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Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A runaway bestseller in the UK - Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt's inspiring account...
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2017

Sarah Janssen · World Almanac Education
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book

Get thousands of facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The World Almanac® and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. Since 1868, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source...
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2015 International Plumbing Code

International Code Council · ICC
Format: Print book

With an emphasis on design and installation for optimum performance, the 2015 INTERNATIONAL PLUMBING CODE SOFT COVER sets forth established requirements for plumbing systems. This important reference guide includes provisions for fixtures, piping, fittings, and devices, as well as design...
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,...
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Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

Ronald E Osborn · IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press,
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback

2014 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Did animals have predatory natures before the fall? Did God punish innocent animals with a curse because of human sin? Is it possible for theistic evolution to be compatible with the Bible, even though animal death before the fall would contradict the teaching...
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2016 Catholic Almanac

Matthew E. Bunson · Our Sunday Visitor
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback

The absolute best source for trustworthy, accurate, up-to-date information</[p>Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Almanac remains the only annual, comprehensive guide to the Catholic Church. Published annually since 1904, this compendium of information is THE authoritative source for all your...
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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A

Frederick Hertz · Nolo
Pages: 456
Format: Print book

Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support

Emily Doskow Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. If you can't work out custody and support, you'll...
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Ketchup Is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves

Robin O'Bryant · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then ... read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. It's not always pretty but it's...
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

Frances Mayes · Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes...
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You'll See It When You Believe It

Wayne W. Dyer · William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 287
Format: Hardcover

Following his bestselling Your Erroneous Zones , et seq., this encouraging, helpful volume augurs an increase in Dyer's audience. Citing the wisdom of ancient and modern philosophers, the author adds incidents from his experiences to illustrate the benefits of spiritual guidance and possibilities...
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Creed: What Christians Believe and Why

Adam Hamilton · Abingdon
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

We're all searching. Sometimes the search is easy: simply type a question and the answer pops up. But sometimes our questions are complicated, and the answers are difficult to see and harder to articulate. How do we discover and examine the truths that give meaning and purpose to life?...
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Everything You Need You Have: How to Be at Home in Your Self

Gerad Kite · Harmony Crown
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

In this inspiring, revelatory book, Kite shows us how to look at things from a different perspective, and to uncover the truth: that everything we need to be happy and well, we already have inside. Drawing on the principles of ancient Chinese philosophy and his extensive experience of helping...
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