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100 Questions
Ava T. Albrecht - Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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An outstanding reference for the millions of adults suffering from adult ADHD, their families, and their friends. 100 Questions & Answers About Adult ADHD provides authoritative, practical answers to your questions about symptom recognition, proper diagnosis, and treatment. This book is an excellent... |
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Complete Book of Presidential Trivia, The
J Stephen Lang - Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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This entertaining collection of questions and answers about America's leaders provides hours of brain-teasing fun for readers. Every conceivable subject is included, from scandals, pre-White House life, campaigns, military matters, and the cabinets, to notable quotes and notable women... |
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
Billy Collins - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, Americas two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present books title, Collinss... |
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
Andrei Cherny - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American historyOn the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable story with profound implications for the world... |
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Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison
Richard N Côté - Corinthian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Born a sprightly Quaker farm girl in the North Carolina wilderness, Dolley Payne became a wife, a mother, and soon a grieving young widow as yellow fever decimated her family. Then fate led her to James Madison, father of the Constitution, a future president, and the dearest love of her life.... |
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Cooking for Two 2012
Editors at America's Test Kitchen - Cook's Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
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This popular annual features a collection of our year's best recipes customized to serve two. Fans of this series have come to rely on Cooking for Two for the thrift it promotes, the freshness it delivers, and the small-batch dessert recipes. |
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Quick and Easy Sewing with Your Serger: 15 Easy-Sew Projects that Build Skills, Too
Becky Hanson - Creative Publishing int'l
Format: Paperback
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An easy get-started guide to working with your serger-to get quick professional-looking results with all types of fabricsEasy SINGER Style Quick and Easy Sewing with Your Serger teaches readers all about the serger and presents projects that help them develop the skills and techniques... |
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How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
John R Horner - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.... |
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The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart
Motohisa Yamakage - Kodansha USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Essence of Shinto, revered Shinto master Motohisa Yamakage explains the core values of Shinto and explores both basic tenets and its more esoteric points in terms readily accessible to the modern Western reader. He shows how the long history of Shintoism is deeply woven into the fabric... |
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
James Shapiro - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled... |
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Complete Wilderness Training Manual
Hugh McManners - DK; 2 Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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From constructing emergency shelters and testing plants for poison to making a compass and splinting a broken arm this fully-illustrated guide will teach you everything you need to know about staying alive in any environment AUTHOR BIO During his years in the military Hugh McManners served... |
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In the shadow of man
Jane Goodall - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Paperback
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Both a landmark scientific study and a fascinating adventure story, this best-selling classic is an absorbing account of the early years of Jane Goodall's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before. It is also the story of her breakthrough.... |
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History
Tricia Martineau Wagner - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses - men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth... |
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Souls of Steel: How to Build Character in Ourselves and Our Kids
Pat Williams - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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Pat Williams has shown us what traits are vital for effective leadership and how to develop those skills in our children. In SOULS OF STEEL, he focuses on one specific trait: Character. He explains why character matters and why so many young people today think issues like character, integrity,... |
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In a Pumpkin Shell: Over 20 Pumpkin Projects for Kids
Jennifer Storey Gillis - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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This series provides loads of fun answers to the question ýWhat is there to do today?O Projects involving apples, pumpkins, hearts, gardening, teeth, and weather. Perfect for kids ages 4 through 10. |
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Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life
Mike Greenberg - ESPN; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio - mostly to hear the Mikes' (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife... |
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
The Onion - Little, Brown and Company; 73 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan,... |
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Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life
