Karalee's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:01:39 -0700 60 Karalee's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Cobwebs from a Library Corner 20322361 35 John Kendrick Bangs Karalee 3 e-book 3.11 1899 Cobwebs from a Library Corner
author: John Kendrick Bangs
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.11
book published: 1899
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences]]> 43982429 An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know

This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye.

Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world.

This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.]]> 310 Sarah E. Hill 0525536035 Karalee 4 e-book 4.07 2019 This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
author: Sarah E. Hill
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)]]> 211003943
The Owl and the Nightingale , one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow. In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.

In an agile iambic tetrameter that skillfully amplifies the prosody and rhythm of the original, Armitage’s translation moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. Sounding at times like antagonists in a Twitter feud, the owl and the nightingale quarrel about a host of subjects that still resonate today—including love, marriage, identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. Adding to the playful, raucous mood of the barb-trading birds is Armitage, who at one point inserts himself into the poem as a “magistrate . . . to adjudicate”—one who is “skilled with words & worldly wise / & frowns on every form of vice.�

Featuring the Middle English text on facing pages and an introduction by Armitage, this volume will delight readers of all ages.]]> 144 Simon Armitage 069120618X Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.00 1200 The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
author: Simon Armitage
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1200
rating: 4
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]]> Tales of the Alhambra 403733
Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as "a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen." Irving was preparing a book called A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, a history of the years 1478�1492, and was continuing his research on the topic. He immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access to the palace, which was granted because of Irving's celebrity status. Aided by a 17-year old guide named Mateo Ximenes, Irving was inspired by his experience to write Tales of the Alhambra. Throughout his trip, he filled his notebooks and journals with descriptions and observations though he did not believe his writing would ever do it justice. He wrote, "How unworthy is my scribbling of the place." Irving continued to travel through Spain until he was appointed as secretary of legation at the United States Embassy in London, serving under the incoming minister Louis McLane. He arrived in London by late September 1829.]]> 348 Washington Irving 8424105044 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.73 1832 Tales of the Alhambra
author: Washington Irving
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1832
rating: 4
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]]> Round the Moon 78784 From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Ardan, and Nicholl have decided to take a trip around the moon. But first they have to get to the moon from Earth. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realize that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?]]> 148 Jules Verne 1598183044 Karalee 4 3.60 1869 Round the Moon
author: Jules Verne
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1869
rating: 4
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]]> From the Earth to the Moon 32827 136 Jules Verne 1598184547 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.80 1865 From the Earth to the Moon
author: Jules Verne
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1865
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom]]> 214151420 From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.

Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface—Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.

As the family’s YouTube notoriety grew, so too did Ruby’s delusions of righteousness. Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt, together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime.

Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse. On that fateful day, Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home. Her caption had one word: “Finally.�

For the first time, Shari will reveal the disturbing truth behind 8 Passengers and her family’s devastating involvement with Jodi Hildebrandt’s cultish life coaching program, “ConneXions.� No stone is left unturned as Shari exposes the perils of influencer culture and shares for the first time her battle for truth and survival in the face of her mother’s cruelty.]]> 320 Shari Franke 1668065398 Karalee 4 audiobook 4.43 2025 The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
author: Shari Franke
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2025
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brothers Grimm: A Biography]]> 210129420 The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm

“Mٱ.Ũ�Kirkus Reviews

More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785�1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786�1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any other German book—and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known.

Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms� ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses. They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature, embarked on a monumental German dictionary project, and broke scholarly ground with Jacob’s linguistic discovery known as Grimm’s Law. Setting their story against a rich historical backdrop, Schmiesing offers a fresh consideration of the profound and yet complicated legacy of the Brothers Grimm.]]> 360 Ann Schmiesing 0300221754 Karalee 3 e-book 3.86 2024 The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
author: Ann Schmiesing
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages]]> 1254409 169 Benjamín de Tudela 0911389091 Karalee 4 e-book 3.85 1175 The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages
author: Benjamín de Tudela
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1175
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The King of Elfland's Daughter]]> 14686 240 Lord Dunsany 034543191X Karalee 4 e-book 3.82 1924 The King of Elfland's Daughter
author: Lord Dunsany
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1924
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling]]> 225850 142 John Taylor Gatto 086571519X Karalee 4 e-book 4.13 2002 Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
author: John Taylor Gatto
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race]]> 50892327
In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe—but the story didn’t end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one.

How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual development—potentially including the increase in gender fluidity—and general health as a species. Engagingly explaining the science and repercussions of these worldwide threats and providing simple and practical guidelines for effectively avoiding chemical goods (from water bottles to shaving cream) both as individuals and societies, Count Down is “staggering in its findings� (Erin Brockovich, The Guardian) and “will serve as an awakening� ( The New York Times Book Review ).]]> 304 Shanna H. Swan 1982113669 Karalee 4 e-book 4.01 2021 Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
author: Shanna H. Swan
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education]]> 548979 182 David V. Hicks 0761814671 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 4.58 1981 Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
author: David V. Hicks
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.58
book published: 1981
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling]]> 35307687 300 John Taylor Gatto 0998919101 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.36 2000 The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
author: John Taylor Gatto
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 12527 288 Annie Dillard 0072434171 Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 4.08 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
author: Annie Dillard
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Islands of Magic Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores]]> 13115747 158 Elsie Spicer Eells Karalee 4 e-book 3.57 2011 The Islands of Magic Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores
author: Elsie Spicer Eells
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve]]> 201888849
Most of us have heard of the mind-body connection, but did you know that there is aphysicalstructure that connects the mind and body? That connection is the Vagus nerve, and it’s singularly responsible for maintaining balance in our mental and physical health.

