Sasquatch Books: 160 books
by Seabury Blair, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The newest addition to the Sasquatch Books Day Hike! series covers Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho--including Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Sandpoint. The Inland Northwest is a great place to hike, with mountains, rivers, and lakes forming a diverse and breathtaking geography for trails--including...
by Ann Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The organic gardening movement has been long established among vegetable growers. With the mainstreaming of ideas about environmental and ecological preservation, the organic movement has come to ornamental gardening. And one of the primary spokespeople for that movement is Sasquatch’s longtime...
Book Crush
For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
From picture books to chapter books, YA fiction and nonfiction, Nancy Pearl has developed more thematic lists of books to enjoy. The Book Lust audience is committed to reading, and here is a smart and entertaining tool for picking the best books for kids. Divided into three sections—Easy Books,...
The Lost Art of Reading
Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The new introduction and afterword bring fresh relevance to this insightful rumination on the act of reading--as a path to critical thinking, individual and political identity, civic engagement, and resistance.
The former LA Times book critic expands his short book, rich in ideas, on the consequence...
More Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50...
Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that...
Seattle City of Literature
Reflections from a Community of Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city...
Book Lust to Go
Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.
What Patients Taught Me
A Medical Student's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first...
The Hidden Lives of Owls
The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this New York Times bestseller that will appeal to readers of H is for Hawk, a naturalist probes the forest to comprehend the secret lives of owls. Join Leigh Calvez on adventures into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest—often in the dead of night. These birds...
Tough Girl
Lessons in Courage and Heart from Olympic Gold to the Camino de Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A coming-of-age memoir of a young swimmer's triumphs and heartbreaks on the path to winning Olympic gold at age 14. Some 50 years later, author Carolyn Wood embarks on a solo pilgrimage to walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to reclaim her "inner tough girl" as she...
Long Story Short
The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program, Margot Leitman. Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot...
Will Puberty Last My Whole Life?
REAL Answers to REAL Questions from Preteens About Body Changes, Sex, and Other Growing-Up Stuf
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
This flip book for boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 12 has questions asked by girls in one half of the book; flip it over and questions asked by boys are on the other side. Contains honest, informative, and reassuring answers to questions pre-adolescents have about puberty, friends, feelings,...
Gluten-Free and Vegan Bread
Artisanal Recipes to Make at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Jennifer Katzinger makes baking artisanal gluten-free and vegan breads at home simple. This cookbook contains recipes for yeasted breads, fougasse, flatbreads, sweet breads, sourdough, quick breads, savory breads, sandwich breads. More than 60 recipes, including Country Baguette, Cinnamon Pecan Rolls,...