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LIVING WILD: HOW TO PLANT STYLE YOUR HOME AND CULTIVATE HAPPINESS

CICO Books

Hilton Carter

We follow Hilton Carter on Instagram and enjoy learning about how to turn our spaces into a natural environment with plants. He shows us what kinds of plants we can use, how to maintain them and how to find the perfect plant for our personality types. This plant stylist has taken us along on his journey and how he is even training his young daughter how to live with them. This book talks about interior design choices, finiding the right materials, schemes and textures to match your home. He even shares 8 unique homes that he has styled along with tips we can use in Living Wild: How to Plant Style Your Home and Cultivate Happiness.

THE GOURMAND'S EGG. A COLLECTION OF STORIES & RECIPES

Taschen

The Gourmand 

In The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes highlights one of the most versatile ingredients that we can enjoy for breakfast, lunch and dinner in an array of dishes. We learn how in ancient Rome, eggs were used to dispel evil spirits and were woven into Egyptian mythology as well. This book (as well as future ones in this series), looks at the intersectionality between food and culture through original recipes while highlighting culinary traditions with the egg from around the world. There are also artworks that are also included from Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, and Man Ray.

We can't wait to see additional foods that will be in this series so that we can learn about other ingredients that are staples in our kitchens.

AFRICANA: MORE THAN 100 RECIPES AND FLAVORS INSPIRED BY A RICH CONTINENT

Amistad

Lerato Umah-Shaylor 

In Africana, we are taken on a culinary tour! In this book, we learn about the cuisines that are found throughout this continent and learn about the culture, traditions and flavors that are found there.

We learn about dishes that have been passed down from one generation to the next along with stories that are collected along the way to give them new and enhanced meaning!

This cookbook will allow you to make dishes that hail from Nigeria to Madagascar and Morocco to South Africa. We're looking forward to trying Spice Island Coconut Fish Curry, Tunisian Tagine and one of our favorites, Jollof. 

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THE 8GREENS COOKBOOK

Preface Publishing

Dawn Russell

We have been a fan of 8GREENS for a while now. We love that by drinking a tablet each day as well as having gummies that's packed with our must-have greens, we're effortlessly contributing to our good health.

In The 8Greens Cookbook: The Simple Way to Get Your Greens, founder of this nourishing brand, Dawn Russell shares how navigating her health issues led to a journey on the power of getting your greens! The recipes include items that include products from her line as well as those that include our favorite veggies. This book is one that is great for those that want to incorporate ways to great health.

ICE COLD. A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY

Taschen

Vikki Tobak

Ice Cold. A Hip-Hop Jewelry History takes us through how this accessory is the cornerstone of Hip-Hop from Patek Philippe watches, Tiffany necklaces, Rolexes and more! This coffeetable book is filled with diamond encrusted grills, truck style chains and a number of blinged out pieces that your favorite artists have worn as well as performed in.

This book looks at these statement pieces from the 1980s to today. In addition, artists share their stories through ice and how this is an extension of their identity and self-expression. We get to hear from as well as see Run-DMC, Eric B., Rakim, Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Gucci Mane and Cardi B to name a few. We see the pieces that they love and how street style was transformed into a new era of design culture. The book also shares collaborations, the use of unconventional materials and of course, over the top pieces.

In reading this book, you'll learn about jewelers that paved the way for the industries pioneers from Tito Caicedo of Manny’s, Eddie Plein, and Jacob the Jeweler as well as artisans including Avianne & Co., Ben Baller/IF & Co., Greg Yuna, Johnny Dang, Eliantte, and more.

Make sure to read the foreword by Slick Rick and essays by A$AP Ferg, LL COOL J and more.

THE HOUSE OF EVE

Simon & Schuster

Sadeqa Johnson

We find ourselves in 1950s Philadelphia in The House of Eve and meet Ruby Pearsall who is on track to being the first person in her family to go to college. But a love affair threatens to keep her where she is.

We also meet Eleanor Quarles who comes to Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets her handsome love interest who attends Howard University and comes from an elite wealthy Black family, she realizes that she has a lot to navigate in order to be accepted by his family. This is the life that she has always wanted and she simply wants to fit in.

With their stories colliding in the most unexpected ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives.

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THE POLAROID DIARIES

TASCHEN

Linda McCartney

The Polaroid Diaries by Linda McCartney provides personal images of her work in the follow up to the bestselling TASCHEN monograph Life in Photographs book.

Readers can see the world through her eyes as well as her family. Enjoy portraits that are taken of Paul McCartney, their four children from funny faces to matching pajamas. These images capture the everyday moments on their farm in Southern England.

This coffee table book shares 200 photos of these moments from the early 1970s until the mid-1990s. The introduction has a few words by Paul McCartney himself as well as a foreword by Chrissie Hynde with an essay by art critic Ekow Eshran.

In addition to seeing the family, images include landscapes across Scotland and Arizona. Additional images include an array of celebrities such as Steve McQueen as well as a host of animals! - all caught on Polaroid.

LITTLE WEIRDS

Little, Brown and Company

Jenny Slate

Sometimes when you think about it, we live our day to day lives and it goes by with a number of unextraordinary occurrences that take place. But when you think about it, the very act of being out and about includes a lot of odd things that come together. Jenny Slate highlights these things by allowing us to think about the strangeness of these daily occurrences - like living in a rotating environment that is a part of a system of other orbs that are all connected in order for us to go about our day.

Living on Earth, we get to know a number of feelings from those that are charming and delightful to those that are much more complicated to navigate. The spontaneity of this thing that we call life allows us to take these turns and to share it with others. Every high and low reminds us that we are alive and that we can have an impact and that we must remember all of these things as we go about our day to day life.

GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN

Avon

Talia Hibbert

When faced with a chronically ill condition that nearly left Chloe Brown dead, there is a moment of clarity where she decides to truly live! To live, she must have a goal, a plan, and a list. Ultimately, she decides that she needs to Get a Life and there are 7 directives that will assist her in doing that! In part, she decides to move out of the family’s mansion. Next, she plans to enjoy a drunken night out, ride a motorcycle, go camping, have meaningless and enjoyable sex, travel with only a carryon bag and do something bad. She finds that she needs a bit of assistance to tackle these items and she reached out to a man that will be there every step of the way! Red is a handyman with tattoos and a motorcycle who is also an artist - although he doesn't make it known. In the process, Chloe learns a lot about him, his views on life as well as his thoughts on her background.

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