Garden Flora surveys 133 of the most popular garden plants organized alphabetically by common name. In this fascinating and revealing book, Noel Kingsbury delves into the family histories of our most beloved flora—and discovers unexpected treasure.
Nichols distills 30 years of practical gardening experience in an entertaining fashion, perhaps to strike back at critics who whispered that he was not a "real gardener."
In his final garden book, Nichols provides entertaining asides on cats, psychic phenomena, and the use of plants to commit murder.
Sumptuously illustrated, this books explores the entire palette of plants cultivated in Japan, carefully noting which are native and which have been introduced.
Take your home improvement outside! Tackle the problem areas of your yard with the logic and efficiency of Garden Renovation to create the landscape you’ve always wanted. Learn how to evaluate what you have, decide what you want, and put your plan into action.
Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening’s counter-productive, time-consuming practices.
An accomplished gardener and florist, Linda Beutler offers unique insights into creating inspired floral arrangements and growing the plants that go into them. Creative uses for plants in your garden; techniques for harvesting and preparing cut flowers; "bouquet basics"; and arrangements for special occasions are included, with detailed descriptions of more than 200 outstanding plants.
Whether you live on the East or West Coast, the practical, experience-tested advice in this concise volume will take the mystery out of gardening on or near the shore, and enable you to add color and greenery to your patch of sun and sand.
Spend your time in the garden celebrating your passion for plants instead of struggling to keep up with a to-do list of burdensome tasks. With Syney Eddison's practical and heart-felt guide, gardening can be a joy, not a chore.
Spend your time in the garden celebrating your passion for plants instead of struggling to keep up with a to-do list of burdensome tasks. With Syney Eddison's practical and heart-felt guide, gardening can be a joy, not a chore.
Gardening for Butterflies is an optimistic call to arms by the experts at the Xerces Society that provides home gardeners with everything they need to create a beautiful, beneficial, butterfly-filled garden. This full-color guide is a must-have for anyone who wants to help bring back the butterflies!
Birding and gardening are natural companions: let this rich compendium help you make your garden a sanctuary for you and the local bird population!
This enchanting book is your complete guide to designing and growing a living garden in miniature.
This comprehensive and hardworking guide features plant picks, design advice, and successful growing information for home gardeners in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
Gardening in the South is packed with plant picks, design advice, and growing information that make it easier than ever to grow a beautiful Southern garden.
How is it possible to grow garden plants directly on hard surfaces such as pavement with just a few inches of soil? Here are the answers from an innovative gardener, complete with plant lists and step-by-step instructions.
A complete, practical manual for growing plants indoors.
Bioactivated charcoal — called biochar — can dramatically improve soil quality, and this first book on gardening with biochar addresses how to make it at home and use it to increase soil’s biological activity and water-holding capacity.
You can depend on this expert's advice for superb choices, plant combinations, and maintenance. Filled with 115 beautiful photographs and the incalculable wisdom of hard-won experience.
Emma Biggs, an enthusiastic 13-year-old with a love of gardening, shares her just-for-kids advice on growing a food garden, including theme garden ideas and tips for preparing, planting, and caring for a garden, along with creative ways to have fun doing it.
Gardening with Foliage First has something for every gardener—beginners will learn how to choose the right foliage plants, experienced gardeners will be inspired by fresh twists on old favorites, and everyone will be encouraged to create a beautiful, year-round garden.
Two imaginative garden designers provide beautifully illustrated information and inspiration about these most versatile and sophisticated of garden plants.
With over 400 species and hybrids of hardy geraniums and 450 beautiful color photographs, this book is both rich in information and beautiful to browse. It is a long-awaited reference that will delight seasoned enthusiasts and introduce a whole new generation of gardeners to the charms of the hardy geranium.
Gardening with Less Water introduces gardeners to simple low-cost, low-tech techniques — using terra-cotta pipes, wicks, and recycled plastic bottles — that are up to 10 times more efficient than traditional watering methods.
Plants native to the eastern and midwestern U.S. will grace your garden with the guidance of this book, especially those suitable for woodland, meadow, and wetland habitats.
This pictorial guide presents a fresh approach to using these popular bulbs in contemporary gardens. The book begins with a history of tulips and moves on to design approaches and tips for various plant combinations. Twenty groups of tulips are described in detail, and a separate chapter deals exclusively with color varieties, making it easy for readers to choose tulips to create a wide palette of color combinations in their garden. Complete growing and maintenance instructions are also provided.
Woodland plants add magic to any garden with lush carpets of color, foliage at the middle level, and majestic height. Contrary to myth, large spaces and special soil are not required. This comprehensive guide covers the essentials, and the extensive plant directory will inspire all gardeners to bring woodland plants into the garden for year-round pleasure.
This sumptuously illustrated survey from the venerable garden‑world authority, Christopher Woods, is the perfect armchair travel guide to 50 of the most innovative modern gardens from around the world.
Garden planners, home gardeners, and landscape designers will be turning to this exceptional book for expert advice from the world’s leading garden makers including Beth Chatto, Piet Oudolf, James Van Sweden, and Julie Mois Messervy. In this beautifully illustrated collection, Noël Kingsbury gathers their ideas on the entire design process—from choosing a garden style through planning its layout to maintaining its look over time. Encouraging a fluid approach to creativity, Gardens by Design will assist designers at all levels to understand the mechanics of plant combinations, to seek out cutting-edge and exquisite plants, and to nurture their garden’s development, growth, and maintenance over time.
Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.
A thorough revision of Judith B. Tankard’s highly praised study of gardens from the Arts and Crafts movement—a style that remains popular more than a century after it began.
The Gardens of the High Line is the first book devoted to the plants and planting design of New York City's iconic High Line. In its sumptuous pages, Piet Oudolf, who designed the original plantings, and Rick Darke, a leading voice in sustainable horticulture, reveal why the High Line is such an iconic example of landscape design.
This illustrated journal allows foragers to record how they collect and use their favorite wild plants, while creative prompts help them to reflect on living a more natural life.
Great comedy at a great value! This gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy® winners, plus an interview from public radio’s Fresh Air.
Great comedy at a great value! This gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy® winners, plus an interview from public radio’s Fresh Air.
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is renowned for their ground‑breaking, contemporary designs. This is the first monograph from this prominent landscape architecture firm and its founding principal, Kathryn Gustafson.
In the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Jackaby series, Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her fellow residents to solve a decade-old murder—her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold case, starting with a search for Jenny’s fiancé, who went missing the night she died.
In the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Jackaby series, Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her fellow residents to solve a decade-old murder—her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold case, starting with a search for Jenny’s fiancé, who went missing the night she died.
For tween and teen girls, developing healthy habits is empowering and fun. This collection brims with creative inspiration for self care, with 50 recipes for natural body care products girls can make at home, craft projects for relaxation and restoration, yoga routines, and more.
Shade is a blessing in disguise. Glorious Shade is an inspiring and information-rich guide that shows gardeners everywhere how to take advantage of it.
A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic about the complex bond of mothers and daughters across a century.
Alice Medrich’s groundbreaking work, which won the James Beard Award for the best book of 2014 in baking and desserts, is now publishing in paperback with a new title that highlights gluten-free baking.
Journey through ancient lore in this hilarious, illustrated encyclopedia of world mythology. It's the perfect way to introduce kids to legendary lands, powerful gods, brave heroes, wild creatures, and more! Skillfully told and illustrated by Korwin Briggs, it's the who's who and what's what of ancient culture, organized alphabetically.
Journey through ancient lore in this hilarious, illustrated encyclopedia of world mythology. It's the perfect way to introduce kids to legendary lands, powerful gods, brave heroes, wild creatures, and more! Skillfully told and illustrated by Korwin Briggs, it's the who's who and what's what of ancient culture, organized alphabetically.
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God’s Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are re-imagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals.Prologue read by actor Joe Morton.
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God’s Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are re-imagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals.Prologue read by actor Joe Morton.
From renowned German holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive, one-volume biography of Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
175 original gags and one-liners about golf from the award-winning comedy writers who provided many of Bob Hope's golf jokes.
A biannual journal of inspiration, community, and practical advice for creative women
A biannual journal of inspiration, community, and practical advice for creative women
A biannual journal of inspiration, community, and practical advice for creative women
From the author of the bestselling Good & Cheap, a cookbook with self-care at its heart. Leanne Brown acknowledges that feeding yourself is hard, and that it is almost impossible to find the energy to work for yourself when you don’t think you are worth it. With these everyday recipes, she provides a reminder that it's OK to lose perfectionism and find pleasure in "good enough" cooking.
Foreword INDIES's 2019 Silver Award–Winner for Health
Mom's Choice Awards Gold recipient
One of HuffPost's Books on Postpartum Mental Health Every New Parent Should Read
Author Karen Kleiman—co-author of the seminal book This Isn't What I Expected and founder of the acclaimed Postpartum Stress Center—comes to the aid of new mothers everywhere with a groundbreaking new source of hope, compassion, and expert help. Good Mothers Have Scary Thoughts is packed with world-class guidance, simple exercises, and nearly 50 stigma-busting cartoons from the viral #speakthesecret campaign that help new moms validate their feelings, share their fears, and start feeling better.
One of BabyGaga's "8 Books That Prepare New Moms for the Postpartum Phase"
One of Moms.com's "8 Self-Help Books Moms Might Want to Keep in Their Home Library"
A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries.
With endorsements from both key executives and renowned business schools around the world, Richard Rumelt offers the ultimate distillation of his vast experience in what is destined to become a milestone work on the theory and practice of strategy.
When a father begins whispering beautiful messages in his infant daughter's ear each night, his affirmations give her courage and confidence as she grows.
This prequel to the New York Times bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog tells the story of another occupant of the posh apartment building in Paris: the great food critic Pierre Arthens. As his life draws to a close, he reflects back on its many flavors, and on a singular sublime something, once sampled and never forgotten.
How do you respond when you wake up to find a severed head on your resort-front beach in the morning? If you're frustrated ex-crime reporter Jimm Juree, you take action.
New York Times #1 bestselling author and grandmother Linda Eyre shares her secret formula for teaching your grandchildren values, building meaningful connections with them, and giving them grit and resilience in a ever-changing world, plus an appendix of easy, delicious recipes to feed a crowd at your next family reunion.
One of More Than Grand's Best Books for Grandparents.
