Search Results: Titles starting with G from Books to Give ~ Books to Love

New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. Hardcover. New/New; some shelfwear. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee and American public figure known for her marriage to aviator Charles Lindbergh, wrote this touching book in the early 1950s while on a vacation to Captiva Island in Florida. Using metaphors of the beach and various shells she found, she reflects on her life and experience, and more broadly the experience of 20th century American women. A Kirkus Review from 1955 describes the work as "an intensely personal book in which, nonetheless, every thoughtful woman will find a reflection of her own half- realized frustrations and answers....A beautiful book." A HuffPost review from 2015 states, "the book is now 59 years old and is as fresh as the morning dew and as glorious as the beautiful sea." It is clear why this book has sold over 3 million copies!

New York: Dorset Press, 1991. Hardcover. New; unread. This cute little cookbook has a unique concept: it specifically contains recipes for foods meant to be given as gifts. The author writes in the introduction, "while any handmade present is a gift of love, those from the kitchen are straight from the heart." So, the book is filled with ideas for those gifts: a recipe for Herbed Mustard, which can be presented in a fancy jar; one for Gingerbread People, perfect for Christmas; another for Cottage Cookies, served at the King's Cottage in Pennsylvania to welcome guests. The edible gift ideas also include thoughts for how best to present them. A lovely gift book - and, if you give this book as a gift, you may soon be receiving very tasty gifts in return!

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989. Hardcover. As New. A beautiful gift book for the loved and respected older women in our lives. Pamela Valois' photography captures the beauty of age in a manner rarely seen. The black-and-white portrait photographs of women in their seventies and eighties are accompanied by vignettes demonstrating how these women are making the most of their later years. Designed for use as a yearly calendar; ribbon bookmark. Each page features a different portrait. Wonderfully refreshing in our society which seems to fear aging. This lovely calendar book is a perfect gift for women looking forward to or embracing their seventies and eighties.

New York: Villard, 2011. Hardcover. New/New. This touching book by New York Times Bestselling Author Jon Katz aims to help pet owners through the experience of grieving their pets. Katz writes in the introduction, "no one is foolish for grieving a dog or cat. A pet is... often an integral part of one's life, providing a loving emotional connection that has great meaning in a complex and cruel world." He goes on to share that he hopes to share what he has learned from his own grief with others going through the experience. The book includes advice on how to help children grieve pets, thoughts on end-of-life decisions for pets, and thoughts on the power of storytelling in grieving. The text is written compassionately and helps anyone going through this type of loss to feel less alone and find comfort.

Iola: Krause Publications, 2016. 3rd. Softcover. New. This reference work features detailed information on nearly 50,000 jazz albums from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are short descriptions of artists, record labels, and catalog numbers. Also of interest are album cover photographs and sections on identifying record labels and dating albums. The collection is well-researched and easy to navigate. An impressive amount of data.

Lawrence, Kansas: Education Division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, 1943. Paperback. Very good. Andrew Standing Soldier. This is not your typical modern early reader book. No, this was written specifically for the children of the Sioux nation, and is bilingual, with the English text on one side of the page and the Dakota text on the other. It was released by what was then called the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, as part of a series of what was termed "Indian life readers." The Grass Mountain Mouse tells the story of a young female mouse-who somehow combines characteristics of both a realistic field mouse and a realistic 20th-century Sioux-who lives a dutiful life until she goes to the rodeo. After that...all bets are off! Now she wants to be a rodeo cowboy! The story is by Ann Clark, who started writing children's books while working as a teacher in a one-room New Mexico schoolhouse; eventually, she wrote 40 books, 31 of them about Native culture, and won both the Newberry Medal and the a… Read More

Baltimore, MD: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1988. Hardcover. New/New. This book has such an unusual back story, is such "a ripping good yarn," its author was such a fascinating figure, and this edition is so handsome, that it would make a magnificent gift for a spy thriller or war story fan - but only if you can part with it. Let's start with the author: John Buchan was an Oxford-educated Scottish writer, historian, and politician. As a writer, he is best known for The Thirty-Nine Steps, a WWI spy thriller published in 1915. An influential, well-regarded public figure, and he was appointed as Governor General of Canada in 1935 and elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir. (The Thirty-Nine Steps was also adapted for the screen in 1935 by Hitchcock.) He had always been known for his personal integrity, and he took his duties as Governor General very seriously, traveling the length and breath of Canada, including the Arctic, and he advocated that the strongest nations were… Read More

New York: Avenel Books, 1973. Hardcover. New. Walter Crane. This compilation of original Grimm Brothers fairy tales includes some familiar names such as Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as less well-known titles such as The Six Swans, The Wolf and the Seven Goslings, and The Goose Girl. It features gorgeous black-and white illustrations by the influential children's book illustrator Walter Crane, as well as an attractive cover and gilt lettering on the front and spine.