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The Kitchen Sisters Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva), producers of NPR's The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls & The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast

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Book Cover for: Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, Linda Ronstadt

Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands

Linda Ronstadt
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

The legendary Linda Ronstadt has a new book out today, Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. We visited Linda at home to ask her about this historical, musical, edible memoir that spans the story of five generations. Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/f3rJzGOtM2 https://t.co/KjHod7Ggeb

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Women Talking

Miriam Toews
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

The 2023 Academy Award nominations were just announced. #WomenTalking received 2—Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Several years back Frances McDormand read Women Talking, the novel by Miriam Toews based on real-life events, and decided she wanted to make it into a film.

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening, Ari Shapiro

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

Soooo looking forward to being in conversation with the one and only @arishapiro tonight @bookpassage in Corte Madera about his new book The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/M3LAla3VID https://t.co/rJ5yqSMhsu

Paperback, 2024

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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State of Terror

Louise Penny
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

Late last year Hillary Rodham Clinton and best-selling Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny came out with State of Terror, a ripping political thriller that quickly hit the New York Times Best Seller List.

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Jessica Bruder

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Jessica Bruder
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

She had done the same with Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland several years earlier. Frances received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her startling performance in Nomadland and another as part of the producing team.

Paperback, 2018

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Marcia Chatelain

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain
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The Kitchen Sisters Present… "The Golden Arches in Black America," a conversation with @DrMChatelain about her @PulitzerPrizes winning book "Franchise" from @foodprintorg's "What You're Eating" podcast. https://t.co/JMFkewK0BS https://t.co/1KOGAWP3v7

Paperback, 2021

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Both/And: A Memoir, Huma Abedin

Both/And: A Memoir

Huma Abedin
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

At the same time, Huma Abedin, Secretary Clinton’s former close aide and Deputy Chief of Staff came out with a memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, the story of her roots, the path that led her to work with the First Lady and the triumphs and controversies of her life.

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

Akemi, artist Howard Ikemoto, Berkeley graduate Tami Takahashi, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of “Farewell to Manzanar,” Jimi Yamaichi of @JAMsjOfficial & @GeorgeTakei talk about how the internment forever re-shaped their lives, their food, their family https://t.co/CYU6xD0PFP https://t.co/fMeyIDU2HF

Paperback, 2017

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking, Niloufer Ichaporia King

My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking

Niloufer Ichaporia King
The Kitchen SistersThe Kitchen Sisters

She is an anthropologist, a kitchen botanist, a one-of-a-kind cook, a Parsi from Bombay living in San Francisco, and the author of My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking.

Hardcover, 2007

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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