Damon Centola

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

How to Make Big Things Happen

How to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this "utterly fascinating" (Adam Grant) big-idea book.



Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same.

 

When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex. When we are exposed to a new idea, our social networks guide our responses in striking and surprising ways.

 

Drawing on deep-yet-accessible research and fascinating examples from the spread of coronavirus to the success of the Black Lives Matter movement, the failure of Google+, and the rise of political polarization, Change presents groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting new science for understanding what drives change, and how we can change the world around us.

 

Change

31cb6071-15f3-4d81-9023-5d0a1e2c1244-1

Joan Gordon

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Essential Mending Know-How for Bachelors and Babes

Everything mom tried to teach you? Buttons pop, hems unravel, and zippers break?but don't despair, we've got the fix! This fun and practical guide covers every sewing crisis, with invaluable advice for the ?needle impaired.” Here are simple, basic skills that will eliminate mending traumas and save wardrobes and money. Easy-to-follow instructions and photos explain the basics of hand and machine sewing so anyone can fix fastenings, stitch seams and straps, replace zips, darn holes, and more. Plus: quick-as-a-flash emergency repairs, from double-sided tape to the office stapler!

Stitch 'n' Fix

a9678ad7-523d-44a5-8569-de51dde637ad-1

Carol Gubler

Neil Sutherland

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Practical Step-By-Step Guide

Developed with beginners and improving gardeners in mind, the clear instructions and step-by-step photographs in this book show exactly how to make the most of fuchsias, the most varied, versatile and popular of garden plants. There are 15 projects, a colour guide, and a help section.

Fuchsias

7917bc7c-bb72-4a3d-9ba7-575fa5f77612-1

David Clark

A Care Manual

Fuchsia

89ded0fe-0380-4ed2-b6e1-1a5d95036f71-1

Rieko Washizawa

Discover the classics, with a fresh twist. Bright colors, unique settings and stylish photography will give your classic blocks a new look! 47 gorgeous quilting projects with corresponding instructions and patterns are featured inside. Each project is beautifully photographed with detail shots highlighting special project accents. Full-size quilts, wallhangings and few quilted bags are all showcased?pick and choose your favorite projects! Featured patterns include: Feathered Star, Tennessee Star, Ohio Star, Harvest Sun, Wandering Diamond, Sunburst and Lone Star.

Classic Quilts with Contemporary Style

a932fe9d-c32a-40ce-8605-bb94b0082513-0

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Ferrari Road and Racing 

Alan Henry

The Grand Prix and Sports Car Competition History

Fifty Years of Racing Ferraris

410da078-029f-4f05-98ed-0d3dcfc56788-0

Susie Coelho

Easy Tips for Home, Garden, and Entertaining

Susie Coelho's down-to-earth personality and practical smarts about bringing beauty to life have won her millions of fans. Now, in Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling, she offers a liberating plan for infusing personal style into readers' home and gardens, often without spending a dime. Susie's credo is that the most appealing spaces are usually not the most expensive or decorator-correct. Homes develop authentic personal styles the same way people do -- through creativity, change, and the process of living. But how do you develop your own sense of style? Susie will show you how to find it, define it, and put it to use. The secret is the Style File: She'll help you create a collection of looks you love (pictures, swatches of material, scribbled ideas), organized as a practical reference for every space in your home and garden. As you discover common threads and new possibilities, your own vision will start to take shape. But do you have the time or the resources to bring this vision to life? As a wife and mother juggling the demands of family, career, social life, and community, Susie understands the obstacles -- and how to work around them. The aim is to start with what you already have, then rearrange, refresh, and add unexpected or missing elements to create a new look all your own. It's not formal decorating or landscaping according to someone else's rules; it's a personal process that Susie calls un-decorating -- or everyday styling. Filled with gorgeous color photographs, styling how-to's and tips, and lots of inspiration, Everyday Styling helps readers on any budget wake up their homes and gardens while putting their unique thumbprint on everything they do. You'll beable to create a whole new look and mood -- using pillows or fabric to jazz up old furniture, displaying and highlighting favorite possessions, or redoing a living room in three different ways -- all in one day. Moving outside, Susie offers tips on styling entrances according to the season, creating fantastic outdoor rooms for entertaining or play, and turning your yard into a garden of earthly delights. At every step, she helps you develop and draw on your most important resources -- your own imagination, creativity, and passion for living. Whether you're entertaining friends, hankering for a new perspective on that same old bedroom, or just hoping to perk up your patio with colorful plants, Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling shows how easy it is to keep you home and garden looking and feeling fresh and alive every day. Her message is simple but universal: Keep creating. That's the joy of life.

