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With praise from Dorie Greenspan, Jim Lahey, and David Lebovitz, the definitive bread-baking book for a new generation. But this book isn't just about baking bread-- it's about what to do with the slices and heels and nubs from those many loaves you'll bake.

Alexandra Stafford grew up eating her mother's peasant bread at nearly every meal--the recipe for which was a closely-guarded family secret. When her blog, Alexandra's Kitchen, began to grow in popularity, readers started asking how to make the bread they'd heard so much about; the bread they had seen peeking into photos. Finally, Alexandra's mother relented, and the recipe went up on the internet. It has since inspired many who had deemed bread-baking an impossibility to give it a try, and their results have exceeded expectations. The secret is in its simplicity: the no-knead dough comes together in fewer than five minutes, rises in an hour, and after a second short rise, bakes in buttered bowls.

After you master the famous peasant bread, you'll work your way through its many variations, both in flavor (Cornmeal, Jalapeno, and Jack; Three Seed) and form (Cranberry Walnut Dinner Rolls; Cinnamon Sugar Monkey Bread). You'll enjoy bread's usual utilities with Food Cart Grilled Cheese and the Summer Tartine with Burrata and Avocado, but then you'll discover its true versatility when you use it to sop up Mussels with Shallot and White Wine or juicy Roast Chicken Legs. Finally, you'll find ways to savor every last bite, from Panzanella Salad Three Ways to Roasted Tomato Soup to No-Bake Chocolate-Coconut Cookies.

Bread, Toast, Crumbs is a 2018 nominee for The IACP Julia Child First Book Award, and Alexandra's Kitchen was a finalist for the Saveur Blog Awards Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners 2016

Bread is a food enjoyed by people in all parts of the world. Its many shapes, sizes, textures, and colors are as varied as the people who eat it. This photographic round-the-world tour provides a glimpse into the rich variety of world cultures, as well as an informative look at an important food that everyone agrees is as necessary as water and air.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.

Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics, personal preferences, and emotional connections. Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion--a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. In America today, food often looks and tastes the same, whether at a San Francisco farmers market or at a Midwestern potluck. Shockingly, 95% of the world's calories now come from only thirty species. Though supermarkets seem to be stocked with endless options, the differences between products are superficial, primarily in flavor and brand.

Sethi draws on interviews with scientists, farmers, chefs, vintners, beer brewers, coffee roasters and others with firsthand knowledge of our food to reveal the multiple and interconnected reasons for this loss, and its consequences for our health, traditions, and culture. She travels to Ethiopian coffee forests, British yeast culture labs, and Ecuadoran cocoa plantations collecting fascinating stories that will inspire readers to eat more consciously and purposefully, better understand familiar and new foods, and learn what it takes to save the tastes that connect us with the world around us.

When Bread was first published in 2004, it received the Julia Child Award for best First Book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and became an instant classic. Hailed as a "masterwork of bread baking literature," Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread features over 130 detailed, step-by-step formulas for dozens of versatile rye- and wheat-based sourdough breads, numerous breads made with yeasted pre-ferments, simple straight dough loaves, and dozens of variations. In addition, an International Contributors section is included, which highlights unique specialties by esteemed bakers from five continents. In this third edition of Bread, professional bakers, home bakers, and baking students will discover a diverse collection of flavors, tastes, and textures, hundreds of drawings that vividly illustrate techniques, and evocative photographs of finished and decorative breads.

Your comprehensive guide to artisanal bread making.

This exceptional collection of recipes from around the globe offers a delightful exploration of tastes, techniques, and traditions. From the classic sourdough to challah, Japanese milk bread, and beyond, each recipe has been carefully tested to ensure perfect results every time.

• 300+ traditional and innovative recipes
• Master key techniques for kneading, proofing, and baking
• Learn how to select the right flour
• Understand the importance of temperature and timing

Bread is an invaluable resource for novice bakers and seasoned professionals seeking new challenges and flavors. Whether you're looking to perfect your baguette, experiment with ancient grains, or simply discover the joy of homemade bread, baking has never been easier--or more delicious!

The winner of numerous awards and recipient of four starred reviews, Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs is a stunning and heartbreaking story of growing up, wrapped in a modern-day fairy tale.

Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped talking to her and disappeared into a forest with a mysterious woman made of ice. Now it's up to Hazel to go in after him. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Breadcrumbs is a stunningly original fairy tale of modern-day America, a dazzling ode to the power of fantasy, and a heartbreaking meditation on how growing up is as much a choice as it is something that happens to us.

In Breadcrumbs, Anne Ursu tells, in her one-of-a-kind voice, a story that brings together fifty years of children's literature in a tale as modern as it is timeless. Hazel's journey to come to terms with her evolving friendship with Jack will deeply resonate with young readers.

