April 9, 2008
Annotations from Baker & Taylor
The Babytalk Insider’s Guide to Your Baby’s First Year
Wood, Stephanie / O’Callaghan, Kitty
A comprehensive guide for new parents challenges popular misconceptions about “one right way” parenting to provide a treasury of blame-free strategies for addressing a variety of first-year challenges, from breastfeeding and sleeping to fussiness and health care.
The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer From People Who’ve Lived the Longest
Buettner, Dan
An expert on human longevity reveals the sometimes unusual but effective secrets of diet, behavior, fitness, and attitude collected from long-lived communities around the world, revealing the critical everyday lifestyle choices and behavior that correspond to a longer, healthier life.
Butterfly
Marent, Thomas / Morgan, Ben (CON)
Highlighted by remarkable array of full-color, close-up photographs, a visual encyclopedia of butterflies and moths captures the life cycles and diverse habitats of different species of these beautiful insects.
Cake Decorating
Brown, Rachel
Designed to cover all the skills presented in a trade school course, this photo-illustrated self-teaching guide can help the reader land an entry-level cake-decorating job or start an independent business.
The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps
Watson, Brenda / Smith, Leonard
The creator of the best-selling The Fiber35 Diet introduces her simple, effective, and natural process R.E.N.E.W.–Remove, Eliminate, Nourish, Energize, Wellness–designed to free the body of toxins that can overload the system and promote the processes of internal cleansing for a healthier, more vibrant lifestyle.
Earth: The Biography
Steward, Iain / Lynch, John
A companion volume to the 2008 cable television series explores the powerful forces that have shaped and control the destiny of our planet, using spectacular full-color photography and illustrations to capture the influence of meteor impacts, plate tectonics, the ocean, the atmosphere, and ice on our world.
Green Remodeling: Your Start Toward an Eco-Friendly Home
Wagner, John D.
Demonstrating how homeowners can become an integral part of the new “green” revolution, a series of home remodeling projects reveals how to use nontoxic building materials and techniques, including products that come from sustainable natural resources, in a volume that includes ways to save energy and water, lower heating and cooling bills, improve indoor air quality, and more.
Home Rich: Increasing the Value of the Biggest Investment of Your Life
Willis, Gerri
A real-estate expert and host of CNN’s Open House offers current and prospective homeowners essential information on how to purchase, maintain, improve, and sell one’s home, offering ten key rules for making money in real estate regardless of the state of the market, as well as financial tips, worksheets, and real-world case studies.
Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents
Braun, Betsy Brown
A guide for parents of children between the ages of two and six offers insight into the preschool mind while sharing advice on how to speak with very young children on difficult topics, from appropriate behavior and sex to death and world violence.
Martha Stewart’s Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share
Martha Stewart Living Magazine (COR)
A luscious array of favorite cookie recipes presents 175 different cookies that range from perennial crowd-pleasers to innovative new treats, all organized according to such textures as Soft and Chewy, Crisp and Crunchy, and Light and Delicate, including Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, Lemon-Apricot Sandwiches, and Brown-Butter Toffee Blondies.
The Northwest Green Home Primer
O’Brien, Kathleen / Smith, Kathleen
Everyone can make green home decisions on a budget with this inspiring, information packed guide.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (COR)
A new addition to the best-selling women’s health series challenges popular misconceptions while providing comprehensive and balanced information on every stage of pregnancy and childbirth, from prenatal care and pain management to birthing options and postpartum recovery.
The Path to Survival
Gore, Albert
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.
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
Dawn, Karen
A modern primer on the current state of animal rights covers a wide variety of concerns, from fur processing and animal testing to pet adoption and pet-food manufacturing, in a reference that relies on pop-culture sources and excludes disturbing photos.
Your Toddler Month by Month: Your Essential Guide to the First 4 Years
Byron, Tanya
A thorough guide to child development from age one to four furnishes professional information, advice, and age-appropriate strategies to assist parents in understanding how a child develops physically, emotionally, and socially during their preschool years and in dealing with a variety of toddler issues, from temper tantrums and bedtime routines to mealtime and more.
R.L. Stine and Scholastic books are hoping that the publishing gold of the Goosebumps series which was so popular in the 1990s can be found again with a new series: Goosebumps HorrorLand coming out this year.
