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Star Child
What stories do the stars tell about our children? Every person alive is born under a particular snapshot of the celestial relationships occurring at the time of their birth. This picture - known as a natal chart - offers a powerful tool for insight into your children's strengths, struggles, hopes, and dreams.In Star Child, Briana Saussy presents the first comprehensive guide for using Astrology to better understand your children-and becoming more joyful and effective parents as a result. Including:An excellent overview of astrology basics-easily understand houses, planets, and other important elementsSimple-to-follow instructions for reading a nata...
The Joy of Cannabis
Seventy-five life-enhancing experiences to make the ordinary extraordinary through the science and magic of cannabisA sophisticated and humorous cannabis book to enhance your life and promote self-care through the science and magic of weed.With a toolkit of the basics to get you started and a curated set of 75 activities, The Joy of Cannabis is a road map to a higher and happier you. In each of the six sections, you'll find science-based research as well as charts, essays, and fun facts from bold thinkers. The activities-tested and approved by authors Melanie Abrams and Larry Smith-teach you how to amplify pleasure through bonding and intimacy, deep...
An Almost Zero Waste Life
Author Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, mindful, and completely realistic journey to a sustainable living lifestyle.Find tips, strategies, recipes, and DIY projects for reducing waste in this approachable, beautifully designed and illustrated guide.What is zero waste living? Although the practice has been around for generations out of necessity, it is making a comeback as concerns grow about the fate of our environment. To put it simply: it is attempting to send no waste to landfills. Although you may have read or heard about “zero waste,” “sustainable,” or “green” living, the concept can som...
Stay Woke
A no-nonsense guide to establishing a personal meditation practice, changing your life, and taking hold of your dreams.CONFESSION: This is not really a meditation book.Yes, you’re going to learn everything you need to know about meditation, but if you came looking for a typical guide to mindfulness, you’re in the wrong place. We are modern people in a high-tech world. We have first world problems and long to-do lists. And if you grew up in struggle―overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice―you need a different type of meditation … one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t ex...
Urban Pantry
A modern, sustainable approach for stocking an efficient kitchenUrban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind, and include...
Sew Penguins, Puppies, Porcupines... Oh My!
Be the star of the baby shower!Appliqué adorable baby animals onto gifts that will be snuggled now, and treasured for years to come. Fans flock to Kim Schaefer's best-selling designs, and 39 new nursery-themed baby animals are sure to roar, tweet, and moo their way into your hearts. Choose your animal adventure, with zoo and farm favorites, underwater creatures, woodland denizens, or animals of the northwest! You can make a darling baby quilt or create an entire layette! Embellish store-bought bibs, burp cloths, onesies, diaper covers, and diaper stackers with these too-cute designs for a personalized gift in no time. Other sweet and simple projects...
A Court of Wings and Ruin
The epic third novel in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas.Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst...
Complete Guide to Chinese Horoscopes
The Chinese horoscope represents a tradition more than 2,000 years old. It lasts for twelve years, with each year featuring a different symbolic animal. Ancient Chinese beliefs, which persist to the current day, hold that the year of one's birth has a significant effect on one's character, which relates to the features of that year's symbolic animal.For example, a person born during the year of the mouse will be smart and wealthy, which are characteristics attributed to the mouse. Likewise, a person born in the year of the ox will be hardworking and down-to-earth, while a person born in the year of the tiger will be majestic and fierce.There are fur...
Basic Fermentation
A classic beginner's guide to fermenting just about anything.At last, a new edition of fermentation guru Sandor Katz's first published work, including all new, step-by-step photography. A great introduction to fermenting foods at home, whether you're looking to expand your kitchen repertoire into exciting new flavors or seeking to make affordable, natural, probiotic food to heal your guts and soothe your soul. Includes clear, straightforward instructions to get you started making anything fermentable, from bread to cheese to yogurt to kimchi to miso to injera to honey wine. Who knew making tasty, healthy, interesting food could be so simple?
Cannabis Cupcakes
Cannabis Cupcakes will be the first pot-infused cupcakes cookbook, inspiring stoners to whip up munchie-satisfying treats with candy-inspired flavors and high-larious decorations.Cannabis Cupcakes features 35 recipes for crazy-delicious cupcakes and muffins made with Boosted Butter and Souped-Up Sunflower Oil, along with step-by-step cartoon illustrations to ensure that no reader is left behind (no matter how spaced-out he or she might be).Complete with wacky themes and decorations, info on makin' time and bakin' time, plus dosing charts to keep you informed before you reach for a third (or ninth!) cupcake, this book contains everything you need to ...
