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How to Teach: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Beverley E Crane · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 177
Format: Paperback

Designed for any librarian who needs to teach either one person at a time or an entire class, How to Teach is a stand-alone guide to becoming proficient in teaching users how to access, evaluate, and use information. Covering both face-to-face and online teaching and learning, the book:gives...
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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

Introduction and Notes by Robert E. Spiller Text Established by Alfred R. Ferguson
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems

Kevin Powers · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birdsreturns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.
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Caribou: Poems

Charles Wright · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 82
Format: Hardcover

A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poetsCharles Wright's truth--the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging--is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient...
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You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

Dave Barry · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 240

A brilliantly funny exploration of the twin mysteries of parenthood and families from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author of Insane City. In his New York Times-bestselling I'll Mature When I'm Dead, Dave Barry embarked on the treacherous seas of adulthood,...
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Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest

Jen Doll · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From a fresh and exciting new voice, a hilarious and insightful examination of the search for love and the meaning of marriage in a time of anxiety, independence, and indecision.Weddings. Theyre fun, festive, and joyful, and at a time when people marry later in life—and sometimes not at all—they...
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Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

Bill Geist · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning...
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Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities,...
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