Trevor G Blake - BenBella Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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How many self-help books are written by authors whose biggest success is selling self-help books? New York Times bestseller Three Simple Steps is different. Despite stock market crashes, dot-com busts, and the specter of recession, the author started a virtual company from home, using a few thousand... |
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Making the Most of Your Slow Cooker
Catherine Atkinson - Southwater
Format: Paperback
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Includes nutritional notes on the fat carbohydrate salt and calorie count for each recipe to help you plan your meals with diet and health in mind |
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Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road
Jim Hinckley - Voyageur Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Known as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road US Route is the nationrsquos best known highway Once the microcosm of a culture increasingly connected by automobiles its sights and attractions are now a fascinating reflection of a nation on the move Travel this iconic highway through... |
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Master the GED 2012
Peterson's - Peterson's; 26 edition
Format: Paperback
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Petersons Master the GED 2012 provides expert test preparation for students who need to take the GED exam. This essential GED test-prep guide includes practice tests, subject review, and expert tips on how to score high on each GED test. Readers will find the GED information they need to knowscoring... |
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Quilting Pieces of the Past
Better Homes and Gardens - Meredith
Format: Paperback
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Spectacular photos showcase popular quilt patterns spanning 175 years.Historical information provides quilters with fascinating insight into what influenced colors, fabrics, and patterns over time.Basic how-to instructions make it easy for quilters of all skill levels to replicate favorite... |
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TechCareers: Wind Energy
Mike Jones - TSTC Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book
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World oil reserves are steadily decreasing and opportunities abound for careers in alternative energy solutions, such as wind. Wind farms are now a familiar sight across the globe, and qualified technicians are now and likely will remain in great demand. This book provides students an introduction... |
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Organizing For Dummies
Eileen Roth
Format: Paperback
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What's the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? "Help!" So many technological, social, and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let alone advance. Many people have two jobs - one at the office and |
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Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
Kenda Creasy Dean - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Deans compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about... |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager whoconstructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community. William Kamkwamba shares the remarkable story ofhis youth in Malawi, Africaa nation... |
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Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction
Francis J. Bremer - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society... |
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Susan Casey - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed... |
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Gems and Minerals of the Southwest (Wild West Series)
Jennifer Sano - Rio Nuevo Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Turquoise, gold, silver, and many more exotic Western minerals.The spectacular terrain of the American Southwest contains some equally spectacular gems and minerals. Jennifer Sano provides an easy-to-read resource for identifying more than 80 minerals, including both real gold and "fools... |
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Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family
Mirjam Pressler - Doubleday; 1st Us Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story is one that is envisioned by many a relative an old woman who has lived in the same home for a lifetime passes away her death prompting the inevitable task of sorting through her effects by her surviving family But in the attic in this particular house a treasure trove of historic... |
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Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
Anne Rice - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual... |
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On the Shoulders of Giants
AGN Media. - AGN Media
Format: Hardcover
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Get the book and DVD set that captures the inspirational stories of the men and women that have helped shape Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. This heirloom-quality hard-cover book of 250-plus pages includes profiles of more than 100 Men and Women of the Year as published by the Amarillo... |
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It's a Wrap II: Sewing New Shapes, Exploring New Techniques
Susan Breier - That Patchwork Place; 2nd edition
Format: Print book
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Start with simple clothesline, wrap it with fabric strips, and coil it into a work of art! Susan Breier's previous book, It's a Wrap, inspired crafters around the world to wrap, coil, and sew. This exciting collection offers over 20 fresh projects and introduces new shapes, including... |
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This Is Who We Were - in the 1990s: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
Laura Mars - Grey House Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in 1990. this new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated... |
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Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
Mark Driscoll - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Most marriage books assume the author did it right. Most marriage books barely mention friendship. Most marriage books use “intimacy” as code for “sex.” This is not one of those books. In Real Marriage, Pastor Mark Driscoll and his wife, Grace, share how they... |
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Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches and Parents
