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For over 25 years, Agate Surrey has published award winning writing on food, dining, nutrition, cocktails, and entertaining. Agate Surrey cookbooks have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, with authors ranging from Food Network stars to former Associated Press and Chicago Tribune food editors. Agate Surrey also publishes specialized cookbooks focusing on gluten-free, vegan, and diabetes cooking. Series like the comprehensive 1,001 cookbooks and straightforward 101 cookbooks provide easy-to-make, well-tested recipes across a variety of culinary styles.
Recent Titles
Baking Basics and Beyond
Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro
120 delectable recipes and the techniques you need—thoroughly and clearly explained—to bake like a professional, now with full-color photos throughout.
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Soup & Bread Cookbook
Building Community One Pot at a Time
A beautiful, craft-oriented recipe book/social history/call to action focused on the world's most popular food.
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Chicago Spaces
Inspiring Interiors from the Editors of Chicago Home + Garden Magazine
A lavish introduction to the best design and interior work coming out of Chicago and the midwest.
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The Indian Slow Cooker
Unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using classic slow-cooker techniques.
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Agate Bolden publishes intelligent, accessible, and thought-provoking fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by African-American writers. Agate Bolden is the home of National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward's debut novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., and daytime television star Judge Lynn Toler. We are accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and through our new line, Bolden Lives, works focusing on the lives of notable African-Americans.
Recent Titles
Freeman
A compelling and important historical novel set at the end of the Civil War, in which an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.
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Creatures Here Below
A story of a mother, a son, and the extended family that passes in and out of the boarding house where they live, which renders with tremendous richness and care the life of a black teenaged male whose life is taking a turn toward the worse.
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Where the Line Bleeds
Set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, this powerful debut tells a timeless story of two brothers whose paths diverge in the summer after leaving high school.
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Wading Home
A Novel of New Orleans
In this follow up to her critically acclaimed More Than You Know, Rosalyn Story has written a vivid and compelling story of how the complex culture of New Orleans and Louisiana has been marked forever by Katrina, even as it persists.
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Agate B2 publishes insightful titles on business, economics, management, and leadership. Our inaugural title from the "In Their Own Words" series, I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, is a New York Times and Amazon bestseller. We produce books for the general trade, as well as proprietary titles for specific industries and corporations.
Recent Titles
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
A collection of thought-provoking quotes from Steve Jobs, this book shares the unique perspective of our era's most remarkable business leader, in a gift format that should appeal to a huge audience of business readers and others.
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The End of the Euro
The Uneasy Future of the European Union
An up-to-the-minute analysis of the fate of the euro--and with it, the future of the European Union--by acclaimed Belgium-based economic journalist Johan Van Overtveldt, author of Bernanke's Test and The Chicago School.
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If You Will Lead
Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders
Combines the enduring wisdom of Kipling's poem "If--" with the stories of sixteen great leaders from history to demonstrate how to become a powerful and effective leader.
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Risk Rules
How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy
A comprehensive update to a highly praised title that outlines a framework for understanding how local politics in countries around the world affect globalization.
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Agate Midway is a new regional imprint that publishes books with a general orientation toward the Midwest, and a particular focus on Chicago, in terms of both topics and authors. The first books from Midway will appear this spring, and we plan to expand rapidly with a diverse range of new titles in the next few seasons.
Recent Titles
Monica Pedersen Make It Beautiful
Designs and Ideas for Entertaining at Home
The go-to guide for home entertaining on all budgets for all types of readers from nationally renowned HGTV host Monica Pedersen.
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Agate Digital publishes ebooks in ways designed to reach readers much more rapidly than printed books--and at far more attractive prices--straight to their preferred digital reading platforms. While ebook publishing is evolving rapidly, we believe readers will always embrace exceptional work from knowledgeable and captivating writers. We're also partnering with other forward-thinking media creators to bring you affordable ebooks on a broad array of topics.
Recent Titles
Chaplain Turner's War
Life and Faith on the Frontlines with the U.S. Army in Iraq
A moving and powerfully honest documentation of the Iraq War, as seen through the story of Darren Turner and the soldiers for whom he served as chaplain in the U.S. Army, by award-winning journalist Moni Basu.
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Charlie Trotter
How one superstar chef and his iconic Chicago restaurant helped revolutionize American cuisine
A fast-paced biography chronicling the rise of Charlie Trotter and his Chicago-based restaurant and his reign atop the city's culinary scene, as told by the Chicago Tribune journalists who were there.
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Newcity's Best of Chicago 2012
The ultimate insider's guide to more than 500 things to do, facts to know and places to go
Created by Chicago's only locally owned and operated alternative weekly, Newcity's guide is for locals and tourists looking for the authentic Chicago experience.
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