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A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region
by Grace Tomey Edwards Noann Aust Asbury Ricky L. CoxReference work introducing various aspects of the Appalachian region including geography, history, the arts, etc.
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic
by Scott CunninghamLearn how to find and cleanse stones and use them in divinations, spells, and tarot readings. Discover how to determine the energies and stories contained within each stone,and the symbolic meaning of a stone's color and shape. Also included in this classic guide are: Birthstone and jewelry magic lore; Tables listing both planetary and elementary rulers of stones, magical intentions, and magical substitutions. Scott Cunningham authored more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Eating the Alphabet Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z
by Lois EhlertAn alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini, including descriptions of 75 fruits and vegetables.
Alligator and Crocodile Rescue
by Trish SnyderFrom the Book jacket: Loathed for their dining habits and adored for their skins, alligators and crocodiles were hunted almost to extinction. But thanks to some creative conservation efforts, their status has improved dramatically. Even so, they are still at risk: eight species remain on the endangered list, and some hover on the edge of extinction. In Alligator and Crocodile Rescue, you'll meet people from around the world who are helping to ensure a future for these living links to dinosaurs. Trish Snyder has been an editor at Today's Parent, Chatelaine and House and Home. An award-winning writer, her articles have appeared in Toronto Life, Canadian Business, MoneySense and Glow. Alligator and Crocodile Rescue is her first book.
Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp
by Todd Strasser<p>Been there, Done that. Jake Sherman's first day of summer camp seems strangely familiar. Maybe that's because he just went through that same day yesterday, and the day before... and the day before that! <p>Now that same bus ride up to camp is getting really boring. And that American Chop Suey for lunch is getting really old. Will Jake ever be able to say he spent a whole summer at Camp Walton? Or will he be stuck in the first day forever? <p> <p><b>Lexile Level: 590L</b></p>
Through Painted Deserts
by Donald MillerBelieving that something better exists than the mundane life, this is a memoir of two free spirits who set off on an adventure-filled road trip in search of deeper meaning, beauty, and an explanation for life. Many young men dream of such a trip, but few are brave enough to actually attempt it. Miller records the trip with wide-eyed honesty in achingly beautiful prose also discussing everything from the nature of friendship, the reason for pain, and the origins of beauty.
Monte
by George Corey FranklinMonte a grizzly cub is befriended by 2 miners who raise him and follow his life as an adult logging his adventures growing up. Like all Franklins books very funny.
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle
by Chief Seattle Susan JeffersFrom the Book jacket: How can you buy the sky? How can you own the rain and the wind? So began the moving words attributed to a great American Indian chief over one hundred years ago. They are words that eloquently and poetically captured the central belief of Native Americans: that this earth and every creature on it is sacred. It is these words and this belief that have inspired what has been truly a labor of love for Susan Jeffers; her most extraordinary paintings illuminate the words and world vision possessed by Native Americans. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky will haunt all who see it with its portrayal of what has been lost in our world, and is an important message to people young and old to care for and preserve the environment. CHIEF SEATTLE lived from approximately 1790 to 1866, in the Pacific Northwest region of what is now the United States. He was a chief of the Suquamish and the Duwamish Indians and was present at treaty negotiations that took place with the dominant white settlers in the 1850s. It is at one of these negotiations that Chief Seattle delivered a speech in his native tongue, a speech which has since- in a variety of forms-served as the basis of ecological movements around the world and from which Brother Eagle, Sister Sky is drawn. Susan Jeffers is internationally acclaimed for her exquisite paintings, and the illustrator of numerous picture books for Dial-all of which brilliantly portray nature. Ms. Jeffers' paintings are beautifully described.
My Favorite Book
by Good Will IncIn these short, nostalgic, easily understood poems compiled by Good Will Inc. children take pleasure in the simple elements in their lives including birds, grandmothers, gardening, sharing with friends, helping parents, getting up in the morning and going to bed at night. Preschoolers will enjoy having this poetry read to them again and again and will find themselves naturally memorizing their favorites. These poems remind children to pay attention to and be thankful for core values and experiences with family, nature, beauty and friends. Some pictures are described by the validator.]
Voyage of the Liberdade
by Joshua SlocumIn 1890, the author became the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone. This is the account of one of his lesser-known but no less remarkable sea journeys. From the Publisher: Great 19th-century mariner's thrilling, account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South America, the 35-foot brave little craft he built from the wreckage, and its remarkable, danger-fraught voyage home. A 19th-century maritime classic brimming with courage, ingenuity, and daring. Easy-to-read and fast-paced.
