Non-Fiction

Listening to Fear

by Steven Marans

Learn how to read the behavioral language of fear and talk through your child's anxieties

Adults often have trouble understanding and addressing the sources of their children's fears. In Listening to Fear, Dr....

In My Quest For Personal Growth, The Rest Of Me Grew Too!

by Toni Sorenson Brown

SHIRLEY, YOU CAN DO IT!What do you get when you combine a mother, a wife, and a friend, with a helping of humor, a smidgen of self-help, and a dash of dead-on wisdom?  You get Shirley, a woman just like...

Elephants In the Volkswagen

by Lindsey Grant

In the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far? How can an optimum population be identified and achieved, and how can we confront the problems now...

Dreaming by the Book

by Elaine Scarry

A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.

We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the...

Coping with Chronic Heartburn

by Elaine Fantle Shimberg

An estimated 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from Chronic Heartburn, also known as Acid Reflux or GERD. Many people simply dismiss this condition--the symptoms of which can include sleeplessness, chronic...

Check the Lost and Found, My Mind is Missing

by Toni Sorenson Brown

SHIRLEY, YOU CAN DO IT!

What do you get when you combine a mother, a wife, and a friend, with a helping of humor, a smidgen of self-help and a dash of dead-on wisdom? You get Shirley, a woman just like you: looking...

Backache

by Dava Sobel & Arthur C. Klein

What is the most powerful backache treatment ever developed to help prevent recurring back pain and restore you to a healthy, pain-free life?

The answer is exercise.

Exercise has:

Helped more bachache sufferes...

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

by Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica

The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation

Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk video...

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

by Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded...

Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland

by Edward McClelland

The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy"-the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II, thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming...

The Unwinding

by George Packer

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created...

Those Damn Horse Soldiers

by George Walsh

Many accounts of the Civil War battles, armies, and key figures have been written over the years, but none have looked at the bloodiest war in our nation's history through the eyes of the cavalry. The horse...

Shakespeare's Pub

by Pete Brown

A history of Britain told through the story of one very special pub, from "The Beer Drinker's Bill Bryson" (Times Literary Supplement)

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-paneled, galleried...

Native American Fiction

by David Treuer

An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction

This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all,...

Housewife Superstar!

by Danielle Wood

The life, advice, and many marriages of a ninety-something Tasmanian domestic goddess, the real-life Dame Edna

Marjorie Bligh is the ninety-five-year-old Martha Stewart you didn’t know you were missing. Does...

Extra Sensory

by Brian Clegg

Extra Sensory is a pop-science look at the untapped abilities of human beings, from ESP to Telekenesis and other real life sciences that are currently being studied today, from physicist Brian Clegg.

We'd all...

Earned in Blood

by Thurman Miller & Richard Frank

Born in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia in 1919, Thurman Miller was the sixteenth of eighteen children in a family so poor, the local coal miner's kids looked down on them. His father was a subsistence...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

by Stephen Grosz

An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives.We are all storytellers-we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must...

City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York

by Mason B. Williams

Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis.City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in...

Singing the Faith: Words Edition

by Methodist Church of Great Britain

Seven years in development, Singing the Faith is authorised by the Methodist Conference and replaces Hymns and Psalms, published almost 30 years ago. Containing the classic, best loved hymns of the Christian...