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    Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist and author. She is the owner of Chez...

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Sep 29, 2017
What better season than autumn to savour two books about culinary icons — a memoir by Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, and a biography of Patience Gray, a locavore long before the word became popular.

And a book about an unsung theory of Darwin’s seeks to explain beauty as an evolutionary function.

Nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the “Odyssey” with the memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn, or the senior-citizen workampers of “Nomadland.”


An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Joe Tone

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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico...


Politics social issues
The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

Emily Culliton

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A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small...


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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Ellen Pao

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL...


Business biography technology
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro

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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked...


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