Just a Spritz
Step aside, rose. A more refreshing drink is here, in a bubbling array of colors and flavors. The iconic Italian export, the Aperol spritz, with its classic (and simple) makeup of fizzy prosecco, sparkling water, and a splash of the bittersweet, citrus-flavored liqueur, is just the beginning. In Just a Spritz, author Danielle Centoni shares an inspired world of spritz variations. Add in sweet liqueurs and bitter amari, fresh juices, flavored kombuchas, and drinking vinegars to update the sparkling spritz. A spritz is quick to assemble and does not require a stocked pantry its beauty is in its simplicity. Here there are more than 50 recipes (and nume...
Of Princes and Promises
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the second installment in a series set an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on fairy tales, this one a delightful, romantic twist on The Frog Prince.Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her crown may be slightly askew after her ex-boyfriend, Alaric, cheated on her, but she’s a LaValle. She’ll find a way to march right back in there, her hands clutching the strings to the whole puppet show. This time, she’s going to be untouchable.Rahul Chopra knows that moment he shared with Caterina LaValle at the winter f...
Tiny But Mighty
*A New York Times Bestseller*#1 National BestsellerIndie BestsellerFrom Kitten Lady, the professional kitten rescuer, humane educator, animal advocate, and owner of the popular Instagram @kittenxlady comes the definitive book on saving the most vulnerable—and adorable—feline population: newborn kittens.Hannah Shaw, better known as Kitten Lady, has dedicated her life to saving the tiniest felines, but one doesn't have to be a professional kitten rescuer to change—and save—lives. In Tiny but Mighty, Hannah not only outlines the dangers newborn kittens face and how she combats them, but how you can help every step of the way, from fighting feline overp...
Dragons
Whether in the Middle East, Europe, or Asia, dragon stories have been around from the beginning of time. This book examines and celebrates dragons, their behavior, their appearances, their legends, and more.Dragons boasts more than forty illustrations that display the variety and majesty of these incredible creatures. The text is packed with tales, musings, and quotes from a wide variety of literary sources, both old and new, that celebrate everyone's favorite scaly beast. From their habitats and their nature to their relationship with us, this book covers everything you need to know and everything you wish you could know about the majestic creature...
Smart Plants
This book can change the way you think. Literally.“This informative, accessible cookbook will be a boon to health-conscious eaters.” —Publishers WeeklyIf you struggle with focus and memory lapses, mental fog, or stress—or if you simply want to optimize your mental performance and protect your brain health—Smart Plants is a must read. Written by New York Times bestselling author and natural-food chef Julie Morris, whose name has become synonymous with “superfoods” and “wellness,” this groundbreaking book reveals the dietary secrets to better brain performance. Combining scientific research with the wisdom of ancient remedies, Smart Plants showcases a...
Year of the Ox
Explore your Chinese zodiac with this illuminating astrological guide—and you can make better choices and understand your most basic qualities more holistically.The twelve animals signs are integral to all forms of Chinese astrology, and they’re used to explore different aspects of your life based on your birthday. In this accessible guide, Sean Chan—one of the leading Chinese metaphysical consultants in Southeast Asia—uses his in-depth knowledge of Chinese astrology, namely the BaZi method (sometimes called The Four Pillars of Destiny in the West) to help you learn what the Ox zodiac sign might mean for your marriage, career, finances, well-being, ...
The Illustrated Bestiary
In this exploration of the power and spirits of the creatures around us, Maia Toll takes readers through suggested rituals, readings, and reflections in order to cultivate and access each animal’s special energy.From the author of The Illustrated Crystallary and The Illustrated Herbiary, Maia Toll considers the wisdom of the wild and shows what we can learn from the animal kingdom. Learn how the Spring Peeper’s ability to reemerge from frozen hibernation can inspire us to reinvent ourselves, or how the Katydid’s five eyes can lend clarity of vision when we need to see the bigger picture.With a deck of oracle cards beautifully illustrated by Kate O'H...
The Illustrated Crystallary
Explore the symbolism and mystical qualities of 36 fascinating crystals and minerals with Maia Toll, featuring stunning illustrations by Kate O’Hara.In the ancient world there were three medicine kingdoms: animal, vegetable, and mineral. Following her previous acclaimed volumes on animal (The Illustrated Bestiary) and vegetable (The Illustrated Herbiary), Maia Toll fulfills the call for mineral with The Illustrated Crystallary.Combining bits of ancient wisdom with her own insights, Toll illuminates the aspects and energy of each stone and, through rituals and reflections, the life guidance it might offer contemporary readers.Obsidian’s shiny surface...