From a professional magician and New York Times bestselling author, 100+ tricks, stunts, and brainteasers that will engage the grandchildren and provide giggles, jaw-dropping awe, and wonderful memories. From the old pull-a-quarter-from-behind-a-kid's-ear trick and "removing your thumb" to card tricks, stunts for the dinner table, and verbal puzzles that surprise and delight, these tricks are illustrated step-by-step so they're easy to learn, and guaranteed to make grandparenting even more fun.
The Secret introduced people around the world to a profound yet seemingly contradictory concept: to lead is to serve. With that as the foundation, Great Leaders Grow takes the next step, showing leaders and aspiring leaders how to keep growing their leadership abilities throughout their lives.
Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama. For Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), making a new garden in a London suburb in the years just before World War II was positively operatic in its emotional trajectory.
Green roofs have gone from horticultural curiosity to booming growth industry in urban and suburban settings alike—primarily because their environmental benefits are now beyond dispute. Concise, accurate, and easy to use, this is the first reference devoted to the drought-tolerant plants most likely to succeed, covering moisture needs, heat tolerance, hardiness, bloom color, foliage characteristics, and height of 200 species and cultivars.
A companion to the feature-length documentary The Greenhorns,this book features voices from the new farmers’ movement. The essays exlpore the challenges of farming organically, from finding land and financing to raising crops and animals, creating community, working with family, and weathering the physical challenges of farm work.
Step-by-step instructions show you how to plan, install, and use simple, low-tech solutions to redirect and reuse greywater from sinks, showers, and washing machines to maintain your home landscape and garden.
Ground Rules offers sage gardening advice from expert gardener Kate Frey.
From a front-yard farm to a chile lover’s plot, growers of every stripe will find inventive designs for growing food in any space.
With this guide to strategic pruning, gardeners learn to make well-timed cuts to backyard fruit trees that result in shorter, sturdier trees and keep the harvest within reach.
With month-by-month regional vegetable gardening information, 50 detailed plant profiles, and color photographs throughout, this is the essential guide for vegetable gardening in Massachusetts.
With month-by-month regional vegetable gardening information, fifty detailed plant profiles, and color photographs throughout, this is the essential guide for vegetable gardening in New Jersey.
With month-by-month regional vegetable gardening information, fifty detailed plant profiles, and color photographs throughout, this is the essential guide for vegetable gardening in New York.
With month-by-month regional vegetable gardening information, fifty detailed plant profiles, and color photographs throughout, this is the essential guide for vegetable gardening in Pennsylvania.
Kari Chapin will help by applying her trademark you-can-do-it coaching style to the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship and covering all the issues involved in turning your creative hobby into a successful business.
Grow an herb garden for good health! Herbalist Maria Noël Groves offers guidance for cultivating a small garden of medicinal plants curated to personal wellness needs or specific health challenges, from improved digestion and immune system strength to stress relief and balanced blood sugar.
Fresh herbs are a kitchen staple, and this hardworking guide details how to grow and use the 40 most important culinary varieties.
See baby grow and develop month by month with 9 stunning, life-size pop-ups!
Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shares his expertise in creating a permaculture food forest: a garden that you plant once and then leave in the hands of Mother Nature for years to come.
Over 200 species, hybrids, and cultivars from all genera of carnivorous plants are described in this comprehensive volume. Detailed cultivation advice is provided to enable readers to select and place the right plants, while information on how to feed carnivorous plants will enable even the most squeamish grower to ensure that plants receive the nutrients they require.
A handy primer for growers raising Christmas trees for profit, this guide covers everything from choosing the best pine, fir, and spruce to planting, growing, shearing, pruning, harvesting, and selling.
This is a book for adventurous gardeners with an appreciation for temperate orchid species and native wildflowers. A surprising number of terrestrial orchids are hardy, some able to withstand temperatures down to minus 50°F or minus 45.5°C. At the center of the book is a catalog of 103 hardy and half-hardy orchids. In addition to detailing the techniques of cultivation and propagation, the book covers conservation and includes lists of suppliers and organizations offering nursery-propagated plants—an especially critical issue for species in danger of extinction.
Keeping houseplants is easy with this fool-proof guide to selecting and caring for the right plants for any room and every growing condition.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern Manitoba, and southeastern Saskatchewan.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern Manitoba, and southeastern Saskatchewan.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Southeast Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Southeast Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in Arizona, southwestern Colorado, southeastern Nevada, New Mexico, western Texas, and southern Utah.
Part of the Timber Press Regional Ornamental Gardening book series, this book is ideal for home gardeners in Arizona, southwestern Colorado, southeastern Nevada, New Mexico, western Texas, and southern Utah.
All that's required is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and some vegetable seeds to take advantage of this innovative low-cost, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space while simultaneously improving the soil.
Sustainability and solid craftsmanship are key to guerilla design. With these principles in mind, you will learn how to recycle and reuse materials like cardboard, plastic, and plywood to construct striking, practical furniture.
A troubled yet brilliant young pianist who lands in a 1930s mental hospital with jazz-age icon Zelda Fitzgerald fights to see the world clearly, understand what is happening around her, and above all, to remember.
“Schiller delivers a delightful photographic survey of 200 famous and innovative guitars. This volume would make an excellent conversation piece on any guitar enthusiast’s coffee table.” — Publisher's Weekly
A celebration of the world's most seductive instrument, with large full-color photographs plus lore, players, makers, legends. Inspiring to look through, and—with a slipcase—beautiful to hold.
Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion® to a new adventure, fully dramatized and performed for audio.
A vivid first-hand account of an epic catastrophe—and a powerful call to action—from a celebrated physician famous for his work in Haiti.
“Women hold up half the sky”—Chinese proverb
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances—and an equally extraordinary group that have triumphed. Through their stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to progress in our world lies in unleashing women's potential—and they make clear how each of us can help make that happen.
Fiercely moral, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
Sugar consumption is a health hazard for kids—and parents are eager to reduce their family's sugar intake in all parts of their daily meals. Half the Sugar, All the Love is the only programmatic family cookbook for reducing sugar in all parts of a meal, with medically backed guidelines and recipes.
With a few basic tools and a weekend, anyone can build beautiful furniture for their outdoor space!
Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture covers the basics of woodworking—where and how to shop, and how to measure, screw, sand, and paint. The twenty step-by-step projects are organized by level of difficulty and fully illustrated with hundreds of clear and easy-to-follow photographs.
Handmade Garden Projects takes gardeners beyond the raised bed with step-by-step, DIY garden projects like a quilt-inspired gravel pathway and an upcycled trellis for climbing plants.
Craft your own indoor garden out of paper with this thoroughly modern craft book from tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg.
Treat physical ailments and skin conditions naturally, with chemical-free, make-at-home herbal therapies for everything from arthritis to psoriasis.
In the latest masterpiece from “the father of the modern police novel,” comedy, tragedy, and suspense intertwine in a Dickensian tale set in Hollywood.
The distillation of years of hands-on growing experience, this is the ultimate bamboo reference book for cool-climate gardeners. Enthusiasts will delight in the variety of new possibilities for their collection and gardeners everywhere will be captivated by the charm bamboos bring to countless different garden situations.
A guide to the temperate zone and high altitude ginger varieties that are perfectly at home in cooler climates. Cultivation advice includes techniques for breaking dormancy, maintaining soil nutrition, and understanding plants’ hardiness requirements.
Using the “furmometer” and “ST4” techniques developed by Dr. Raun Melmed of the Melmed Center in Arizona, Harriet's Monster Diary teaches kids how to monitor how they feel and respond to stressful situations.
Featured in School Library Journal's roundup for social emotional learning
30-year movie reviewer Chris Hicks explores the history of the movie rating system, the inconsistency in the ratings, and shares advice on how to make better choices in your family’s movie entertainment.
Chicken expert Gail Damerow teaches readers how to raise all types of poultry chicks, and also explains what it takes to go to the next level and hatch them at home.
With their abundant white flowers, often striking autumn foliage, and colorful fruit, hawthorns and medlars deserve more notice in our gardens and landscapes. Now horticulturists will have expert information on the best of these trees, many of which are seldom cultivated outside botanic gardens.
ome people help the less fortunate; others kill them. Welcome to Headstone, Jack Taylor’s darkest nightmare.
For the thousands of people who turn daily to herbal tea, Healing Herbal Teas shows how easy and fun it can be to create flavorful, customized teas for enjoyment and health year-round, with recipes accompanied by insights into the medicinal qualities of each herb.
This easy-to-use handbook details safe and effective herbal preparations to treat common cardiovascular conditions, including high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, varicose veins, and angina.
From the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Deon Meyer comes a thrilling epic adventure across the landscape and history of a remarkable country.
The genus Hebe is a treasure trove of more than 100 species and subspecies of medium-sized to dwarf evergreen shrubs with outstanding ornamental features, both of flower and leaf. For gardeners, growers, and nurseries, this is the definitive volume on these aristocrats among ornamental shrubs.
A charming fable about modern life that has touched the hearts of more than two million readers worldwide. Hector’s journey around the world and into the human soul is entertaining, empowering, and smile inducing—as winning in its optimism as it is powerful in its insight and reassuring in its simplicity.
What is the secret formula for love? Hector, our intrepid psychiatrist, sets off on a new globe-trotting mission and this time he’s looking for love.
Long considered connoisseurs' plants, hellebores are now among the hottest perennials thanks to their early bloom, long-lasting flowers, shade tolerance, handsome foliage, and the profusion of new colors and forms. Authors Cole Burrell and Judith Tyler have produced what is arguably the definitive book on the genus for hellebore lovers at every level of interest.
A charming introduction to garden bugs and shapes that will captivate curious babies everywhere!
The space between a street and a public sidewalk known as “the hellstrip” is now fertile ground for gardeners! With Hellstrip Gardening in hand, you can create the paradise you want in the most unexpected of places.
Take more pleasure in owning a backyard flock with low-cost, imaginative projects that reduce chores, solve common problems, and benefit chickens and chicken-keepers alike, from a predator-proof chicken run to a self-filling waterer, automatic coop doors, and more.
In this haunting memoir of identity and love, photographer Parravani deconstructs the intense bonds between identical twins, as she struggles with the trauma of her charismatic sister’s self-destruction, and an unexpectedly rising tide of similar self-destruction in herself.
This comprehensive guide offers sound information on herbal alternatives to standard antibiotics, making it an indispensable addition to every family’s medicine cabinet.
Herbal Antivirals profiles the most effective plants and offers home-based natural and herbal remedies to help build your immunity and protect yourself against viral infections.
Learn the natural way to care for your skin and hair! Herbal Beauty has recipes to help enhance your natural beauty.
