The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food
by Amy Cotler
This is an exciting, well-organized manual by Amy Cotler about pursuing a local diet and lifestyle. In a thorough, yet manageable manner, she takes the reader through the benefits of supporting one's local economy and provides strategies about sourcing local options from grocery stores, farmer's markets, and regional farms. It's about rediscovering consumer consciousness and the simple pleasure of local tastes.
Where are they Buried? How did they Die?
By Tod Benoit
The title is true to its word--a very unique travel book completely dedicated to the morbid pursuit of accounting for the lives, deaths, and burial sites of 450 different cultural and iconic figures. Take a look at this book, I bet you'll be surprised by how hard it is to put it down.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
Barbery's Elegance of the Hedgehog has sold millions of copies and has been a best seller in France and the United States. Its popularity has to do with the story's mix of poignant philosophical explorations and its unflinching depictions of the story's two unlikely protagonists. Renee is the ugly concierge at an upscale Parisian apartment building and Paloma is a precocious twelve-year-old resident with a death wish. The pair is united by a new tenant in the building--a wealthy, Japanese man who sees through each of their facades into the brilliance they've each been disguising.
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