Bill BrysonA Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail(Bryson and Katz #2)Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his...

Colin DayanIn this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in...

Lauren BrookeFrom the author of the popular Heartland books comes a smart, sassy series set at an exclusive, all-girls boarding school in Virginia, where horses--and status--mean everything.Welcome to Chestnut Hill,...

Lavender: A Scented HistoryYardley London

Cathleen SchineCathleen Schine’s brilliantly funny new novel revolves around one city block in Manhattan, a quiet little block near Central Park kept humble by rent control. Living on a street...

Sara GruenIsabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets - especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani and Makena, who...

Joy Thomas"The world is teaching man innumerable lessons all the time. Each one should try to discover for himself the secret of his life and the Universal Consciousness that is...

Ken NormanAn addition to the STEP-BY-STEP series, which contains 50 bonsai projects, ranging from how to start a bonsai from a sapling to maintaining a ten-year-old tree. With help and...

Abbeydale Press

Scientific AmericanDrawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience,...

Isak Dinesen's Africa: Images of the Wild Continent from the Writer's Life and Words   Isak Dinesen   In her memoir, Out of Africa, and in short stories, Danish-born writer...

A Dial Report on the Deteriorating Quality of the American EnvironmentRobert Reinow and Leona Train Rienow