Erica Bauermeister

The Scent Keeper

Gathering at Lillian's Restaurant for a weekly cooking class, a young mother struggles with the growing demands of her family, an Italian kitchen designer works to adapt to life in America, and a widower mourns the loss of his wife to breast cancer. 50,000 first printing.

The School of Essential Ingredients

That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go…

Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.

Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways―and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.

No Two Persons

Meeting with her five close friends to celebrate her recovery from cancer, Kate announces that she will take up white-water rafting if each of them will also do something that equally terrifies them, a challenge that results in a tattoo, a bread-baking endeavor and a reconciliation. 35,000 first printing.

Joy for Beginners

A sequel to The School of Essential Ingredients finds restaurant owner Lillian managing an unexpected challenge while sharing her days with a circle of friends and regulars, including ritual-performing accountant Al, heartbroken chef Chloe and unobtrusive giant Finnegan.

The Lost Art of Mixing

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME--AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE ACT OF RESTORING ONE HOUSE IN PARTICULAR. "I think anyone who saves an old house has to be a caretaker at heart, a believer in underdogs, someone whose imagination is inspired by limitations, not endless options." In this mesmerizing memoir-in-essays, Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend, Washington, and in the process takes readers on a journey to discover the ways our spaces subliminally affect us. A personal, accessible, and literary exploration of the psychology of architecture, as well as a loving tribute to the connections we forge with the homes we care for and live in, this book is designed for anyone who's ever fallen head over heels for a house. It is also a story of a marriage, of family, and of the kind of roots that settle deep into your heart. Discover what happens when a house has its own lessons to teach in this moving and insightful memoir that ultimately shows us how to make our own homes (and lives) better.

Renovating a Life

House Lessons

On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. There's Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; bachelor Ian, who exists on Chinese takeaways; Chloe, the distracted waitress who is forever dropping things; Carl and Helen, getting past a betrayal in their marriage; and Tom, mourning the tragic loss of his wife. Plus Lillian, who taught herself to cook to reach out to her unhappy mother. From delicious feasts to dining disasters, will the cooks find what they are looking for? And among the utensils and mouth-watering ingredients, will some of them even fall in love? The Monday Night Cooking School is a gorgeous novel about possibilities and the magic of food.

The Monday Night Cooking School

Takes us on the emotional journeys of seven women seeking to transform their lives, and proves that sometimes what we really need to inspire us to change is a good, firm shove.

The Year of the Unexpected

La scuola degli ingredienti segreti

Holly Smith

Jesse Larsen

Provides an annotated list of fiction and nonfiction by women authors, including works on art, ethics, family life, motherhood, pioneer life, power, violence, marriage, and work

A Reader's Guide

500 Great Books by Women

"Bravo! They've given adults and young girls a much-needed treasure map of heroines and 'she-roes'...It blazes an important path in the forest of children's literature."—Jim Trelease.

375 Great Books for Readers 2-14

Let's Hear It for the Girls

Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students' lives.

Was wäre, wenn man Erinnerungen einfach konservieren könnte? Seit sie denken kann, lebt Emmeline mit ihrem Vater allein auf einer rauen Insel im Atlantik. Er lehrt sie alles über die Natur. Doch vor allem schult er eines: Emmelines außerordentlichen Geruchssinn. Die Wände ihrer kleinen Hütte sind voller Schubladen mit geheimnisvollen Fläschchen. Darin befinden sich Düfte, die ihr Vater herstellt. Ihr Geruch ist so intensiv, dass sie Erinnerungen an ferne Orte hervorrufen: den Gipfel eines Berges, einen abgelegenen Dschungel ... Emmeline beginnt von diesen Orten zu träumen, obwohl sie weiß, dass ihr Vater die Insel nie verlassen würde. Doch dann beginnt die idyllische Welt zu bröckeln. Die Düfte in den Flaschen verschwinden, und mit ihnen verliert ihr Vater den Bezug zur Realität. Und plötzlich ist Emmeline, die nie Kontakt zu einer anderen Menschenseele hatte, ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Mithilfe eines Fischers gelangt sie ans Festland, wo sie nur einen Wunsch hat: mehr über ihre Herkunft herauszufinden - und über ihre Mutter. »Lyrisch ... bezaubernd ... spricht alle Sinne an. Ich war fasziniert.« New-York-Times-Bestsellerautor Jamie Ford »Eine meisterhaft geschriebene Coming-of-Age-Geschichte, die den Leser auf ein olfaktorisches Abenteuer entführt.« Kirkus Reviews

Der Duft der Erinnerung

Dall’autrice di «La scuola degli ingredienti segreti» «Un suggestivo romanzo di formazione sul difficile cammino che ognuno di noi percorre per trovare sé stesso.» Kirkus Review «Con una scrittura potente, Erica Bauermeister ci consegna una storia emozionante che combina segreti di famiglia ed essenze uniche come i ricordi d’infanzia.» Booklist «Semplicemente poetico.» Jamie Ford, autore di "Il gusto proibito dello zenzero" Ogni profumo racchiude una storia. Se impariamo a proteggerlo, diventa parte di noi. In casa c’è una stanza in cui Emmeline ha sempre sbirciato con curiosità, senza mai osarvi entrare: lo studio del padre dove, su scaffali altissimi, sono custodite file e file di boccette. Nessuno può toccarle, perché non sono comuni ampolle di profumo. Al loro interno racchiudono una piccola pergamena su cui sono impresse rare essenze: l’odore della pioggia in una mattina di temporale, il sentore del fumo nell’istante in cui fuoriesce dalla pipa, la dolcezza del miele di cui profumano le promesse di una madre. Emmeline ne è ipnotizzata: vorrebbe saperne di più, vorrebbe che il padre le raccontasse le storie legate a ciascuna di esse e le insegnasse a catturare quei profumi. Ogni volta, però, è costretta a fare i conti con la reticenza del burbero genitore, che gli impedisce di condividere i segreti del mestiere e, soprattutto, di parlarle di una madre che lei non ha mai incontrato. Finché la sua improvvisa scomparsa non cambia tutto. Ormai sola, Emmeline inizia a interrogarsi sulle proprie origini e sente che è arrivato il momento di scoprire da dove viene e se ha altre radici oltre a quelle che ha imparato a conoscere. Per farlo deve, prima di tutto, trovare il modo di arrivare alle boccette che tanto la affascinano e dissipare il mistero che avvolge la creazione di quelle essenze. Solo uno di quei profumi, ne è certa, potrà indicarle la strada giusta da percorrere per capire chi è davvero. Per trovare e abbracciare quella madre che è sicura esistere da qualche parte là fuori. Dall’autrice di La scuola degli ingredienti segreti, bestseller mondiale grazie al passaparola dei lettori e alle recensioni entusiastiche della stampa internazionale, un nuovo romanzo lirico ed evocativo. La storia di una ragazza pronta ad attraversare i confini del cuore e dell’immaginazione per trovare la propria identità. Un inno alla malia dei profumi che sanno risvegliare emozioni sopite e ricordi capaci di deviare il corso della nostra esistenza.

Erica Bauermeister

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