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The baby's table: over 100 easy, healthy and homemade recipes for the pickiest, most deserving eaters on the planet
By Brenda Bradshaw, Lauren Donaldson Bramley. 2004
Shadow child: an apprenticeship in love and loss
By Beth Powning. 2005
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.In search of sleep: straight talk about babies, toddlers, and night waking
By Bonny Reichert. 2001
In a society that equates a sleeping baby with a good baby, night waking has become one of the most…
emotionally charged parenting issues. The author, a mother of two, reviews popular sleep-training techniques and the science of sleep cycles, explores the myths that surround night waking, and offers tips for coping. 2001.I'll be the parent, you be the kid: the hot button topics in parenting
By Paul Kropp. 1998
Dad alone: how to rebuild your life and remain an involved father after divorce
By Phil Clavel. 2003
A guide to help men fulfill their role as fathers in the aftermath of a broken marriage. Helps dads deal…
with their feelings and situations, so that they may remain involved fathers following a divorce. 2003.The complete book of aliens & abductions
By Jenny Randles. 1999
Written by the Director of Investigations at the British UFO Research Association, this reference examines key cases and episodes of…
alleged alien abduction. It also analyses the phenomenon, nation by nation, and features a comprehensive review of the major theories. 1999.Millennium prophecies: predictions for the coming century from Edgar Cayce
By Mark A Thurston. 1997
The author examines the millennium prophecies of spiritual philosopher and psychic visionary, Edgar Cayce, as well as Cayce's link to…
the projections of Nostradamus, predictions which still have relevance today. 1997.The mother of all baby books: an all-Canadian guide to your baby's first year
By Ann Douglas. 2001
The sequel to "The mother of all pregnancy books." Contains chapters on preparing for the early weeks of parenthood, getting…
to know your new baby, coping with the most common new parent worries, and much more. 2001.Strange events: incredible Canadian monsters, curses, ghosts, and other tales (Amazing stories)
By Johanna Bertin. 2003
What are the chances of being hit by lightning three times in one lifetime? And then, being hit again after…
you are dead and buried? Read about this and other mysterious legends, including ghosts lurking on board mystery ships and the dark and chilling secrets of Niagara's Devil's Playground. 2003.There are things in this world that we cannot explain, such as reincarnation, premonitions, and other paranormal experiences. These occurrences…
are explored here from a scientific perspective, using current research and scientific theories. Suggestions on how to deal with such occurrences and where to go for help and information are also included. 2002.Tenderly taming teenagers
By Liz Cowan. 2004
Written for parents and teachers by an experienced parent herself, who has lived with and worked with teenagers. It addresses…
the common concerns and issues that face most parents and teenagers. Using certain topics and themes, Cowan takes parents on a guided tour of the developmental tasks and challenges that teenagers undergo. The author relates her own and her children's experiences while suggesting useful, common sense hints and tips for raising confident, happy and responsible teenagers. 2004.The lost continent: travels in small-town America
By Bill Bryson. 2002
Bryson describes his cross-country journey to revisit what he deems the "magic places" of his youth, beginning with his hometown…
of Des Moines, Iowa, and including the Rocky Mountains. Reminisces about his childhood and his father as he recounts adventures across thirty-eight states and 13,978 miles. Some strong language. c1989, 2002.Kids are worth it!: giving your child the gift of inner discipline
By Barbara Coloroso. 1994
Coloroso presents her approach to parenting, based on three ideas -- kids are worth the effort parents give to raise…
them well, parents should treat children in a way that they themselves would want to be treated, and parents should act in a way that preserves the dignity of both parent and child. 1994.A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By Bill Bryson. 1997
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers, as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the…
2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller.Bigger than the sky: disabled women on parenting
By Michele Wates, Rowen Jade. 1999
This is the first anthology by disabled women to explore the issue of parenting. They challenge rigid, limiting views of…
what it means to be a disabled woman, and of what a parent is and does. They describe having to fight for the right to become pregnant, the poignant pleasures of teaching children the benefits of having a "different" mother, and the sheer delight of involving themselves in a child's life.Notes from a big country
By Bill Bryson. 1998
After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months'…
worth of his "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.True UFO stories
By Terry Deary. 1997
A collection of allegedly true UFO-based stories. Among the stories featured are that of two people who were kidnapped and…
used in horrific experiments by hideous, lizard-eyed aliens. There is also the story of strange beings descending in a beam of light to rescue a girl and her father.Witches, ghosts & loup-garous: scary tales from Canada's Ottawa Valley
By Joan Finnigan. 1994
The new wilderness and unpeopled silences of Canada have long been fertile land for stories of the mysterious and frightening.…
In the Ottawa Valley, the tradition of storytelling and the fertile imagination of its settlers have created the Valley's own legends and ghost stories. Finnigan has collected some of these stories from the lumber camps and farms of the Valley.Letters to Judy: what kids wish they could tell you
By Judy Blume. 1986
This compilation of childrens letters has been put together by the author for parents who want to understand their children.…
These letters deal with many of the embarrassing issues that young people face in adolescence, from loneliness to first love, death, drugs, boyfriends, death and depression.Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into…
national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his own experience as a young harvest hand to illuminate the transformation of rural America from the 19th to 21st century