In The Nervous System Reset, Jessica Maguire shares the wisdom of her popular Nervous System School masterclasses and shows readers how to unlock the power of their Vagus nerve.

Drawing on the science of polyvagal theory and drawing on decades of her own study and coaching experience, Jessica teaches readers neural exercises, breathwork, and somatic practices to widen their window of tolerance in order to�
Smart, accessible, and revolutionary The Nervous System Reset is a practical, science-backed program to heal your nervous system for good.]]> 352 Jessica Maguire 1538757125 Karalee 3 e-book 3.60 The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve
author: Jessica Maguire
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.60
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rating: 3
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]]> The Sun Also Rises 58735058
“An absorbingly beautiful and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative ... It is a truly gripping story.� � The New York Times

Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English through his economical prose style that conceals more than it reveals. His first novel, published in 1926, is narrated by world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, who is burdened by a wound acquired in World War I and by his utterly hopeless love for the flamboyantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. The Sun Also Rises tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain.]]> 272 Ernest Hemingway 0593466349 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.56 1926 The Sun Also Rises
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1926
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[An Essay Towards A Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)]]> 18635779 394 Charlotte M. Mason 0415751195 Karalee 5 e-book 5.00 2012 An Essay Towards A Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)
author: Charlotte M. Mason
name: Karalee
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> Iberia 22125293
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.]]> 976 James A. Michener 0812969804 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.81 1968 Iberia
author: James A. Michener
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Nine Golden Months: The Essential Art of Nurturing the Mother-To-Be]]> 60310666
There is so much noise surrounding pregnancy and birth. There are countless books teeming with information—what test does what, the “rights� and “wrongs� of eating, and “safe� or “risky� lifestyle choices—but few that hold a woman through the experience, acting as an elder sister, a matriarch, or as a circle of women might hold her—with compassion, nonjudgment, and, most of all, wisdom. To the authors of Nine Golden Months , this is exactly what’s needed now, in an era of high-speed living, endless demands, and more than a little anxiety and fear.

A woman needs to feel connected to others, rooted in the knowledge that many have done this before her, and calmed and fortified by time-honored practices that nourish her body, soothe her mind, and hold up her spirit. The (still-growing) success of The First Forty Days showed that women are longing to experience the deeper aspects of becoming a mother. Nine Golden Months shares timeless guidance from the authors� extraordinary circle of practitioners, guides, and wisdom-keepers specializing in prenatal care; it draws from Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, and features rituals and self-sourced wisdom, so that it addresses all aspects of a woman’s pregnancy emotional, mental, physiological, and spiritual.

Includes color photographs]]> 256 Heng Ou 1419751484 Karalee 2 e-book 4.03 Nine Golden Months: The Essential Art of Nurturing the Mother-To-Be
author: Heng Ou
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.03
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization]]> 61284030 320 Brad Wilcox 0063210851 Karalee 4 e-book 4.03 2024 Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
author: Brad Wilcox
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> Piers Plowman 6823552 Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision, and its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
]]> 355 William Langland 0199555265 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.37 1377 Piers Plowman
author: William Langland
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.37
book published: 1377
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[In a Certain Kingdom: Fairy Tales of Old Russia (Russian Fairy Tales and Myths, #1)]]> 57211344 Deathless villains that can't help dying, idiots who are wiser than kings, and everyone's favorite mortar-riding hag ... These are not your tame happily-ever-after fairy tales!The traditional fairy tales of Russia transport the reader to a fantastical world filled with danger, wonder, and ultimately, consolation. They may be strange, they may be frightening, but Russian fairy tales take you to a place you never want to leave. A magical land of prophecy and adventure that helps you see your own life in vivid colors.This collection features nine stories, translated and retold by award-winning fantasy novelist Nicholas Kotar. These aren't stuffy academic translations. They are retellings by a storyteller, easy to read and filled with wit and whimsy.Discover delightfully entertaining tales filled with princes, warrior-queens, talking wolves, and everyone's favorite Baba Yaga herself!Don't miss In a Certain Kingdom, the first volume in an exciting new series of translations of classic Russian fairy tales and myths.]]> 84 Nicholas Kotar 1951536177 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.43 In a Certain Kingdom: Fairy Tales of Old Russia (Russian Fairy Tales and Myths, #1)
author: Nicholas Kotar
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> Nada 62779 Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosely based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.

Residing amid genteel poverty in a mysterious house on Calle de Aribau, young Andrea falls in with a wealthy band of schoolmates who provide a rich counterpoint to the squalor of her home life. As experience overtakes innocence, Andrea gradually learns the disquieting truth about the people she shares her life with: her overbearing and superstitious aunt Angustias; her nihilistic yet artistically gifted uncle Román and his violent brother Juan; and Juan’s disturbingly beautiful wife, Gloria, who secretly supports the clan with her gambling. From existential crisis to a growing maturity and resolve, Andrea’s passionate inner journey leaves her wiser, stronger, and filled with hope for the future.