A Little Bit of Mindfulness
In the “Little Bit of” series: a fresh, accessible introduction to the increasingly popular spiritual practice of mindfulness: being present and peaceful in the moment. In these fast-paced modern times, mindfulness can keep us centered, calm, and energized—no matter how much the outside world keeps distracting us. Thanks to Amy Leigh Mercree’s accessible introduction, beginners can master this spiritual practice. You’ll learn methods for cultivating inner peace, accessing a deeper creativity, and creating a healthier body, along with rituals that support these mindfulness techniques.
CBD Handbook
An authoritative, approachable, and illustrated guide to the latest trend in wellness: CBD.This is your essential reference to hemp-based cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis that boasts powerful medicinal properties for physical and mental ailments. It breaks down fact from fiction and provides practical, easy-to-understand information on CBD’s benefits. In a comprehensive introduction to CBD, you will learn the history of the cannabis plant; how hemp cannabis differs from marijuana; how to buy, store, and employ CBD oil safely (including dosages); and what federal regulations govern its use. This book will also provide ...
The Feng Shui Bible
The idea behind feng shui is simple: to improve any aspect of your life, create the right atmosphere to support it. All the strands of this ancient practice come together in this intelligently organized, visual reference that emphasizes feng shuis practical benefits. Real life applications and examples enhance lucid explanations of the fundamental concepts: chi energy, yin and yang, the five elements, and eight trigrams. All the essential tools are laid out, too--everyday objects like mirrors, plants, and fountains that keep the energy flowing smoothly. A comprehensive directory shows how these principles can enhance relationships, finances, creativ...
The Kickass Coven
Amelia Wood's The Kickass Coven will show you why every witch needs a sisterhood.Find your people and make beautiful magic together!With supercharged disasters and unprecedented inequity, this crazy world of ours needs more than a modern witch. It needs badass magical activists working together to make a real difference. It needs you. And with the right people by your side, not only can you change the world, you can also have a damn good time doing it. No matter where you are in your journey, The Kickass Coven is here to help you find your magical family and create a world-changing practice you’ll love.Inside you'll find:- Magical and practical ways...
Haley's Cleaning Hints
Offers tips for cleaning around the home using common household products with multiples uses.
How to Make a Plant Love You
Summer Rayne Oakes, an urban houseplant expert and environmental scientist, is the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors, according to a New York Times profile. Summer has managed to grow 1,000 houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment (and they're thriving!) Her secret? She approaches her relationships with plants as intentionally as if they were people.Everyone deserves to feel the inner peace that comes from taking care of greenery. Beyond the obvious benefits--beauty and cleaner air--there's a strong psychological benefit to nurturing plants as a path to mindfulness. They can reduce our stress level, lower our blood pr...
Can't Even
A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune • Harper’s Bazaar • HelloGiggles • LinkedIn • O Magazine • Time Magazine“[A] razor sharp book of cultural criticism…With blistering prose and all-too vivid reporting, Petersen lays bare the burnout and despair of millennials, while also charting a path to a world where members of her generation can feel as if the boot has been removed from their necks.” —Esquire“An analytically precise, deeply empathic book about the psychic toll modern capitalism has taken on those shaped by it. Can't Even is e...
Foundations of Health
The Founder of the proven Foundation Training program takes his teaching to the next phase, showing us how to utilize our body’s built-in systems for natural healing and introducing a new program that offers a perpetual inner core of wellness and adaptability.Dr. Eric Goodman’s innovative approach to self-healing―Foundation Training―has helped athletes, first responders, celebrities, and regular folks around the world. The heart of Foundation Training is a unique form of biomechanics and posture correction―a series of postures, poses, and movements designed to teach the body’s individual muscles to act within strong, flexible chains, shifting the bu...
Do Your Om Thing
YOGA, MEET LIFE.Sometimes an hour-long yoga class is the only chance we get to connect meaningfully with our bodies and our minds during an otherwise hectic week. For a brief moment we’re able to let our worries melt away and feel relaxed, centered, and fully ourselves. Have you ever wondered how it would feel to bring that experience out of the yoga studio and into your everyday life?In Do Your Om Thing, master yoga teacher and creator of the popular blog OmGal.com Rebecca Pacheco shows us how to do just that. The true practice of yoga, she says, goes deeper than achieving the perfect headstand—it is about bringing awareness and intention to every ...
Being-in-Dreaming
"A woman's gripping tale of self-discovery in present-day Mexico."OLIVER STONE"Donner's tale casts a spell; it is a magic theater of holy actors, a dancing world of fierce angels all sweating their prayers. She offers us a brilliant taste of
Bourbon
“THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BOURBON.”—Sacramento BeeA Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance BestsellerA ROLLICKING BIOGRAPHY OF BOURBON WHISKEY THAT DOUBLES AS “A COMPLEX AND ENTERTAINING” (WALL STREET JOURNAL) HISTORY OF AMERICA ITSELFFew products are so completely or intimately steeped in the American story as bourbon whiskey. As Dane Huckelbridge's masterfully crafted history reveals, the iconic amber spirit is the American experience, distilled, aged, and sealed in a bottle.
