Susan Straight

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

“A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a most anticipated book of March 2022 by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Alta From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and land Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny’s moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming. In Mecca, the celebrated novelist Susan Straight crafts an unforgettable American epic, examining race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians all gasping for air. With sensitivity, furor, and a cinematic scope that captures California in all its injustice, history, and glory, she tells a story of the American West through the eyes of the people who built it—and continue to sustain it. As the stakes get higher and the intertwined characters in Mecca slam against barrier after barrier, they find that when push comes to shove, it’s always better to push back.

Mecca

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Oliver K. Langmead

American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden. Many millennia after the fall of Eden, Adam, the first man in creation, still walks the Earth – exhausted by the endless death and destruction, he is a shadow of his former hope and glory. And he is not the only one. The Garden was deconstructed, its pieces scattered across the world and its inhabitants condemned to live out immortal lives, hiding in plain sight from generations of mankind. But now pieces of the Garden are turning up on the Earth. After centuries of loneliness, Adam, haunted by the golden time at the beginning of Creation, is determined to save the pieces of his long lost home. With the help of Eden's undying exiles, he must stop Eden becoming the plaything of mankind. Adam journeys across America and the British Isles with Magpie, Owl, and other animals, gathering the scattered pieces of Paradise. As the country floods once more, Adam must risk it all to rescue his friends and his home – because rebuilding the Garden might be the key to rebuilding his life.

Birds of Paradise

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries and Other Stuff You See Every Day (and Know Nothing About)

The bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood uses a walk around his hometown to explore how every part of our urban landscape--from manhole covers and recycling bins to pedestrian crossings and bike lanes--impact and shape our lives in this fascinating work of popular science. A simple walk around the block set Spike Carlsen off on an investigative journey to discover everything he could about every thing we take for granted in our everyday life. Leading readers on a spirited tour of his hometown, and a few other environs, he teaches us how to best appreciate and make the best use of the world's most useful things with illuminating narrative tales about the hidden world outside and underneath our front door. With wit and everyman expertise, Carlsen explains the engineering marvels, unheralded utilities, and how to make the best use of the world's most useful things, including: How the addition of a front porch reduces crime and increases property value How planting a $10 boulevard tree cuts air-conditioning costs by 20 percent, while generating approximately $30,000 worth of oxygen and $31,000 worth of erosion control. How a simple walk, in addition to reducing the chance of a stroke (20 percent), cardiovascular disease (30 percent), and broken bones (40 percent), can increase creativity by 60 percent. Engaging, entertaining, and informative, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, A Walk Around the Block celebrates all the seemingly random yet essential stuff we encounter yet overlook every day.

A Walk Around the Block

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The Passions of a Suburban Gardener

With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning offers this lively, charming, and instructive story of restoring a neglected suburban garden.When a retaining wall in Browning's New York suburban garden collapsed, she was forced into action. Paths of Desire is the enchanting, amusing, and moving account of making a garden -- and confronting the essence of suburban gardening, with its idiosyncratic ecosystem. This meant struggling with depraved skunks and raccoons, marauding teenagers, plastic jungle gyms, toppling garbage cans, uncontrollable eyesores, potholed drives, and all the grinding, honking, and buzzing of the neighborhood. Browning's delightfully frank prose conveys the very sense of being deep in a garden, with all its organic smells and textures, and the myriad joys of deciding what to plant and watching as the vision is realized. It contains a rich store of advice and illustrative anecdotes for enthusiasts and novices alike, as Browning amusingly documents the missteps she took in the planning of her garden and the satisfactions of finally getting it right. In Paths of Desire she teaches us how to embrace our plots of land -- no matter their size, beauty, or proximity to the city -- and make them our own. But she also reminds us that the life of a garden can never be separated from the people who wander in and out of it: characters like the charming but useless children; the philosophical tree doctor and the band of Helpful Men; the neighbors -- legalistic on one side, aesthetically challenged on the other -- and, best and worst of all, the True Love.By the end of the book, Browning has transformed her garden -- and her life -- and has created a place of enchantment, which is most of all what a garden should be.

Paths of Desire

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Nothing is more restorative than a Sunday brunch. "Pancakes and Waffles" gives you the recipes to create that kind of comfort at home - any day of the week any time of the day. Kate Habershon, food editor of "Cosmopolitan", has drawn upon her diverse experiences - from working with the Two Fat Ladies and The Naked Chef to cooking in Aspen, Colorado and Moscow, Russia - to create an inspired collection. Not forgetting the classic Belgian waffle and the popular short stack, Habershon's recipes include Sesame Seed Waffles with Honey Butter, Gingerbread Pancakes, Buckwheat Blini with Sour Cream and Smoked Salmon, and Pinenut and Cornmeal Pennycakes.