The incomparable Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures the feverish energy of Laforet’s magnificent story, showcasing its dark, powerful imagery, and its subtle humor. And Mario Vargas Llosa’s Introduction illuminates Laforet’s brilliant depiction of life during the early days of the Franco regime. With crystalline insight into the human condition, Carmen Laforet’s classic novel stands poised to reclaim its place as one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe.]]> 244 Carmen Laforet 1843433028 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.83 1944 Nada
author: Carmen Laforet
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1944
rating: 3
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]]> Gypsy Ballads 12697862 218 Federico García Lorca 190758708X Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 4.15 1928 Gypsy Ballads
author: Federico García Lorca
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1928
rating: 3
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]]> White Fang 43035 252 Jack London Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 4.00 1906 White Fang
author: Jack London
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1906
rating: 5
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]]> The Call of the Wild 1852 The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.]]> 172 Jack London Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.89 1903 The Call of the Wild
author: Jack London
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1903
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Restoration of Christian Culture]]> 3036040 192 John Senior 1932528164 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.36 1983 The Restoration of Christian Culture
author: John Senior
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

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 many 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 need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.36 2024 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
author: Jonathan Haidt
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships]]> 319234 "There's a better way to find love, stay in love, and grow in intimacy for a lifetime," says Chip Ingram. It's God's way. Whether single or married, happy or searching for hope, readers will discover that by following God's prescription, they can create a love that lasts. A love that can be enjoyed.]]> 224 Chip Ingram 0801065429 Karalee 3 e-book 4.17 2003 Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships
author: Chip Ingram
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> The House of Ulloa 17346273 The House of Ulloa fully deserves to be recognised as one of the great novels of the age.

The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julián Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julián's well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy. Combining gothic elements with humour and social satire, The House of Ulloa is the finest achievement of Emilia Pardo Bazán, a prolific writer, feminist, traveller and intellectual, and one of the most dynamic figures of her time.]]> 288 Emilia Pardo Bazán 0141392959 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.51 1886 The House of Ulloa
author: Emilia Pardo Bazán
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average rating: 3.51
book published: 1886
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore]]> 201751300 An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations

Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see those stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.

Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including The Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who appeared to sign books at Marshall Field’s in 1944.

The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.]]> 416 Evan Friss 0593299922 Karalee 3 e-book 3.93 2024 The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
author: Evan Friss
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey]]> 30114206
For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible—of which there are fewer than 50 in existence—represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo. Estelle Doheny, the first woman collector to add the book to her library and its last private owner, tipped the Bible onto a trajectory that forever changed our understanding of the first mechanically printed book.

The Lost Gutenberg draws readers into this incredible saga, immersing them in the lust for beauty, prestige, and knowledge that this rarest of books sparked in its owners. Exploring books as objects of obsession across centuries, this is a must-read for history buffs, book collectors, seekers of hidden treasures, and anyone who has ever craved a remarkable book—and its untold stories.]]> 304 Headline B07GQBN3L7 Karalee 3 library 3.70 2019 The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
author: Headline
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula]]> 19230920 387 George Borrow Karalee 4 e-book 3.83 1843 The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
author: George Borrow
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1843
rating: 4
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]]> The Cricket on the Hearth 549938
The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily.]]> 82 Charles Dickens 0809500418 Karalee 4 3.48 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth
author: Charles Dickens
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1845
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and Scientist]]> 26254549 an intrepid explorer, naturalist, scholar, as well as a magnificent
artist. This lovely, impeccably designed book tells Merian's
incredible life story alongside colorful reproductions of her
engravings and watercolors of the butterflies she encountered
during her lifetime in Germany and the Netherlands, and her
seminal trip to the Dutch colony of Surinam. The book recounts
Merian's monumental expedition, her work as an advocate for
the slave laborers of Surinam, and her important studies of the
anatomy and life cycle of the butterfly. Author Boris Friedewald
employs Merian's favorite insect as a metaphor for the artist's
own pioneering evolution from budding entomologist to
educator, activist, and artist. A visual treasure as well as a
satisfying read, this exquisite volume is the perfect gift for
anyone interested in Merian's amazing life and groundbreaking
body of work.]]> 144 Boris Friedewald 3791381490 Karalee 4 library 4.15 2015 A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and Scientist
author: Boris Friedewald
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition]]> 261088
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 256 Anonymous 0140444467 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.50 1110 The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition
author: Anonymous
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average rating: 3.50
book published: 1110
rating: 4
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]]> Chantry House 21119408 288 Charlotte Mary Yonge Karalee 3 e-book 4.23 1886 Chantry House
author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1886
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus]]> 1188644 Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, "The Book Nobody Read" recolors the history of cosmology and offers new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas.]]> 265 Owen Gingerich 0143034766 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.78 2004 The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
author: Owen Gingerich
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon]]> 9152282
In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.� Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition begin to disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river. Soon hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, their numbers diminishing daily through disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, Pizarro and Orellana made a fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home barefoot and in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men, in a few fragile craft, continued downriver into the unknown reaches of the mighty Amazon, serenaded by native war drums and the eerie cries of exotic predators. Theirs would be the greater glory.

Interweaving eyewitness accounts of the quest with newly uncovered details, Buddy Levy reconstructs the seminal journey that has electrified adventurers ever since, as Orellana became the first European to navigate and explore the entire length of the world’s largest river. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the native populations—some peaceful and welcoming, offering sustenance and life-saving guidance, others ferociously hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attack and intimations of terrifying rituals. And here is the Amazon itself, a powerful presence whose every twist and turn held the promise of new wonders both natural and man-made, as well as the ever-present risk of death—a river that would hold Orellana in its irresistible embrace to the end of his life.

