by Shiza Shahid and Friends of Our Place
Shiza Shahid, CEO of the viral Our Place cookware brand, invites home cooks into an "ideal world" where we're all "throwing dinner parties at least once a month" in Dinner at Our Place: Recipes for Gathering. With input from 11 additional home cooks (many of whom are chefs, but all of whom are known as "host, curator, gathering specialist"), the recipes here are combined with menus, conversation topics, bar suggestions, tablescapes, plating advice, and playlist recommendations to offer a year's worth of dinner
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by Janine Janssen, S. Al Sabado
Set in a parallel world inhabited by paranormal creatures and magical humans, Les Normaux by Janine Janssen with S. Al Abado contains a cornucopia of diverse queer love stories. Compiled from a popular Webtoon comic, this first volume is sure to create new fans of the sweet and heartwarming series, which is drawn in a lush, colorful style that neatly balances realistic figures with cartoonish flourishes.
Sébastien was raised in the human world by non-magical parents and recently moved to the magical
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by Guojing
Guojing's Oasis, her second graphic novel after The Flamingo, is another spectacular stunner that perfectly balances evocative art with minimal text. In a harsh, barren landscape, JieJie and her younger brother, DiDi, somehow manage to survive alone, buoyed by the promise of reuniting with their mother. Mom is 25 hours away, overworked in a grueling underground factory that builds the AI robots that ensure exclusive Oasis City remains a prosperous, pure paradise.
On DiDi's birthday, the children chase a water-thieving
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by Rick Steves
In 1978, travel pro Rick Steves (Europe Through the Back Door) went on the adventure of a lifetime--overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu. He kept a journal, which he now shares with readers. Through Steves's clear and everyday language, On the Hippie Trail transports readers along with Steves and his travel companion, Gene Openshaw (who assisted in providing photos and editing the journals for publication), across vast scenic landscapes, down bumpy roads, past numerous border checkpoints, and beyond. In the
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by Libba Bray
Under the Same Stars is a "tragically romantic" and "romantically tragic" reminder of how people relentlessly "manage to come together and fight toward justice" no matter the era or odds against them. Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray (Going Bovine) masterfully develops a multilayered mystery with lush prose and evocative detail across three timelines.
In 1940s Germany, best friends Sophie, a bookish dreamer, and Hanna, dubbed "The Barbarian" for her pragmatism, work as secret resistance fighters. That
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