Pancakes and Waffles

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

100+ Cleansing Recipes to Renew and Restore Your Body and Mind

Cleanse. Sculpt your body, boost your health, renew your mind, and improve your whole outlook on life. 



More than a collection of delicious recipes, Clean Green Drinks is a guide to a leaner, happier, and more fulfilled life. With more than 100 perfectly balanced, delicious drink recipes that can be made in a minute, the book will help anyone sip away extra pounds as they sip away stress. Health journalist and chef Candice Kumai reveals the new science behind her enticing, refreshing flavors; and she shows how easy it is to get fit, healthy, happy, and glowing! 

Clean Green Drinks

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Adventures of an American in Britain

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. With his instinct for the funny and quirky, and his eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today.

The Road to Little Dribbling

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The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s And 80s

If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock!, and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic running sound of The Six Million Dollar Man, this book is for you.

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? takes you back in time to the tastes, smells, and sounds of childhood in the '70s and '80s, when the Mystery Date board game didn't seem sexist, and exploding Pop Rocks was the epitome of candy science.

But what happened to the toys, tastes, and trends of our youth? Some vanished totally, like Freakies cereal. Some stayed around, but faded from the spotlight, like Sea-Monkeys and Shrinky Dinks. Some were yanked from the market, revised, and reintroduced...but you'll have to read the book to find out which ones.

So flip up the collar of that polo shirt and revisit with us the glory and the shame of those goofy decades only a native could love.

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?

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Take a tantalising food journey with the Soil Assocation and be inspired to make the most of the amazing range of produce that is grown, reared and caught in Britain.

Grown in Britain Cookbook

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An Adoptive Families Guide

From Adoptive Families magazine, the country's leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children. You Can Adopt answers every question-even the ones you're afraid to ask:

* When should I shift from fertility treatment to adoption?
* How do I talk to my spouse about adoption?
* Can we find a healthy baby?
* Do I need an attorney? An adoption agency?
* Can the birth mother take the baby back?
* How much will this really cost? How long will it take?
* Aren't all adopted children unhappy?
* Can I love a child who "isn't mine"?
* How can I ease the rest of my family into this decision?

Complete with checklists and worksheets, You Can Adopt will help make your dreams of family come true.

You Can Adopt

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Yoga Laid Bare

FROM THE VIRAL YOGA STAR - 43 MILLION VIEWS IN JUST FIVE DAYS

Yoga as it's never been seen before!

'Yoga can feel elitist but the book does not alienate. Partly because of its gentle humour, and partly because the language does not assume any knowledge of terms or sequences. It's straightforward and to the point. And the scenery beats a sterile yoga studio.' - Evening Standard

'Apparently there is something about the recipe of beards, kilts, butts and the Scottish highlands that just works.' - Finlay Wilson

'Yoga and kilts in a Perthshire forest has proved to be just what the world was waiting for.' - BBC

Get ready to lose yourself in the wilds of Scotland and reconnect with the natural world in this gorgeous little book that will make you look at yoga in a whole new way - kilt optional!

After recovering from an accident, Finlay Wilson found yoga was the best way to rebuild his strength. Now a qualified yoga instructor himself, he's decided to bring a modern take to this ancient practice. Feast your eyes on his yoga moves and discover why his Kilted Yoga video became an instant global sensation. This beautiful book is both dramatic and inspirational, but also tongue in cheek, quirky and funny.

Finlay introduces you to the fundamentals of yoga through four progressive sequences to help you develop your practice. Combining stunning photography of the Scottish highlands with practical advice, Kilted Yoga is the inspiration you've been waiting for - join the movement here.

Check out the video that went viral: www.facebook.com/BBCScotland/videos/1085403278236761



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A Walk Around the Block

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Paths of Desire

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Pancakes and Waffles

Candice Kumai

Clean Green Drinks

Bill Bryson

The Road to Little Dribbling

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Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?

Soil Association Staff (Contribution by); Donna Air (Editor-In-Chief); Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

Grown in Britain Cookbook

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Susan Straight

Mecca

Oliver K. Langmead

Birds of Paradise

Spike Carlsen

A Walk Around the Block

Leah Hager Cohen; Dominique Browning

Paths of Desire

Kate Habershon; William Lingwood (Photographer)

Pancakes and Waffles

Candice Kumai

Clean Green Drinks

Bill Bryson

The Road to Little Dribbling

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper; Brian Bellmont

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?

Soil Association Staff (Contribution by); Donna Air (Editor-In-Chief); Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

Grown in Britain Cookbook

Susan Caughman; Isolde Motley

You Can Adopt

Finlay Wilson

Kilted Yoga

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