Overflowing with violence and beauty, nobility and tragedy, River of Darkness is both riveting history and a breathtaking adventure that will sweep readers along on an epic voyage unlike any other.]]> 324 Buddy Levy 0553807501 Karalee 4 e-book 4.17 2011 River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
author: Buddy Levy
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf]]> 43567262 130 John Muir 1728654882 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.65 1916 A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
author: John Muir
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1916
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Penguin Classics)]]> 251568 192 Elizabeth Keckley 0143039245 Karalee 4 library 3.66 1868 Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Penguin Classics)
author: Elizabeth Keckley
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1868
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Country Editor's Boy: A Memoir]]> 22058154 A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide, and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay. Country Editor’s Boypicks up where Hal Borland’s classic memoirHigh, Wide and Lonesomeleft with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland’s father, the editor of a local weekly newspaper, was working to help his publication transition along with the town around him. At the same time, young Hal was experiencing dramatic social and economic change in his own way. In a matter of a decade, Borland’s Colorado town shifted from a frontier outpost to part of a rapidly urbanizing new America. This memoir shows a boy entering adulthood as the world around him comes of age. Evocative and wholly engrossing,Country Editor’s Boyis a vividly drawn portrait of western life, by one of the greatest naturalist writers of his age.]]> 323 Hal Borland 148046225X Karalee 5 e-book 4.46 1970 Country Editor's Boy: A Memoir
author: Hal Borland
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1970
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention� and How to Think Deeply Again]]> 57933306 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]> 357 Johann Hari 0593138511 Karalee 4 e-book 4.22 2022 Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
author: Johann Hari
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier]]> 18891968 285 Hal Borland Karalee 5 e-book 4.37 1956 High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier
author: Hal Borland
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1956
rating: 5
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]]> David Copperfield 58696 882 Charles Dickens Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 4.02 1850 David Copperfield
author: Charles Dickens
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1850
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot]]> 18867893
William 'Wilkie' Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work.]]> 124 Wilkie Collins Karalee 4 e-book 3.90 1851 Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
author: Wilkie Collins
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1851
rating: 4
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]]> Captains Courageous 941781 208 Rudyard Kipling 0142437719 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.46 1897 Captains Courageous
author: Rudyard Kipling
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1897
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)]]> 3590 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'.
The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.
1. A Scandal In Bohemia
2. The Red-Headed League
3. A Case Of Identity
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man With The Twisted Lip
7. The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle
8. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
9. The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb
10. The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor
11. The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet
12. The Adventure Of The Copper Beaches]]> 389 Arthur Conan Doyle Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.32 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1892
rating: 4
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]]> Deerbrook 1339655 656 Harriet Martineau 0141439394 Karalee 4 e-book 3.75 1838 Deerbrook
author: Harriet Martineau
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1838
rating: 4
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]]> Man and Wife 6067069 Man and Wife (1870) combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collins's most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain. At its centre is the plight of a woman who fears that the archaic marriage laws of Scotland and Ireland may have forced her into committing unintentional bigamy. As the novel progresses, the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister when the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder.]]> 688 Wilkie Collins 0199538174 Karalee 4 e-book 4.02 1870 Man and Wife
author: Wilkie Collins
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1870
rating: 4
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]]> The Wood Beyond the World 723155 118 William Morris 1587152142 Karalee 3 e-book 3.48 1894 The Wood Beyond the World
author: William Morris
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1894
rating: 3
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]]> Period Repair Manual 39699643
Containing invaluable advice for women of every age and circumstance, and detailing natural treatments from nutritional supplements to a healthy diet, this book promises to help women change their relationship with their menstrual cycle.

Topics include how to come off hormonal birth control; what your period should be like; what can go wrong; how to talk to your doctor; treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis.

Thoroughly researched and written in clear and accessible language, Period Repair Manual is the ultimate guide to better periods.]]> 465 Lara Briden 1760780979 Karalee 4 e-book 4.33 2015 Period Repair Manual
author: Lara Briden
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)]]> 60657589
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk.

So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.

But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.]]> 336 Heather Fawcett 059350013X Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.99 2023 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
author: Heather Fawcett
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility]]> 43616354 The Fifth Vital Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility brings together over 1,000 meticulously researched scientific references in a textbook-quality guide to understanding your menstrual cycle. In this book you’ll What a normal cycle looks like; The best way to chart your cycle and increase your fertility awareness; How best to manage critical aspects of your health, including better sleep, exercise and a healthier diet; Natural methods for managing period pain and PMS; How to successfully avoid pregnancy without the pill; and How to plan ahead if you do want to get pregnant. The Fifth Vital Sign aims to better connect women with their menstrual cycles, to break the myth that ovulation is only important when you're ready to have a baby. READ THE FIFTH VITAL SIGN TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR HEALTH AND FERTILITY Whether children are a part of your future plans or not, your health matters. Start learning more now, and take control of your health. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner. She teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and overall health monitoring. In her work, Lisa draws heavily from the current scientific literature and presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization.]]> 368 Lisa Hendrickson-Jack 1999428013 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.36 2019 The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility
author: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
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average rating: 4.36
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> The Nun 18216
This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.]]> 240 Denis Diderot 0192804308 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.75 1796 The Nun
author: Denis Diderot
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1796
rating: 3
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]]> The Phantom Tollbooth 378 Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond.

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .]]> 248 Norton Juster 0394820371 Karalee 4 e-book 4.19 1961 The Phantom Tollbooth
author: Norton Juster
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1961
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health]]> 22693240
-New 'Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition"

-Updates on new fertility technologies

-Natural approaches to conception

-Updated Resources and Books

For any woman unhappy with her current method of birth control; demoralized by her quest to have a baby; or experiencing confusing symptoms in her cycle, this book provides answers to all these questions, plus amazing insights into a woman's body. Weschler thoroughly explains the empowering Fertility Awareness Method, which in only a couple minutes a day allows a woman to:

-Enjoy highly effective, scientifically proven birth control without chemicals or devices

-Maximize her chances of conception or expedite fertility treatment by identifying impediments to conception

-Increase the likelihood of choosing the gender of her baby

-Gain control of her sexual and gynecological health]]> 536 Toni Weschler 0062326031 Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 4.61 1995 Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
author: Toni Weschler
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.61
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF]]> 21782260 It Starts with the Egg reveals a groundbreaking new approach for improving egg quality and fertility. With a concrete strategy that includes minimizing exposure to toxins such as BPA and phthalates, choosing the right vitamins and supplements to safeguard developing eggs, and harnessing nutritional advice shown to boost IVF success rates, this book offers practical solutions that will help you get pregnant faster and deliver a healthy baby.

