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Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 Recipes and A 28-Day Meal Plan That Unlock the Food-Sleep Connection
St-Onge and Craddock provide plenty of excellent food for thought for those looking to getter better z’s at night.
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Complete Starter Guide to Making Bread: From Buns to Baguettes, Essential Recipes for All Bakers
This will make an excellent addition to any library. Truly accessible for beginners but with information and recipes that more advanced bakers can also put to use.
Palmer’s detailed landscapes are likely to intimidate beginner artists, but the wealth of practical advice he offers should aid those who feel confident enough to try to replicate his paintings.
Climate-concerned chefs, ethical vegans or vegetarians, and anyone ready to cool down with cashew milk while steaming about the sustainability of soy will benefit from these climate-conscious culinary coups, with a climate-friendly cherry on top (in the forms of cherry nests and clafoutis aux cerises).
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The Acrylics Companion
Many of Akib’s techniques require an advanced level of artistic skill, but for experienced painters interested in trying a new medium or improving their work with acrylics, this is a comprehensive resource.
While lifestyle tips make this a rare holistic family-focused wellness book, the recipes are the proverbial icing on the vegan carrot cake or the caramel-apple cheesecake bites.
With its comprehensive examples of hatching techniques and excellent advice, artists of all levels will find something useful in this book.
A clear and comforting collection of crochet stitches that will serve as a useful guide as well as a source of inspiration.
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Oliver’s latest can find a place on the shelves of all home cooks. Perfect for all public libraries, even those without extensive cookbook collections.
A helpful volume for cooks at all levels of experience who are looking for a new recipe or who want to try a different type of pasta.
Whether sought by a long-time vegan for accessible recipes or by someone curious about beginning a plant-based eating journey, this cookbook will fly from library shelves.
Xavier’s signature salads, including salmon sushi salad, the Baddie Caesar Salad, and burrito salad, are standouts, but the meat of this book is his ability to decrease the calories in classic foods while also easing the conversation around dieting.
This easy-to-follow beginners’ guide will be an excellent addition to a library collection and great for use in creative library programs.
A great resource for readers at any level of experience in canning and preserving fruits and vegetables, this book will circulate especially well in communities with a passion for self-sustainability.
A good purchase for libraries looking to keep their minimally processed and gluten- and dairy-free cookbooks sections up-to-date.
An essential volume for bread-machine bakers, at all levels, who want to learn or expand their bread-machine baking skills.
Those who are new to crafting or were previously unaware of the strong anti-stress benefits of crafting might find this book most helpful.
A guide best for those interested in reconnecting with nature through slow, thoughtful cocktail preparations.
From the field to the farmhouse, these patterns are homey and wholesome, and they’ll be sure to delight crafters in search of harvest-themed projects.
A wonderful recommendation for quilters wanting to break with tradition and soar to new heights. This book will have special appeal to artists in other mediums who want to move into fabric art.
This title is a worthwhile purchase for cookbook readers and home chefs that are looking to blend the art and science of Indian cuisine.
Artists looking to increase the realism and emotional content of their portraiture will find plenty of food for thought in this accessible volume.
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Draw in 10 Minutes: Botanicals
In addition to helping readers to develop drawing skills, this book emphasizes the meditative practice and relaxing benefits of drawing and is a worthwhile purchase.
The simple, delicate beauty of Collins’s paintings should inspire rather than intimidate beginner artists. Detailed instructions, including techniques to use, brush sizes to choose, and colors to mix, make this an exemplary resource for new watercolor painters.
A fun volume for cocktail makers looking for something new to try or reminders to revisit an old favorite.
Sharing crewelwork designs with a focus on fresh colorways, and using threads that many stitchers are already familiar with, this book gives an updated look at the potential of traditional patterns. Popova offers practical crewel inspiration and fun ideas for contemporary embroidery.
This is a critical work that elevates African cuisine, people, and connection to the global foodways. Highly recommended for all libraries.
This book is of limited, narrow interest, best for experienced right-handed crafters interested in making women’s garments and comfortable with British terminology. If crocheters are interested in creating garments for men or children, or if they are left-handed, they will need to know how to do their own conversions. Buy only where there is demand.