Everyday Styling

37ee61c8-7ac4-495c-9e5b-fa6b0733beb5-1

Jill Kennedy

Jane Varrall

Silk Painting

76b00fee-5a8d-4415-b185-c805be220a5d-0

Harlan Coben

In the shocking new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away, a man whose past is shrouded in mystery must find a missing teenage girl before her disappearance brings about disastrous consequences for her community . . . and the world. The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself.Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable only outdoors, preferably alone, and with few deep connections to other people. When a local girl goes missing, famous TV lawyer Hester Crimstein--with whom Wilde shares a tragic connection--asks him to use his unique skills to help find her. Meanwhile, a group of ex-military security experts arrive in town, and when another teen disappears, the case's impact expands far beyond the borders of the peaceful suburb. Wilde must return to the community where he has never fit in, and where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late.

The Boy from the Woods

90d38a49-bd7f-41ce-bb35-cc940f9f0c74-1

B. Janet Hibbs

Anthony Rostain

Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years

From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late. “The title says it all...Chock full of practical tools, resources and the wisdom that comes with years of experience, The Stressed Years of their Lives is destined to become a well-thumbed handbook to help families cope with this modern age of anxiety.” — Brigid Schulte, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Overwhelmed and director of the Better Life Lab at New America All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and the more we want to stay involved in their lives. This becomes particularly necessary, and also particularly challenging, in mid- to late adolescence, the years just before and after students head off to college. These years coincide with the emergence of many mood disorders and other mental health issues. When family psychologist Dr. B. Janet Hibbs's own son came home from college mired in a dangerous depressive spiral, she turned to Dr. Anthony Rostain. Dr. Rostain has a secret superpower: he understands the arcane rules governing privacy and parental involvement in students’ mental health care on college campuses, the same rules that sometimes hold parents back from getting good care for their kids. Now, these two doctors have combined their expertise to corral the crucial emotional skills and lessons that every parent and student can learn for a successful launch from home to college.

The Stressed Years of Their Lives

45364899-55c7-4c4c-a82e-43169acb56d0-1

Bren Smith

My Adventures As a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER 
IACP Cookbook Award nominee

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith--pioneer of regenerative ocean agriculture--introduces the world to a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis.
 
A genre-defining "climate memoir," Eat Like a Fish interweaves Smith's own life--from sailing the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers to developing new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement--with actionable food policy and practical advice on ocean farming. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, it is a powerful story of environmental renewal, and a must-read guide to saving our oceans, feeding the world, and--by creating new jobs up and down the coasts--putting working class Americans back to work.

Eat Like a Fish

2c89205a-95d6-49c9-aa2b-573d99d3fb17-1

America's Test Kitchen Staff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Complete America's Test Kitchen Tv Show Cookbook 2001 - 2011

827ecbcd-6e10-4e14-8122-e0d63e885533-0

The Editors The Editors of Food & Wine

50 Ingredients X 4 Recipes = 200 Simple, Creative Dishes

Based on FOOD & WINE's popular monthly column, Market Math starts with 50 everyday ingredients and transforms them into 200 fast, fresh, and delicious weeknight meals. This user-friendly guide is alphabetically organized by ingredient, each accompanied by four to six recipes that showcase its versatility and flavor. These are dishes you'll want to add to your weeknight repertoire: quick, crowd-pleasing dinners that make the most of farmer's markets and local foods stores. Discover new ways to use fresh produce, hearty grains, meat, seafood, and dairy. Transform broccoli into a creamy soup or pair it with kale for a refreshing salad. Canned tuna becomes a lemony dip or the basis for banh mi sandwiches. Standards like pasta, peppers, rice, and spinach get a makeover with inspired flavor combinations and genius techniques. The recipe collection features contributions from FOOD & WINE's favorite culinary stars, including Mario Batali, Giada De Laurentiis, and Bobby Flay. Each recipe has been tested and perfected by FOOD & WINE experts, ensuring success whether you're a novice or seasoned home cook. Brimming with inspiration and illustrated with lush color photos, Market Math is a kitchen shelf essential for every home cook.

Market Math

ac4a461b-2123-408e-9e1d-82bf12cffab7-1

Red Hot

Eat Cook L.A.