How to Grow Your Own Nuts
A comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting and processing nuts, written by forest gardening expert Martin Crawford.Nut trees are perennials, requiring little maintenance or soil cultivation, so it is no surprise that nuts are such a popular forest garden crop. A crucial source of protein and a delicious snack, nuts also have a number of surprising health benefits. They lower blood pressure, are full of antioxidants, and decrease the risk of heart and neurodegenerative diseases.Filled with gorgeous illustrations of trees and nuts, How to Grow Your Own Nuts contains old favourites like hazelnuts and walnuts alongside less common varieties such as hi...
The Memory Index
In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick.In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones—the recollectors—need the treatment only once a day.Freya Izquierdo isn’t lucky. The high school senior is a “degen” who needs artificial recall several times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories that take her to her knees, she’s desperate to remember everything that will help her investigate her father’s violent death. When her sleuthing almost lands h...
Itsy Bitsy Yoga
The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today.If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don't need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga, posture by posture, in this accessible guide, with seventy beautiful black-and-white photos, at-a-glance referenc...
Dream Catchers
With the delicacy of a spider's web, the traditional, Amerindian dream catcher traps bad dreams in its weave and lets good dreams slide along its feathers to the sleeper. Dream catchers have become an essential item in decoration, but they remain highly symbolic. With this book, you can create 16 dream catchers, mobiles, wall hangings, and jewelry, from materials such as lace, ribbons, beads, origami-made butterflies, leather feathers, pendants, and driftwood. Fascinated by the Bohemian chic universe and her desire for relaxation, the author made these dream catchers completely unique, each expressing her state of mind as she created each one. They ...
Knowing
Join SIMRAN as she takes you on this last leg of the journey to self-realization: a return to heart-based, soulful intimacy. An "unknown" YOU has treasures in escrow, locked within your range of humanity. Your soul purpose is to reweave this human experience into the embodiment and humble power of a God on legs. Use this resource for deconditioning and allow your divine courtship to unfold. More than a book, she is a Guide who will breathe into you, cry with you, and stand beneath you, while showing you how to receive seven human graces. Through a multisensory experience of Self, these seven human graces open the way for divine knowing. You are not ...
The Black Agenda
"The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ―Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the BeginningFrom ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the dee...
Third Witch
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil and there is a happy ending - for some.Following on from OPHELIA, QUEEN OF DENMARK and I AM JULIET, this is the third title in the series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays.'I didn't mean to do it'.Annie is not a witch, but when her mistress Lady Macbeth calls for a potion to 'stiffen Macbeth's sinews', Annie is caught up in plots that lead to murder, kingship and betrayal. Annie must also not only...
Don't Be Trashy
Get beyond the Mason jar and learn how to dramatically reduce the waste you produce over the course of a year—one sanity-saving step at a time—in this super-practical guide from the creator of The Zero Waste Collective. Say goodbye to your bursting toiletries bag, fast fashion, and all the plastic crowding your pantry. It''s time to build less trashy habits for a more sustainable and ethical life. With relatable stories, compassion, and a realistic perspective, Tara McKenna will show you how in this ultimate guide to going zero waste(ish). We''re all trapped in a wasteful convenience-based cycle, but Don’t Be Trashy offers an an approach to reducing...
The Forbidden City
In this book, Jian begins a brutal and bloody climb up the ranks of the Daechen as the Emperor's long plans near fruition.Sulema is likewise initiated into the ways of Atualon and the power of Atulfah, and finds that her father's bright city is built on a foundation of dark and terrible secrets.Hafsa Azeina begins a trek down paths stranger and more dangerous than even she could have imagined.And the Zeeranim must face not only their traditional, external enemies, but treachery and betrayal from within.
Empire of Storms
Only the greatest sacrifice can turn the tide of war.War is brewing in the fifth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those who don't.With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, dark...
Wild Tea
Discover the incredible uses of 40 home-grown and foraged ingredients for making a variety of original brew-it-yourself recipes. You will learn how to grow, find, harvest, dry, and store ingredients including berries, roots, seeds, leaves, and flowers--plus the profile of each: history, health benefits, parts of the plant to use, and how to brew singly. The 30 recipes are for complex blends and specialty drinks such as detox teas, class night-time brews, Moroccan mint, Korean barley tea, bubble tea, and even dandelion coffee. Step-by-step detailed instructions are given for each recipe. There is also a "best of the rest" section with more unique ing...