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        August 2021

        Night Talk around a Stove

        by Wang Yongbin

        This book is a popular reading material of Confucianism. It is a famous review work of literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that evaluates and comments in sections on the anecdotes, people, events, articles and others of that time and before. The author imagines a situation in winter where one talks freely about literature and art with best friends around a stove, which makes the language of this book sincere, natural and easy to read. This book has an important position in the history of Chinese literature because of its unique views. It is divided into 221 pieces, with “settling down and setting up a career” as the general topic, which includes ten sub-topics including morality, self-cultivation, reading, contentment with poverty, children’s education, loyalty and filial piety, diligence and thrift, revealing the profound connotation that the establishment of virtue, establishment of achievement and establishement of theory are all based on one’s career. This book is regarded as one of the three masterpieces dealing with worldly affairs, the other two being The Roots of Wisdom (Caigentan) and Meditation in Solitude by a Tiny Window (Xiaochuang Youji).

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        Children's & YA

        Things. My 200 Picture Book

        by Magdalena Skala

        The very smallest children can identify and name objects from their homes in this award-winning, large-format board book. Magdalena Skala’s fantastic illustrations use bright colours and clear forms to depict the most important objects from the nursery, kitchen, garden, lounge, bathroom – in short from children’s everyday worlds: a great start into the world of words – and books! Magdalena Skala was awarded the 2019 Meefisch Prize and the Marktheidenfeld Prize for picture book illustration for THINGS. MY 200-PICTURE BOOK.

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        Children's & YA
        October 2021

        The Lost Smile

        by Nadia L. King / Nelli Aghekyan

        When Zaytoon wakes up feeling sad, she goes on a search to find her smile. From the kitchen to the garden, Zaytoon searches high and low,and eventually discovers her smile — it’s smiling at her from her reflection in the window! The Lost Smile is beautifully illustrated colourful picture book that demonstrates the importance of accepting our emotions. Zaytoon’s journey shows children it’s okay to be sad and reassures young readers that sadness can be temporary. Themes include cultural diversity, emotional intelligence, family life and the importance of connecting with nature and animals.

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        January 2022

        A Guide to Food Safety Sourcebook, First Edition

        by James Chambers, General Editor

        Provides consumer health information about food safety, antimicrobial use, common foodborne pathogens and illnesses, basic food safety in the kitchen, safety by events and seasons, allergies, and intolerance. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.

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        Children's & YA

        Le mouton de Modibo (Modibo's sheep)

        by Abdourahmane Diallo

        Fanta gets up, walks around the house, looks in the kitchen, in the garage and even in the bedrooms. No sheep! She walks around the block. Still no sheep. Distraught and trembling, she returns to announce the disaster to Modibo...

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        Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)
        2021

        40 Rules to Survive the Apocalypse

        by Yuri Nikitinsky

        What to do if there was an explosion, zombies are wandering around, viruses or aliens are creeping, and the Angry Cockroach is crunching the on the cookies left in the kitchen? First and foremost, you should not panic and be prepared. Of course, the cases are very different - real and fictional - but the advice in this book is always valid and useful for each of them. So if you are seriously prepared, no apocalypse will get you!

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Karel Reisz

        by Colin Gardner

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        Cooking & food (Children's/YA)
        2021

        How to Open a Restaurant. A Magic Guide to the Restaurant Business

        by Masha Serdiuk

        An one-of-a-kind guide for children 9+ on how to open a restaurant. Created and published in cooperation with Dmitro Borysov, a famous Ukrainian chef and owner of a popular family of restaurants. This book teaches business thinking and takes the young readers behind the scenes of a successful restaurant network. What is a business model and how to create it? How to name your restaurant? How to equip a kitchen? Where to get money for your own restaurant? Adorably illustrated, this book is a pleasure to read even if you are not going to open a restaurant. Though, who knows?

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        April 2016

        The Beautiful Daily Life of Chef Huang

        by Huang Lei

        The Beautiful Daily Life of Chef Huang is a collection of essays in which Huang Lei shares with the readers his memories as a gourmet and his secret recipes. In his nostalgic account, he tells about the delicacies his parents prepared and how he cooked each meal for his wife and children when he grew up. The passage of time has enabled Huang Lei to transform into Chef Huang and to share with the readers his private recipes and the emotional memories associated with them. He is trying to tell the readers that the kitchen harbors happiness and that food brings joy and expresses the life philosophy of “leading a simple but rich life”.

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        January 2022

        Acids and Bases, Third Edition

        by Kristi Lew

        Praise for the previous edition: "...clear and detailed...informative...comprehensive...will be [a] useful addition to most libraries."—School Library Journal Acids and bases are essential components of the natural world that play key roles in medicine and industry. They are used in the manufacturing of everyday items such as carbonated soft drinks, salad dressing, kitchen and bathroom cleaners, and fertilizers. But these compounds can also serve a dramatic function, such as in the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus. The informative Acids and Bases, Third Edition takes a closer look at these fascinating, yet contrasting, substances, giving concrete, real-world examples with numerous colorful illustrations.

