Harad's unexpected love affair with perfume is meandering, sensual, and captivating, with prose so rich you'll be able to smell the scents on the page.I (a perfume skeptic) loved this memoir enough to get curious about perfume myself!
Rebecca
Breathtaking, life-size, and factual. You will fall in love with these photographs.
Megan
Satisfy curiosity, settle arguments, get gloriously lost in the stars!
Gary
Food Lab is for every kitchen, new or old, a scientific travelogue for foodies loaded with beautiful photos and easy to follow, mouth watering, step by step recipes.
Megan
Whether or not you're a map geek, you will want to buy this book as a gift and then keep it for yourself and not give it away. Maps are much more than geography - 20th century history and culture can be viewed through its maps, and this is an eclectic, diverse and beautiful collection. A 1901 map of Jewish East London, the world map of Orwell's 1984, a trench map used by soldiers
in the Somme offensive - and 97 more.
David
I don't quite know exactly what this is but I'm in awe. Biography or Etsy shop? Scrapbook and photo album or feminist polemic? Either way RBG and her legions of admirers win my ardent admiration for her life work and their creativity.
Susannah
I can testify that not only do these patterns look great on the page, they do in reality as well! A lovely gift for the knitter in your life.
Heather
What does Leo Tolstoy have to do with Orange is the New Black? Or Sylvia Plath with The Bachelor? Maris Kreizman's juxtapositions of great literature with pop culture icons are funny and clever, but also intuitively true on a deeper level the stories told through "high" and "low" culture may not be that different at their core. A great gift for the film, TV, and book lovers on your list.
Katie
Informed by the many new discoveries and interpretations of contemporary scholarship, yet eminently readable and conversational in tone, Beard engagingly reexamines what we know of ancient Roman history, in process revising many myths of its thousand year span.
Dale
It is meant to tug on your heart strings and, at the risk of editorializing, it SHOULD! The recipes in Soup for Syria are the basic stuff of life and have sustained these people for centuries. They aren’t fancy, but as we enter the winter season, these soups are just what we want … hearty and healthful. The likes of Anthony Bourdain, Ana Sortun, Yotam Ottolenghi, Alice Waters and others have contributed to this collection. Proceeds from sales of this book will help fund relief efforts for Syrian refugees. It is the holiday spirit all wrapped up in one single volume.
Ellen
