How to Change Someone You Love : Four Steps to Help You Help Them

From the Publisher: A powerful, ground-breaking book that shows you, in concrete steps, how to stop a loved one from engaging in self destructive behavior. Stop your husband from drinking himself to death. Don't let your brother lose it all to gambling. Get your kid off drugs. Motivate your best friend to lose weight. Make […]

The Sisters of Sinai : How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

Library Journal: This book actually tells not one but several stories: the grueling feat of undertaking Victorian-era Middle Eastern travel, especially for well-born ladies; the theological and cultural misgivings between Scots Presbyterian sensibilities and Greek Orthodox monasticism; the serendipity, misogyny, and double dealings that lie behind some of the greatest biblical manuscript finds of the […]

The Lady In the Tower : the Fall of Anne Boleyn

Library Journal Premier popular historian Weir (Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster) delivers a most impressively researched book about the last days of Anne Boleyn. Imprisoned, tried for treason (she was accused of adultery, incest, and plotting to murder the king), and beheaded, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of […]

The National Parks : America's Best Idea : an Illustrated History

Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by New England Wire Technologies? Sales Group in memory of June T. O?Brien. Publishers Weekly: Starred Review: Duncan and Burns, who last teamed on Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, rejoin in this visually stunning guide to the unforgettable landscapes and fascinating history of America's national parks. A companion […]

Nature's Great Events

Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by New England Wire Technologies? Sales Group in memory of Richard Richards. Publishers Weekly: In conjunction with the forthcoming Discovery Channel series Seasons of Survival, comes a chronicle of six of nature's most awesome annual feats-the yearly flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta, the pre-winter preparations and feasting on the […]