Green Goes with Everything
Green Goes with Everything

Author: Sloan Barnett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-23

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1416578641

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Imagine if your best friend gave you vital information that could protect you and your family, and save you money, and help the planet. Imagine if you were given clear, simple choices, small changes that could have a big impact on your life. And you could still wear leather shoes and deodorant. You'd listen, right? Well, think of Today show contributor Sloan Barnett as that friend. A mother of three, a dedicated consumer advocate, Sloan gives us a fast, simple, down-toearth primer on the ways our homes are making us sick, and what we can all do to transform them into the safe sanctuaries we want and need them to be. Sloan exposes the toxic truth behind the household products we use every day -- from laundry detergent to toothpaste to lipstick. She explains how these and other seemingly benign stuff can harm us and our children. She offers an array of alternatives, and inspires us to see that we're never helpless: Every day, we have the power to make better, smarter, safer choices. Packed with common sense and sass, product picks and practical tips, Green Goes With Everything is for everyone who wants to live a healthier life.

Bouquets with Personality
Bouquets with Personality

Author: Lucinda Rooney

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1647007542

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Some flowers are team players, content to let their gently expressive hues and textures take a supporting role in an arrangement or bouquet. Others have a domineering, outgoing nature and always insist on being the center of attention. Recognizing flowers’ differing personalities—and blending the meek and the bold together in unusual, romantic, and harmonious ways—is at the heart of Lucinda Rooney’s floral philosophy. In Bouquets with Personality, Rooney divulges her secrets: the materials and tools she’s most fond of using, her design influences, her theory of color, and, most important, her insightful “psychology” of the botanical realm. It’s that in-depth understanding of how flowers and plants convey emotion that makes this book such an informative and inspirational resource for beginning flower-arrangers, seasoned professionals, and anyone who just loves flowers. The pages are graced, throughout, by Mick Hales’ lovely photos of both individual flowers and completed bouquets.

When Eve Was Naked
When Eve Was Naked

Author: Josef Skvorecký

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0312421737

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This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.

Everything Matters!
Everything Matters!

Author: Ron Currie

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-07-27

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0143117513

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"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn't believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Everything Matters! is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.

Breaking the Rules
Breaking the Rules

Author: Christy Ferer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0684866099

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In this exuberantly designed book, network morning show regular Ferer shows a range of new perspectives on such design considerations as color, texture, light, furniture, and space. Breaking the Rules celebrates a fresh, liberating, and surprisingly practical new revolution in home decor. Photos.

The Turms of Peace
The Turms of Peace

Author: Jb Symons

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1449097545

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Joseph, a returning veteran from tours in Iraq, is taking some time off to relax, find peace and assess his future. He finds himself having a conversation with Origin, the Creator of All Things. Origin tells Joseph about the beginning of the Universe and the Earth, but surprises Joseph when a new creature is introduced into the story. A character that Joseph had never heard of before and one that would change the world - hopefully. The Turms of Peace were created to bring peace and tranquility to all. They went away and now want to return. Joseph's question is: "What do I do with the Turms of Peace?"

Mallory Goes Green!
Mallory Goes Green!

Author: Laurie Friedman

Publisher: Darby Creek ™

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1467727369

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Mallory McDonald is going green! As an official member of the Fern Falls Elementary Environmental Committee, Mallory is super excited to make her school and home more environmentally friendly. She’s even selected to be class representative for the all-school Green Fair. But the minute Mallory goes green, everything goes wrong. No one wants her “expert” opinion on how to help the environment. Her classmates don’t want to participate in the Green Fair project she’s created. And worst of all, by the time the fair rolls around, many of them aren’t even speaking to Mallory. Can Mallory find a way to save the planet and her friendships?

SuperBaby
SuperBaby

Author: Jenn Mann

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2010-09-07

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 140278323X

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The first three years of life are the most important for nurturing a childs full potential: thats when they start forming attachments, developing a sense of self, and learning to trust. During this time, there are critical windows of opportunity that parents can take advantage of-if they know how. In a dozen succinct yet information-packed chapters, award-winning columnist and professional therapist Dr. Jenn Berman gives parents the knowledge they need. Her enlightening sidebars, bulleted lists, and concrete, easy-to-use strategies will help parents raise happy, healthy babies…who grow to be flourishing toddlers and successful adults.

On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs
On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs

Author: Olha Kobylianska

Publisher: CIUS Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781895571349

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The novel is based on the traditional Ukrainian folk song "Oi, ne khody Hrytsiu". The tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poisoned by one of them lends itself readily to literary interpretations. But in Kobylianska's interpretation, this is far more than a melodramatic love story with a predictable ending. It is not merely the love story of Tetiana and Hryts: it is a story of the eternal conflict between passion and reason, between personal happiness and social constraints, between freedom and its practical limitations. Kobylianska turns the love story into a feminist exploration of the psychology of two strong women, Tetiana and her mentor (and Hryts's mother) Mavra. Like figures in a classical Greek tragedy, Kobylianska's characters move in a graceful, stylized narrative ballet toward their inevitable fate, leading the reader into an ever-deepening thematic exploration of human emotions and social conventions.