Great Cooking Outdoors
by Beverly Holsman Gale T. Holsman[From the back cover] ROUGHING IT NEVER TASTED SO GOOD. Eating in the open doesn't have to be an assault on your taste buds. Imagine waking up in the crisp morning air and feasting on Eggs Benedict and Maple Bran Muffins. With Great Cooking Outdoors, you can easily make such sumptuous delights as Chicken Tetrazzini, Shrimp Curry and Blueberry Coffee Cake just about anywhere without fuss or elaborate equipment. Gale Holsman, "The Gourmet Canoeist," will show you the secrets: How to take your favorite meals along with you in boilable pouches. Which outdoor stoves, coolers and grills are best for you. How to regulate cooking temperatures with a campfire. How to bake outdoors simply and deliciously. How to make campfire coffee that tastes as good as home brewed. Plus: A checklist of cooking equipment, staples and supplies. Basic tips and checklists for outdoor living. Recipes for over 150 tasty, like-you-never-left-the-kitchen dishes.
Albert the Albert
by Patricia Fuller KinseyFrom the book: If Albert could live under water, he might be a fish. And if he could fly, he just might be a butterfly-one with a very round stomach, that is. But Albert can't do either and he doesn't know what he is, except that he is something with two feet and that very round stomach. As Mrs. Bluebird points out, he can't be a bird: "No wings, you see." And he can't even hop, so he's definitely not a frog. Poor little Albert. Not one of the friendly animals of the forest can decide just what Albert is. They can only tell him what he isn't. But then, just when Albert and his friends are so tired they can scarcely walk another step, they go around a curve and there in a beautiful green meadow is the happy answer to all their questions. Patricia Kinsey's and artist Zena Bernstein's deep love of nature shines through story and illustrations with a sensitive, sure touch that makes ALBERT THE ALBERT a uniquely beautiful book. Picture descriptions are included.
Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
by Joanna R. Macy Molly Young BrownMany of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown contend that this crippling response to world crisis is a psychological defense mechanism that has been endemic since the years of the Cold War arms race, when we had to adapt within a single generation to the horrific possibility of nuclear holocaust. Since its publication in 1983, Joanna Macy's book, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age has sold nearly 30,000 copies and has been the primary resource for groups of men and women confronting the challenging realities of our time without succumbing to paralysis or panic. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. At the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social action, Coming Back to Life is eloquent and compelling as well as being an inspiring and practical guide. The first third of the book discusses with extraordinary insight the angst of our era, and the pain, fear, guilt and inaction it has engendered; it then points forward to the way out of apathy, tio "the work that reconnects". The rest of the book offers both personal counsel and easy-to-use methods for working with groups in a number of ways to profoundly affect peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson David Oliver RelinSlamming over the so-called Karakoram "Highway" in his old Land Cruiser, taking great personal risks to seed the region that gave birth to the Taliban with schools, Mortenson goes to war with the root causes of terror every time he offers a student a chance to receive a balanced education, rather than attend an extremist madrassa. If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson.
Buffalo Bird Womans Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
by Jeffery R. Hanson Gilbert L. WilsonFrom the book: Buffalo Bird Woman, known in Hidatsa as Maxidiwiac, was born about 1839 in an earth lodge along the Knife River in present-day North Dakota. In 1845 her people moved upstream and built Like-a-fishhook village, which they shared with the Mandan and Arikara. There Buffalo Bird Woman grew up to become an expert gardener of the Hidatsa tribe. Using agricultural practices centuries old, she and the women of her family grew corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers in the fertile bottomlands of the Missouri River. In the mid-1880s, U.S. government policies forced the break up of Like-a-fishhook village and the dispersal of Indian families onto individual allotments on the Fort Berthold Reservation, but Hidatsa women continued to grow the vegetables that have provided Midwestern farmers some of their most important crops. In Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden, first published in 1917 as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation, anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson transcribed in meticulous detail the knowledge given by this consummate gardener. Following an annual round, Buffalo Bird Woman describes field care and preparation, planting, harvesting, processing, and storing of vegetables. In addition, she provides recipes for cooking traditional Hidatsa dishes and recounts songs and ceremonies that were essential to a good harvest. Her first-person narrative provides today's gardener with a guide to an agricultural method free from fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. ... Squash Dolls There is one other thing I will tell before we forsake the subject of squashes. Little girls of ten or eleven years of age used to make dolls of squashes. When the squashes were brought in from the field, the little girls would go to the pile and pick out squashes that were proper for dolls. I have done so, myself. We used to pick out the long ones that were parti-colored; squashes whose tops were white or yellow and the bottoms of some other color. We put no decorations on these squashes that we had for dolls. Each little girl carried her squash about in her arms and sang for it as for a babe. Often she carried it on her back, in her calf skin robe. ... This is a most fascinating read whether or not one likes to garden.
Why Geography Matters: Climate Change, The Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
by Harm De BlijDe Blij, a geography professor and former National Geographic Society editor, seeks to rekindle interest in his discipline with this unfocused survey of the world and its discontents. Struggling to describe his notoriously hard-to-define field, de Blij suggests that geographers "look at things spatially" as opposed to "temporally" or "structurally," the "things" being a grab bag of phenomena, including climate, topography, demographics, national boundaries and the distribution of languages, religions, energy deposits and pipelines.
