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  • SPQR

    A History of Ancient Rome

    by Mary Beard ...
    New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable BookNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)A San Francisco Chronicle</e... ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Atomic City Girls

    A Novel

    by Janet Beard ...
    "The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history."—Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of FlightIn the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting historical fiction novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.In November 1944, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Talking Classics

    The Shock of the Old

    by Mary Beard ...
    The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Emperor of Rome

    Ruling the Ancient World

    by Mary Beard ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBest Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, SmithsonianMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly"A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar c ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The James Beard Cookbook

    by James Beard ...
    The million-selling culinary classic from the "dean of American cookery" offers timeless and delicious recipes—a must-have for beginners to foodies ( The New York Times).Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the best basic cookbooks in America," The James Beard Cookbook remains as indispensable to home cooks today as it was when it was first published over fifty years ago. James Beard ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gogmagog

    The First Chronicle of Ludwich

    by Jeff Noon, Steve Beard ...
    From the highly celebrated and award-winning authors Jeff Noon and Steve Beard comes Gogmagog, the first book in adventurous seafaring duology, perfect for fans of Mervyn Peake.A journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon.Meet Cady Meade, captain of the steam-launch, Juniper. In her heyday she carried people and goods on the river Nysis, from the thriving seaports of the estuary into ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking

    by James Beard ...
    "The Dean of American Cuisine" and mentor to some of the country's most acclaimed chefs offers essential kitchen wisdom in this illustrated guide (Julia Child)."In my twenty-five years of teaching I have tried to make people realize that cooking is primarily fun and that the more they know about what they are doing, the more fun it is."So begins James Beard's expansive book of culinary terms, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Eating

    by M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon, James A. Beard ...
    "Should be required reading for every cook. It defines in a sensual and beautiful way the vital relationship between food and culture."—Alice WatersThis comprehensive volume of essays on culinary and other pleasures of life comes from the legendary and widely traveled writer "whose artful personal essays about food created a genre" ( The New York Times) and who writes "practically, often ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women & Power

    A Manifesto

    by Mary Beard ...
    New York Times BestsellerOne of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic."From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • James Beard's Menus for Entertaining

    by James Beard ...
    Culinary master James Beard's ultimate guide to entertaining is a must for any host or hostessExpert chef James Beard was passionate about food and even more passionate about entertaining. Beard's cookbooks, with recipes that have delighted for decades—such as duck glazed with honey and curry, and zucchini frittata—have long been a staple in the culinary libraries of home cooks. This thorough ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New James Beard

    by James Beard ...
    A New York Times–bestselling treasury of recipes and techniques from a world-renowned chef.James Beard became a household name teaching home chefs how to cook like culinary stars, from the Theory & Practice of perfecting processes to crafting Menus for Entertaining to fine-tuning Simple Foods. This cookbook brings together his wealth of gastronomic knowledge in one essential guide, filled with one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lone Rider

    The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

    by Elspeth Beard ...
    In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6.Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from her pub job, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike, she was determined to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD