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Resolve to be...GREENER |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, 2007
Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown and local food. She simplifies complex topics: What's risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good.
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Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Products, Information and Services in Canada
Adria Vasil, 2007
Everything you need to know to make green, non-toxic, Earth-friendly consumer choices.
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Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather
Marq de Villier, 2006
With the thread of a now-famous storm tying all the chapters together, there is something to learn on every page.
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Resolve to be...HAPPIER |
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Dog Years: A Memoir
Mark Doty, 2007
A moving, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love and loss.
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Finding Water:The Art of Perseverance
Julia Cameron, 2006
Structured as a 12-week course in regaining one's relationship with one's own work, whether it is writing, painting or music, the author grapples with the symbiotic relationship between art and spirituality.
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Kick Up Your Heels… Before You're Too Short to Wear Them
Loretta LaRoche, 2007
Why do we wait until we're almost dead before we focus on how to age well? The authoroffers readersa mental health spa that will inspire you and your family to live with joy, harmony, and peace while you still have the time!
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The Secret
Rhonda Byrne, 2007
The law of attraction is the key to getting what you want!
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert, 2006
A Harvard professor explores why people can't predict what will make them happy.
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Resolve to be...SMARTER |
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman, 2006
An entertaining and insightful collection of essays on topics dear to the author's heart: heavy metal music, television, sports and sex.
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Get smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Seymour Schulich, 2007
The 67-year-old Canadian billionaire has lessons on life and business for young people from 20 to 40 with an entrepreneurial bent or just starting their careers.
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Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World. 2nd ed.
Craig & Marc Kielburger, 2007
For everyone who has ever yearned for a better life and a better world, Craig and Marc Kielburger share a blueprint for personal and social change that has the power to transform lives, one act at a time.
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Resolve to be...HEALTHIER |
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The Abs Diet Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan
David Zinczenko, 2006
Dozens of workouts and hundreds of exercises to do any time and any place for fabulous body-altering results.
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
Carol Off, 2006
As a journalist and chocolate lover, the author traces the origins of the cocoa craze and chocolate's evolution. In Côte d'Ivoire, the West African nation that produces nearly half of the world's cocoa beans, she follows a dark and dangerous seam of greed.
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Structure House Weight Loss Plan: Achieve Your Ideal Weight Through a New Relationship With Food
Gerard J. Musante, 2007
Both more and less than a traditional diet, this plan proscribes a lifestyle overhaul that appeals to mind, body and spirit.
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Resolve not to...make Resolutions! |
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Apocalypse 2012: the Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End
Lawrence E. Joseph, 2007
There's no chance to get out of the way or dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing we can do about it because we're a million years over due for a mass extinction. The Maya, the world's greatest timekeepers ever, say it's all going to stop on December 21, 2012. So just sit back and enjoy the show.
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