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The Rye Bread Marriage

How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman

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The Rye Bread Marriage

How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman

How do partners in long-lasting relationships live together without driving each other up a wall? After forty years of marriage, Michaele Weissman has a few answers. When they first meet, John— a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD—is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian. “I am too young, and you are too Latvian,” the twenty-year-old Michaele tells the twenty-eight-year-old John, explaining why she is ending their four-month romance. Fifteen years later, the two are married. Their love for each other does not assuage the trauma John experienced as a child during World War II; nor does it help Michaele understand her husband’s unwavering devotion to every aspect of Latvian culture, particularly his passion for the dark, intense rye bread of his birthplace (nothing like the rye she knew growing up in her secular Jewish household). Michaele feels like an outsider in her own relationship, unable to touch a core piece of her husband’s being. So, as John realizes his dream of opening a rye bread bakery, Michaele embarks on a fascinating journey. Delving into history and traveling across Europe with John, she excavates poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience—and realizes at last that rye bread represents everything about John’s homeland that he loved and lost. Eventually Michaele even comes to love rye bread, too. How do the stories we live and the stories we inherit play out in our relationships? How do individuals learn to tolerate ethnic, religious, and national differences? The Rye Bread Marriage is a beautifully told, often humorous, love story about the messiness of spending a lifetime with another human being. Michaele Weissman reminds us that every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle.

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Algonquin Books

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1643755242

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9781643755243

A History of Women in America

From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

By: Carol Hymowitz,Michaele Weissman

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A History of Women in America

From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

By: Carol Hymowitz,Michaele Weissman

From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Note: This edition does not include photographs.

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Bantam

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0307790436

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9780307790439

God in a Cup

The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee

By: Michaele Weissman

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God in a Cup

The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee

By: Michaele Weissman

Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly

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HMH

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0544186613

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The Rye Bread Marriage

How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman

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How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

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God in a Cup

The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee

By: Michaele Weissman

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The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee

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A History of Women in America

From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

By: Carol Hymowitz,Michaele Weissman

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From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

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Deadly Consequences

By: Deborah Prothrow-Sti

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Deadly Consequences

By: Deborah Prothrow-Sti

With an important introduction by C. Everett Koop and passionate endorsements from Senator Edward M. Kennedy and public officials from every major city in the U.S., this authoritative and timely guide calls for the diagnosis and treatment of urban violence as a public health crisis.

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Harper Perennial

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0060924020

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9780060924027

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The Rye Bread Marriage

The Rye Bread Marriage

A History of Women in America

A History of Women in America

God in a Cup

God in a Cup

The Rye Bread Marriage

The Rye Bread Marriage

God in a Cup

God in a Cup

A History of Women in America

A History of Women in America

Deadly Consequences

Deadly Consequences

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