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Malena Watrous

    This San Francisco-based author crafts stories that delve into supernatural abilities and mysteries. Her work explores how characters navigate unexpected circumstances and personal growth, often focusing on young women discovering their inner strength. Through collaborative writing, she embraces the potential for creative exploration, blending serious themes with a lighter touch to produce compelling narratives filled with suspense and surprising turns.

    Sparked
    My Mexico City Kitchen
    • My Mexico City Kitchen

      Recipes and Convictions

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Innovative chef and culinary trend-setter Gabriela C�mara shares 150 recipes for her vibrant, simple, and sophisticated contemporary Mexican cooking.Inspired by the flavors, ingredients, and flair of culinary and cultural hotspot Mexico City, Gabriela C�mara's style of fresh-first, vegetable-forward, legume-loving, and seafood-centric Mexican cooking is a siren call to home cooks who crave authentic, on-trend recipes they can make with confidence and regularity. With 150 recipes for Basicos (basics), Desayunos (breakfasts), Primeros (starters), Platos Fuertos (mains), and Postres (sweets), Mexican food-lovers will find all the dishes they want to cook--from Chilaquiles Verdes to Chiles Rellenos and Flan de Cajeta--and will discover many sure-to-be favorites, such as her signature tuna tostadas. More than 150 arresting images capture the rich culture that infuses C�mara's food and a dozen essays detail the principles that distinguish her cooking, from why non-GMO corn matters to how everything can be a taco. With celebrated restaurants in Mexico City and San Francisco, C�mara is the most internationally recognized figure in Mexican cuisine, and her innovative, simple Mexican food is exactly what home cooks want to cook.

      My Mexico City Kitchen
      4.4
    • Sparked

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      A gripping mystery with supernatural twists, Sparked hauntingly portrays the complex relationship between sisters and the lengths that one will go to save the other.

      Sparked
      4.0