An enlivening introduction to the health benefits of herbs, with simple preparations, creative ways to incorporate natural therapies into daily life, and gentle stretches designed to enhance each plant’s potency.
This essential guide to treating children’s everyday aches, pains, minor infections, and illnesses naturally offers easy-to-make, time-tested recipes from trusted herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.
Soothe aches, pains, ease fever, treat infections and tend to scrapes and bruises with herbal medicines easy enough to make in the home kitchen.
Feel youthful naturally with herbal treatments that build energy reserves, protect against free radicals, and enhance overall health of body and mind.
Get glowing skin and shiny, healthy hair naturally with easy-to-make herbal formulas that harness the power of herbs.
Get glowing skin and shiny, healthy hair naturally with easy-to-make herbal formulas that harness the power of herbs.
Relieve physical and mental symptoms of overwhelm with herbal therapies designed to soothe agitated nerves and build a resilient nervous system.
Herbs in Bloom is a delightful A–Z selection of over 700 favorite flowering herbs. Full of detailed information on how to grow each herb from seed or cuttings, the book offers systematic advice on site selection, soils, transplanting, and other practical concerns.
Two parents challenge one another to find balance between work and family life. Their stories are both uproarious and poignant as they raise children and strive to leave their mark on the wider world. Filled with tender moments and plenty of laughs, Here Be Dragons recounts the adventures of a family trying to stay afloat, and offers a life raft to the rest of us in choppy waters.
Let’s get the feminist party started! Essays, poems, photos, lists, comics, and illustrations about modern feminism to enlighten and inspire from 40+ contributors and voices, including well-known actors, writers, and entertainers.
Few perennials have undergone as dramatic a "makeover" as heucheras (coral bells) and their hybrids with tiarellas (foamflowers), the heucherellas (foamy bells). This first ever book on these striking plants features extensive listings of the choice selections and hybrids available commercially, and practical chapters on garden care, propagation, and design round out this fascinating account.
Discover the plant suitable for your conditions with this treatment of tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate plants, as well as the hardy perennials and shrubs.
In these eight stories, Joyce Carol Oates, unparalleled as an investigator into the intricacies of human failing, deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals—a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway—in the fearless prose for which she is justly celebrated.
Home gardeners can now learn how to maximize food production from any size vegetable garden using these high-yield techniques.
A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel.
The hybrids of Hippeastrum, also known by gardeners as amaryllis, have long been popular indoor plants, their flamboyant blooms bringing cheer during the dark winter months. This book for gardeners describes the astonishing range of hybrids now available and explains how to get the best results from these rewarding plants whether grown indoors, outdoors, or under glass.
Based on his hit TV show, Brad Meltzer’s bestselling History Decoded explores the ten greatest unsolved mysteries of all time. From Leonardo Da Vinci to Lee Harvey Oswald, Meltzer travels through history, providing stories and hands-on evidence to take readers deep into the world of conspiracies and unanswered questions.
Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counts down the world’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries.
Acclaimed author Chris Lynch explores the American love affair with football and our attempts to come to terms with the dangers of the sport through Arlo Brodie, a teen who loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, getting hit hard and hitting back harder.
Acclaimed author Chris Lynch explores the American love affair with football and our attempts to come to terms with the dangers of the sport through Arlo Brodie, a teen who loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, getting hit hard and hitting back harder.
A real life Raiders of the Lost Ark. An American art historian turned Army sleuth races to stay one step ahead of Nazi thugs who have absconded with the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empiresacred symbols of Hitler’s “Thousand Year Reich”and their plot to create a Fourth Reich.
Richly enshrouded in legend and superstition, hollies are enjoying a peak of popularity as gardeners awaken to their huge versatility of form, foliage and fruit. There is a holly for every temperate region of the world, and Christopher Bailes celebrates American, European, Chinese and Japanese hollies in equal measure, providing detailed planting advice and illustrating his account with vivid photographs.
Hollowfall unites the award-winning fiction of Michael Darling with the brilliant online and board game sensation Master of Wills. While it is not necessary to be familiar with the game, fans will recognize the outstanding world-building and engaging characters they’ve grown to love. Readers who love well-written science fiction will embrace this novelization for its intense action, fast pace, and the unforgettable people who inhabit a darkly futuristic world that feels all too close and all too real.
Making your own artisanal-quality cheeses is now easier than ever.
This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic by “Cheese Queen” Ricki Carroll features an expanded selection of cheese recipes, all-new recipes for cooking with cheese, and contemporary cheesemonger profiles.
This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic by “Cheese Queen” Ricki Carroll features an expanded selection of cheese recipes, all-new recipes for cooking with cheese, and contemporary cheesemonger profiles.
Add just the right amount of sweet, spice, and smoke to your life with mouthwatering sausages made in your own kitchen with this handy guide.
This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic features detailed sausage-making instructions for a range of techniques and 100 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, veal, wild game, poultry, seafood, and vegetarian sausages — plus 100 recipes for cooking with sausage.
This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic features detailed sausage-making instructions for a range of techniques and 100 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, veal, wild game, poultry, seafood, and vegetarian sausages — plus 100 recipes for cooking with sausage.
The next great debut cookbook from Artisan: Matt Jennings, multiple James Beard Award–nominated chef and owner of Townsman, named best restaurant by USA Today, Esquire, and Food & Wine, publishes his first cookbook to shine a spotlight on the foods of his New England roots.
