The Culinary Herbal
Indoor Plants : the Essential Guide to Choosing and Caring For Houseplants
The Practical Gardener : an A-to-Z Guide to Techniques and Tips
Wildflower Perennials For Your Garden : a Detailed Guide to Years of Bloom From America's Long-neglected Native Heritage
Einstein :his Life and Universe
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. This biography of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) takes a cue from Isaacson's recent success, Benjamin Franklin, and is written for a general audience. Although the author appropriately makes Einstein's extraordinary scientific achievements the center of attention, he also covers his subject's complex and often painful familial relationships, his political interventions and […]
Stormy Weather
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. While their father was alive, the Stoddard family followed him to the booming oil towns of Texas. Then came the dust and drought of the 1930s, and the family crawled home to its abandoned farm in central Texas. To survive, Elizabeth Stoddard and her three daughters concoct two schemes that […]
The Woods
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Paul Copeland is a county prosecutor working on a difficult case when two policemen arrive and take him to the morgue to identify a body. The case sets up echoes from Paul's past, forcing him to relive 20-year-old events and the day that destroyed his innocence. When he was a […]
Blood Lies
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow's debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in the fourth novel from Canadian author Kalla (Rage Therapy), who's also an ER physician. When drug addict Emily Kenmore is found with her neck slashed in her Seattle condo, […]