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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2019
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| Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes + Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the Week by Sarah Copeland eBook on Hoopla
What it is: an inspiring cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes plus tips on kitchen organization, planning, and substitutions (including gluten- and dairy-free options) that'll help you create nurturing food all week long.
Recipes include: Family Waffles, Chocolate Snaking Loaf, Green Goddess Salad Bowls, Creamy Mushroom Soup, Braised Short Rib Supper, All-Occasion Taco Feast, Hungarian Baked Rice Pudding. |
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Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate by Gabrielle Hartley Print: 306.89 HARTLEY
Blending practical advice from a legal perspective together with spiritual wisdom, the authors provide a simple five-step process that uses original meditations, perspective-shifting exercises and fresh suggestions to help navigate the common legal and emotional pitfalls of divorce.
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| Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers by Leslie F. Halleck eBook on Hoopla
What it is: an engaging, well-illustrated guide to plant propagation by a horticulture expert.
Who it's for: novices and green thumbs alike.
Topics include: materials and tools, how plants multiply, starting from seed, creating cuttings, water rooting, and common pests. |
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The Enchanted Hour : The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon Print: 649.58 GURDON
A Wall Street Journal writer looks at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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| Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever Need by Tracy McCubbin eAudiobook on OverDrive & Hoopla & eBook on Hoopla
What it is: a decluttering book that addresses why clutter happens and how to stop it by focusing on seven emotional blocks (such as "My Fantasy Stuff for My Fantasy Life") in addition to organizing advice.
Want a taste? "What I have discovered over the thousands of decluttering jobs I have done is that when clutter has gotten the upper hand, there is inevitably an emotional root."
Did you know? Families in the United States have 3.1% of the world's children, but buy 40% of toys sold. |
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| Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee eBook & eAudiobook on Hoopla
What it is: a lyrical travelogue and food memoir -- with 40 recipes -- by Edward Lee, a chef and restaurateur who spent two years traveling the United States learning about different food cultures.
Recipes include: Green Tea Beignets, Hasenpfeffer, My Version of a Slaw Dog, Fried Pork Chops with Miso Creamed Corn and Pickle Juice Gravy, Octopus Stir Fry, Lacy Cornbread with Rhubarb Jam.
Winner of... the 2019 James Beard Award for Writing. |
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat eBook on OverDrive
A master class in cooking distills decades of professional experience into four elements: salt, fat, acid, and heat, which when properly applied in the kitchen will produce delicious meals, and includes recipes to put the lessons into practice
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