Böcker utgivna av Blue Star Press

A title, in which each letter of the alphabet gets its own alliterative sentence involving a name, an activity and an animal. It offers a fresh approach to the ABCs, coupled with colourful collage art.

Whether you're searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available. In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists. For the friend wanting to leave her job: "e;Living Your Dream"e; offers good armchair dreaming books about people who have left stodgy jobs to do what they love. Are you a budding chef? "e;Fiction For Foodies"e; includes books that sneak in a recipe or two along with a tantalizing plot. For the James Bond wannabe: "e;Crime is a Globetrotter"e; features crime novels set in various locations around the world such as Tibet, Sweden, and Sicily. In the book's introduction, Pearl jokes, ';If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, ';Hi, I'm Nancy P., and I'm a readaholic.' Booklist magazine plays off this obsession while echoing a sentiment of Nancy Pearl's fans everywhere: ';A self-confessed ';readaholic,' Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery.' Indeed.

This power-foods healthy-living guidebook will inspire readers to eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. ';Food as medicine' is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnourished childhood and adolescence. Part power-foods cookbook, part handbook for healthy living and eating, and part memoir, Passionate Nutrition provides digestible information, tips, and techniques for how to find your way to optimal health. She focuses on abundant eating (as opposed to restrictive eating), and explores what she calls ';the healthy trinity'digestion, balance, and whole foods. Adler guides and encourages readers to shift their diet to achieve this desirable balance, introduces power foods we should all eat, and provides healthy ways to lose weight, along with simple recipes to optimize health. With her personal story interwoven, readers will be inspired to embrace the healthy power of food.

In this follow-up to their successful Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook, Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis Hearne show off the many virtues of that beloved kitchen standby, the Dutch oven. Whether the model in hand is a well-used and blackened garage-sale find, or the latest celery-green beauty from Le Creuset, thdutch oven really is the best pot in your kitchen. This is the pot for slow cooking, simmering pot roasts and flavorful braises and stews. Moving effortlessly from stovetop to oven, the dutch oven is the pot you will reach for to cook comfort food classics all-year long.

Combat chronic inflammation, ease over-stressed digestive and immune systems, and make better food choices with this easy-to-follow nutrition plan and cookbook Inflammation in the body shows up in the form of aches, pains, digestive distress, skin rashes, and swelling, and can lead to arthritis, type 2 diabetes, food allergies, skin conditions, and weight gain. Inflammation can result from undiagnosed food allergies or an autoimmune condition, or a diet that contains lots of processed foods, sugar, and meat. Adopting an anti-inflammatory diet can help. Health & wellness luminaries such as Dr. Oz, Michael Pollan, and Mark Bittman have all touted the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet, and people are becoming increasingly aware of its benefits. Seattle nutritionist Michelle Babb lays out a sustainable diet plan that's a snap to maintainit's essentially a Mediterranean, or pescatarian, diet that increases the intake of plant-based foods. WithAnti-Inflammatory Eating Made Easy, you'll eat as much as you want, lose weight, and heal your body. And the great thing is that with this diet, you never go hungry! As long as half your plate is vegetables and fruit, and the other half is starch and fish, you may start to see health improvements in weeks once you adopt the diet. Dramatic lifestyle changes can be difficult, but this easy-to-follow plan makes anti-inflammatory eating approachable, understandable, and delicious.