John P Mccarthy Jr - Betterway Books
Format: Paperback
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The Guide for a Fun and Successful Soccer Season!Do you need some guidance before you start coaching this soccer season? Coaching Youth Soccer, 2nd edition gives you everything you need to make this season a success. It covers all of soccers fundamentals and gives coaching tips for every... |
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Crewel Embroidery: A Practical Guide
Shelagh Amor - Sally Milner Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Let your imagination be your guide with the embroidery method known as crewelsurface stitches that produce some of the boldest and most fanciful designs in needlework from the most realistic to the quite fantastic Follow an expert crewel instructors special techniques starting with the simplest... |
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Bicycling Along The World's Most Exceptional Routes
Rob Penn - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover
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The fourth in Abbeville's series of unusual, illustrated vacation guides, Bicycling Along the World's Most Exceptional Routes follows the success of Cooking School Holidays in the World's Most Exceptional Places, Spas: Exceptional Destinations Around the World, and Walking the World's... |
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A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father
Chris Lemmon - Applause Theatre & Cinema Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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First time in paperback, a very personal portrait of an actor audiences loved, written by his actor son. Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) was one of our most beloved movie stars, a two-time Academy Award winner for Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger. In A Twist of Lemmon, Chris Lemmon shares family... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The American Collection: Craftsman Style
Hanley Wood Homeplanners - Home Planners
Format: Paperback
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american Collection: Craftsman style Celebrate the fine details and modest proportions of the Craftsman style with this beautiful collection of 165 homes in the Craftsman design and discover its distinctive American roots. |
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Angels in the Fire: The Dramatic True Story of an Impossible Rescue
Dann Stadler - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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An Amazing True Story of Angelic Intervention in a Desperate SituationThe Stadlers' harrowing journey began with a midnight crash caused by a drunk driver. The odds they would both survive the crash were minimal--a testimony to the miracles that began that night and continued through... |
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Taking Care of the Me in Mommy: Becoming a Better Mom - Spirit, Body & Soul
Lisa Whelchel - Integrity Publishers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Moms get so busy with the ?doing? and the ?giving? for their families that they never seem to have enough time to ?rest? and ?receive.? So many moms have bought into the world-view that they can ?have it all? and then believe the self-talk that ?if I don?t do it, it won?t get done!? Isn?t... |
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Wild West Women: Fifty Lives That Shaped the Frontier
Erin H. Turner - Twodot
Format: Print book
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Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon... |
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Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength
Jim Daly - David C. Cook; New edition
Format: Book
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In Stronger, Jim weaves together compelling stories and life principles with his trademark warmth and familiarity. Devoid of formulas but filled with biblical insights, Jim treats us to a feast of self-effacing, yet uplifting stories both about himself and about many others he has worked... |
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One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
Julene Bair - Mid List Pr
Format: Paperback
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A powerful elegy - flirty and tender - for American farm life. A daughter's story of fierce family struggle and love. These linked essays have the immediacy of fiction and an enduring wisdom attaining to history. |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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MICHELIN Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2018: Restaurants & Hotels
MICHELIN. - Michelin
Format: Paperback
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The s the definitive resource for carefully researched, objective recommendations to includingand with in Bib Gourmand symbol (also known as the inspectors' favorites) highlights restaurants offering good quality at a good value. Bib Gourmands are awarded for simple yet skillful... |
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Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes
Helen Van Wyk - Art Instruction Associates
Format: Hardcover
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Helen Van Wyk may well be considered the most popular oil painting instructor in recent times, and is best known for her long-running PBS series "Welcome to My Studio." Her unparalleled instructional books -- brimming with her insightful techniques and full-color images of her work... |
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Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
Kitty Kelley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author turns her piercing eye to the former First Lady in an unauthorized account of Nancy Reagan's life |
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FDR
Jean Edward Smith - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of todays premier biographers has written a modern comprehensive indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt In this superlative volume Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative... |
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Trust Your Vibes