ea1f27ff-487b-4539-8e6f-9674f4fca36f-0

Anna Quindlen

A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life. Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined. Praise for Still Life with Bread Crumbs “There comes a moment in every novelist’s career when she . . . ventures into new territory, breaking free into a marriage of tone and style, of plot and characterization, that’s utterly her own. Anna Quindlen’s marvelous romantic comedy of manners is just such a book. . . . Taken as a whole, Quindlen’s writings represent a generous and moving interrogation of women’s experience across the lines of class and race. [Still Life with Bread Crumbs] proves all the more moving because of its light, sophisticated humor. Quindlen’s least overtly political novel, it packs perhaps the most serious punch. . . . Quindlen has delivered a novel that will have staying power all its own.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] wise tale about second chances, starting over, and going after what is most important in life.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Quindlen’s astute observations . . . are the sorts of details every writer and reader lives for.”—Chicago Tribune “[Anna] Quindlen’s seventh novel offers the literary equivalent of comfort food. . . . She still has her finger firmly planted on the pulse of her generation.”—NPR “Enchanting . . . [The protagonist’s] photographs are celebrated for turning the ‘minutiae of women’s lives into unforgettable images,’ and Quindlen does the same here with her enveloping, sure-handed storytelling.”—People “Charming . . . a hot cup of tea of a story, smooth and comforting about the vulnerabilities of growing older . . . a pleasure.”—USA Today “With spare, elegant prose, [Quindlen] crafts a poignant glimpse into the inner life of an aging woman who discovers that reality contains much more color than her own celebrated black-and-white images.”—Library Journal “Quindlen has always excelled at capturing telling details in a story, and she does so again in this quiet, powerful novel, showing the charged emotions that teem beneath the surface of daily life.”—Publishers Weekly “Quindlen presents instantly recognizable characters who may be appealingly warm and nonthreatening, but that only serves to drive home her potent message that it’s never too late to embrace life’s second chances.”—Booklist “Profound . . . engaging.”—Kirkus Reviews

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

ba740493-5f7a-4eda-995f-0e032c5cd8f5-1

The Low-Carb Bible

d6e03b56-e251-49e6-808d-2578c70a538e-1

Martin Nicolaus

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Bring People Together in Recovery the LifeRing Way - a Handbook

The growing demand for an abstinent recovery pathway free of the twelve-step model drives the growth of LifeRing support groups. This is a comprehensive handbook for people who are considering starting LifeRing in their community. It's also a useful reference for people already leading LifeRing meetings. How Was Your Week is based on thousands of hours of experience in face-to-face and online LifeRing meetings and includes the voices of dozens of experienced LifeRing group leaders (convenors). This updated and expanded version of the first (2003) edition adds two more chapters, many more suggestions and hints, and a first-chapter summary for the reader in a hurry.

How Was Your Week

a9f766f9-311b-4737-8f95-1fbcd272d02e-0

James Patterson

Bill Clinton

President Bill Clinton and bestselling novelist James Patterson set out to write the best thriller ever about an American president--The President Is Missing. What President Clinton and Patterson have created is the most dramatic three days any President has ever faced. Maybe the most dramatic three days in American history. And it could all really happen. The President Is Missing is Bill Clinton and James Patterson's totally authentic and spellbinding thriller.

The President Is Missing

453e0eff-14b6-48ca-b726-7c452ac235b9-1

Margaret I. Cuomo

Joseph Raffa

The Making of a New Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention

A report on how politics, ambition, and profits are obstructing advances in the war on cancer outlines a call for change that explains how most funding is being used to promote companies and individuals at the expense of cancer prevention programs.

A World Without Cancer

a2c508ce-20c9-4713-bc37-dc9d9194afff-0

There is a wonderful selection of recipes in this beautifully designed, easy-to-use cookbook, which contains mouthwatering photography and detailed step-by-step instructions to guide you through the preparation to the final presentation. Full of useful cook's tips, the book provides the ultimate in choice from a collection of delicious recipes to satisfy and delight the most demanding of appetites. The dishes include bright, new suggestions and innovative re-workings of traditional recipes. All use the freshest and most wholesome of ingredients.

Baking

050ebbe0-90f7-4881-8ab1-ace6dbaba346-0

Martha Stewart

Combines instructions for a variety of baking techniques, a visual glossary of equipment, tips on storage and make-ahead preparation, and more than 250 recipes for cakes, pies, biscuits, muffins, scones, breads, and pastries.

Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook

d5a04c30-8975-4a4e-a989-d20352be66b5-1

Cat Cora

Ann Krueger Spivack

Deborah Jones

Fast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals

As the star of the smash sensation Iron Chef America, Cat Cora is used to improvising exciting dishes on a moment's notice. In this book she shows you how to do it too, whether you want a spur-of-the-moment supper or a spectacular dinner that doesn't require spending your whole Saturday in the kitchen.

Cooking from the Hip is divided into four convenient sections, each with its own appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, sides, and desserts. You can turn to whichever chapter best suits your needs and mood, knowing that every dish will be simple and special.

Fast: Spicy Chicken and Peach Stir-Fry, Creamy Fettuccine with Sausage, Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes

Easy: Watermelon Gazpacho, Thai Chicken Salad, White Cheddar Corn Bread

Fun: Sunday Cheesesteak Sandwiches, Crispy "Fried" Chicken, Lemonade Cookies

Phenomenal: Mango Margaritas, Pomegranate-Glade Cornish Hens with Wild Rice, Italian Cream Cake

Cooking from the Hip is all about flexibility. You'll be able to use what you've got on hand without being afraid to substitute. You'll learn how to cut down on cooking steps, combine just a few ingredients in inventive ways, pull in leftovers, and wow your family and friends.

Cooking from the Hip

80a236ac-fc86-41a8-827b-24cf7db58e5b-1

Thomas Bookstore

Browse by categories