The author offers an innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw-puzzle history, and the strange delights of puzzling, with sketches of her family members and her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, and writing.

Winifred Gallagher explores the role of the home in the well-being of its inhabitants, looking at the environmental-behavioral dynamics of each room of the house, and discussing peoples' relationships to their special possessions.

Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she's always cooking....

The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.

"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...

Explains in simple language the feelings people may have regarding the death of a loved one and the ways to honor the memory of someone who has died.

Mireille Guiliano first visited the US as a teenaged exchange student. When she returned to France, her family was shocked (and she was humiliated) by what American sweets had done to her figure, so she turned to her family doctor for help. "Dr. Miracle" put her through the paces of a traditional French "cure," and his common-sense approach to maintenance has since guided her through a lifetime of extravagant dining. Now, in "French Women, Don't Get...

A survival expert’s guide for every family to prepare and educate themselves about the skills and mentality necessary to survive a disaster anywhere.
This is not your father's scout manual or a sterile FEMA handout. Entertaining and informative, When All Hell Breaks Loose describes how to maximize a survival mindset necessary for self-reliance. According to the book, living through an emergency scenario is 90 percent

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A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.

Offers advice on how to slow down and learn to live in the moment without making drastic lifestyle changes.