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For more than 25 years, Surrey has published award-winning writing on food, dining, nutrition, and entertaining. Explore its extensive backlist of varied titles, including both general cookbooks and specialized cookbooks addressing the needs of people with diabetes and celiac disease, as well as vegetarian, low-fat, and low-carb titles. Agate Surrey also offers cocktail guides, books on entertaining, and a breadth of other lifestyle-oriented titles.

Recent Titles

Baking Basics and Beyond
Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro
Pat Sinclair
120 delectable recipes and the techniques you need—thoroughly and clearly explained—to bake like a professional, now with full-color photos throughout.
Soup & Bread Cookbook
Building Community One Pot at a Time
Martha Bayne
A beautiful, craft-oriented recipe book/social history/call to action focused on the world's most popular food.
Chicago Spaces
Inspiring Interiors from the Editors of Chicago Home + Garden Magazine
Jan Parr
A lavish introduction to the best design and interior work coming out of Chicago and the midwest.
The Indian Slow Cooker
Anupy Singla
Unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using classic slow-cooker techniques.

Bolden Books

The best in fiction and nonfiction by African-American writers.

Recent Titles

Creatures Here Below
O.H. Bennett
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.
Where the Line Bleeds
Jesmyn Ward
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.
Wading Home
A Novel of New Orleans
Rosalyn Story
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.
Forward from this Moment
Selected Columns, 1994–2009
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., his first-ever collection.

B2 Books

Insightful titles on topics in business and economics, as well as paperback originals focused on useful information for managers and business owners.

Recent Titles

I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
George Beahm
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.
The End of the Euro
The Uneasy Future of the European Union
Johan Van Overtveldt
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.
If You Will Lead
Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders
Doug Moran
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.
Risk Rules
How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy
Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, Sam Wilkin, Joseph Yackley
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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