Berry lovers and home gardeners now have a guide for selecting, sitting, planting, caring, and harvesting strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and more.
This introduction to beekeeping covers everything from acquiring your first bees to sampling delicious honey.
Whether selecting the right variety of pumpkin for pie filling or the best beets for easy pickling, Homegrown Pantry is the essential reference for planning a garden that produces the best varieties and the right amounts to stock the pantry and root cellar with a year-round supply of 55 favorite vegetables.
Learn how to select and raise heirloom pigs for your own flavorful pork.
Hooked on Crochet guides crafters of all levels through fundamentals to finished projects that show off crochet’s fun and fashionable potential.
A proven program that desensitizes over-wrought nerves and eases feelings of anxiety, panic, and depression by using a variety of breathing and relaxation exercises.
The adventure continues in Horizon Beta, the epic continuation of the Horizon Arc. Fans of the bestselling Horizon Alpha books will be thrilled with this new branch of their beloved series.
Kids can settle in for hours of fun as they walk, trot, canter, and gallop their way through this horse-themed activity book.
Horse Play! is packed with fun activities and projects for horse-loving kids, from how to create horse-themed room decor to crafting a mini barn and pasture, designing a dream horse, and hosting a horse-themed slumber party. Includes stickers, a stencil, pop-out cards, and a coloring poster.
When Jana Harris and her husband landed in Washington State, Harris realized that she could fulfill her lifelong dream of raising and riding horses. But in True Colors, her first broodmare, Harris got more than she bargained for: a complex, traumatized animal whose outsized personality would transform everyone around her, both human and equine.
An exuberant guide to the plants and design decisions that yield dazzling water-wise gardens.
Passionate gardeners in cooler climates struggle year after year to overwinter their gorgeous tropical plants. Our new paperback edition is the answer to their problem — practical advice for achieving the tropical look in a temperate garden. Separate chapters cover such topics as principles of design and maintenance, proper plant selection, container gardening, and overwintering. With the help of this book, an impressive tropical garden is within any gardener's reach.
In this joyful celebration of growing greenery indoors, Annie Dornan-Smith adorns every page with delightful illustrations and hand-lettered text introducing the basics of houseplant selection and care, with an eye to plants that add to home decor.
Unearth incredible tales of how well-known vegetables have made their way from the dinner plate to the annals of human experience.
A corporate manifesto that helps companies break down the barriers that prevent their success.
Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.
Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.
Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.
Horticulturist Linda Chalker-Scott illuminates the fascinating mysteries of the garden in this engaging and accessible introduction to plant physiology.
This compact guide offers instructions for designing and building several basic styles of fences.
This fun introduction to crocheting presents all the basic techniques you’ll need to get started.
A self-help guide for NOT helping yourself, packed with irreverent humor and terrible life advice for modern adults. Mo Welch's comics illustrate and celebrate our common afflictions—social anxiety, terrible dates, too few friends (who aren't cats), too many cookies, too much wine, and an allergy to exercise and day jobs—with totally relatable, slightly dark, and genuinely funny humor.
The best introductory book on the subject examines plant structures and the problems they present to illustrators, and discusses the artist's tools and how to use them.
This comprehensive guide includes all types of invasive plants, including water and bog plants; annuals, biennials, and tropical perennials; herbaceous perennials; grasses and bamboos; and vines, shrubs, and trees.
Winner of an IACP Cookbook Award, How to Grill is “the definitive how-to guide for anyone passionate about grilling, from the newest beginner to the most sophisticated chef” (Tom Colicchio).
This book provides all the tools that the school community needs to build a productive and engaging school garden that will continue to inspire and nurture students and families for years to come.
Obstinate, difficult, angry, a bit too challenging? If these are words you've used to describe your lovable yet prickly teenager, best-selling author, father, and world-wide parenting expert Brad Wilcox and his younger sidekick Jerrick Robbins show you how to connect with your insufferable teen.
Home cooks are in love with the Instant Pot, the multi-purpose pressure cooker that does the work of a slow cooker, pressure cooker, rice cooker, yogurt maker, sauté pan, steamer, and chafing dish all in one, saving time and hassle in the kitchen. This collection of 100 easy, creative, boundary-pushing recipes makes ultimate use of this amazing and increasingly popular appliance. Organized by function, the book offers instructions for mastering each, and variations on basic dishes from Chicken Soup to No-Stir Polenta to Sweet Yogurt.
A Storey BASICS introduction on how to knit socks, a perennial favorite of knitters.
Now in paperback: From internationally bestselling author Stefan Klein, an "informative and entertaining" (Foreword) reconsideration of the marvels of space, time, and physics that "encourages readers to think, consider, and give in to scientific fascination" (Publishers Weekly)
Now in paperback: From internationally bestselling author Stefan Klein, an "informative and entertaining" (Foreword) reconsideration of the marvels of space, time, and physics that "encourages readers to think, consider, and give in to scientific fascination" (Publishers Weekly)
From truffles to bark and more, delicious chocolate candies are easy and fun to make at home with the simple techniques in this handy guide.
Churn a fresh, sweet batch of ice cream any time you like with How to Make Ice Cream from Storey BASICS®. With more than 50 recipes for flavors both classic and daringly original, there’s a recipe for every occasion.
