Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254828
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Morningstar: Growing Up With Books by : Ann Hood

Download or read book Morningstar: Growing Up With Books written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] enchanting journey through Ann Hood’s early fascination with reading.… Book lovers will find Morningstar irresistible.”—Lynn Sharon Schwartz, author of Ruined by Reading Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn’t foster a love of reading, novelist Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the transformative power of literature. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks of books. In Morningstar, Hood recollects with warmth and honesty how The Bell Jar, Marjorie Morningstar, The Harrad Experiment, and The Outsiders influenced her teen psyche and introduced her to topics that could not be discussed at home: desire, fear, sexuality, and madness. Later, Johnny Got His Gun and Grapes of Wrath dramatically influenced her political thinking while the Vietnam War and Kent State shootings became headline news, and classics such as Dr. Zhivago and Les Misérables stoked her ambitions to travel the world. With characteristic insight and charm, Hood showcases the ways in which books gave her life and can transform—even save—our own lives.

Revelation

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310713757
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Revelation by : Brett Burner

Download or read book Revelation written by Brett Burner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SECRET OF THE HAND, REVEALED TO ALL In defiance of the Morningstar's growing power and authority, Michael reveals the origins underlying the Hand's superpowers to the nation. Will this news come in time to stop the Morningstar's rise to rule over the earth? And how will the Hand react?

Morning Star

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345539850
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Book Synopsis Morning Star by : Pierce Brown

Download or read book Morning Star written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star. ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • “[Brown’s] achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”—Entertainment Weekly Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender. Praise for Morning Star “There is no one writing today who does shameless, Michael Bay–style action set pieces the way Brown does. The battle scenes are kinetic, bloody, breathless, crazy. Everything is on fire all the time.”—NPR “Morning Star is this trilogy’s Return of the Jedi. . . . The impactful battles that make up most of Morning Star are damn near operatic. . . . It absolutely satisfies.”—Tordotcom “Excellent . . . Brown’s vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes . . . as this interstellar civil war comes to a most satisfying conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns . . . The conclusion to Brown’s saga is simply stellar.”—Booklist (starred review) Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

The Katerina Trilogy, Vol. III: The Morning Star

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Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375899030
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Book Synopsis The Katerina Trilogy, Vol. III: The Morning Star by : Robin Bridges

Download or read book The Katerina Trilogy, Vol. III: The Morning Star written by Robin Bridges and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush and opulent, romantic and sinister, The Morning Star, Vol. III in the Katerina Trilogy, reimagines the lives of Russia's aristocracy in a fabulously intoxicating and page-turning fantasy. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890 Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, wants to be known as a doctor, not a necromancer. But Tsar Alexander III forbids women to attend medical school; his interest in Katerina extends only to her ability to raise the dead. Twice now, Katerina has helped him by using her power to thwart the forces of darkness—vampires bent on resurrecting the lich tsar Konstantin Pavlovich so that he can take what he sees as his rightful place on the throne. Katerina thought she had bound Konstantin to the Greylands, the realm of the dead, but he has found a way out. Now he is searching for the Morning Star, a sword that will allow him to command a legion of supernatural warriors. Katerina must find the sword before Konstantin does—and she must travel to Egypt to do so. Along the way, she puts up with unwanted attention from her former fiancé, the nefarious Prince Danilo, and struggles with her feelings for her true love, George Alexandrovich. But with the looming threat from Konstantin, Katerina's focus remains on the sword. Russia's fate will be determined by whoever wields the Morning Star—and delivers the final blow.

The Morning Star

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399563431
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis The Morning Star by : Karl Ove Knausgaard

Download or read book The Morning Star written by Karl Ove Knausgaard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 "Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times The international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a night shift when one of her patients escapes. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding. Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral service for a man she met at the airport – but is he actually dead? The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the strangeness that permeates our world, and the darkness in us all. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s astonishing new novel, his first after the My Struggle cycle, goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos, to what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed and the realms of the living and the dead collide.

Ruined By Reading

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071005
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Ruined By Reading by : Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Download or read book Ruined By Reading written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.

Molly Morningstar A Doll for Me

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ISBN 13 : 9781777388324
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Molly Morningstar A Doll for Me by : Andrea Coke

Download or read book Molly Morningstar A Doll for Me written by Andrea Coke and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly needs a doll for an important party, but she can't find one that looks like her! See how this problem-solving spunky little girl tackles the problem!

Marjorie Morningstar

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316248541
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Marjorie Morningstar by : Herman Wouk

Download or read book Marjorie Morningstar written by Herman Wouk and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s. A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves home to accept the job of her dreams--working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest--and the most destructive--love of her life. Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. "I read it and I thought, 'Oh, God, this is me.'" --Scarlet Johansson

She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524785121
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) by : Ann Hood

Download or read book She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) written by Ann Hood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filled with love, hope, and longing, this is a novel for readers of all ages." - Holly Goldberg Sloan Bestselling author Ann Hood crafts a funny, heartfelt story of a girl growing up in the heart of Beatlemania. The year is 1966. The Vietnam War rages overseas, the Beatles have catapulted into stardom, and twelve-year-old Rhode Island native Trudy Mixer is not thrilled with life. Her best friend, Michelle, has decided to become a cheerleader, everyone at school is now calling her Gertrude (her hated real name), and the gem of her middle school career, the Beatles fan club, has dwindled down to only three other members--the least popular kids at school. And at home, her workaholic father has become even more distant. Determined to regain her social status and prove herself to her father, Trudy looks toward the biggest thing happening worldwide: the Beatles. She is set on seeing them in Boston during their final world tour--and meeting her beloved Paul McCartney. So on a hot August day, unknown to their families, Trudy and crew set off on their journey, each of them with soaring hopes for what lies ahead. In her signature prose, Hood crafts an extraordinary story of growing up, making unexpected connections, and following your dreams even as the world in front of you--and the world at large--is changing too fast.

