*Staff Picks For November*

This simple role-playing kit will help couples experiment, improvise, and seduce in ways they never would have otherwise imagined.

A fun, illustrated history of the umbrella's surprising place in life and literature

With 100 recipes and useful domestic tips, this book is the ultimate one-stop guide for the modern couple who likes to cook with and for each other and friends, from the leading authority on all-things home and cooking--Martha Stewart.

What makes a hero? This New York Times best-selling first biography series has been answering that question one amazing role model at a time. Now it's the readers' turn to answer the questions with puzzles, mazes, quizzes, and brain-busting challenges.

Channel the magical guidance of unicorns and discover their powers of positivity, spiritual healing, and general awesomeness. This handy, pseudo-spiritual guide is complete with motivating quotes, mantras, and colorful illustrations in the beguiling style of late '80s surrealist pop art.

The ultimate patisserie cookbook from the Ferrandi school of culinary arts in Paris--which has been dubbed the "Harvard of gastronomy" by Le Monde--features all of the technique and recipes in the world renowned French pastry tradition.

"Moments of human intimacy jostle with scenes that inspire cosmic awe, and the broad diversity of Jeffers's candy-colored humans...underscores the twin messages that 'You're never alone on Earth' and that we're all in this together."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review)Oliver Jeffers, arguably the most influential creator of picture books today, offers a rare personal look inside his own hopes and expectations for his child--and in doing so gifts children and parents everywhere with a gently sweet and humorous missive about our world and those who call it home.

A food and lifestyle book dedicated to the Scandinavian concept of hygge (loosely translated as "coziness"); how to create it for yourself and others, and how to incorporate it into holidays, travel, decor, entertaining, and everyday life, with approximately 30 recipes.

A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of searingly honest and intimate autobiographical essays. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.

One of the country's most celebrated craft chocolate makers explains how to make chocolate from scratch in your own kitchen. From sourcing beans to the mechanics and machinery of making bars, this is the first ever guide to making chocolate from start to finish, with 30 recipes for desserts and treats.

The Thing Explainer meets The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert in this highly illustrated, concise, accessible guide to wine, from one of the foremost wine writers in the country.

Tahereh Mafi brings readers on a dark and lush new adventure about a girl who is fated to wash the bodies of the dead in this companion to her bestselling Furthermore.

Now available in a new edition, this book offers more than 500 years of achievements in art by women. This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi and the seventeenth-century illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to Impressionist Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and to modern icons such as Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, the most important female artists are profiled in this book in chronologically arranged double-page spreads. There is a succinct biography for each artist, together with information outlining her accomplishments and influence, additional resources for further study, and, best of all, brilliant full-color reproductions of the artist’s works. Packed with information, this stunning and absorbing book showcases the remarkable artistic contributions of women throughout history.

A New York Times Bestseller--more than 640,000 copies soldThe perfect for-two cookbook for newlyweds, college graduates, and empty nesters