The new year is right around the corner, and Apollo Publishers is honored to share with you our list for the coming spring and summer. Below you’ll find titles with topics ranging from psychic squirrel wisdom to a deep dive into how you and your family can lower your carbon footprint to purely delightful images of sheep offering words of comfort.
Our food list in particular shines this spring with The Nutmeg Trail, the follow-up to Eleanor Ford’s gorgeous Fire Islands, as well as the highly anticipated That Time We Ate Our Feelings, a pandemic-inspired collection of comfort food by two Facebook famous social media stars.
Pearls of Wisdom
Pearl is a dead squirrel who knows everything. With the aid of her earthly mouthpiece Georgette Spelvin (YouTube’s famous “Opossum Lady”), Pearl has been sharing her psychic wisdom with her human disciples for years, delving into topics as varied and complex as love, money, work, health, and etiquette. Once hidden from all except the most devoted followers on the website MEPearl.com, Pearls of Wisdom: Advice from a Dead Squirrel Who Knows Everything (March 22, 2022; $22.99; Hardcover) reveals with the same “delightfully peculiar” (New York magazine) flair the Secret for Everlasting Happiness, the Seven Deadly Virtues, and the Pearlestine Prophecies.
Ewe Do Ewe
Featuring 200 color photos of the superstars of the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in Upstate New York, Ewe Do You: Wisdom to Get You Through the Good, the Baad, and Everything in Between (March 8, 2022; $17.99; Hardcover) pairs sheep residents of this animal haven with gentle and profound advice from celebrities, politicians, and more. These reassuring ruminants offer ovine wisdom about your relationship with your loved ones, career, and yourself.
The Outdoor Citizen
From president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club comes the paperback edition of The Outdoor Citizen: Get Out, Give Back,Get Active (April 12, 2022; $16.99; Paperback), a comprehensive plan to save our planet, make the outdoors the epicenter of our communities, and commit to an active outdoor lifestyle. Brimming with advice and case studies, Judge covers topics such as how to turn our cities into Outdoor Cities; how to globally transition to green energy sources; what environmental policies must be implemented and how to enact them; and how to fund a sustainable economy.
A Zero Waste Family
From the eco-luxe lifestyle champion Anita Vandyke comes A Zero Waste Family: In Thirty Days (April 5, 2022; $19.99; Paperback), a practical and dual-color illustrated fresh and fun guide to sustainably reduce your family’s waste by 80% in just thirty days. With illustrations throughout, the follow-up to the best-selling author’s A Zero Waste Life: In Thirty Days includes simple ideas for how families can work together to decrease their household waste and in the process make their lives easier, richer, and more purposeful, and less cluttered and full of distractions.
The Nutmeg Trail
Following the successful publication of the tome of Indonesian inspired recipes, Fire Islands, award-winning author Eleanor Ford’s The Nutmeg Trail: Recipes and Stories Along the Ancient Spice Roots (May 3, 2022; $40; Hardcover) uses recipes as maps as readers embark upon a culinary journey that weaves through history and around the world. Through 80 flavorful recipes of entrees, appetizers, sides dishes, and more, Ford explores the flavor profiles, the spread of spices, and the origin stories behind them.
That Time We Ate Our Feelings
In That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food From the Heart (May 3, 2022; $24.99; Hardcover), the duo from the pandemic hit Facebook vlog, Corona Kitchen, share original recipes for all meals of the day, plus snacks, side dishes, cocktails, and mocktails, and options for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets. With a healthy dash of humor and americana inspired design elements throughout, this volume encourages nostalgia, coziness, and healing through comfort food.
The Vet at Noah’s Ark
The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital (June 7, 2022; $24.99; Hardcover) follows exotic animal expert Dr. Doug Mader and his staff over the course of a year in the early 1990s at Noah’s Ark, an inner-city LA area veterinary hospital where Dr. Mader treats not only dogs and cats, but also emus, skunks, snakes, foxes, monkeys, and a host of other exotic animals. This real life drama is set against the backdrop of the trial of four police officers in the Rodney King case, as well as the violent aftermath following their acquittal. The hospital must rise above these harsh realities for their own survival and the animals who need them.
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