From managing a sugar bush to slathering your pancakes, this Storey BASICS® guide covers everything you need to know to make and enjoy your own maple syrup.
Nurture plants and beautify backyards and gardens with this informative introduction to choosing and using all types of mulch, from organic to synthetic.
This Storey BASICS title details the key steps to successfully pruning all the most common woody plants in the home landscape with an easy system that assumes no prior knowledge of plants or gardening.
A parent's guide to raising a lifelong reader, packed with practical ideas for engaging children of all ages in books, plus wonderful lists of books, arranged by age and subject matter, will keep the shelves stocked and young readers' interests high from birth through teens.
How to Retire with Enough Money is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement by cutting through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly.
Hayden matter-of-factly explores many of the myths men tend to believe about what a woman really wants in bed. She explains what turns women off, what turns them on, and gives explicit, foolproof instructions any man can follow on how to give his partner earth-shattering orgasms during intercourse every time. Hayden also discusses the importance of love and commitment in sexual relationships, marriage, romantic fantasies, and the sexually energizing benefits of good health. A more practical, no-nonsense guide to the secrets of giving and receiving sexual pleasure has yet to be written.
Did you know that nearly every financial scam like Madoff and Stamford can be easily avoided? Ken Fisher does. In How to Smell a Rat Fisher arms readers with the 5 simple questions that lead to financial security. No longer do investors need to be "taken."
With contagious enthusiasm and fascination for her backyard chickens, best-selling author Melissa Caughey shares her unique observations of her flock — how they sense the world, communicate impending danger, and establish pecking order — along with scientific facts and entertaining tidbits.
A Storey BASICS title for complete beginners, starting with how to choose a spinning wheel and guiding readers all the way to making yarn.
A practical, relatable, and empathic guide for parents who want to stop yelling at their kids, by a clinical social worker and parent coach with a been-there, done-that attitude.
How to Succeed with Your Home Owners Association is the handbook to help new homeowners transition into peaceful community living. This comprehensive guide explains the ins and outs of an HOA, from the structure ans responsibilities to resolving disputes.
Understanding how your horse thinks can help you reach your training goals faster and enhance the special bond between horse and rider.
Understanding how your horse thinks can help you reach your training goals faster and enhance the special bond between horse and rider.
From the creators of Biz Kid$ and Bill Nye the Science Guy, here is a comprehensive guide for kids to the basics of earning, saving, spending, and investing money. Written in a humorous but informative voice that engages young readers, it’s the book that every parent who wants to raise financially savvy and unspoiled children should buy for their kids. It is packed with lively illustrations to make difficult concepts easy to understand—all as a way of building financial literacy, good decision-making, and the appreciation of a hard-earned dollar.
Balance an egg like an emperor penguin! Stalk like a camouflaged leopard! This illustrated interactive guide invites kids ages 6 and up to join the animal world with creative play mimicking key behaviors of 15 fascinating animals.
Eleven-year-old Fig navigates friendships and her first crush while looking for answers about her pianist father’s mental illness by immersing herself in the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh in this own voices LGBTQ middle grade debut.
Eleven-year-old Fig navigates friendships and her first crush while looking for answers about her pianist father’s mental illness by immersing herself in the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh in this own voices LGBTQ middle grade debut.
This new, revised edition of the classic text on hydrangeas shows the enormous possibilities offered by the plant. It provides information on natural history, cultivation, and propagation, as well as descriptions of 100 cultivars. It's easy to see why the book is a classic, and no hydrangea enthusiast will want to be without this new, expanded edition.
How to choose from the hundreds of mopheads, lacecaps, oakleafs, and more? Respected plantsman Michael A. Dirr comes to the rescue in his refreshingly forthright style.
A step-by-step guide to making hypertufa containers, the ultimate DIY garden planter.
Join Excavator and the other construction trucks as they scrub-a-dub-dub away the dust of the day with a well-earned bath in this adorable board book.
From award-winning comedy writers Gene Perret and Linda Perret, I Don't Care If It's A Boy Or Girl (As Long as It's Tax Deductible) will make the journey of becoming a father more fun with 175 original jokes that every dad will appreciate.
You have cancer, and you need the help and support of your husband more than ever. Communication is now more critical than ever with the most important person in your life. The Top 12 Things You Need from Your Husband When You Have Cancer includes information on how to overcome the shock and fear of diagnosis, how to talk to your husband and extended family, how to consult with your husband on what you want from your doctors, where and how your husband can give you support, the transition of normal household duties and how to manage those, the real costs of cancer, both financial and emotional, what you need from your husband emotionally and physically, including romance, how to manage your and his full-time jobs, and other long-term issues that will help you get the support you need.
An adorable book about all things Michigan, full with cuddly and warm illustrations that capture the joy and excitement of being a baby in the Great Lake State, accompanied by loving text and sweet verses.
In her first novel since winning the National Book Award, Lily Tuck delivers an elegant tour-de-force portrait of a forty-three-year marriage.
A 10th anniversary edition of Ramit Sethi's groundbreaking and bestselling personal finance plan for young adults. Sethi's practical approach is delivered in an irreverent, funny, no-B.S. style that inspires readers to do what he says. It is based on the four pillars of personal finance—banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship, but this new edition goes beyond, to detail what makes a "rich life."
