Find Me by Laura Van Den Berg
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find
Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly
funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world.
Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy's immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients--including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel.
As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself. -Amazon Description
Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular web site to inspire people to eat
some Goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth
Paltrow ("This might be my favorite thing ever") and named Saveur's
Best New Food blog of 2013--with half a million Facebook fans and
counting--Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their
plates and cook up some real f*cking food.
Yeah, plenty of blogs and cookbooks preach about how to eat more kale, why ginger fights inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and nettles. But they are dull or pretentious as hell--and most people can't afford the hype.
Thug Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook, they're throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks, and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. (Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that sh*t.) Plus they're going to arm you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass on your own.
This book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real. -Amazon Description
Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy's immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients--including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel.
As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself. -Amazon Description
The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s
The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse
sagas.Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land
of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark
mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir
Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into
passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is
at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley takes us into
this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and
long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time,
place, and people not only real but dear to us. -Amazon Description
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
(I love the name.)
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel,
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered
outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been
boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery:
the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to
internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a
Japanese parasol.
This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at
the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and
excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having
Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier
Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young
Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids,
Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends
the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and
her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and
Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise
to each other will be kept.
Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol
belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for
signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value
he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his
voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words
that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son;
words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago.
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in
American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary
story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has
created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness
and the human heart. –Amazon Description
Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a
F*ck by Thug Kitchen
Yeah, plenty of blogs and cookbooks preach about how to eat more kale, why ginger fights inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and nettles. But they are dull or pretentious as hell--and most people can't afford the hype.
Thug Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook, they're throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks, and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. (Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that sh*t.) Plus they're going to arm you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass on your own.
This book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real. -Amazon Description
What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
(book, audiobook, and DAD player available)
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall
Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology,
language, and love have a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if
you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast
can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot
apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations,
pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential
equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are
masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics.
They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really
big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions,
along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the
xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who
loves to ponder the hypothetical. –Amazon Description
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