Jamie Oliver's Comfort Food: The Ultimate Weekend Cookbook by Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is one my all-time favorite chefs - he keeps his recipes as simple as possible, while the end product is always satisfying and flavorful. In Comfort Food, Jamie Oliver has collected recipes from around the world, just in time for the season filled with food, family and friends. Whether you’re looking for an exotic new dish to spice up your evening table or the main course for your holiday dinner - you won’t be disappointed by this collection of recipes!  

Loteria: A Novel

You may have read dozens of books about a tragic family, but how many of those books were written through a card game? Loteria is a Mexican game much like Bingo, played with 54 pictures (instead of numbers). 11-year-old Luz uses the cards to tell the story of her family. Each chapter is a Loteria card, each chapter slowly reveals the tragic story of her family. “The drum” tells the story of her abusive, alcoholic father who broke her arm. The following chapters reveal other tragedies such as the arrest of her father, an accidental shooting, the death of her sister, and disappearance of her mother. As each event is revealed, the reader begins to wonder how this story can have a happy ending? How will an 11-year-old find peace after so much tragedy? This is Mario Alberto Zambrano’s first novel.

Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party Snacks

The cold winter months are the perfect season for warm cocktails such as Hot Toddy, Mulled Wine, Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate, and English Christmas Punch. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic receipts are included. In addition to cocktails, you'd also find recipes for homemade marshmallows; Cheater Doughnuts (which calls for store-bough biscuit dough); Cheese-Crusted Olives; and Orange, Cardamom, and Pistachio Mexican Wedding Cakes. If you're not a skilled cocktail maker, there are instructions for making ice molds, muddling, and opening champagne. Cheers!  
 

Assistive Technology in Special Education, 2E: Resources for Education, Intervention, and Rehabilitation

Communication, learning, attention can be especially challenging for children with disabilities. Author Green provides a valuable resource for helping children overcome learning challenges with on-line resources for mobile websites, Facebook groups, blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos, researching cell phones or eBook readers, and mobile device apps. Mobile devices apps focus on articulation and speech intelligibility, word knowledge and word retrieval, improve speaking in phrases and sentences, teaching actions and directing others, verb agreement and tense, comprehension of sounds, interactive books, improving writing skills, and improving cognition. Apps are mostly for Apple devices, although Android Mac, and Windows software are also included. Prices range from free to over $1,000. This is a valuable resource for children, teachers, and parents!
 

The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of Drugs

Take a fascinating journey through the history of drugs (60,000 BCE – 2020). Author Gerald doesn’t limit the history of drugs to just medicines used to treat illnesses or illegal drugs; this history also includes alcohol, tea, coffee, and herbs. Interesting facts include: Freud advocated cocaine for treating mental disorders and Napoleon had psychogenic attacks due to gonorrhea. Each drug includes a brief history and a color illustration or photograph.

Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal

Do you have mean girls at work? Maybe they aren’t overtly “Wicked Witch of the West” mean. Maybe their meanness is more “talk about you behind your back” or “forget to tell you about a meeting.” It’s subtle and it’s mean. So how do you deal with meanness? Do you rant about them on your Facebook page? (Spoiler alert: Your response to this question is “No!”) Authors Crowley and Elster describe several personality types (you are sure to identify your co-workers within these types!) such as “She Sees All Women as Adversaries”, “She’s Extremely Argumentative”, “She’s Cold and Rejecting”, “She Talks Down to You”, “She’s Very Moody”, and She’s a Nonstop Talker”. What makes this is a helpful “boots on the ground” office book is the authors describe each of these personality types and how to respond, both in the short term and long term. Maybe you’ll never be best friends with all your co-workers after reading this book, but you’ll find plenty of tips for makes peace at work and maybe even get along well enough to ask your former mean co-worker out for a cup of coffee!  

Shooting with Soul: 44 Photography Exercises Exploring Life, Beauty and Self-Expression - From film to Smartphones, capture images using cameras from yesterday and today.

Do you love taking pictures? Do you need inspiration to create more interesting and creative shots? Author and photographer Alessandra Cave provides 44 exercises to get you shooting more creative photographs, including: mornings (“take pictures of your breakfast”), evenings (“photograph lit bridges and city lights”), traditions (“document a family reunion”), play (“photography children at play”), and taste (“photograph a favorite dessert”). If photography is your newest passion, you’ll find camera basics such as choosing your camera, lenses, and light and exposure. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced photographer – you’ll plenty of inspiration for your next shot – highly recommended!