Curated Lists 2023

The best way to end a meal is with good advice or the promise of good luck! But there is so much more behind Chinese food than just folded rice cookies, noodles, and sweet & sour pork! Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of food, in a blend of sociology, history, and delicious cooking!
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The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic images that have always exerted strong fascination. The cards have become viewed as the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. This book explores the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture, tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from a game to a mysterious oracular device.
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For over 400 years the prophecies of the controversial French prophet Michel Nostradamus have fascinated people. Projecting far into the future (to the year 3000!) and open to countless interpretations. Until this book, there was no truly complete translation of the prophecies. This definitive study not only fills that gap but goes far beyond, including explanatory notes, indexes, historical background, and including the most famous (and infamous) interpretations.
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Claiming he had discovered the "royal road to the unconscious," Sigmund Freud asserted that dreams were filled with latent meaning, their bizarre imagery and peculiar narratives concealing deep-seated, instinctual motives and desires. By revealing how symbols in dreams reflect important personal issues in the dreamer's present and past life, Freud created a key that unlocked the vital secrets of the unconscious mind.
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In tiny French town, where nothing ever changes, a beautiful newcomer and her chocolate shop arrive and instantly a delicious magic begins! Each box of bonbons comes with uncanny insights into its buyer's private needs and wishes. Is this stranger a fortune teller in chocolate? Or even a witch? Soon the townsfolk no longer care, giving in to temptation and happiness. But a showdown between traditional order and sweet freedom is building...
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After a fall leaves the author with partial amnesia, Ingrid Contreras begins a journey into her Colombian family’s past – discovering her grandfather was a curandero, a community healer with the power to see the future, heal with a touch, and talk with the dead. Her mother, also a teller of fortunes, is just as powerful, and now looks to Ingrid to carry on “the secrets”. The Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir weaves family stories with resurrected Colombian history.
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