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Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

Mark Hyman - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

Help to transform the planet in crisis with this indispensable guide to healthy, ethical, and economically sustainable food from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD -- "Read this book if you're ready to change the world" (Tim Ryan, US Representative) .Food...
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The Book of Lymph: Self-Care Practices to Enhance Immunity, Health, and Beauty

Lisa Levitt Gainsley - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

A first-of-its-kind guide that outlines and explains the health-promoting properties of lymphatic massage, featuring beautifully illustrated, five-minute self-massage sequences anyone can do at home.Thanks to the astonishing results it provides - glowing skin, a flatter stomach, enhanced...
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Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation

Kristy Hamilton - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this." - Publishers Weekly When astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies,...
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The Social Lives of Animals

Ashley Ward
Format: Hardcover

A rat will go out of its way to help astranger in need.Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competitionInThe Social Lives ofAnimals,biologistAshley Wardtakes uson a wild touracross...
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The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save our Planet

Hal Harvey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate - and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action.Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board...
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The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

Rodney Habib - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions.Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely...
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Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Andrew Cotter
Format: Hardcover

The story of Olive and Mabel, Labrador retrievers who rose to internet fame as the subjects of Andrew Cotter's BBC sports parodies. When sporting events were put on hold in March 2020, commentator Andrew Cotter shifted to working from home. The one-on-one competitors? His two Labrador...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Rebecca Solnit - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere...
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Electric Cars For Dummies

Sven Jonasson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Drive into the 21st century in an electric carWith falling cost of ownership, expanded incentives for purchasing, and more model and body type options than ever, it may finally be time to retire the old gas-guzzler and dive into the world of electric car ownership. Electric Cars For Dummies...
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Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day

Kristine Mraz - Heinemann
Format: Print book

Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading) , negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening) , or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM) , Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl...
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