Morning Star

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Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420145150
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Morning Star by : Charlotte Hubbard

Download or read book Morning Star written by Charlotte Hubbard and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When five maidels join forces to turn an abandoned barn into an Amish marketplace, the unmarried women have community in mind. But their fledgling enterprise promises to reap surprising rewards for each in turn, including the gift of unexpected love . . . For Regina Miller, the new Morning Star Marketplace is a chance to share her secret work with the world—without revealing herself. Old Order Amish forbid the creation of art without purpose, but without a husband, Regina has been free to explore the joy of painting in her attic. Yet when Gabe Flaud’s curiosity leads him to speculate that Regina herself is the painter, the full weight of their community’s judgement falls on her shoulders. When Gabe stands up to defend Regina, questioning the Order’s restrictions, he reveals his own guilty secret and is shunned along with her. Forced to turn to each other for companionship, the young couple must learn to balance their own needs with their deep faith . . . and a love that will show them all things are possible. Praise for the novels of Charlotte Hubbard “Hubbard firmly grounds the storyline in the principle of Amish grace.” —Publishers Weekly “Fans of Amish fiction will love Charlotte Hubbard’s series.” Marta Perry Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com

Warrendale

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ISBN 13 : 9780963702913
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Warrendale by : Athena Morningstar Kelly

Download or read book Warrendale written by Athena Morningstar Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrendale is a portrait of life of Greasers and their girls in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit. Their lives were like American Graffiti on acid, they shared everything from cigarettes and booze to probation officers and women. But the one guy that stood out from the rest; the one who was movie-star handsome and just plain wild and crazy, the one who remains a legend to this day for all the wrong reasons, is Van Thomas. If mistakes were accounted for like balances in a checking account, Van Thomas would be overdrawn. He lived life to the extreme, leaving his childhood sweetheart and wife, Taylor Ginetti, and their children to survive his lack of moral compass. Nothing was off limits to Van, including numerous affairs and murder. So what went wrong with Van? Some thought it was Viet Nam, others were sure it was his loving mother and the rest thought it was a combination of both and if Van knew, like all the other secrets the Warrendale Gang kept, he took it to his grave.

The Art of Reading

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Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1925548090
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Reading by : Damon Young

Download or read book The Art of Reading written by Damon Young and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful celebratory tribute to the powers of one of our most undervalued skills — an ideal gift for the avid reader. ‘What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.’ As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop and remember, stop and learn again how to read better. Damon Young shows us how to do exactly this, walking alongside some of the greatest readers who light a path for us — Borges, Plato, Woolf. Young reads passionately, selectively, surprisingly — from superhero noir to speculative realism, from Heidegger to Heinlein — and shows his reader how cultivating their inner critic can expand their own lives as well as the lives of those on the pages of the books they love.

The Morning Star

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Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780385740265
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Morning Star by : Robin Bridges

Download or read book The Morning Star written by Robin Bridges and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Necromancer Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, wages her final battle against against Russia's greatest threat--Konstantin the Deathless"--

She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 152478513X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) by : Ann Hood

Download or read book She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) written by Ann Hood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filled with love, hope, and longing, this is a novel for readers of all ages." - Holly Goldberg Sloan Bestselling author Ann Hood crafts a funny, heartfelt story of a girl growing up in the heart of Beatlemania. The year is 1966. The Vietnam War rages overseas, the Beatles have catapulted into stardom, and twelve-year-old Rhode Island native Trudy Mixer is not thrilled with life. Her best friend, Michelle, has decided to become a cheerleader, everyone at school is now calling her Gertrude (her hated real name), and the gem of her middle school career, the Beatles fan club, has dwindled down to only three other members--the least popular kids at school. And at home, her workaholic father has become even more distant. Determined to regain her social status and prove herself to her father, Trudy looks toward the biggest thing happening worldwide: the Beatles. She is set on seeing them in Boston during their final world tour--and meeting her beloved Paul McCartney. So on a hot August day, unknown to their families, Trudy and crew set off on their journey, each of them with soaring hopes for what lies ahead. In her signature prose, Hood crafts an extraordinary story of growing up, making unexpected connections, and following your dreams even as the world in front of you--and the world at large--is changing too fast.

The Stolen Child: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609812
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stolen Child: A Novel by : Ann Hood

Download or read book The Stolen Child: A Novel written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this moving, page-turning novel from “a gifted storyteller” (People). For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands—and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the life’s work of a lonely Italian craftsman. Determined to find the baby and the artist, hopeless romantic Jenny and curmudgeonly Nick must reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they’ve left behind. With characteristic warmth and verve, Ann Hood captures a world of possibility and romance through the eyes of a young woman learning to claim her place in it. The Stolen Child is an engaging, timeless novel of secrets, love lost and found, and the nature of forgiveness.

Fly Girl: A Memoir

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006242
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fly Girl: A Memoir written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation. In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike. As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write—even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff.

Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249514
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood’s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes, found hope in her daughter’s omelet after a divorce, and fell in love again—with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock. Hood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven heartfelt essays, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In “Carbonara Quest,” searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning essay “The Golden Silver Palate,” she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbella—and how it did fail her when she was falling in love. Hood’s simple, comforting recipes also include her mother’s famous meatballs, hearty Italian Beef Stew, classic Indiana Fried Chicken, the perfect grilled cheese, and a deliciously summery peach pie. With Hood’s signature humor and tenderness, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.