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Please Bury Me in This

Allison Benis White · Four Way Books
Pages: 72
Format: Print book

The speaker in Please Bury Me in This grieves the death of her father and the loss of several women to suicide while contemplating her own death and the nature of language as a means of human connection that transcends our temporal lives. This book is also concerned with the intergenerational...
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Salmon: Everything You Need to Know 45 Recipes

Diane Morgan · Chronicle Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Salmon is the third-most consumed seafood in North America, not only for its exceptional flavor and versatility, but for its undeniable health benefits. Rich in Omega-3s, it's a rich protein source for those looking to eat healthier, consume less meat, or transitioning to a paleo or pescatarian...
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Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating Well Without Spending a Lot

Melissa d'Arabian · Clarkson Potter Publishers
Format: Paperback

Food Network star and New York Times bestselling author Melissa d'Arabian proves that healthy eating at home is easy, achievable, and affordable. Everyone wants to feel good about what they are eating, serving guests, and feeding their families, but most of us don't do our weekly...
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100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do: Easy, practical projects using basic tools and standard materials

Editors at The Family Handyman · The Family Handyman
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

100 do-it-yourself simple projects, requiring only basic tools, precut lumber and standard materials.Build fashionable, functional, inexpensive indoor and backyard furniture - even if you're a complete beginner. These are realistic projects for the average weekend warrior that require no great...
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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community

Rachel May · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles,...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Maverick with a Mission: What a Recovering Cynic Learned from Creating 100 Chicken Soup for the Soul Books

Amy Newmark · Chicken Soup for the Soul
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Amy Newmark shares what she's learned from editing and writing more than 100 Chicken Soup for the Soul books. This irreverent and insightful look at the human experience provides a road map to a happy, productive life.The perfect self-help book for people who would never buy a self-help...
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Pets on the Couch: Neurotic Dogs, Compulsive Cats, Anxious Birds, and the New Science of Animal Psychiatry

Nicholas Dodman · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The pioneering veterinarian and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dog Who Loved Too Much, and the national bestseller, The Cat Who Cried for Help, recounts his uniquely entertaining - and poignant - stories of treating animals for all-too-human problems as he reveals his amazing...
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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

David L Sedlak · Yale University Press
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges...
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town

Nicholas Blincoe · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable history of the beloved little town published in time for the holidays Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical...
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Killings

Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings,...
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Caseworker I

National Learning Corporation. · The Corp.
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The Caseworker I Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: case histories in social...
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood

Tom Shillue · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the stand-up comedian and host of Fox News' humorous late-night talk show Red Eye, a nostalgic look back at his childhood and the simple American values that shaped his worldview - a portrait of growing up in 1970s America.As a comedian and the host of Red Eye, whip-smart funny...
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Vocabulary Flash Cards for the New Naturalization Test

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. · U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Pages: 300
Format: Cards

Provides flash cards to help United States citizenship applicants speak and write English words and learn about United States government. The cards have 150 Englsih words and phrases and are meant to be used with a dry erase marker.
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Natural Beauty with Coconut Oil: 50 Homemade Beauty Recipes Using Nature's Perfect Ingredient

Lucy Bee · Quadrille
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Coconut oil, as we know, is nature's perfect ingredient. It has earned that accolade not only for its versatility in cooking, but also its application as an effective and economic beauty treatment for skin, hair, and oral health.Tapping into the current trend for making your own beauty...
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The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice

Elliott Goldberg · Inner Traditions
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

A history of yoga's transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice * Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India's response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century * Examines yoga's transformations...
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