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Books

All Children Fiction Non-Fiction Upcoming Young Adult
To Catch a Fish: And What to Do Next

To Catch a Fish: And What to Do Next

Cheesecake: A Novel

Cheesecake

Lobsters

Lobsters

The Boston Way: Radicals against Slavery & The Civil War

The Boston Way

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media

Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media

The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway

The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

Bugs In Danger:  Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles

Bugs In Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles

MILK!:  A Ten Thousand Year Food Fracas

MILK!: A Ten Thousand Year Food Fracas

Havana: A Subtropical Delirum

Havana: A Subtropical Delirum

Paper: Paging Through History

Paper: Paging Through History

City Beasts:  Fourteen Short Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

City Beasts: Fourteen Short Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

Frozen in Time:  Clarence Birdseye’s Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food

Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye’s Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food

International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*

International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*

Ready for a Brand New Beat:  How “Dancing in the Street” became an anthem for a changing America.

Ready for a Brand New Beat: How “Dancing in the Street” became an anthem for a changing America.

Birdseye:  The Adventures of a Curious Man

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Battle Fatigue

Battle Fatigue

What?: Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History—Or is This a Game of 20 Questions?

What?: Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History—Or is This a Game of 20 Questions?

The World Without Fish:  How Kids Can Help Save the Oceans

The World Without Fish: How Kids Can Help Save the Oceans

Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One (Jewish Lives)

Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One (Jewish Lives)

Edible Stories A Novel in Sixteen Parts

Edible Stories A Novel in Sixteen Parts

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís

The Food of A Younger Land

The Food of A Younger Land

The Last Fish Tale:  The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Port and Most Original Town

The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Port and Most Original Town

The Big Oyster:  History on the Half Shell

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

The Story of Salt

The Story of Salt

Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue:  A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music.

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music.

The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi

The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi

1968:  The Year That Rocked the World.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World.

Choice Cuts:  A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

Salt:  A World History

Salt: A World History

The Cod’s Tale

The Cod’s Tale

The White Man in the Tree and other stories

The White Man in the Tree and other stories

The Basque History of the World

The Basque History of the World

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.

The Belly of Paris:  By Emile Zola a new translation with an introduction by Mark Kurlansky.

The Belly of Paris: By Emile Zola a new translation with an introduction by Mark Kurlansky.

A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry

A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry

A Continent of Islands:  Searching for the Caribbean Destiny.

A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny.

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Mark Kurlansky has written 39 books: non-fiction, fiction, children's and young adult. He doesn't seem able to stop himself.

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