From FREDERIC magazine, the best - and most unexpected - decorating pro tips and tricks of the trade in one accessible guideDecorate Like a Decorator highlights the decorating tricks that only experienced designers know how to pull off - until now! Culled from FREDERIC magazine's educational columns, this book shares...
Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American...
Author: Ranita Ray
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools into hostile work and learning environments.In 2017, sociologist Ranita Ray stepped inside a fourth-grade classroom in one of the nation's largest majority-minority...
The Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love,...
Author: Åsne Seierstad
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
"An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation."--Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and ProsperityFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an expansive, deeply felt portrait of Afghanistan, examining...
Cancer Is Complicated: And Other Unexpected...
Author: Clea Shearer
Publisher: The Open Field
"Clea has always been a helper, and she's doing it again with this incredible book. She is sharing her cancer journey and helping you through yours. She will walk with you . . . holding your hand every step of the way." - Hoda KotbA comforting, empowering, practical, and beautifully written guide to living...
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve...
Author: Paula Akpan
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history.Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First These queens and warriors ruled vast swathes of the African continent, where they led, loved and fought for their kingdoms...
Poems & Prayers
Author: Matthew McConaughey
Publisher: Crown
From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are my prayers.I've always...
Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses,...
Author: David Toomey
Publisher: Scribner
This "delightful ... compelling" (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play "will fill you with joy and wonder" (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus) .. Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful...
Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders...
Author: Áine Cain
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
The haunting account of the Delphi Murders, a double-murder case that has held an unrelenting grip on the American heartland for over six years.On February 13, 2017, two teenage friends went for a walk in the woods just outside the small city of Delphi, Indiana. They should have been safe - but Liberty German and Abigail...
Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora:...
Author: Polina Chesnakova
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
A love letter to the food of her childhood, acclaimed writer Polina Chesnakova shares 100 vibrant regional recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from Georgia, Polina Chesnakova grew up cooking and eating at the hip of her mother and aunts. Chesnok paints...
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Edition:...
Author: Yoshihiro Watanabe
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Learn the full back story behind the world's greatest book on military strategy!The Art of War is one of the world's great masterpieces - presenting timeless strategies that are as important in the boardroom as on the battlefield. Now, experience Sun Tzu's classic as never before in this riveting graphic novel...
The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind...
Author: Dr. Gerta Keller
Publisher: Diversion Books
The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller's world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today's existential threat of greenhouse gasses and climate change - and one that sparked an all-out...
A Silent Treatment: A Memoir
Author: Jeannie Vanasco
Publisher: Tin House Books
"Unspeakably compelling." -- Ed Park"A Silent Treatment confronts both the complexity of family and the quandary of capturing a family's shapeshifting and perplexing love, their truthful and devoted love, in the amber of memoir." -- Megha MajumdarShe did it to my dad, though. They used the silent...
Cricut For Dummies
Author: Kerri Adamczyk
Publisher: For Dummies; 1st edition
Your simple guide to the DIY die-cutting machine that lets you create without limitationsYour new Cricut can help you cut paper, vinyl, fabric, and beyond. Perfect for DIY enthusiasts, scrapbookers, and professional designers, Cricut machines are favorites among makers of all types. Cricut For Dummies gives you clear, simple...
A Ruin, Great and Free: A Novel (The Convergence...
Author: Cadwell Turnbull
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, Inc.
From bestselling and award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes A Ruin, Great and Free, the stunning conclusion to the popular Convergence Saga.It has been nearly two years since the anti-monster riots. The inhabitants of Moon have been very fortunate in the intervening months. Inside their hidden monster settlement, they've...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
Author: Priscilla Presley
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
"A heartfelt record of stepping into one's own." - Publishers Weekly The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees. Priscilla Presley's divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could...
Celebrate Diwali: Recipes, Activities, and Crafts...
Author: Renu Bhardwaj
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Celebrate Diwali with this family-friendly guide to traditional recipes, crafts, and more for the festival and holiday!Looking to bring the largest holiday of India, Diwali, home? Look no further. Whether you want to learn about Diwali for the first time, revisit childhood nostalgia, or need a guide to celebrating with...
A Sheepdog Named Oscar: Love and Companionship...
Author: Dara Waldron
Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA moving memoir of grief, healing, and the unbreakable bond between man and dog, set against the lush backdrop of rural Ireland.After the sudden loss of his father, film scholar and father of two boys, Dara Waldron finds unexpected solace in Ireland's East Clare region. There, on an abandoned...
Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's...
Author: Emily Hauser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past...
Can Anyone Tell Me?: Essential Questions...
Author: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
Publisher: Sounds True
From psychotherapist and leading grief expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis comes answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about grief, offering hopeful real-world lessons and practical steps for navigating loss.. If you've experienced the trauma of loss, you might find yourself struggling with the "whys"...
Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Classics)
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Beacon Press
A deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin's most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identityPart of the Beacon Classics series Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's timeless and moving essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African...
