CORK DORK
Bianca Bosker
Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine—until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove…
THE WEIGHT OF INK
Rachel Kadish
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez,…
THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE ONLY WHEN YOU SLOW DOWN
Haemin Sunim
A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world “Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?” The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million…
AFTER THE BLOOM
Leslie Shimotakahara
A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems,…