'Here is Paris presented as a series of memories by a parent who understands that 'the special things' to share with a child are not always the attractions featured in the guidebooks....The photographs...are gorgeous....The understated narrative complements but never distracts from the visual feast....An eyeful of delight.'--Horn Book.

Among America's garden cities, one of the most remarkably beautiful is New Orleans. Now the exotic New Orleans garden can live not only in romance but also in settings very close to home. Whether in the Vieux Carre or in the humid hinterlands, anyone hoping to recreate such a romantic spot in the climes of the Gulf Coast region should consult Charlotte Seidenberg's essential handbook.

In this new edition of a favorite manual among New Orleans gardeners, Seidenberg instructs how to create a beautiful garden in this subtropical, sometimes richly alluvial zone and identifies plants that over generations have become a part of the gardening heritage of New Orleans. She discusses such basics as soil preparation and pest control and advises the gardener on how to grow roses, native and exotic trees and shrubs, vines, annuals, perennials, ferns, wildflowers, bulbous and tuberous plants, and groundcovers. She instructs how best to create specialty gardens such as container gardens and herb gardens. Like many other gardeners today, she is ecology-conscious, strongly advocating that one should garden not only for beauty but also for attracting wildlife.

From the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps' underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experiences, beliefs, and sources of strength.

If you are lucky you know someone like the elderly lady in this book. Whenever she sees you--coming home from school, trick-or-treating at Halloween, or walking with your dog in the wood--she makes you feel special. She is someone you admire. She is someone you love.

A young woman looks back at her childhood in a harsh orphanage and describes her growing love for the man who employs her as governess

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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.

A century of critical discussion about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' is combined with excerpts from Gilman's autobiography and interpretations of the story's imagery, plot, and psychological significance

Here's all the information you need to build a well or septic system yourself - and save a lot of time, money, and frustration. S. Blackwell Duncan has thoroughly revised and updated this second edition of Wells and Septic Systems to conform to current codes and requirements. He also has expanded this national bestseller to include new material on well and septic installation, water storage and distribution, water treatment, ecological considerations, and septic systems for problem building sites.

Charlotte Brontë's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has, ever since its publication in 1847, enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving affirmation of the prerogatives of the heart in the face of disappointment and misfortune.

Nato in un contesto monastico e in una cultura ben diversa da quella occidentale, lo zen, con le tonache nere e le teste rasate dei suoi seguaci e l'atmosfera esotica dei suoi rituali tradizionali, può ben sembrare una fuga dai problemi della vita reale, una ricerca di esperienze 'speciali' e straordinarie che ha poco a che fare con la realtà del xx secolo. Ma lo zen, come appare chiaramente dall'insegnamento di Joko Beck, sta proprio nel calarsi fino in fondo nella vita ordinaria, quotidiana, fatta di rapporti sociali e affettivi, di pannolini da cambiare, di avanzamenti nella carriera, di ipoteche sulla casa: di tutte quelle cose insomma che riteniamo troppo banali e per nulla spirituali e illuminanti. I dialoghi qui raccolti, trascrizioni di discorsi non formali tenuti in occasione dei ritiri intensivi di meditazione, mettono in luce il vero obiettivo della pratica: imparare a vivere ogni momento così com'è, a esperirlo fisicamente, visceralmente, senza filtrarlo attraverso i preconcetti e i cliché della mente, perché solo allora, svanito l'io, ci appare la meraviglia della vita quotidiana in tutta la sua splendida semplicità. È tutto qui, è questa l'illuminazione? Sì, se ricordiamo l'antico principio ch'an del wu-shih, 'nulla di speciale', e se crediamo in una pratica non dualista che investa la totalità della vita.

With her finely tuned ear for the concerns and cadences of childhood, Zolotow records a little girl describing all the things she likes that grown-ups usually do not. This tale, adapted from Zolotow's I Want to Be Little and newly illustrated with appealing watercolors, will strike a pleasurable chord with adults and children.

In our society, sex can easily become the price many women pay for love and the illusion of security. A woman who seeks a sense of personal power and an escape from pain may use sex and romance as a way to feel in control, just as an alcoholic uses alcohol; but sex never satisfies her longing for love and self-worth. In this wise and compassionate book, Charlotte Kasl shows women how they can learn to experience their sexuality as a source for love and positive power and sex as an expression that honors the soul as well as the body.

A small girl runs away from her domineering older sister, only to discover how much she is needed and loved. ‘A heartwarming picture book for small girls.’ —BL.

Children's Books of the Year 1966 (CSA)

The experiences of a British instructor teaching in a Brussels school are depicted in this nineteenth-century, English novel