Supports the Common Core State Standards

Breadcrumbs of Becoming is a debut collection of poetry that transforms pain into beauty and survival into testimony. Writing as Embrace Journee, the author weaves personal truth with ancestral echoes, guiding readers through struggle, stillness, and transformation. Each poem is both a reflection of her own journey and an invitation to embrace yours-illuminating the golden breadcrumbs that mark the path toward healing and becoming whole. Powerful, spiritual, and deeply human, this collection speaks to resilience and renewal, reminding us that even the hardest steps can lead us to light.

If you stop for a moment and silence all the outside distractions, you will notice God's loving involvement in every detail of your life and the string of breadcrumbs He spreads to you each day. At least, this is what happened for Michelle. It was just another ordinary March day until God began dropping breadcrumbs from heaven and leading her down a path she never dreamed of, and it all started with a baby afghan and a phone call.

During Michelle and Charlie's four-year struggle to adopt three boys, their string of breadcrumbs made the manna in the desert look like an ant hill. God placed each person in their path, which led to the next one, ready to run their leg of the race. Throughout the pages of this book, you will witness the beauty of God's relentless, hopeful love that helped reconcile three boys to their culture and First Nations community and to their new, loving family. Read along and follow the breadcrumbs. I promise you they are there, and who knows where the path might lead you on your own adventure! Are you ready to follow the trail?

A moving graphic memoir in the vein of Almost All American Girl and Persepolis, Breadcrumbs is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism.

In the late 1980s, Poland faces debilitating food shortages, worker discontent, and astronomical inflation. Seemingly overnight, the country transitions from communism to capitalism. During this period of flux, Kasia Babis is born.

In the shadow of national change, Kasia experiences her own journey of growth, from rebellious teen to politically minded activist. She grapples with her country's deep-rooted Catholicism and forges her own beliefs, leading to her becoming an active part of Poland's left-wing Razem party. Each new experience is a reminder that broader societal upheavals reverberate on a deeply personal level.

With a deft balance of the intimate and geopolitical, Kasia Babis chronicles her fight to uphold her progressive values while her country heads in the opposite direction. Breadcrumbs is a coming-of-age story--not only of Kasia but of Poland as a modern state.

James Beard Awards 2023 nominee - Bread category
Shortlisted for the 2023 Andre Simon Best Cookbook Award

A cookbook full of heart that explores the redemptive power of baking.

Kitty Tait grew up a funny, chatty redhead who made everyone in her family laugh. But around the time she turned 14, Kitty began experiencing anxiety. Slowly, she disconnected from everyone around her and struggled to wake up, get dressed, and leave the house. Full of worry, her parents tried everything, from new hobbies like reading and painting to medication and visits to a specialist. Nothing seemed to help.

Then, one day, as Kitty stood on a stool watching her dad mix flour, water, and salt, she determined Al's gloopy, sludgy blob of bread looked a whole lot like her brain. The next day, peaking under the tea towel as the mix gently bubbled and popped, Kitty came to a stunning realization: bread is alive. Al asked Kitty if she'd like to try baking bread herself, and their lives were never the same again. One loaf quickly escalated into an obsession, and Kitty felt better than she had for a long time. Within nine months, Kitty and Al opened The Orange Bakery--and they haven't stopped since.

Featuring more than 80 recipes--including cinnamon buns, cheese swirls, and tahini brownies--Breadsong is a celebration of bread and baking, and an inspiring story of the life-saving power of discovering a passion.

Your all-inclusive guide to understanding the science behind making the best leavened bread at home with over 50 recipes for sourdough, brioche, baguettes, bagels, pita, and much more, from the founder of the IACP Award-nominated newsletter Wordloaf.

"The most clear-headed, authoritative, science-driven, and practical guide to bread baking I've seen."--J. Kenji López-Alt, author of The Food Lab and The Wok

Breaducation is for everyone! Whether you're just starting on your bread-baking journey or you're looking to create your own recipes, Andrew Janjigian is here to meet you where you are. For over twenty years, Andrew has been baking bread professional-quality bread and teaching people how to do it.

