could be sent to the United States. She might as well have been sent to another world.
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The algebra of wealth : a simple formula for financial security
by Scott Galloway
Using his trademark straightforward, no-BS style, an NYU professor and cohost of the Pivot podcast explains what you need to know to better your chances for economic security no matter what, in this practical playbook to winning today's wealth game.
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Boymom : reimagining boyhood in the age of impossible masculinity
by Ruth Whippman
This deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in the face of the many cultural messages they face that leave them anxious, emotionally repressed and socially isolated offers ways to help them overcome the confines of masculine expectations.
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Cults like us : why doomsday thinking drives America
by Jane Borden
An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility to cult-like thinking and strongman leaders.
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