Sonia Choquette - Hay House; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this fascinating and informative book, spiritual teacher and psychic Sonia Choquette reveals the secrets you need to awaken your intuitive voice and . . . trust your vibes. If youre ready to step into a Divine, more energetically uplifting experience and live an easier, more satisfying... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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Paper Scissors Glue: 45 Fun and Creative Papercraft Projects for Kids
Catherine Woram - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover
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Get your kids folding, snipping, and sticking with "Paper Scissors Glue". Kids love crafting, and paper-based crafts are particularly popular, as they require no specialist equipment or hard-to-find craft supplies - just this exciting new book and some paper, scissors and glue!... |
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What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
Kinky Friedman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless... |
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Charles Bracelen Flood - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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We were as brothers, William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.They... |
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Rabbits
Hollie Endres - Bellwether Media
Format: Hardcover
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Hopping eating and resting Thats the life of a rabbit on the farm This book introduces young readers to the physical characteristics and lifestyle of rabbits |
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Costume Crafts
Tessa Brown - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Book
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Kids learn to make fun costume crafts from everyday materials using simple, step-by-step instructions. Includes full-color photographs, patterns and stencils, glossary, and index. |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Human Diseases and Conditions
Donna Batten - Charles Scribner's Sons
Format: Print book
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Provides current, accurate, and comprehensive information on human diseases and conditions. The full-color, four-volume set provides 450 topics covering both common and uncommon infectious diseases, various types of cancer, physical and psychological conditions, tropical diseases, sports... |
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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Gretchen Morgenson - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Timess Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders.In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs... |
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Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
James E. Crisp - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and political correctness, as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past... |
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YOU: Raising Your Child: The Owner's Manual from First Breath to First Grad
Varios - SIMON & SCHUSTER INC
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There's little doubt that parenting can be one of the most rewarding and satisfying experiences you'll ever have. But it can be plenty tough, too: Around the clock, you're working to keep your little one healthy, teach her the difference between right and wrong, and make sure none of her little... |
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Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance
Ferguson Publishing. - Ferguson Pub; 16 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The five-volume Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition is an essential resource for public, college, high school, and junior high school libraries; career centers; guidance offices; and other agencies involved with career exploration and planning. Along with revisions... |
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The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Claire Brock - Icon Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Comet Sweeper is the incredible story of Britains first female professional scientist Caroline Herschel - a true Enlightenment celebrity whose rediscovery is long overdue Such was Herschels reputation that a congratulatory letter in from the director of the Paris Observatory was simply... |
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Quilt Lovely: 15 Vibrant Projects Using Piecing and Applique
Jen Kingwell - Fons & Porter
Format: Print book
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Let your fabrics inspire you to create your own lovely combinations!Quilt designer Jen Kingwell brings you fifteen amazing new quilt designs in "Quilt Lovely." With nine gorgeous quilt projects that use a variety of techniques, including applique, hand sewing and hand quilting,... |
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The Lost Art of Gratitude
Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 6 Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's... |
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Simon Winchester - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island... |
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Valentine's Day Crafts (Holiday Crafts)
Jean Eick - Child's World
Format: Library Binding
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Provides instructions for making pipe cleaner hearts, heart flowers, red hot heart treasures, Valentine cards, and more. |
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Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary For Beginning ESL Learners
Jean Yates - McGraw-Hill
Format: Paperback
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Hundreds of English words to get you speaking in your new language with confidence--now! Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners introduces you to hundreds of essential words and helps you quickly build the skills and confidence needed to use them correctly... |
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Twined Rag Rugs
Bobbie Irwin - Krause Pubns Inc
Format: Paperback
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Twined rag rugs are currently undergoing a worldwide revival due to the thousands of people who are rediscovering the traditional handwork of their ancestors. Crafters of all ages and skill levels can enjoy this inexpensive, simple technique; young children learn it easily and the elderly... |
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Southern Living 2012 Annual Recipes: Every Single Recipe from 2012 -- over 750!
