Ann Hood
In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood "connects food with memory in delicious ways" (Jane Ciabattari, BBC).
From her Italian-American childhood, through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of good food. In Kitchen Yarns, pairing her signature humor and tenderness with simple,
...Following the success of Dennis Lehane's best-selling Boston Noir, the Akashic Noir Series delves deeper into New England's underbelly.
"Even Providence's signature public art has a dark side in Providence Noir (Akashic), which includes a story called WaterFire's Smell Tonight by Pablo Rodriguez. Each tale in this anthology edited by Ann Hood is set in a different part of
...After a college student speeding in a blue Honda Civic kills her husband of less than a year, Olivia is completely lost. One hot summer day, she walks into the beachfront Rhode Island cottage she and David bought the previous August—the place where they had planned to someday start a family—and finds a stranger...
In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption.
After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life.
Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her
...10) The red thread
A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer...