Outside of a Dog

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Recent Books

Stephen King: The Institute (Paperback, 2020, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.)

The Institute

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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like …

Yoko Nakazawa: The Japanese Art of Pickling & Fermenting (Hardcover, 2025, Smith Street Books) No rating

The Japanese Art of Pickling & Fermenting

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In The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting, preserving expert Yoko Nakazawa shares her lifelong passion of pickling and fermenting ingredients using age-old techniques that have been passed down the generations.

Yoko grew up in rural Japan and helped her parents preserve the glut of their vegetable patch every …