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Women Hold­ing Things by Maira Kalman

Women Hold­ing Things by Maira Kalman

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the...

Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions by Sylvie Bigar

Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions by Sylvie Bigar

Food, France and the Stew That Saved My Soul Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession...

Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah by Josh Ander­son

Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah by Josh Ander­son

In this unusual graphic novel for younger readers, Eli is feeling left out of the family’s preparations for his older brother’s bar mitzvah. He wants to help but can’t seem to do anything right....

Solimeos by Rhoda Lerman

Solimeos by Rhoda Lerman

Fleeing post-World War II Germany, an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new, occult-obsessed, German Reich…but love, ambition, and vengeance interfere....