Donna S Florio - Oxmoor House
Format: Print book
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A single-volume annual collects every recipe published in the preceding year as well as a selection of bonus recipes, sharing easy-to-follow instructions for an array of everyday and special-occasion meals complemented by cooking and preparation times. 10Title: Southern Living Annual Recipes... |
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Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
Jerome Groopman MD - Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An entirely new way to make the best medical decisions. Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sideswhether our doctors recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman... |
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Last Words: A Memoir
George Carlin - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen HBO specials, five Grammys, and a critical... |
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Quick Knits With Today's Yarns: 50 Fun and Stylish Designs
Jayne S Davis - KP books
Format: Paperback
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Knitters who want to create today's popular fashions in a minimal amount of time will love this book, with 50 projects that can be completed using just two basic stitches: knit and purl. The book explains each technique in easy-to-follow instructions, so that even beginners will be successful... |
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The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty
Willie Robertson - Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the Robertsons in this personal behind-the-scenes look at the stars of the exploding A&E show Duck Dynasty.Faith. Family. Ducks - in that order. This book gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E show - Duck Dynasty.... |
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Putin's World: Russia Against the West
Angela Stent - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant analysis of Putin's Russia and how Russians perceive their place in the modern world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px... |
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The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships
Kelly Valen - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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You know all about so-called "mean girls" and competitive, judgmental women. Maybe you had a cruel high school experience straight out of the movie Carrie. Maybe you find yourself anxious because your daughter's peers are excluding her. Maybe you've been harassed or marginalized... |
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Eisenhower: A Biography (Great Generals)
Wesley K. Clark - Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the third installment of the Great Generals series, WWII expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower's contributions to American warfare. American general and 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together... |
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Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
Oliver August - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Inside the Red Mansion is a suspenseful, slyly entertaining journey into the heart of the new China. Due to a mix-up on a routine reporting assignment, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China’s most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption... |
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Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women
Karen Mulford - Cooper Square Publishing Llc
Format: Paperback
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From Sacagawea to Dorothea Lange to Sandra Day O'Connor, these twenty remarkable women followed their dreams, challenged convention, and created new opportunities for American Women -- yesterday and today. Organized chronologically from 1805 to the present, this inspirational book includes... |
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Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint
Donna Dewberry - North Light Books; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Decorate your garden the one-stroke wayBeautify your outdoor decor with Donna Dewberrys Painted Garden Donnas garden is filled with bright flowers and friendly birds and butterflies adorning everything from garden stakes and glass candleholders to wooden planters metal wind chimes and more... |
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Raising a Talker: Easy Activities for Birth to Age 3
Renate Zangl - Gryphon House, Inc.
Format: Book
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Combining fun, easy-to-do activities with research based tips and developmental overviews, Raising a Talker naturally transforms play sessions into meaningful language-learning experiences. Little tweaks and easy changes in the everyday play create memorable learning experiences where communication... |
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Holly Blues
Susan Wittig Albert - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book
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"In a class with...sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum," China Bayles deals with a most unwelcome guest... China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop, claiming to be broke with nowhere else to turn. China isn't sure... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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New Mexico Off the Beaten Path®, 10th: A Guide to Unique Places
Richard K. Harris - GPP Travel; 10 edition
Format: Print book
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New Mexico Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, New Mexico Off... |
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Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray
Alison Owings - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate,... |
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The Obama Diaries
Laura Ingraham - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) On May 20, 2010, Laura Ingraham received a package from an anonymous source that will change the history of the United States and the legacy of President Barack Obama. While retrieving her automobile from the underground garage at the Watergate complex (where she had just... |
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100% Real: 100 Insanely Good Recipes for Clean Food Made Fresh
Sam Talbot - Oxmoor House
Format: Print book
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Celebrated chef and healthy-living expert Sam Talbot shows us how to make wildly delicious, nourishing food--using healthy, wholesome ingredients.Bursting with 100 whole-food recipes and down-to-earth advice about clean eating, this cookbook proves that eating 100% real food is an enjoyable... |
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Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave
Patty Chang Anker - Riverhead Hardcover; 9.10.2013 edition
Format: Book
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One woman’s quest to conquer her fears and embrace life—and to inspire others to do the same Patty Chang Anker grew up eager to please and afraid to fail. But after thirty-nine years, she decided it was time to stop being a chicken. Motivated initially to become a better... |
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The Origami Master
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Print book
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Shima the Origami Master lives on a mountain in Japan. He isn't lonely, for his beautiful origami animals keep him company. One morning Shima finds a marvelous new paper elephant on his desk. Where could it have come from? |
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British Manor Murder
Leslie Meier - Kensington Publishing Corp.