“This timely synthesis of scientific literature is essential reading for both women and men wanting practical, evidence-based recommendations to enhance their fertility.� -- Dr. Loretta McKinnon, Epidemiologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital.

“A thoroughly-researched and eye-opening account of how small, simple lifestyle changes can have powerful, positive effects on your health and fertility. A must-read for women wanting the best chance of conceiving a healthy baby.� -- Beth Greer, bestselling author of Super Natural Home

"Was jede Frau und jedes Paar wissen sollte und selbst tun kann, wenn es mit dem Babywunsch nicht klappt
" wissenschaftlich fundiert und untermauert mit aktuellen Studien zu Umweltgiften und Ernährung
" Tipps für Nahrungsergänzungsmittel zur Verbesserung der Eizellqualität

"Ich konnte dieses Buch nicht weglegen, so sehr war ich mit den einfachen Erklärungen dieser komplexen wissenschaftlichen Thematik beschäftigt. Das macht alles viel mehr Sinn, wenn man weiß, dass Ernährung zwar wichtig ist, Unfruchtbarkeit jedoch viel mehr ist als Diät."
- Carolyn Martinez, The Compulsive Reader]]> 304 Rebecca Fett 0991126904 Karalee 4 e-book 4.31 It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF
author: Rebecca Fett
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health]]> 196848596 A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future.

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?

Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.

If you are battling minor signals of "bad energy" inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here's the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.

Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, Good Energy offers an essential four-week plan and explains:

� The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.
� How to use inexpensive tools and technology to "see inside your body" and take action.
� Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you're carnivore or vegan.
� The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism.
� A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities.
� How cold and heat exposure helps build our body's resilience.
� Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health.

Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.]]> 400 Casey Means 0593712641 Karalee 3 e-book 4.15 2024 Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
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]]> The Georgics 978053 160 Virgil 0140444149 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.83 -29 The Georgics
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]]> The Eclogues 789853
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 144 Virgil 014044419X Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.90 -39 The Eclogues
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]]> Around the World on a Bicycle 301255 1072 Thomas Stevens 0811726533 Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 4.31 1887 Around the World on a Bicycle
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average rating: 4.31
book published: 1887
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Karalee 4 audiobook 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
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]]> Building a Non-Anxious Life 128713713 "Why are my anxiety alarms going off all the time?"

"Why do I feel like I'm in an endless cycle of blame and anger and impatience?"

"Why are the people I love most melting down around me?"

No one needs to be told that our lives are filled with more anxiety than ever before. We know it. Our bodies can feel it. The questions we really need to answer "Why?" and "Is there anything we can do about it?"

Dr. John Delony decided to get to the root of the issue by mapping out a plan to understand where our anxiety is coming from and the actions we can take to change it (because he's been there too). Over the past twenty years, he's learned through research, personal experience, and walking alongside countless others that there are six daily choices people have to make to create a non-anxious life:

- Choosing Reality
- Choosing Connection
- Choosing Freedom
- Choosing Health and Healing
- Choosing Mindfulness
- Choosing Belief

In this no-nonsense, straightforward approach to mental health, John will break down exactly what each choice means and how to start making it on a daily basis.

Now, here's the truth: Those choices aren't easy, and anxiety isn't going to magically disappear. But if you commit to building a non-anxious life, you'll be able to better respond to whatever life throws at you. You'll grow from hard challenges. You'll learn to find peace during chaos.

And you will learn to be well.]]> 304 John Delony Karalee 3 e-book 4.19 2023 Building a Non-Anxious Life
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]]> Mansfield Park 85635 Mansfield Park deals with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation." Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further complicated by the arrival of a pair of witty, sophisticated Londoners, whose flair for flirtation collides with the quiet, conservative country ways of Mansfield Park.

Written a decade after her previous novel, Mansfield Park retains Austen’s familiar compassion and humor but offers a far more complex exploration of moral choices and their emotional consequences.]]> 427 Jane Austen 1593081545 Karalee 3 book-that-i-own 3.80 1814 Mansfield Park
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]]> Ivanhoe 6440 Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present.]]> 496 Walter Scott Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 3.76 1819 Ivanhoe
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]]> <![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History]]> 24611888 From the authors of the New York Times bestseller George Washington’s Secret Six ,the little-known story of Thomas Jefferson’s battle to defend America against Islamic pirates.

Brian Kilmeade � cohost of “Fox & Friends� on Fox News and the national radio show “Kilmeade & Friends� � returns with another fascinating historical narrative, co-written with Don Yaeger. Like their acclaimed bestseller George Washington's Secret Six, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates sheds new light on a vitally important episode that has been forgotten by most Americans.

Only weeks after President Jefferson's inauguration in 1801, he decided to confront the Tripoli pirates who had been kidnapping American ships and sailors, among other outrageous acts. Though inclined toward diplomacy, Jefferson sent warships to blockade Tripoli and protect American shipping, and then escalated to all-out war against the Barbary states.

