Once an intimate of Mao Zedong and the nation's most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as "Little Siberia," where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist--and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.

Over the past several decades, globalization has ruthlessly homogenized what we eat. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these--rice, wheat, and corn--now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much of the world's food--seeds--is mostly in the control of just four corporations. Ninety-five percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow. Half of all the world's cheese is made with bacteria or enzymes made by one company. If it strikes you that everything is starting to taste the same wherever you are in the world, you're by no means alone.

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family's secrets and simmering resentments erupt at last. Before long, brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo is found dead--presumed murdered--and his sons find they've drawn the exacting gaze of the entire town. As the spotlight on them tightens--and the family dog meets an unexpected fate--Dagou, Ming, and James must reckon with the legacy of their father's outsized appetites and their own future survival.

In A Killer By Design, Burgess reveals how her pioneering research on sexual assault and trauma caught the attention of the FBI, and steered her right into the middle of a chilling serial murder investigation in Nebraska. Over the course of the next two decades, she helped the budding unit identify, interview, and track down dozens of notoriously violent offenders, including Ed Kemper ("The Co-Ed Killer"), Dennis Rader ("BTK"), Henry Wallace ("The Taco Bell Strangler"), Jon Barry Simonis ("The Ski-Mask Rapist"), and many others. As one of the first women trailblazers within the FBI's hallowed halls, Burgess knew many were expecting her to crack under pressure and recoil in horror--but she was determined to protect future victims at any cost.

At the age of twelve, as the German invasion begins, Mala Szorer's beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands and bravely removes her yellow star, risking sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food. It is on her way back that she sees her loved ones rounded up for deportation, and receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away. In order to survive, she walks away from everything she holds dear to live by herself in the forest, hiding not just from the Nazis but hostile villagers. "Malach" the stray cat becomes her family and her only respite from painful loneliness, a guide, and a reminder to stay hopeful even when faced with unfathomable darkness.

Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow, an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent, a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal, and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder's riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination.

From Mona Dolgov, author of the best-selling The Perfect Portion Cookbook, comes a revolutionary new cookbook and meal planning guide that does the impossible--provides more than 120 gluten-free, nutrient-dense recipes and 500-calorie (or less) meals designed specifically to provide generous portions that satiate without feeling restrictive. All of the recipes follow plant-forward Mediterranean diet principles; are made with real, accessible ingredients; are simple to prepare; and have been crafted to provide huge portions that will leave readers satisfy-ed. Eat more, eat better. Perfect for intermittent fasting, plant-forward eating patterns, and low-calorie diets.

In a winning combination of memoir, manifesto, and how-to, Shelly Tygielski shares her evolution from a Jerusalem-born child of traditional Sephardic Jewish parents to a middle-class American suburban youth who questioned her faith to a young executive in corporate America. As she used radical self-care practices to manage a serious chronic health issue, she had an epiphany: finding true health and peace is not a solo endeavor but one that lives in connection with others. Tygielski considers herself an unlikely meditator, activist, and teacher. But as such, she is uniquely qualified to speak to all today who wonder, "What can I do?" or, "Will my actions even make a difference?" In Sit Down to Rise Up, she shows that transforming "me" work into "we" work is possible for all of us.

Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood.

Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages--in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it--the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx--was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize--and this is their story.

Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom!

Micro Food Gardening introduces compact plant varieties and projects for growing food in small spaces, such as on balconies, decks, porches, and tabletops.

Design a self-sufficient garden; learn the secrets of heirloom vegetables, herbs, and flowers; and enjoy 75 seasonal recipes featuring the fruits of your labor!

Identify and control dozens of common vegetable garden pests quickly and organically with pest profiles and expert advice.

Wild Creations shows you step by step how you can create hanging rails, moss walls, vegan leather pot holders, terrariums and many more projects that will give you the green interior you crave.

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A love letter to journalists that brings to life a collection of stories published in the fictional paper 'The French Dispatch'.

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When tragedy strikes, Adam's online Spanish teacher, Cariño, becomes a lifeline he didn't know he needed.

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Bond's peaceful retirement is short-lived when his old friend from the CIA turns up asking for help.

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A family on a tropical holiday discovers that the secluded beach where they are relaxing is causing them to age rapidly.

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A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.