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The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister--all battling tuberculosis--walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later, they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was there that Marcus's new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up. Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson's remarkable journey from Helga's humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson's career of \"chasing flavors,\" as he calls it, had only just begun--in the intervening years, there have been White House State dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs and, most important, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room--a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. With disarming honesty and intimacy, Samuelsson also opens up about his failures as a man--the price of ambition, in human terms--and recounts his emotional journey, as a grown man, to meet the father he never knew. Yes, Chef is a tale of personal discovery, unshakable determination, and the passionate, playful pursuit of flavors--one man's struggle to find a place for himself in the kitchen, and in the world\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2e8p85754qs5kcr5y9h1er.jpg?v=1e29942bcb","LDFMzd$f0jI=}n$$I=NI1Js.}DR,",319,[471],{"id":472,"slug":473,"name":474},"01kx2e8p7gpq0q6j29w5f8a61g","marcus-samuelsson-vhwh","Marcus Samuelsson",[476,477,478],{"id":76,"name":77,"slug":78,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":383,"name":384,"slug":385,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":102,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":481,"themes":483,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[105,482],"heartwarming",[],{"id":485,"slug":486,"title":487,"description":488,"primary_cover_url":489,"cover_blurhash":490,"first_publish_year":491,"community_rating_avg":345,"community_rating_count":63,"page_count":7,"authors":492,"genres":497,"series":500,"enrichment":501},"01kx29pk4ftngfjrz51ndpxg54","pretty-is-what-changes-kamt","Pretty is what changes","A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA \"breast cancer\" gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller faces an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative--a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality. Superbly informed and armed with surprising wit and style, Queller takes us on an odyssey from the frontiers of science to the private interiors of a woman's life. Pretty Is What Changes is an absorbing account of how she reaches her courageous decision and its physical, emotional, and philosophical consequences. It is also an incredibly moving story of what we inherit from our parents and how we fashion it into the stuff of our own lives, of mothers and daughters and sisters, and of the sisterhood that forms when women are united in battle against a common enemy. Without flinching, Jessica Queller answers a question we may one day face for ourselves: If genes can map our fates and their dark knowledge is offered to us, will we willingly trade innocence for the information that could save our lives?","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx29pk4xaj1sqxpbzrfb96av.jpg?v=f09e218928","LPM?k~4:NbxZ^j~qxZMxxZ%1ofRk",2008,[493],{"id":494,"slug":495,"name":496},"01kx29pk4thz1qfrka4yvg6s15","jessica-queller-tlrd","Jessica Queller",[498,499],{"id":97,"name":98,"slug":99,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":102,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":502,"themes":503,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[105,106],[],{"id":505,"slug":506,"title":507,"description":508,"primary_cover_url":509,"cover_blurhash":510,"first_publish_year":511,"community_rating_avg":345,"community_rating_count":63,"page_count":512,"authors":513,"genres":518,"series":521,"enrichment":522},"01kx27vt93abm1mswyac5thvv0","mockingbird-ic4g","Mockingbird","In the 1930s Southern United States, young Scout Finch watches her father Atticus take on a case that will expose the rot beneath their small Alabama town's polite surface: defending Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. 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At first, doctors write off Jenifer's symptoms to stress, but she is quickly diagnosed with ALS, a fatal brain disease that is absolutely untreatable. Max out your credit cards and see Paris, suggests one doctor. Instead of preparing to die, Jenifer gets busy. She dreams deeper, works harder, and loves endlessly. For Jenifer, being fatally ill is not about letting go. It's about holding on and reaching -- for family, friends, goals. Jenifer's girlhood pact with her sisters Valerie and Meredith -- nothing will ever break us apart -- guides them as Jenifer faces down one of the most devastating illnesses known to humankind. That same enduring pact inspires the creation of Project A.L.S., a movement started by the sisters that changes the way science and medicine approach research for ALS and the related diseases Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and which has already raised more than $18 million. Will Project A.L.S. help scientists discover medicine in time for her? Jenifer answers these questions and others in this beautifully written and wholly inspiring memoir that celebrates a life fuelled by memory. 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At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--\"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap\"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her--and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26j1963n7vkkemmzyz9d0j.jpg?v=3686fbbf80","L7D2XgD402Yk00xJ:OVE4TXB{Kr;",[557],{"id":558,"slug":559,"name":560},"01kx26j193bgmc2pzx3gm5h0a0","kelly-corrigan-gg1c","Kelly Corrigan",[562,563,566],{"id":97,"name":98,"slug":99,"is_fiction":19},{"id":64,"name":564,"slug":565,"is_fiction":18},"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":102,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":569,"themes":570,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[222,106],[],{"key":572,"params":573,"works":574},"genre",{"genre":30},[575,598,620,643,659,685],{"id":576,"slug":577,"title":578,"description":579,"primary_cover_url":580,"cover_blurhash":581,"first_publish_year":582,"community_rating_avg":345,"community_rating_count":63,"page_count":583,"authors":584,"genres":589,"series":594,"enrichment":595},"01kx23jnsw322gpqmw2n0xsfmt","i-am-the-central-park-jogger-a-story-of-hope-and-possibility-vqw6","I Am the Central Park Jogger A Story of Hope and Possibility","A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this crime. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23jntf5755fe2s0raaj2zw.jpg?v=02d0d32171","LVPP_hyCXlMd.TRksWo}tnVsVstR",2003,280,[585],{"id":586,"slug":587,"name":588},"01kx23jnt94mkg614b97mbk48t","trisha-meili-nggg","Trisha Meili",[590,591,592,593],{"id":97,"name":98,"slug":99,"is_fiction":19},{"id":130,"name":131,"slug":132,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":93,"name":94,"slug":95,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":186,"complexity":7,"audience":103,"mood":596,"themes":597,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[105,106],[],{"id":599,"slug":600,"title":601,"description":602,"primary_cover_url":603,"cover_blurhash":604,"first_publish_year":605,"community_rating_avg":345,"community_rating_count":63,"page_count":512,"authors":606,"genres":611,"series":616,"enrichment":617},"01kx23z03dzj3e7ja6t8fa2b9v","not-my-type-one-woman-vs-a-president-6q6d","Not My Type One Woman Vs. a President","AN INSTANT INDIE, USA TODAY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! \"Delightful . . . We already know that E. Jean Carroll looked smashing when she went to court versus Donald J. Trump. But her irrepressible voice was, necessarily, repressed...Now she is saying pretty much everything.\" —The New York Times Book Review \"Buoyant.\" —The New York Times A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob? Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box. You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with”—a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. Jean’s “psychiatric evaluations,” and hear how she tries to cheer up Trump’s gloomy, $750-an-hour shrink by telling him about the strange white tablet Hunter S. Thompson gave her. You will be in on the choosing of the “clothes for court,” and the creation of “the look”: a look that will help the jury connect the younger E. Jean who is attacked by Trump in Bergdorf’s with the older E. Jean who sits in the courtroom. It’s all here: two dazzling trials, the full-tilt high stakes, the laugh-out-loud commentary, and the inspiring fact that a woman is never too old to get even.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23z03sp8tv7vsm77fd31d0.jpg?v=d1f46ec12f","L58p=V9Eaw~V%0ozIo-o0f%3%29Y",2025,[607],{"id":608,"slug":609,"name":610},"01kx23z03npx4mky3wa5bxwgp7","e-jean-carroll-nwyt","E. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years. After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas drugged Rojas with anesthetic while one of them slit open her abdomen. Her son, Emmanuel, was born by amateur cesarean section in April 2004. 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