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FT – THE BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2025‘If only my Cantonese parents weren’t so allergic to the word love…’‘A wonderfully heartwarming memoir with lots of foodie insights.’ Rachel Khoo‘A real and delightful surprise – and also very funny.’ Ella Risbridger__What is the most unsayable thing you have ever wanted to say to your parents? For newly single food journalist Candice Chung, there’s been one thing on her mind lately: she has never told them, ‘I love you.’ Simple. Reasonable. If only her estranged Cantonese parents weren’t so allergic to the word ‘love’.With a 13-year relationship coming to an end, Candice Chung finds herself losing not only her first love but also her most reliable restaurant review partner. And so when her parents offer to be her new plus-ones, she faces a dilemma: is it better to eat together in polite silence or to try to broach how, for the past decade, they’ve managed to drift so profoundly apart?Through shared meals and culinary adventures, Candice and her parent

Victoria Wellman’s Before You Say Anything invites readers into the game-changing creative process of New York’s busiest speechwriter, delivering actionable insights for anyone tasked with speaking in

A hilarious and deeply insightful take on the indignities of middle age and how to weather them with grace -- from the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple.Combining the intimacy of a life-long best

Everybody farts! But nobody knows what to say when it happens...until now! It’s inevitable. There will come a time when you just can’t hold it in any longer. And then, a fart. You’ve been there before

What do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music? This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists. Using

In the first part of the book, Talib traces the history of maqati, a highly popular genre of Arabic poetry prevalent from 1200 to 1900. He describes and explains the genre's features, its operation

From the founders of the hit Instagram account Live from Snack Time, here is an irresistible gift book of 200 quotes from the elementary school classroom that proves kids really do say the darndest th

Why Do I Have To Say Please And Thank You? provides the perfect platform to explore family issues and questions that children have as they grow up and try to make sense of the world around them. Each

This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic a

How do teachers know the limits of their speech? Free speech means more than simply being free to agree, though the authoritarian managerial cultures of many schools increasingly ignore the need for a

As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city. But in spite of deep-fried bu