The tiny American flotilla—with three frigates representing half of the U.S. Navy’s top-of-the-line ships—had some success in blockading the Barbary coast. But that success came to an end when the USSPhiladelphiaran aground in Tripoli harbor and was captured. Kilmeade and Yaeger recount the dramatic story of a young American sailor, Stephen Decatur, who snuck into the harbor, boarded thePhiladelphia,and set her on fire before escaping amid a torrent of enemy gunfire.

Another amazing story is that of William Eaton’s daring attack on the port city of Derna. He led a detachment of Marines on a 500-mile trek across the desert to surprise the port. His strategy worked, and an American flag was raised in victory on foreign soil for the first time.

Few remember Decatur and Eaton today, but their legacy inspired the opening of theMarine Corps Hymn: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country’s battles in the air, on land, and sea.�

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates tells a dramatic story of bravery, diplomacy, and battle on the high seas, and honors some of America’s forgotten heroes.]]> 238 Brian Kilmeade 1591848067 Karalee 3 e-book 3.70 2015 Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
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]]> How Not to Diet 43252570
But HOW NOT TO DIET goes beyond food to identify twenty-one weight-loss accelerators available to our bodies, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities. Dr. Greger builds the ultimate weight loss guide from the ground up, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend.]]> 608 Michael Greger 1250199247 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.42 How Not to Diet
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]]> <![CDATA[The Death of Christian Culture]]> 2866190 192 John Senior 1932528156 Karalee 4 4.40 1977 The Death of Christian Culture
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]]> Italian Journey 832491 512 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0140442332 Karalee 5 book-that-i-own 3.90 1816 Italian Journey
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]]> <![CDATA[Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners]]> 472580 88 John Bunyan 1406822949 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.20 1666 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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]]> <![CDATA[The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse]]> 151390
This is the revised edition of Betty Radice's highly regarded translation, in which Michael Clanchy, the biographer of Abélard, updates the scholarship on the letters and the lovers. This volume includes Abélard's remarkable autobiography and his spiritual advice to Héloïse and her nuns, as well as a selection of the 'lost love letters' of Abélard and Héloïse, letters between Héloïse and Peter the Venerable, two of Abélard's hymns, a chronology, notes and maps.]]> 383 Pierre Abélard 0140448993 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 3.77 1133 The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Karalee 4 audiobook 4.05 1815 Emma
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the ModernWorld]]> 43982455 "Who am I becoming?"

That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren't pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words:

"Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life."

It wasn't the response he expected, but it was--and continues to be--the answer he needs. Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world instead of trying to pinpoint the cause. A growing number of voices are pointing at hurry, or busyness, as a root of much evil.

Within the pages of this book, you'll find a fascinating roadmap to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world.]]> 286 John Mark Comer 0525653090 Karalee 4 e-book 4.51 2019 The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the ModernWorld
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]]> <![CDATA[Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children]]> 25898058
Today’s kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies show that children need “rough and tumble� outdoor play in order to develop their sensory, motor, and executive functions. Disturbingly, a lack of movement has been shown to lead to a number of health and cognitive difficulties, such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotion regulation and sensory processing issues, and aggressiveness at school recess break. So, how can you ensure your child is fully engaging their body, mind, and all of their senses?

Using the same philosophy that lies at the heart of her popular TimberNook program—that nature is the ultimate sensory experience, and that psychological and physical health improves for children when they spend time outside on a regular basis—author Angela Hanscom offers several strategies to help your child thrive, even if you live in an urban environment.

Today it is rare to find children rolling down hills, climbing trees, or spinning in circles just for fun. We’ve taken away merry-go-rounds, shortened the length of swings, and done away with teeter-totters to keep children safe. Children have fewer opportunities for unstructured outdoor play than ever before, and recess times at school are shrinking due to demanding educational environments.

With this book, you’ll discover little things you can do anytime, anywhere to help your kids achieve the movement they need to be happy and healthy in mind, body, and spirit.


]]> 256 Angela J. Hanscom 1626253730 Karalee 4 e-book 4.16 2016 Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response]]> 58385699 From an acclaimed functional medicine psychiatrist, a groundbreaking approach to understanding and managing anxiety from a holistic perspective.

More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety in any given year, which has only worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic. To help patients cope with this often-debilitating mental health disorder, doctors tend to reach for the prescription pad, subscribing to the conventional wisdom that anxiety is "all in our heads." Ellen Vora, MD contends that what we need is an all-encompassing approach that looks beyond the brain and considers the whole person.

Backed by the latest scientific research and Dr. Vora's clinical work, The Anatomy of Anxiety offers a fresh, much-needed look at mental health, offering actionable strategies for managing our moods. Much of our anxiety begins in the physical body, often the result of seemingly innocuous states of imbalance, such as a blood sugar crash or sleep deprivation. This type of anxiety is far more preventable than we may realize, through straightforward adjustments to our diet and lifestyle, such as reducing caffeine intake, stabilizing blood sugar, prioritizing rest, and rethinking our relationship to technology.

Other forms of anxiety are not pathologic but come as a course correction to help nudge us back onto our paths. In this instance, anxiety is not what's wrong with us, but it's here to alert us to the fact that something else is out of balance--in our bodies, our lives, or in the world around us. This more intuitive version of anxiety, Dr. Vora suggests, is meant to be listened to and honored, and we can learn simple strategies for tuning into this anxiety and allowing it to protect and guide us. In The Anatomy of Anxiety, Dr. Vora walks beside us through a healing process to reframe our relationship with anxiety, and in turn create a more joyful and fulfilled life.]]> 337 Ellen Vora 0063075091 Karalee 4 e-book 3.81 The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
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]]> <![CDATA[Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose]]> 44441862 Daily struggles with anxiety and stress make it difficult to receive God's peace. Rhythms of Renewal will help you trade your anxiety for the vibrant life you were meant to live through four profound rhythms: rest, restore, connect, and create.With encouraging stories and practical steps, Rebekah Lyons will help you begin an intentional, lifelong journey toward sustained emotional, relational, and spiritual health.

