Wild : From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail
It's uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you're committing mental suicide. This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound…[Strayed] hammers home her hard-won sentences like a […]
Rather Outspoken : My Life In the News
Library Journal Rather hits all the high points of his career—including 44 years at CBS, 24 as anchor of CBS News—while also touching on his dismissal from CBS and profiling the people he has worked with or interviewed. Even more interesting (to me), he considers the crucial issue of where the news industry stands today […]
What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?
American Gardener "It's full of useful photographs, charts for diagnosing problems, numerous organic solutions, and hints for avoiding problems in the first place." — Viveka Neveln
Silent Grief : Living In the Wake of Suicide
Library Journal Lukas and Seidena television writer/producer (and suicide survivor) and a clinical psychologistshow how the emotional aftermath of suicide differs from that of normal bereavement not only in duration but because of the hidden implication of responsibility and higher risk of suicide for those relatives left behind. Lay helpers will find useful the discussion […]
Eat What You Love Love What You Eat With Diabetes
Library Journal Physician May (Am I Hungry? What To Do When Diets Don't Work), with dietician and diabetes educator Fletcher, applies the principles she presented in her earlier book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How To Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle, to eating properly with diabetes. Herself a former "yo-yo dieter," May criticizes […]
Fire Child Water Child
Overview In his years working with children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), pediatrician Stephen Scott Cowan has discovered that what helps one child focus his or her attention may not benefit another. There are five distinct ways children focus, presented for the first time in Fire Child, Water Child. This guide to parenting children with […]