Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury.

This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.

Caribbean cookery is flamboyant, a mixture of many styles combined to get the best out of local ingredients. Wendy Rahamut is a Trinidadian TV Chef, and this is a marvellous collection of recipes giving the wonderful taste of Caribbean Flavor.

Mouth-watering hot sauces, fragrant marinades and fiery spice rubs, tropical fruit preserves, jams, and cool rum drinks—this cookbook captures the flavors and tropical abundance of this diverse region. Its 70 recipes and 20 color photos will help add excitement to everyday meals. This is the second volume in Artisan's Pantry cookbook series.

Cats can be difficult to understand. They often seem secretive, aloof, and maddeningly independent. But they also earn deep love and devotion from millions of cat owners who cherish that incomparable feline spirit. For cat lovers everywhere, pet expert Arden Moore explores cat behavior in an inviting, browsable Q&A format. She answers the questions that come up again and again among devoted cat owners, opening an intriguing window on the feline brain and physiology.

How, for example, can a cat in deep sleep three rooms away from the kitchen come zooming in within seconds of the refrigerator door opening? It's not just instinct. Cats really do have amazing hearing. Their ears are perfectly designed to pick up more sound vibrations and at higher frequencies than either humans or even dogs. And what does it mean when a cat's tail swishes slowly from side to side? That cat is probably getting ready to pounce on a mouse—either a toy or the real thing. Tail swishing is part of the cat's predatory positioning.

In addition to explaining why cats do what they do, Moore shows readers how to prevent many common feline problems. Her practical advice and workable solutions help cat owners work with their pets to banish bad litter box habits, nighttime howling, and destructive clawing. Even finicky eaters can become feline gourmands with a little gentle encouragement.

There are hundreds of tiny quirks and kooky habits that make a cat a cat. This sturdy, fun-to-read handbook explains those catticisms and opens every cat lover's eyes to the complexity of feline behavior. To know them is to love them!

Every culture celebrates with food. And no food has a greater influence on culture, history, or religion than bread. From the unleavened matzo of Passover to the German stollen of Christmas, from the British hot cross buns baked on Good Friday to the Russian kolach baked for any special occasion, bread in its many forms brings people together, linking traditions and generations.

Bread is Betsy Oppenneer's passion. A renowned cooking teacher, she has spent most of her life baking, and much of it traveling. Celebration Breads: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions is a collection of more than 75 sweet and savory breads from around the world — from the Americas and Western Europe to Africa and Russia. From her anecdotes about the history and traditions associated with the breads, you'll discover the tradition behind each recipe. Christmas breads from Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and Egypt; traditional New Year's Challah from Eastern Europe; and Easter bread from Poland are just a few of the recipes for breads made to celebrate well-known holidays, but Betsy has unearthed many more. Bread lovers will be eager to prepare such recipes as Bread of the Dead, a bread from Mexico made in honor of the Day of the Dead; and Scalded Bread, traditionally baked in Lithuania in preparation for marriage. No matter what the occasion, Celebration Breads has the perfect recipe for you.

Teacher that she is, Betsy wants all bread bakers to succeed, whether they're baking their first loaf or their hundredth. Each recipe is laid out in painstaking detail, with instructions for making the bread by hand, with a heavy-duty mixer, using a food processor, and by using a bread machine (if possible). Betsy provides comprehensive chapters on: Bread-Baking Ingredients and Equipment; How to Make Bread (including the 4 Basic Rules of Bread Making); Essential Tips and Techniques for novices and experts alike; a Sources list; and an extensive Bibliography. Betsy even includes a section on Homemade Candied Fruits, in which she provides instructions on how to candy your own fruit and citrus peel to obtain a truly authentic product.

With more than 70 black-and-white line drawings by John Burgoyne (known for his work for Cooks Illustrated magazine), Celebration Breads is an invaluable addition to the bread-baking bookshelf.

It's impossible to discuss the 20th century's great mystery fiction without acknowledging the tremendous contributions of British writers. This anthology includes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Frederick Forsyth, Ngaio Marsh, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Michael Gilb ert, Antonia Fraser, Patricia Moyes, Reginald Hill, P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy L. Sayers, A.A. Milne, Liza Cody, Peter Lovesey, Gillian Slovo, Nicholas Blake, John Dickson Carr, Patricia Highsmith, Frances Fyfield, Gillian Linscott, Agatha Christie, Lord Dunsany, Peter Robinson, Jonathan Gash, Margery Allingham, Catherine Aird, Michael Z. Lewin, Elizabeth Ferrars, Ruth Rendell, Ian Fleming & Anne Perry.

Twins, Ada and Evan, eat junk food, fight at school, and are normal Trinidadian children in every way...or so it seems. Their father Steven, a genius scientist, desperately wants to protect his children from his past. Now the future has caught up with them. A search for their mother leads them to a Jamaican laboratory and mind-blowing revelations. A secret potion and the mysterious Chalice Project are the children's only clues to uncovering their true identities.