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The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus (Paperback)

By Ryan Jacobs

$16.00

ISBN: 9780451495693

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Published: Clarkson Potter - June 4th, 2019

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Sabotage, intrigue, murder. Over a mushroom? The Truffle Underground is one of the most unbelievable stories I have ever read about the criminal underworld stealing, faking, and even killing over truffles. This astonishing book will shock you, horrify you, but, be careful. These delicacies have a way of luring people under their spell and not letting go.

Matthew

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (Paperback)

By Adam Greenfield

$19.95
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ISBN: 9781784780456

Published: Verso - May 29th, 2018

 

Before reading this book, I thought I had a decent idea of how the world works. Shortly into the first chapter, I realized how little I understood. From networks to blockchains, Greenfield masterfully critiques nine foundational technologies that often invisibly shape our lives. An important book for anyone wanting a thoughtful relationship with the world around them.

 

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Unnatural Selection (Hardcover)

By Katrina Van Grouw

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ISBN: 9780691157061

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Published: Princeton University Press - July 31st, 2018

 

This book is mesmerizing. Unnatural Selection is about the ways humans have affected evolution in bizarrely short periods of time through selective breeding. Beautifully illustrated and fascinating in content, you won't be able to look away.

Matthew

The Wee Free Men (Tiffany Aching #1) (Paperback)

By Terry Pratchett

$12.99

ISBN: 9780062435262

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Published: HarperCollins - September 1st, 2015

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Tiffany Aching is a witch who lives on a farm (y'know--the butter churns itself). The Nac Mac Feegles are tiny blue men (with Scottish accents) who are extremely strong, even more silly, and love getting into trouble. Their adventures have something for every reader. After all, what's not to like about a girl who fights monsters with a frying pan?

Matthew

We (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

By Yevgeny Zamyatin, Natasha Randall (Translated by), Bruce Sterling (Foreword by)

$17.00

ISBN: 9780812974621

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Published: Modern Library - July 11th, 2006

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Who knew that a sci fi dystopian novel could be reminiscent of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy? Written under an oppressive Soviet State, WE is eerily relevant still. Powerfully human, Zamyatin's political novel could have been written yesterday to reflect on the world we live in.

 

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Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)

By Oscar Wilde, Gyles Brandreth (Introduction by)

$18.95

ISBN: 9781910749067

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Published: Notting Hill Editions - October 24th, 2017

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Who would have thought that so much wit and charm could fit in one's pocket? Wilde at his most delightful on an array of subjects.

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A Week at the Airport (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Alain De Botton

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ISBN: 9780307739674

Published: Vintage - September 21st, 2010

 

Excited for your trip this summer? Most people think of airports as transitory spaces, purposed simply to move us on to more exciting destinations. We generally don't think of them as spaces in and of themselves: encompassing businesses, global enterprises, and employees' lives. Alain de Botton's week spent living in London Heathrow illumines much that is otherwise mysterious about airports. The perfect book to pack in your carry-on: thoughtful, fast paced, and above all, light weight.

Matthew

The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table (Hardcover)

By Rick Bragg

$28.95
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ISBN: 9781400040414

Published: Knopf - April 24th, 2018

 

All the best recipes have stories behind them. This is a book of beautifully crafted storytelling, both hilarious and poignant, that will set your mouth watering. A wonderful tribute to those who have filled us and enriched our lives with love and good food. Simultaneously one of the best cookbooks and memoirs I have ever read.

 

Matthew

Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir (Hardcover)

By John Banville

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ISBN: 9781524732837

Published: Knopf - February 27th, 2018

 

Time Pieces is a beautiful telling of an old man's relationship to a city he met when life seemed quite new. The mundane glories--the evening's life upon brick, the wit of old storytellers--were miraculous to the boy, bathetic to the young man, and now treasured by the old author who strives to rediscover childlike wonder. More than just a memoir, it is a plaintive reflection on time. What is the past? Banville writes, "If the present is where we live, the past is where we dream."

 

Matthew