A 10th anniversary edition of Ramit Sethi's groundbreaking and bestselling personal finance plan for young adults. Sethi's practical approach is delivered in an irreverent, funny, no-B.S. style that inspires readers to do what he says. It is based on the four pillars of personal finance—banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship, but this new edition goes beyond, to detail what makes a "rich life."
Highlighting the state's most beautiful spots and famous landmarks, Idaho: The Gem State is a must-own for everyone in love with Idaho.
The world’s greatest minds pay tribute to the world’s most peculiar pets. Quotes from cat-lovers and cat-toleraters alike, If It Fits, I Sits is a new kind of quote book about what these feline friends and fiends bring to our lives.
With quotes from dog-lovers, owners, rescuers, and influencers, If It Sits, I Licks is a new kind of quote book about how dogs are the furry friends that complete our lives.
A heartfelt affirmation of love from a parent to a child. Perfect for bedtime, storytime, and anytime!
In Iran, it’s a crime punishable by death to be gay. Sex reassignment surgery, however, is considered a way to fix a “mistake.” Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. But when Nasrin’s parents announce that her arranged marriage will be in a matter of months, Sahar must decide the lengths she’ll go to for love.
In Iran, it’s a crime punishable by death to be gay. Sex reassignment surgery, however, is considered a way to fix a “mistake.” Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. But when Nasrin’s parents announce that her arranged marriage will be in a matter of months, Sahar must decide the lengths she’ll go to for love.
In Iran, it’s a crime punishable by death to be gay. Sex reassignment surgery, however, is considered a way to fix a “mistake.” Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. But when Nasrin’s parents announce that her arranged marriage will be in a matter of months, Sahar must decide the lengths she’ll go to for love.
After Georgia’s brother, Lucky, drowns in a surfing accident, a charming stranger comes to town for his funeral. As Georgia seeks the truth about what really happened to Lucky and her suspicions about the stranger grow, the line between Georgia’s increasingly fragile mental state and reality begins to blur.
After Georgia’s brother, Lucky, drowns in a surfing accident, a charming stranger comes to town for his funeral. As Georgia seeks the truth about what really happened to Lucky and her suspicions about the stranger grow, the line between Georgia’s increasingly fragile mental state and reality begins to blur.
Three teens who have attempted suicide meet in a psychiatric hospital, battle their demons, and begin to heal.
The handsome son of wealthy parents, Connor has everything anyone could want—except his family’s love and affection. Jailed for years after killing his mother’s child-molesting boyfriend, Tony is confused about his sexuality. Manic-depressive Vanessa cuts herself. All three stories intertwine in a brutally honest story about pain and resilience.
The exciting story of how Oregon's diverse landscapes evolved is seen through 220 fine art quality photographs and beautiful writing.
The first book by beloved and prolific French artist Nathalie Lété, whose work is sold at Anthropologie, Astier de Villatte, and numerous other upscale homeware stores worldwide.
New York transplant Ruth Robb hides her Jewish identity to fit into the segregated Atlanta of the 1950s, until a hate crime forces her to come to face the whole truth about the choices she’s made, the boy she might love, and the true cost of living only in the neighborhood of true. Inspired by a real-life event.
New York transplant Ruth Robb hides her Jewish identity to fit into the segregated Atlanta of the 1950s, until a hate crime forces her to come to face the whole truth about the choices she’s made, the boy she might love, and the true cost of living only in the neighborhood of true. Inspired by a real-life event.
An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice.
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now includes concept books! Baby, Find the Shapes! introduces the youngest readers to the shapes they find in the world around them.
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now features concept books. Baby, Let's Count! introduces the youngest readers to the basics of counting.
Waterproof, impossible to tear, and easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book introduces a rainbow of delicious foods in a format perfect for baby to munch on.
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now features concept books! Baby, See the Colors! introduces the youngest readers to the colors of the rainbow.
Beach Baby is the perfect beach book for baby, telling the sweet story of baby’s day at the beach—and it’s sand-proof, waterproof, and sunscreen-proof, too.
With two million copies in print, Indestructibles are the books built for the way babies read. They are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof. Printed on a unique nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to anything babies can throw at it—gumming, spilling, dragging across the floor—Indestructibles are the little books that could. They’re indestructible. And if they get dirty, just throw them in the dishwasher or rinse them in the sink.
Bilingual in English and Spanish! Waterproof, impossible to tear, and easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book introduces a rainbow of delicious foods in a format perfect for baby to munch on.
Waterproof, impossible to tear, easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book joins the 3-million-copy Indestructibles series, introducing babies to the sights around a busy city.
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now celebrates Hanukkah!
Waterproof, impossible to tear, easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book joins the 3-million-copy Indestructibles series, introducing babies to life on a farm.
Waterproof, impossible to tear, easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book introduces babies to the various rooms of a home and the objects inside them.
Waterproof, impossible to tear, easily washable - a cheerfully indestructible picture book introduces babies to the joys of Christmas.
Waterproof, impossible to tear, easily washable, this cheerfully indestructible picture book joins the 3-million-copy Indestructibles series, introducing babies to the sights around a friendly town.
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now features one of baby's favorite songs, with all the lyrics!
Baby's favorite book series (rip-proof, drool-proof, and nontoxic—designed for the way babies "read" with their mouths) now features one of baby's favorite songs, with all the lyrics!