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        A Sea of Fishes

        A Culinary Guide to Mediterranean Seafood

        by Bella Galil

        This culinary guide to Mediterranean seafood combines a concise description and basic biological information on the most popular species, with historical anecdotes and cookery tips. Each entry is accompanied by a scientifically accurate drawing and the name of the species in the different Mediterranean languages. Dr. Bella Galil is a marine biologist at the National Institute of Oceanography. For some 20 years she has been researching marine life in the Mediterranean. In her travels, she has gathered choice seafood recipes from fishermen and colleagues, all of which she has tried in her own kitchen

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        The Arts
        November 2022

        In good taste

        How Britain’s middle classes found their style

        by Ben Highmore, Christopher Breward

        In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians prophesised that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved entirely wrong. In good taste charts how class culture, rather than being destroyed by mass consumption, was remade from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines. Novelists, cartoonists and playwrights satirised the tastes of the emerging middle classes, and sociologists claimed that an entire population was suffering from status anxiety, but underneath it all, a world was being constructed out of duvets, quiches and mayonnaise, easy chairs from Habitat, white emulsion paint and ubiquitous well-scrubbed, second-hand pine kitchen tables. This was less a world of symbolic goods and more an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2011

        Moving Stories

        An intimate history of four women across two countries

        by Alistair Thomson

        I'm not a good mother - not what Dr. Spock calls a "slow mother" who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right treatment. (Dorothy Wright, 1961) I must admit that I am no longer the same person who was tied to the kitchen sink at home. (Phyllis Cave, 1973) This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century women's history. This book will appeal to students and academics interested in British and Australian social history, oral history, women's studies and the lived experience of migration. ;

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        Children's & YA
        July 2021

        Vielleicht Jetzt

        by Carolin Wahl

        Maybe Now (MAYBE Trilogy, Vol. 1) Gabriella, Joana and Karla share a flat. To finance their studies, they all work at a catering company. And the three not only realize their professional dreams, but also find the love of their lives. Gabrielle almost missed her plane in Brazil and now she sits next to this super rude guy. Great! She‘s flying to Munich to finally meet her biological father. Undercover, as she starts an internship in his catering company. On her first day in the kitchen, her instructor turns out to be, of all people, Anton. Her rude – or rather rudely handsome – seatmate from the plane! He not only lights a fire at the stove... Gabriella tries in vain to fight the sparks between them. Because Anton has clear rules when it comes to relationships at work. As hot as the Brazilian sun and as seductive as a perfect chocolate mousse!   • Feel-good page turner for New Adults• Original plots in heartfelt narrations, leaving out familiar clichés• Girl power: 3 self-confident protagonists and their strong friendship• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, parental pressure, exploring roots to find your place

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        Children's & YA
        2021

        Ole and Ule. Unaccounted Miracle

        by Inguren Guren (Author), Lena Bardy (Illustrator)

        Ole, a retired accountant, carefully lists, labels and records everything that falls into his hands in a special journal. Suddenly, one day he finds an unlabeled strange egg on his kitchen table, that eventually hatches and bring to the fore Ule, the tiny-tiny baby owl that will change Ole’s life. This is the beginning of The Adventures of Ole and Ule. A touching story by Ukrainian writer Inguren Guten, with wonderful illustrations by Lena Bardy, The Adventures of Ole and Ule will definitely touch the readers' hearts. The Adventures of Ole and Ule is the first story of a series dedicated to the two friends, and a sequel is currently being developed.   From 3 to 8 years, 736 words Rightsholders: Taisiia Nakonecnha, t.zaplitna@gmail.com

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        November 2020

        Medicine Dao Fax——Liu Shaogui, a famous veteran pharmacist, talks about keeping in good health with traditional Chinese medicine

        by Liu Shaogui

        According to the identification and application of traditional Chinese medicine, the rational use of traditional Chinese medicine and patent medicine, the traditional Chinese medicine in the kitchen, the method of decoction and administration of traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal wine and medicinal tea, chronic disease recuperation, comments on the secret recipes of the family, teaching you to buy Chinese patent medicine, health maintenance essentials and seasonal health preservation, etc. The category is arranged and it is very convenient to find. The content involves the correct selection of commonly used medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines, the introduction of Chinese medicines for both medicinal and food use and medicated dietary treatments, as well as the main points of health preservation for four o'clock and eight festivals and 24 solar terms. In the drug introduction, it not only explained the identification of the good and the bad, but also briefly described the common sense of reasonable application, and at the same time, clarified some misunderstandings or misleading in view of the current disadvantages.

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