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From the author of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick The Scent
Keeper comes a "heartbreakingly delicious" national bestseller
about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food
teaches about life. Once a month on a Monday night, eight students
gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is
Claire, a young woman coming to terms with her new identity as a
mother; Tom, a lawyer whose life has been overturned by loss;
Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer adapting to life in America;
and Carl and Helen, a long-married couple whose union contains
surprises the rest of the class would never suspect. The students
have come to learn the art behind Lillian's soulful dishes, but it
soon becomes clear that each seeks a recipe for something beyond
the kitchen. And soon they are transformed by the aromas, flavors,
and textures of what they create....
From New York Times Bestselling Author Erica Bauermeister comes a
memoir about the power of home and the transformative act of
restoring one house in particular. "I think anyone who saves an old
house has to be a caretaker at heart, a believer in underdogs,
someone whose imagination is inspired by limitations, not endless
options." In this mesmerizing memoir-in-essays, Erica Bauermeister
renovates a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend,
Washington, and in the process takes readers on a journey to
discover the ways our spaces subliminally affect us. A personal,
accessible, and literary exploration of the psychology of
architecture, as well as a loving tribute to the connections we
forge with the homes we care for and live in, this book is designed
for anyone who's ever fallen head over heels for a house. It is
also a story of a marriage, of family, and of the kind of roots
that settle deep into your heart. Discover what happens when a
house has its own lessons to teach in this moving and insightful
memoir that ultimately shows us how to make our own homes (and
lives) better.
Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.
Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won’t explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world--a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues to her identity, a quest that challenges the limits of her heart and imagination.
Lyrical and immersive, The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home.
Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her
father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses.
What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the
drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the
machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does
her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline
is vaulted out into the real world - a place of love, betrayal,
ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock
the clues to her identity, a quest that challenges the limits of
her heart and imagination. Lyrical and immersive, The Scent Keeper
explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal
hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find
our way back home.
"Bravo! They've given adults and young girls a much-needed treasure map of heroines and 'she-roes'...It blazes an important path in the forest of children's literature."—Jim Trelease.
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest
came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage.
The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises
at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel
Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in
rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the
plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in
her landlady mother's absence. The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix
of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all
the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis
save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate
dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet
crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the
creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty,
suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected. A
Seattle7Writers project for literacy, this novel was written by
Kathleen Alcala, Matthew Amster-Burton, Kit Bakke, Erica
Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Deb Caletti, Carol
Cassella, William Dietrich, Robert Dugoni, Kevin Emerson, Karen
Finneyfrock, Clyde Ford, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth George, Mary
Guterson, Maria Dahvana Headley, Teri Hein, Stephanie Kallos, Erik
Larson, David Lasky, Stacey Levine, Frances McCue, Jarret
Middleton, Peter Mountford, Kevin O'Brien, Julia Quinn, Nancy
Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Jennie Shortridge, Ed Skoog, Garth Stein,
Greg Stump, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch and Susan Wiggs. Foreword
by Nancy Pearl. Introduction by Garth Stein."
National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the
enchanting world of "The School of Essential Ingredients" in this
luminous sequel...
Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together.
There's Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers; Chloe, a
budding chef who hasn't learned to trust after heartbreak;
Finnegan, quiet and steady as a tree, who can disappear into the
background despite his massive height; Louise, Al's wife, whose
anger simmers just below the boiling point; and Isabelle, whose
memories are slowly slipping from her grasp. And there's Lillian
herself, whose life has taken a turn she didn't expect...
Their lives collide and mix with those around them, sometimes
joining in effortless connections, at other times sifting together
and separating again, creating a family that is chosen, not given.
A beautifully imagined novel about the ties that bind--and links
that break--"The Lost Art of Mixing" is a captivating meditation on
the power of love, food, and companionship.
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