Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
This is an enhanced e-version with read-along capabilities.When a tornado leaves a farmer with a heap of scrap metal and no animals, his neighbors are sure it's all over for him. But the determined farmer refuses to admit defeat. His plans are big, and when his neighbors dismiss them with the words, "When pigs fly," they grow bigger still. The farmer sets to work to turn that scrap metal into some rather surprising creatures. Mechanimals will help...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubilshers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
280 pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 19 cm.
Description
"Lagom, which means “not too much and not too little?just right,” is the Swedish philosophy for enjoying balance in every aspect of life?from work and leisure to family and food, and everything in between. Experienced bakers know by touch when the dough they are kneading is lagom?not too moist and not too dry. At the office, professionals who work hard?but not to the detriment of other parts of their lives?are following the lagom ideal. Lagom...
26) Under the Lilacs
Author
Formats
Description
"Under the Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
Author
Publisher
Weldon Owen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
Description
A guide for the modern homesteader, this book covers energy efficiency, finding and pumping your own water, keeping chickens, goats, bees, and other critters, and much more from a practical hands-on perspective.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"As we become a more digital society, the gains that have been made for the environment by moving toward a paperless world with more and more efficient devices will soon be or already have been offset by the number of devices in our lives that are always using energy. But many don't think about the impact on the environment of the "Internet of things." Whether it's a microwave connected to the internet, use of Netflix, or online shopping, these technological...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
414 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Description
The former vice president and author of such best-sellers as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Earth in the Balance" presents a follow-up work to address key environmental issues while profiling and evaluating possible solutions. Outlines comprehensive and urgent global strategies for implementing solutions to the impending environmental crisis as recommended by "Solutions Summits" scientists.
Author
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
All her life, Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself: her life was at stake. She tells us how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world, finding beauty in acceptance...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 243 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones' time outdoors. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge, friluftsliv is whatNordic people do outside all day before they cozy up in front of the fireplace with their wool socks on and a cup of hot cocoa"--
Author
Formats
Description
Sam is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries on their family farm? in Wisconsin, from flooding the field to prepare the vines for the picking machine to delivering the fruit to receiving station. Includes recipes for cranberry sauce and cranberry pie, author's note, and glossary.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title