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Gone are the days of stressing over how to please family and friends with different dietary needs. Bursting with knock-your-socks-off, mind-bogglingly tasty vegan recipes and so much more, The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook will make everyone at your table happy-even meat eaters and the gluten challenged.

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Here are seventy-five holiday recipes from Cook’s Illustrated, including such offerings as herbed roast turkey, mushroom lasagna, creamy corn pudding, and classic pecan pie.

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Whether simple or elaborate, meal and gathering rituals all serve the same purpose: to bring comfort, connection, and meaning to everyday life. From celebratory meals to Rosenstrach’s signature easy weeknight fare—here are ideas that translate to prime quality time with family and friends. In this digital, over scheduled age, we must all find ways to slow down, capture the moments that matter–and eat well while doing it!

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When people adopt a new diet for health or personal reasons, they worry most about the parties, holidays, and events with strong food traditions, fearing their fond memories will be lost along with the newly eliminated food groups. After missing many of these special occasions herself, Walker has revived the joy that cooking for holidays can bring.

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Homemade treats for the holidays don’t have to be made entirely from scratch. With easy-to-follow instructions using store-bought ingredients like candy, cookies, and frosting, along with a color photo of each treat, Sweet Treats for the Holidays is edible crafting at its cutest.

From easy appetizers for holiday and New Years Eve entertaining, like Caramelized Onion Tartlets, to recipes for The Best Roast Turkey and all your favorite sides, pies, and even leftover ideas, this book serves up easy and elegant entertaining throughout the holiday season. Each recipe is paired with a four-color, full-bleed photo.

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In fifty-two short reflections on spirituality and gratitude, pastor and bestselling author Joshua Choonmin Kang invites us to be thankful at every moment in our lives, especially in the hard times, “Gratitude heals us and holds us, tethering us to one another, offering us joy and strength.”

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On Thanksgiving Day a freegan couple living off the grid in Manhattan, a once prominent linguist struggling with midlife, and a New Jersey debt-collection magnate with a second chance at getting things right randomly and briefly collide as the weight of their desires ultimately undoes each of them, leaving them to pick up the pieces from what’s left behind.

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StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the oral history project’s archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bonds of friendship and love. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed and lives are forever changed.

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Based on a year-long project in which the author took a daily Polaroid of something she was grateful for, this pictorial highlights all the small, and sometimes overlooked, things that make life worth living.

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Sacks’ meditation on why life enthralled him even as he faced his impending death, and how to live the richest and deepest way possible continues to inspire. “My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

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Recounts how the author spent a year living gratefully, drawing on advice from psychologists, academics, doctors, and philosophers to gain a fresh outlook that transformed her relationships, work, health, and daily life.