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30-Minute Vegetarian: 100 Green Recipes to Prep in 30 Minutes or Less

Bergovist, Ylva - Hardie Grant
Format: Hardcover

In 30-Minute Vegetarian Swedish chef and food blogger Ylva Bergqvist explores the virtues of living and eating green. The concept is simple, ease your way into a mostly or full vegetable-forward diet by cooking dishes that are quick to prepare and impossible to resist. Half of the recipes...
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Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

Anne Clendening - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback

"It was nothing at first. Just a little twitch. My left ring finger was twitching, slowly, almost languidly, the way fishing line does when you've hooked something without any strength. Like a baby perch. I hadn't even gotten out of bed yet. My first thought: Stress? (Nope,...
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Close to Om: Stretching Yoga from Your Mat to Your Life

ANDREA MARCUM - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Andrea Marcum's Close to Om is a beautifully illustrated, practical and philosophical, yoga book that promotes and teaches mindfulness in both your yoga practice and your everyday life.Before Marcum was a sought after celebrity yoga teacher, she was someone who thought she couldn't...
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Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland

Sid Luft - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book

The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born...
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Birds

Tim Flach - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Radiating grace, intelligence, and humor, and always in motion, birds tantalize the human imagination. Working for years in his studio and the field, Tim Flach has portrayed nature's most exquisite creatures alertly at rest or dramatically in flight, capturing intricate feather patterns...
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Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

Chris Salewicz - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviewsThe original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world...
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Dark Skies

Valerie Stimac - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover

Witnessing the sweep of the Milky Way, the remains of comets burning up in our atmosphere, or the shimmering aurora, we better understand the universe and our place in it. Lonely Planet's Dark Skies, the first world's guide to astrotourism, can help you experience all of this and more...
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The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper

Ian Robertson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upsets--like failing an unimportant exam or tackling a difficult project at work--with distress, while others power through life-changing tragedies showing barely any emotional upset whatsoever? How do some people shine brilliantly...
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A Tiger among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley

BENNIE ADKINS - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

An action-filled memoir by Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, whose heroic deeds as a Green Beret in Vietnam in March 1966 became legend in the ArmyFor four days in early March 1966, then-sergeant Bennie Adkins and sixteen other Green Berets held their undermanned and unfortified position...
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On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Elizabeth Hennessy
Format: Hardcover


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