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Snack Girl to the Rescue!: A Real-Life Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Healthy with 100 Recipes Under 400 Calories

Lisa Cain · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Do you need to be rescued from bad eating habits and junk food? Are you looking to adopt a healthier lifestyle but don't know where to begin? Well, fear not because Lisa Cain, a.k.a. "Snack Girl," is here to help! A busy mother of two, Lisa faces the same challenges to healthy...
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Lonely Planet Florida & the South's Best Trips

Amy C Balfour · Lonely Planet; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own back yard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the South's open roads with Lonely Planet's Florida & the South's Best Trips, your passport to unique experiences that await you along...
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The Handmade Skateboard: Design & Build a Custom Longboard, Cruiser, or Street Deck from Scratch

Matt Berger · Spring House Press
Format: Book

The Handmade Skateboard is the definitive book on building custom skate decks of all shapes and sizes, from the high-performance street deck to the classic longboard to a vintage pinstripe cruisers that will turn heads everywhere you go. When you make your own skateboard from scratch you have...
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern...
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The New Strong-Willed Child

James C. Dobson · Tyndale Momentum
Format: Book

Is a willful little darling driving you to distraction? The New Strong-Willed Child is the resource you need―a classic bestseller completely rewritten, updated, and expanded for a new generation of parents and teachers. Challenging as they are to raise, strong-willed children can grow...
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Good Health, Good Life: 12 Keys to Enjoying Physical and Spiritual Wellness

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Meeting the demands of your busy life may leave little time for you to focus on maintaining your personal well-being. But it is important to remember that each part of you-mind, body, and emotions-serves a purpose in Gods exciting plan for your future. Embracing a healthier lifestyle will...
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Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Leslie Bennetts · Little
Pages: 419
Format: Print book

The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life...
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The Shepherd's View: Modern Photographs From an Ancient Landscape

James Rebanks · Flatiron Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a breathtaking book of photography and wisdom that chronicles an ancient way of living that deeply resonates in our modern world. With over eighty full color photographs The English Lake District comes into full focus:...
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The Family of Jesus

Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

America's favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection...
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Hexagon Happenings

Carolyn Forster · Landauer Publishing, LLC
Format: Print book

In this book Carolyn Forster takes you through the steps and gives you the tools and techniques for using large shapes to finish large quilts quickly and easily. The basic shapes used in the quilt projects include hexagons, diamonds, triangles and kites. These shapes are successfully created...
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories...
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The End of White Christian America

Robert P Jones · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)...
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My Accidental Jihad

Krista Bremer · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change...
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Crewel Intentions: Fresh Ideas for Jacobean Embroidery

Hazel Blomkamp · Search Press
Format: Book

Keeping to a theme started in Crewel Twists, this book continues the concept of using non-traditional techniques and materials in crewel or Jacobean embroidery. It showcases four large projects, each with an accompanying small project similar in technique, and shows needle workers how to be creative...
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Hurricane Street

Ron Kovic · Akashic Books
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

"Hurricane Street...[is] another raw expose on the cost of war. The book, which he calls a prequel, drills deep into the 17-day drama of a 1974 sit-in and hunger strike staged by Kovic and a band of fellow wounded veterans who took the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard by storm...The...
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