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Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein · Harper
Pages: 303
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a groundbreaking picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their... |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Marlon Bundo · Chronicle Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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100% of Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a children's picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny... |
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The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening
Laurie Cameron · National Geographic
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For overscheduled professionals looking to incorporate mindfulness into their daily lives, this step-by-step guide draws on contemplative traditions, modern neuroscience, and leading psychology to bring peace and focus to the home, in the workplace, and beyond.Designed for busy professionals... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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How the Body Works
Dorling Kindersley Inc. · DK
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, accessible, illustrated guide that delivers real scientific information on how the body works with a healthy side of fun facts and trivia.If you've ever searched the Internet for information on that odd rash on your arm, advice to help you get the best night's sleep, or tips for staying... |
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The Southern Sympathy Cookbook: Funeral Food with a Twist
Perre Magness · Countryman Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Hearty bites for the heavy-hearted "He had a life-long love affair with deviled eggs, his homemade canned fig preserves, and buttermilk served in martini glasses garnished with cornbread." -- Obituary from Gulfport, Mississippi So-called "funeral food" is having a moment.... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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Dorie's Cookies
Dorie Greenspan · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 517
Format: Hardcover
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James Beard Award-winner for Best Baking and Dessert Book 2017 All-new collection from a "revered icon" and "culinary guru" (New York Times) . Over the course of her baking career, Dorie Greenspan has created more than 300 cookie recipes. Yet she has never written... |
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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film
Mel Brooks · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft... |
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Word 2016 For Dummies
Dan Gookin · John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Pages: 369
Format: Print book
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The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft Word Written by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. In a friendly, human, and often... |
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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Medicine tells the fascinating story of the discipline, from ancient times to the present day, charting developments in healing, diagnosis, surgery, and drugs in a vividly visual and accessible format.Follow the gory pitfalls and the miraculous breakthroughs of medical history from trepanning,... |
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Classic Car: The Definitive Visual History
Dk. · DK
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A visual guide to the most iconic classic cars of every decade from the 1940s to the 1980s, featuring more than 1,300 photographs and two prints suitable for framing.From the Aston Martin DB5 to the Chevrolet Corvette, Classic Car is packed with the marques and models of every decade from... |
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