Now, he brings his years of experience, love for science, and detailed precision to Breaducation. Andrew covers the gamut, from describing every stage in the lifespan of a loaf to a deep dive in the core ingredients in bread baking, and from explaining baker's math to reading and understanding recipe formulas. He covers more advanced techniques as well, from incorporating scalds into your loaves to milling your own grains. And just as he does in Wordloaf, Andrew geeks out over the finer details, such as how temperature, flour type, dough chemistry, your oven, and more impact your final loaf. Recipes include:

- Crusty loaves: Basically Perfect Sourdough, Durum Slab Bread, Cheesy Crits Sourdough, and Rye Scald Miche
- Grain-filled breads: Cream-of-Wheat Sourdough, Cracked Farro Porridge Sourdough Pan Bread, and Rugbrød
- Squishy and fluffy ones: Shokupain de Mie, Challah, and Brioche
- Long and little breads: Baguettes, Parker House "Swolls", and Bagels
- Flat-ish bakes: Fougasse, Pita, and Matnakash (Armenian Fingerprint Flatbread)
- Discarded starter and old bread reuses: Sourdough Olive Oil Granola, Sourdough Boston Brown Bread, and Bread Amino Sauce

Through every iteration of your bakes, Andrew encourages you to build off the techniques you've learned and bring in your own creative flourishes. With many step-by-step photos and illustrations, charts breaking down scaling, hydration percentages, and more, these 50 reliable recipes will teach you what goes into making great bread at home.

Kayla Miller, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Click, Camp, Act, Clash, and Crunch and co-author of Besties returns with a new Olive story! Olive is less-than-excited to be spending Spring Break stuck with her dad...will she be able to make the most of her trip, or will everything break apart?

Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive.

This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city.

Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her friend Bree or scrolling through her new phone to keep up with everything she's missing back home than catch up with him.

As the week winds on, the normally easygoing Olive finds feelings of loneliness and resentment throwing her out of whack. Is there any hope of salvaging the visit--or will Olive's Spring Break be a Spring Bust?

The New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller returns with another vibrant and emotional story about the power of second chances and how the fear of missing out can lead to missing out on what's right in front of you.

Dr. Delores "Lorie" Shaw is no stranger to the complexities of the human mind, but her career as a psychiatrist in a small town is about to test her limits. When a patient of Dr. Shaw's turns up dead, and her young child missing without a trace, the dedicated doctor's simple life begins to unravel around her. As seasoned detective Chris Greyson enters her world, the body count rises and more of Lorie's patients become entangled with a killer who believes in a twisted sense of salvation. When her feelings for the detective begin to cross the line, it becomes increasingly difficult for Lorie to navigate the delicate balance between her professional ethics and desperate need to find the truth. As Dr. Shaw and Detective Greyson delve deeper, they wonder if the connection to Lorie is a coincidence or the key to solving the murders. With every clue pointing closer to home, and questioning whether she can continue in her field, Lorie must confront her own past along with the uncertainty of her future. Each step closer to solving the puzzle brings Lorie closer to Chris, closer to the truth, and closer to breaking.

Uncover the truth as you dive into the depths of the human mind where the veil between good and evil may be thinner than you think. Will you break?

This cozy murder mystery is book one in The Greyson Series.

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis-Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg's North End.

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break -- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house -- she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.

In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim -- police, family, and friends -- tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg's North End is exposed.

A powerful intergenerational family saga, The Break showcases Vermette's abundant writing talent and positions her as an exciting new voice in Canadian literature.

Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and military members all see the innermost of our dark and fallen world. Jonathan Hickory gives us a veteran police officer's intimate perspective into the struggle that many of our heroes battle in their hearts.

Drowning in the depths of depression and sadness, burning with anger, and chained down by alcoholism, Jonathan couldn't do any more. After the death of his father as a young boy, facing countless horrific death scenes in the line of duty, and the loss of his first son, Jonathan turned to the world for answers--finding only darkness. Facing the threat of losing his job as a police officer, the loss of his wife and daughter, and contemplating suicide, Jonathan turns to the only one who can truly save--Jesus.

Read the powerful true story of how a step into faith saved Jonathan from the clutches of sin and addiction, changing his life forever. This amazing story of grace and the life-changing power of Jesus Christ is guaranteed to encourage everyone who reads it.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series comes a breathtaking thriller about a man whose only chance to rescue his family is to return to the past he thought he'd left behind.

Tommy Miller is a man with deadly skills, hiding in Florida under a false identity. After being set up on an overseas mission, he's on the run from terrorists--and from the government who betrayed him. So when his wife and daughter are violently abducted, it seems his ghosts are finally catching up with him.

But Tommy isn't the only one with secrets. His wife, Teresa, has been concealing her own dangerous past, and as Tommy races to rescue his family, he must peel away the clues she's left behind. With a hotshot police detective, Lindy Jax, close on his trail, Tommy follows a twisted path from Florida to the Bahamas, one that brings him face-to-face with ruthless enemies.

His search for answers soon puts him on the wrong side of the law--hunted by the police and pursued by men who want him dead. Worst of all, if he hopes to save Teresa and their daughter, Rosalita, he must become the man he once was--a killer operating from the deepest shadows.

But when the lives of the people you love are at stake, rules are made to be broken.