The Compact Book of Big Game Animals
by Ray OvingtonThis book along with the companion books in the current series offers much non-technical information of interest to the layman plus very excellent illustrations of the principal examples of the species. It attempts to answer inquiry by the person looking out the window of his car, from his back porch, hunting blind or nature sanctuary. Hunters, naturalists, photographers and "animal watchers" can therefore find these books of great value. In some cases game animals such as the whitetail deer are considered a crop to be protected where and when needed, but by the same token, they must be harvested in order to keep their numbers to a balance in line with their available territory and food supply. Other of the animals seen seldom except by hunters and hikers fall under the protection of the government agencies with their state laws and regulations. Conservation groups and organizations have in large part been responsible for the establishment of sanctuaries, law enforcement and protection of the wild animals and birds, but also have helped to alert the population to the dangers to wildlife as civilization has advanced. The awareness of the wilds and its animals and birds has been made possible through education. Part of the education is accomplished by the aid of books such as these. Once a person reads about the wilds, a contact, no matter how remote, has been made which will eventually be strengthened through further study and meeting with the creatures of the wild country.
Living at a Lighthouse: Oral Histories from the Great Lakes
by Luanne Gaykowski KozmaOral histories talking about the everyday life while living at a lighthouse.
The Nature of Balance
by Tim LebbonOne morning, the world does not wake up. People lie dead in their beds, killed by their own nightmares. They're lucky. For the few remaining survivors, the new world is a confusing, terrifying place.
The Green Belt Movement
by Wangari MaathaiWhen Kenyan environmental and democracy activist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, she capped a life full of firsts. She was the first African woman to earn a Ph.D. in Eastern and Central Africa, and the first woman to attain associate profes¬sorship and to hold a department chair at the University of Nairobi. In 1977, shocked at the environmental devastation caused by deforestation in her beloved Kenya, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement (GBM). For twenty-seven years, GBM has enabled many people-particularly women-to plant trees in their regions, providing them with food and fuel, and halting soil erosion and desertification. GBM became much more than that, however. It became a movement for representative democracy that led to Kenya's 'first fully democratic elections in a generation, during which Maathai was elected to Parliament and made a minister for the environment. The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience is the story of the Green Belt Movement in Wangari Maathai's own words. It reveals the struggles and the structure of this extraordinary effort to reforest a vast region and free a people. Over the course of its history, nearly 30 million trees have been planted, and tens of thousands of people have earned a livelihood. The Green Belt Movement is the inspiring story of people working at the grassroots level to improve their environment and their country. Their story offers ideas about a new and hopeful future for Africa and the rest of the world.
Why Greenland Is an Island, Australia Is Not, and Japan Is Up for Grabs
by Joyce DavisFrom the book: Any geographer will tell you that a map is but one of many tools used in the field, yet every geography book on the market tries to teach geography simply by having you identify Belize on a map or memorize the capital of Idaho. While the where is important, it is useful only for trivial reasons, and once national boundaries change or disappear, such as we've recently seen in the former Yugoslavia, the information is all but useless. In Why Greenland Is an Island, Australia Is Not-and Japan Is Up for Grabs, Joyce Davis tells you the why behind the where, offering one of the most interesting and useful books on geography currently found on the market. In Why Greenland Is an Island you will discover a clear method of approaching any geographical dilemma you might face. Through six simple steps Joyce Davis shows not only how to gather geographical information about any region, but also how to understand other aspects of the region seemingly not related to geography. You will also gain a solid background in basic geography skills, and will even touch base on what the capital of Idaho is and learn how to read a map. If you're tired of geography books that leave you feeling more helpless than when you first opened them, then it's time to get your bearings and read Joyce Davis's Why Greenland Is an Island now. Joyce Davis is a teacher of geography and former head of the history and geography departments at the Grace Church School in New York City. An originator of the geographic curriculum there and founder of the school's annual "geography bee," she currently lives 74 degrees west longitude and 40.5 degrees north latitude, also known as New York City.
Just Me and My Dad
by Mercer MayerLittle Critter and his dad go camping. They build a campfire, go fishing, tell ghost stories, and have lots and lots of fun. Other books about Little Critter are available from Bookshare.
The Big Snow
by Berta Hader Elmer HaderFrom the book: WHEN the geese begin to fly south, the leaves flutter down from the trees and the cold winds begin to blow from the north, the animals of the woods and meadows, big and small, prepare for the long, cold winter ahead when the countryside is hidden under a deep blanket of snow. They gather food and look for warm, snug places in the ground, trees, caves or thickets, where they can find protection against the icy winds. It might have been hard for the birds and animals of the hillside to survive when the Big Snow came if their good friends, who lived in the little stone house, had not remembered to put food out for them. 1949 Caldecott Medal winner.
Where is Puppy?
by Jenny TulipA farm has so many places for a puppy to explore! So many, that after a lot of fun, puppy curls up in his basket and falls asleep.