Rhythms of Renewal is your guide to daily rescue and a way forward into the peace your soul longs for.

As a society, we are in the throes of a collective panic attack. Anxiety and loneliness are on the rise, with 77% of our population experiencing physical symptoms of stress on a regular basis. We feel pressure chasing careers, security, and keeping up. We worry about health, politics, and many other complexities we can't control. Eventually we find our minds spinning, trying to cope or managea low hum of anxiety, unlike ever before.

But it doesn't have to stay this way.

Rebekah draws from her own battle with depression and anxiety and shares a pathway to establish four life-giving rhythms that quiet inner chaos and make room for a flourishing life.By taking time to rest, restore, connect, and create, you will discover how to:


Take charge of your emotional health and inspire yourloved ones to do the same
Overcome anxiety by establishing daily habits that keep you mentally and physically strong
Find joy through restored relationships in your family and community
Walk in confidence with the unique gifts you have to offer the world]]> 304 Rebekah Lyons 0310356148 Karalee 3 e-book 4.08 2019 Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
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]]> <![CDATA[Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers]]> 51106470 Lady's Magazine (1770�1832), a popular monthly periodical of fashion, fiction, and gossip, the projects consist of embroidered clothes, accessories, and housewares. Designs include an evening bag, a muslin shawl, an apron, a floral napkin set and tablecloth, and other pretty and practical items with timeless appeal.
These authentic patterns � many of which have not been reprinted in more than 200 years—are enlivened by vivid glimpses into the world of Regency women and their domestic lives. Fascinating historical features, quotes from Austen's letters and novels, enchanting drawings, clear instructions, and inspirational project photography trace the patterns' origins and illustrate their imaginative restoration for modern use. A must-have for every Jane Austen fan, this book is suitable for needleworkers at every level of experience.]]> 160 Jennie Batchelor 0486842878 Karalee 4 e-book 4.30 Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers
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]]> The Spinster Diaries 48908724
A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit―as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person’s life can reach out across the centuries to touch another’s.]]> 216 Gina Fattore 1945551739 Karalee 1 e-book 2.65 2020 The Spinster Diaries
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]]> <![CDATA[Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery]]> 1104192
Published just before the Civil War, these memoirs are one of the most influential slave narratives. Disguised as a servant and a white male painter, William and Ellen Craft escaped slavery in Georgia, USA, in 1848. They travelled north by rail and river before reaching Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Their exploit was widely covered in the press and became well known, putting their lives in danger.

Read & Co. History has proudly republished this classic memoir, now featuring an introductory chapter by Frederick Douglas, ‘My Escape From Slavery�. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom is not to be missed by those with an interest in American history.]]> 120 William Craft 080712320X Karalee 3 e-book 4.14 1860 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales]]> 17591910
There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. In Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life , bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work.

The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her. Next, follow Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.]]> 340 Marta McDowell 1604693630 Karalee 4 e-book 4.25 2013 Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays]]> 146151 The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes―an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography―these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the whole community of creation.]]> 352 Wendell Berry 1593760078 Karalee 4 e-book 4.37 2002 The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arts & Crafts Movement (Art of Century Collection)]]> 26769521 202 Oscar Lovell Triggs Karalee 3 e-book 3.33 2009 The Arts & Crafts Movement (Art of Century Collection)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Benevolent Bee: Capture the Bounty of the Hive through Science, History, Home Remedies, and Craft]]> 35907744 Get the buzz on bees, honey, hive behavior, and all the things you can make with bee products in The Benevolent Bee.

A honeybee hive produces much more than honey; it also produces pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. And humans have found uses for all these products. The Benevolent Bee will describe how and why the bees make these products, how they've been used by humans throughout the ages, and how beekeepers harvest the products. It will also present simple do-it yourself recipes for using the products in health and wellness, body care, nutrition, and craft. Beekeeper, herbalist, and artist Stephanie Bruneau explores six amazing products of the honeybee hive--honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. Learn how to make a salve for burns and a cough syrup from raw honey; how to make a tincture, an infused oil, and a mouthwash from propolis, the anti-bacterial "bee glue" that lines the inside of the hive; and much more.

]]> 160 Stéphanie Bruneau Karalee 4 e-book 3.55 The Benevolent Bee: Capture the Bounty of the Hive through Science, History, Home Remedies, and Craft
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]]> <![CDATA[Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things]]> 39893126 Integrating mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, and creativity research, Craftfulness offers a thought-provoking and surprising reconsideration of craft, and how making things with our hands can connect us to our deepest selves and improve our well-being and overall happiness.

We should get this out of the Craftfulness is not a crafting book. Rather, it is an investigation of the wisdom generations of men and women know to be making things is a vital means of self-expression, self-realization, and self-help that sparks the mind, touches the soul, and rejuvenates the spirit.

Process, not product, is the soul of craft practice. Whether you knit, crochet, sculpt, weave, quilt, tat, draw, or bind books, working toward small, attainable goals gives us a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and control that is proven to positively impact our mental health and happiness.

In Craftfulness, Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin offer a brilliantly reasoned argument in favor of craft and its positive impact on our mental well-being. Weaving personal experiences with the latest science on mindfulness, happiness, and creativity, they illuminate how craft practice reintroduces balance into our lives and habits by cultivating creativity, promoting focus, creating a safe environment for failure, and encouraging us to make peace with imperfection.