Communities that enjoy crafting and mindfulness will embrace this book of projects, journaling opportunities, and simple meditative prompts.
A great entry-level instructional guide for embroiderers looking to learn new techniques that are not difficult but create a beautiful result.
An excellent choice for creative quilters of all levels who are interested in a more free-flowing style of working with fabric.
An incredibly modern-looking cookbook that includes nearly all the bento information and pictures one could ever need. Bento box makers of any experience level can use this title.
Simple instructions, practical advice, and colorful examples make this a wonderful resource for aspiring artists interested in capturing elements of the natural world.
Weber offers plentiful recipes designed to make economical use of ingredients that pack surprising amounts of nutrition and flavor into meals requiring a little forethought but relatively few specialized techniques or tools.
For those participating in Dry January or anyone looking to consume less alcohol, here’s a tempting array of cookbooks containing ideas for nonalcoholic cocktails.
Start the new year off with a shelf full of inspiration for honing new habits for health, healing, and even fun.
A thought-provoking book serving as a potent biography of a library pioneer and a call to action for library professionals to consider the true cost of systemic biases.
These volumes serve as a rich resource for understanding Christianity’s evolution and influence as Stuart guides readers through Christianity’s impact across centuries and continents. Useful for all levels of scholars on this subject.
A master class in patisserie for fledgling pastry chefs, as well as an aspirational guide to the subject for ambitious home bakers.
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The NEAT Method Organizing Recipe Book: 70 Simple Projects To Take Your Home from Chaos to Composed
A useful addition for readers who enjoy the Good Housekeeping series of how-to books.
Writing with all the warmth of a Southern-flavored Erma Bombeck and the sassy sense of humor found in Helen Ellis’s Southern Lady Code, Greene’s book deftly dispenses a bevy of delicious dishes that celebrate Southern home cooking at its best.
Accessible to beginners yet interesting for readers with some dyeing experience, this guide will appeal to fiber enthusiasts who want to expand the range of colors available to them and are willing to experiment.
The short and easy-to-read nature of this book makes it accessible to a wide general audience. Lovers of history and its relation to arts and crafts won't want to put it down.
This practical, comprehensive book is an essential guide that is packed with valuable insights and unique strategies for readers looking to innovate their winter farming practices. It’s a great resource for gardeners, farmers, homesteaders, and curious readers. This work makes a wonderful addition to collections too.
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Cats of the World
An engaging text accompanied by beautiful photographs in which the wonderful settings are secondary to the multitude of cats to swoon over. Best for animal lovers and supporters.
Gardeners of all levels will relish reading about and viewing this wide range of varied, inspirational gardens that are chock-full of all types of plants, reflecting the interests and personalities of their creators.
Leapman is a legend in the fiber arts world, and any new book by her is an essential purchase. The array and diversity of stitches featured here will have crocheters itching to pick up their hook and try them.
Like paint-by-numbers but for drawing figures, this book will be helpful for budding cartoonists and those who want to draw people without a lot of instruction on technique.
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CRUSH Your Money Goals: 25 Smart Money Habits To Save, Invest, and Fast-Track Your Financial Freedom
Joy is a big voice in debt management and personal finance, and her book empowers readers to realize their own lives are worth the investment.
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Dragonfly-Friendly Gardening
Though niche, this brief guide on building and maintaining a dragonfly- and damselfly-friendly environment will circulate well in libraries.
Probably not for the absolute beginner, but accessible for someone who’s made a few quilts. Experienced quilters who prefer structure over spontaneity will find much of value here.
In this straightforward yet sophisticated work, Beck once again demonstrates why Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.”
From sweet starts to the day and simple takes on classics to creative showstoppers, these recipes will appeal to home bakers looking for a variety of sweet treats that they can make without expensive ingredients if they remain attentive to process, ingredient measurements, and bake times.
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Mojave Desert Wildflowers
Flower fans, hikers, and tourists will find this guide extremely helpful for planning their Mojave Desert trip, and it has maximum visual and botanical appeal.
In this charming collection, the pleasure is in the view, delivered with all the quirky, stylistic, color-saturated wonder an Anderson fan could want.
