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| Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky “Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” - New York Times Book ReviewAn unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the WorldBest-selling author Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| Frozen in Time (Adapted for Young Readers): Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food by Mark Kurlansky Nonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry and changed the way people eat all over the world. Adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. Adventurer and... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Children's Lit | | |
| Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife by Mark Kurlansky All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky A KID’S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN "Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!"World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account—for kids—of what is... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Children's Lit | | |
| Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four types of insects. Exploring human causes... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Children's Lit | | |
| Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four types of insects. Exploring human causes... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Children's Lit | | |
| International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes* by Mark Kurlansky, Talia Kurlansky From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical.Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes* by Mark Kurlansky, Talia Kurlansky From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical.Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes* by Mark Kurlansky, Talia Kurlansky From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical.Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor LiteratureFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish-and the fly fisher does not always... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway by Mark Kurlansky An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other“...illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through#1 New Release in Historical Latin America BiographiesDiscover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist.... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food- before the national highway system, before chainrestaurants... by Mark Kurlansky Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show!A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.For centuries New York was famous... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles Book 26) by Mark Kurlansky In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most... by Mark Kurlansky The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a disappearing way of life: fishing–how it has thrived in and defined one particular town... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris by Mark Kurlansky The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author. In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life. It's the way of life. By the year 2008... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events; All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mark Kurlansky A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Mark Kurlansky “Every once in awhile a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight.” That’s how David McCullough described Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, a work that revealed how a meal can be as important as it is edible. Salt: A World History, its... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Cookbooks, Food & Wine | | |
| Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One (Jewish Lives) by Mark Kurlansky From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank... Today's Bargain Price: $16.00 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts by Mark Kurlansky All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan fish soup, a bean curd... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music by Mark Kurlansky In his eagerly awaited debut novel, critically acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky entertains readers with a brilliant story bursting with the vivid events and culinary delights–even recipes–that made bestsellers out of his nonfiction works Cod, Salt, and 1968.Nathan woke up on a Friday morning with the unshakable sense that during this day... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Sex & Erotica | | |
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