Like Matthew B. Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft, Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, Craftfulness helps us to see our world in a new way, offering opportunities to disconnect and pay attention to ourselves.]]> 198 Rosemary Davidson 0062883550 Karalee 2 e-book 3.36 2019 Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things
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]]> Hannah Coulter 146198 Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth-century technologies.]]> 190 Wendell Berry 1593760787 Karalee 4 e-book 4.39 2004 Hannah Coulter
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]]> <![CDATA[How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)]]> 573009 320 John C. Holt 0201484021 Karalee 4 book-that-i-own 4.25 1964 How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
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]]> <![CDATA[Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home]]> 60309046 The classic guide to teaching children at home for a new generation of homeschooling parents In 2019, there were more than two million children being homeschooled. That number doubled during the pandemic and is now likely to continue increasing as more parents worry that school might not be the best place for their children to learn and grow.Teach Your Own helped launch the homeschooling movement; now, its timeless and revolutionary message of recognizing the ways children come to understand the world has been updated for today’s environment. Parents and caregivers will discover how to Learning in a classroom versus learning in the worldThe difference between a learning difficulty (which we all experience every time we try to learn anything) and a learning disability.Schedules that achieve the homeschooling-work-life balance that you want as a familyThe relationship between learning and playHomeschooling and technologyAnd much more.John Holt's warm understanding of children and his passionate belief in every child's ability to learn have made this book an essential resource for over forty years to homeschooling families.]]> 386 John Holt 0306926202 Karalee 3 e-book 3.50 Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
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]]> <![CDATA[A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison]]> 1478861 210 James E. Seaver 0806127171 Karalee 4 e-book 3.54 1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
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average rating: 3.54
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rating: 4
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]]> The Door-to-Door Bookstore 62192261 The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations door-to-door and an unlikely friendship with a nine-year-old girl that changes his life, for fans of The Midnight Library and A Man Called Ove.

The bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff delivers books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world.

When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.

A bestselling phenomenon internationally,Carsten Henn’sThe Door-to-Door Bookstoreis a feel-good novel about books and friendship.]]> 239 Carsten Henn 133549085X Karalee 1 e-book 4.07 2020 The Door-to-Door Bookstore
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 2020
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures (AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures)]]> 55897994
Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls' contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls.

Exploring American Girls' History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation's story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being "American."

This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.]]> 276 Ashley E. Remer 1538120909 Karalee 3 e-book 3.67 Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures (AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures)
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name: Karalee
average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out]]> 127975811
We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human.

Shannon Reed, a longtime teacher, lifelong reader, and New Yorker contributor, gets it. With one simple goal in mind, she makes the case that we should read for pleasure above all else. In this whip-smart, laugh-out-loud-funny collection, Reed shares surprising stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students. From the varied novels she cherishes ( Gone Girl , Their Eyes Were Watching God ) to the ones she didn’t ( Tess of the d’Urbervilles ), Reed takes us on a rollicking tour through the comforting world of literature, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the surprising ways in which literature can transform us for the better.]]> 336 Shannon Reed 1335007962 Karalee 2 e-book 3.66 2024 Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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name: Karalee
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 2
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]]> Passing 57640287 Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.

Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.]]> 141 Nella Larsen 0593437845 Karalee 3 library 3.91 1929 Passing
author: Nella Larsen
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District]]> 22856150 320 James Rebanks 0385682840 Karalee 4 library 4.12 2015 The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
author: James Rebanks
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America]]> 59593246 Forest Walking teaches you how to get the most out of your next adventure by becoming a forest detective, decoding nature’s signs and awakening to the ancient past and thrilling present of the ecosystem around you.

What can you learn by following the spread of a root, by tasting the tip of a branch, by searching out that bitter almond smell?

What creatures can be found in a stream if you turn over a rock—and what is the best way to cross a forest stream, anyway?

How can you understand a forest’s history by the feel of the path underfoot, the scars on the trees along the trail, or the play of sunlight through the branches?

How can we safely explore the forest at night?

What activities can we use to engage children with the forest?

Throughout Forest Walking, the authors share experiences and observations from visiting forests across North America: from the rainforests and redwoods of the west coast to the towering white pines of the east, and down to the cypress swamps of the south and up to the boreal forests of the north.]]> 240 Peter Wohlleben 1771643315 Karalee 4 library 3.81 2022 Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America
author: Peter Wohlleben
name: Karalee
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit]]> 62918242 The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalouslove affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desireto break free from society'sconstraints.

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and German fluently, knew Greek and Latin, and sketched impressive portraits. As the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she was already well connected, and her courtly skills resulted in her marriage to the Hon. William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne) at the age on nineteen. For a few years they enjoyed a happy marriage, despite Lamb's siblings and mother-in-law detesting her and referring to her as "the little beast."

In 1812 Caroline embarked on a well-publicised affair with the poet Lord Byron - he was 24, she 26. Her phrase "mad, bad and dangerous to know"became his lasting epitaph. When he broke things off, Caroline made increasingly public attempts to reunite. Her obsession came to define much of her later life, as well as influencing her own writing - most notably the Gothic novelGlenarvon- and Byron's.

Antonia Fraser's vividly compelling biography animates the life of 'a free spirit' who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know.]]> 218 Antonia Fraser 1639364064 Karalee 3 library 3.69 Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
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]]> <![CDATA[The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Food)]]> 157466 284 Robert Farrar Capon 0375760563 Karalee 4 library 4.48 1989 The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Food)
author: Robert Farrar Capon
name: Karalee
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1989
rating: 4
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