Charlotte Moss Flowers. Charlotte Moss encourages readers to bring the garden indoors--with ideas for arranging flowers, selecting containers, and placing blossoms around the house. An inviting cluster of blooms on a guest room's bedside table, lavish flor... - Charlotte Moss Flowers.
Home At Last. The work of Gil Schafer-one of the world's leading experts on contemporary traditional architecture-is beloved for its elegance, charm, and strong sense of history and place. Since his last book, Schafer has become a husband and ste... - Home At Last.
Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home. Filled with personal insight, humor, creativity, joy, and poignancy, Home: A Celebration is a lyrical ode to sanctuary and a thoughtful and inspirational book to peruse again and again. Through the lenses of their crafts... - Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home.
Making the Presidency. An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.The United States of 1797 faced enormo... - Making the Presidency.
Our Ancient Faith. Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War&co... - Our Ancient Faith.
Scientist Turned Spy. The incredible story of an explorer caught up in international intrigue at the dawn of US history.Andre Michaux was the most accomplished scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark. His work took him from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay&co... - Scientist Turned Spy.
Soul Food. 2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ... - Soul Food.
Tangleroot. Noni Reid has grown up in the shadow of her mother, Dr. Radiance Castine, renowned scholar of Black literature, who is alarmingly perfect at just about everything.When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Ston... - Tangleroot.
The Compleat Victory. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the Brit... - The Compleat Victory.
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry?-both black and white?-through food, from ... - The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South.
The President's Kitchen Cabinet. Nominee, 49th NAACP Image Awards, Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) Finalist, 2018 Colorado Book Awards An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work-Non Fiction James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller viv... - The President's Kitchen Cabinet.
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America John Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other ... - The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an. In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom - a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing ... - Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an.
Through the Seasons: A Garden of Recipes from The Virginia House-Wife. Welcome to the first print collection of historic recipes from the kitchens of Mary Randolph, author of The Virginia House-Wife with commentary by culinary historian and gardener Leni Sorensen, PhD and her experience cooking these recipes... - Through the Seasons: A Garden of Recipes from The Virginia House-Wife.