An encouraging program for readers who have found that pushing through hasn’t worked and want a gentler approach to life, coached by an engaging, empathetic, supportive guide.
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50 Things To Do in the Snow
This book offers a range of imaginative and entertaining activities and crafts that will appeal to anyone who loves snow and winter.
Hoeppner offers effective practices for improving communication skills, plus excellent advice on acknowledging nerves and managing anxiety about speaking.
A must have for any collection looking to add a well-written, unexpected, and highly entertaining and delicious take on regional Italian cooking and locale.
A must-have for creative readers, this successful guidebook by a respected artist will find an eager audience.
With so many knitting and crochet books providing expensive yarn recommendations and patterns that depend on precision, this book will satisfy the itch to stitch for people who enjoy a little more freedom and flow without sacrificing form and function.
While this may be a little daunting for inexperienced cooks, it is a must-have for ambitious foodies who love to grill. A fun addition to any library collection.
New York–area libraries with larger travel sections already established will find this a beautiful addition for their patrons to browse through. This book can also be valuable for readers interested in landscape aerial photography.
Like many works on longevity, Smith’s leans heavily into how lifestyle contributes to aging. The actionable steps for incorporating practices into daily life may empower readers to have more nuanced conversations with their doctors about how to embrace health and strength while aging.
This engaging, encouraging, and accessible guide to houseplant propagation will appeal to plant parents everywhere.
While some of these recipes may be too fussy for less-experienced home cooks, Soteriou equips readers with the tools they need to create big, boldly flavored, visually appealing dishes that may mark her as the next iconic vegan of Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s ilk.
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Tidy Up Your Life: Rethinking How To Organize, Declutter, and Make Space for What Matters Most
Though there are many cleaning and tidying books around, this one is particularly astute. It cuts to the chase with foundational advice that makes incremental changes achievable and is recommended for most collections.
Cooks who fell in love with the food of Southern France in Rebekah Peppler’s Le Sud or discovered the joys of cooking in Maine with Erin French’s The Lost Kitchen will be equally enamored with Clark’s loving culinary celebration of the best that California’s Central Coast has to offer.
Worth picking up for Gay’s introspective yet inclusive introduction alone, this new collection provides accessible entry points into feminism and offers even advanced scholars new ways of viewing the complex, intersectional histories of feminist thought, literature, and action.
This book is recommended and appropriate for libraries supporting students and general readers interested in exploring governmental policies from abroad that could work in the U.S.
Emotional, raw, and real, this memoir is a deep dive into one couple’s trials and triumphs to redefine marriage to fit their lives and needs. A valuable addition to memoir collections.
A fresh take on banking that will show readers how credit unions and community banks can improve the social, economic, and environmental situations of the people they serve.
This compelling, evocative book expertly centers queer writing and resilience to imagine new approaches to living during environmental crises. It’s an excellent choice for scholars, students, and general readers of queer studies and ecocriticism. Pair with The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Chow.
Written in clear prose with well-founded arguments, this book, heavily illustrated with archival photographs and drawings, makes an excellent addition to history collections. For general audiences interested in Americana.
Many family photos enliven this engrossing, recommended history that will take readers right into the difficult times it depicts.
Steves’s journal offers a window into time, before travel through the greater Middle East became vastly more complicated. Recommended for Steves’s fans and armchair travelers.
Fascinating insight into the lives of two remarkable women who may be unfamiliar to readers in the United States. Especially recommended for readers interested in biographies about royals.
Allensworth gives readers accessible descriptions of the professional licensing process and attendant problems. She explains the reasons for caring about this weighty topic and suggests solutions.
This well-written, accessible history is a significant contribution to the literature on the American Revolutionary War. Maass’s blend of thorough research, engaging stories, and expert analysis make this book a must, especially for U.S. history readers.
Brilliant, unflinching, and written with the same heady, literary sophistication as Yuknavitch’s novels. Compounded by real moments of narrative vulnerability, this memoir is as much an act of dismembering as it is of remembering.
This scholarly work does a good job of indicating the nuances and the conflict between Okinawa and the U.S.-Japan alliance. Recommended for graduate students and readers interested in modern East Asia.
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