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The Taco Tuesday Cookbook: 52 Tasty Taco Recipes to Make Every Week the Best Ever

Laura Fuentes · Fair Winds Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

The Taco Tuesday Cookbook is your family's dream come true, because, if there's one thing we all can agree on, it's that tacos are awesome. They're customizable. They're quick. They're tasty. And most importantly, they make us all happy!

Inside, you'll find taco recipes...
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We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

Matthew Riemer · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Have pride in history.

A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account @lgbthistory, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Through the lenses...
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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original

Sara B. Franklin · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown,...
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side,...
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Hello, Stranger: My Life on the Autism Spectrum

Barbara Moran · KiCam Projects LLC
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

" ... Insights from a time when a young person with autism grew up in a world where nobody understood them!" - Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in PicturesBarbara Moran has never known how to be good.As a child, she made strange noises, fidgeted constantly, and licked her lips...
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Denim: Street Style, Vintage, Obsession

AMY LEVERTON · Rizzoli
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This street-style bible takes a chic and sexy look at the aesthetic power of blue jeans, featuring stylish women around the world wearing their favorite denim in their own unique way.Denim's sexiness, whether it is being dressed up or dressed down, has made it the ultimate fashion statement...
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Steel Drums

Patricia Lakin · Aladdin
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Go behind the scenes and learn how craftsman Glenn Rowsey makes one-of-a-kind steel drums by hand with this nonfiction book that's full of photographs and illustrations about his process.Tap-happy Glenn was inspired and taught by the Father of the Modern Steel Drum, Ellie Mannette....
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece

Camille Laurens · Other Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

This absorbing, heartfelt work tells the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century bohemian life of Paris.She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris,...
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I Wanted Fries with That: How to Ask for What You Want and Get What You Need

Amy Fish · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

SPEAK UP AND PERSUADE

At some point in our lives, we've all experienced an injustice, large or small - a restaurant botching our lunch order or a boss who isn't following the guidelines for workplace etiquette - and suffered in silence for fear of offending anyone. When we fail...
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Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

Howard S Marks · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

One of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time provides practical insight and keen analysis on how to track, and react to, the ups and downs of the stock market. Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profit.

"When...
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

JASON HICKEL · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.

More than four billion people -- some 60 percent of humanity -- live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate...

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Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses

Erica Cerulo · Ballantine Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Get inspired by the women who discovered that working with your best friend can be the secret to professional success - and maybe even the future of business - from the co-founders of the website Of a Kind.

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly....
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For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre

Sharon Risher · Chalice Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The instant her phone rang, Reverend Sharon Risher sensed something was horribly wrong. Something had happened at Emanuel AME Church, the church of her youth in Charleston, South Carolina, and she knew her mother was likely in the church at Bible study. Even before she heard the news, her chaplain's...
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Seven Sundays: A Faith, Fitness, and Food Plan for Lasting Spiritual and Physical Change

Alec Penix · Howard Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Biblically grounded, six-week plan to lead you on the path toward losing weight and getting healthier by focusing on the connections between spiritual and physical health.So many of the books within the diet and fitness space focus on vanity or superficial reasons for striving for personal...
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Something Like Happy: A Novel

Eva Woods · Graydon House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs great and small, seizing the day, and always remembering to live in the moment.

"It's simple, really. You're just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could...

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