Format: Print book
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"Reading a new Lucy Stone mystery is like catching up with a dear old friend." - Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling authorIt's a nippy spring in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and so Lucy Stone can't wait to join her friend Sue at the Earl of Wickham's manor in England... |
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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Richard W. Etulain - University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American... |
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Simply Chinese Astrology (Simply Series)
Jonathan Dee - Sterling/Zambezi
Format: Paperback
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Though perhaps less well known here than its Western counterpart, Chinese astrology is every bit as illuminating, and provides an equally valuable shortcut to self-knowledge. Jonathan Dee, the well-respected author of several books on astrology, tarot, and fortune-telling, reveals all the mysteries... |
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The GL Diet For Dummies
Nigel Denby - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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If youre sick of no-carb diets, or just looking for a healthy eating plan, then the GL Diet is for you. No more calculations, no calorie-counting and no more cravings for carbs as long as you stick to foods that are low in GL, you can stay healthy and lose weight without having to go without.... |
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Anatomy of Exercise for 50+: A Trainer's Guide to Staying Fit Over Fifty
Hollis Liebman - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new addition to the best-selling series, for the burgeoning over 50 population. Studies abound confirming what we all know: use it or lose it. Exercise of any kind has a profound positive effect on health, longevity, disease prevention and a sense of well-being. The exercises in Anatomy... |
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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
Gary L. Roberts - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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You cant beat this story for drama An omnibus of everything ever known spoken or written about Doc Holliday -Publishers Weekly An engagingly written persuasively argued solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the literature of the Old West -Booklist... |
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Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life
David Allen - Viking
Format: Print book
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The companion to the blockbuster bestseller, Getting Things Done. Since its publication in 2001, Getting Things Done has become, as Time magazine put it, "the defining self-help business book" of the decade. Having inspired millions of readers around the world, it clearly spoke... |
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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters... |
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Woody Guthrie, American Radical
Will Kaufman - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national honors and adorns US postage stamps, and although his song "This Land Is Your Land" is often considered the nation's... |
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Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield
Tony Zinni - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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For the better part of the last half century the United States has been the Worlds Police claiming to defend ideologies allies and our national security through brute force But is military action always the most appropriate response Drawing on his vast experience from combat in Vietnam... |
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What's New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion
Alan Richardson - Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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The endlessly imaginative duo who turned cupcaking into a national pastime is back, with utterly new, eye-popping creations anyone can make. Create a race-car cupcake, a robot cupcake, or ravishing jewelry cupcakes for a birthday party. Surprise the family with Chinese takeout dinner cupcakes... |
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harold Bloom - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great... |
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Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders: 101 Small Indulgences
Judith Durant - Storey
Format: Paperback
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Single-skein projects are all the rage -- portable, fun, quick to finish, and the perfect solution for that stash of orphan yarns. Judith Durant's One-Skein Wonders series has delighted knitters everywhere with fabulous single-skein patterns contributed by some of North America's... |
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Mommy, Please Read This: The Facts About Child Sex Abuse
Troy D. Timmons - Thomas, Grace & Mae; First edition
Format: Paperback
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One out of three girls and one out of six boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthday (and most often my family members or friends of the family). This heart-warming book teaches how to better recognize, protect and respond to America's silent epidemic - child sexual abuse.... |
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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
Alexander McCall Smith - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment Book 2The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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