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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Teresa E Masear · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,... |
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TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Chris J Anderson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 269
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller For anyone who has ever been inspired by a TED talk ... ...this is an insider's guide to creating talks that are unforgettable. Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam
Erick Stakelbeck · Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The terror masters of ISIS are determined to get America's attention. They've humiliated the Iraqi Army we trained and seized territory in Iraq that we had secured at the cost of so many American lives. They've beheaded American journalists on camera in a direct challenge to the power... |
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Happy Hens and Fresh Eggs: Keeping Chickens in the Kitchen Garden, with 100 Recipes
Signe Langford · Douglas & McIntyre
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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* Winner of the Best Single Subject Book in Canada (English) at the 2016 Gourmand Cookbook Awards! *Today's renaissance of the backyard flock is driven by a growing desire for healthy organic ingredients, food security and animal welfare - and while hunger might be "the best sauce,"... |
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Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack
Mary Cappello · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 408
Format: Print book
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Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes... |
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Afterglow
EILEEN MYLES · Grove Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books) . This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved... |
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The Southern Cast Iron Cookbook: Comforting Family Recipes to Enjoy and Share
Elena Rosemond-Hoerr · Rockridge Press
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
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Finally, a cast iron cookbook that does with cast iron what cast iron does best -- cook delicious Southern food as timeless as the skillet itself.What's not to love about cast iron? It's versatile. It lasts forever. And most of all, it can cook just about anything. But at its core,... |
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American... |
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The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Religion's Role in the FDR Presidency
Christine Wicker · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This powerful book is the first in-depth look at how one of America's richest, most patrician... |
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Scholarship Handbook 2017
The College Board · College Board
Pages: 678
Format: Paperback
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"Completely updated and verified for 2016"--Back cover. |
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Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
Joanne Cacciatore · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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If you love, you will grieve - and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable - especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, "NO!" with every fiber of our body. The process... |
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