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Caring for Family Pets by Radford G. Davis, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Editor (Hardcover)

Choosing and keeping our companion animals healthy.

Pets are extremely popular in the United States. According to a recent survey, one third of American homes contain one or more cats; almost 40 percent of U.S. households include at least one dog. Pets serve as cherished companions for everyone from young children to senior citizens. However, there are responsibilities and risks involved with pet ownership, and the proper care of these animals that many consider "family" involves much more than keeping a water dish and food bowl full.

This book is written by top animal health experts to explain our roles, rights, and health care challenges when bringing animals into our homes. Topics such as health, first aid, companion animal diseases, common surgeries, and alternative care for pets are all addressed. Information is also provided about pet birds, large pets such as horses, exotics such as snakes and reptiles, and "pocket pets" such as hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, and rats.

College Kids Cook by Carol Field Dahlstrom (Wirebound Hardcover)

This fun-to-read book is filled with great recipes for the beginning cook. The chapters relate immediately to college students. Just the Basics, Poor and Hungry, 5 Ingredients, Late Again-Take it With You, Read the Box, Eat Your Fruits and Veggies, and Impress Your Friends. From easy peanut butter pancakes and simple chili, to yogurt smoothies and baked apples, this book has it all. It even has a chapter on things kids need to know how to cook meat safely, how to know if a cake is done, how to buy groceries, basic food safety, and the best ways to cook veggies. Tested by college kids-this is a must-have book for anyone who likes to cook or eat! A great graduation gift for high school students or a going away present for a college student.

Fairies by Chance ... Friends by Grace by Austin J. Brunk (Paperback)

Illustrated by Mariea Plendl.

Parental Advisory: Exquisite Entertainment! This Story Is Great For Child, As Well As Mom And Dad. It's Not Always Sunny Skies And Rainbows In The Real Fairy World! Life Will Never Be The Same For The Fairy Sisters, Joselyn And Auselyn, As Their Paths Cross Ways With A Human Girl Named Grace. Take A "Road Trip" With Them As They Build A Relationship That Will Truly Last Forever. Pop Some Popcorn Or Order A Pizza And Settle In For A Ride That Can Be As Thrilling As The World's Fastest Rollercoaster, And As Unpredictable As The Weather On A Midwestern Spring Evening. It's A Ride That I Like To Call "Life". Enjoy.

--The Author

Farm Estate & Business Planning by Neil E. Harl (Paperback)

Written with minimum legal jargon and numerous examples, this book is suitable for all levels of people associated with farms and ranches, from farm and ranch families to lenders and farm managers. Some lawyers and accountants circulate the book to clients as an early step in the planning process. We invite you to begin your farm and ranch estate and business planning with this book and help save your hard-earned assets for your children.

Football's Fallen Hero by Steven L. Jones (Paperback)

The Jack Trice Story

Jack Trice was working to earn a degree and go south to help fellow African Americans when tragedy struck.

Gluten-Free Made Simple by Carol Field Dahlstrom (Paperback)

Easy everyday meals that everyone can enjoy

Most families with a member with celiac disease struggle to get food on the table that the whole family can enjoy. This easy-to-use cookbook focuses on creating simple recipes that minimize stress from three experts in the field. Most of the dishes use ingredients that are easily found in supermarkets and don't require the exotic flours, expensive ingredients or complicated recipes found in other gluten-free cookbooks. Here is a book that lives up to the promise of making real food for real people--real easy! With over 100 delicious and easy-to-make gluten-free recipes for every meal of the day from entrees, soups, salads, and appetizers, to desserts and other baked goods.

Leaving Long Island and other departures. A Memoir by Fern Kupfer (Paperback)

Leaving Long Island is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the explosive end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance endemic to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This second-half-of-life memoir is a compelling narrative of both pain and happy second chances.

Lebanese Blonde by Joseph Geha (Hardcover)

Lebanese Blonde takes place in 1975-76 at the beginning of Lebanon's sectarian civil war. Set primarily in the Toledo, Ohio, "Little Syria" community, it is the story of two immigrant cousins: Aboodeh, a self-styled entrepreneur; and Samir, his young, reluctant accomplice. Together the two concoct a scheme to import Lebanese Blonde, a potent strain of hashish, into the United States, using the family's mortuary business as a cover. When Teyib, a newly arrived war refugee, stumbles onto their plans, his clumsy efforts to gain acceptance raise suspicion. Who is this mysterious "cousin," and what dangers does his presence pose? Aboodeh and Samir's problems grow still more serious when a shipment goes awry and their links to the war-ravaged homeland are severed. Soon it's not just Aboodeh and Samir's livelihoods and futures that are imperiled, but the stability of the entire family.

Lessons for Teachers From A Through Z by Julie Hanson. (Paperback)

The author's reflections on her own teaching experiences are organized into practical lessons such as "A is for Alphabet" and "B is for Belonging". The book is appropriate for casual reading, or can be used as a course workbook. Teachers of all ages and subjects will discover useful and thought-provoking material.

Prairie Fire by Julie Courtwright (Hardcover)

Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives--destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty.

Running Away to Home by Jennifer Wilson (Paperback)

"Our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from, and what really matters."

So begins the author's journey in Running Away to Home. Jen, her architect husband, Jim, and their two children had been living the typical soccer- and ballet-practice life in the most Middle American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical to another country, so when they lost half their savings in the 2008 stock market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left for the Croatian mountains village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, and for several months they lived like locals: from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves.

The Rise and Fall of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Robert Underhill (Paperback)

FDR was at the helm when the United States escaped from its greatest economic depression, and thus he earned an important place in history. His supporters, for the most part, are adamantly uncritical and tend to overlook lapses and mistakes he made, especially during his third and fourth terms, and the changes in FDR's acumen brought on by the burdens of office, ill health, and age, not to mention an innate self-confidence that developed into arrogance.

This book examines the personal and administrative qualities of FDR and from that perspective analyzes the U.S. response to the changing global scene between the two world wars. Governments during the period preceding and throughout World War II were not without defects, yet despite lapses and mistakes made by the U.S. Administration in Washington between 1939 and 1945, the accumulated errors did not equal either of two major ones committed by wartime enemies: 1) Hitler s judgment in invading the Soviet Union, and 2) Japan s decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

World War I had reduced most of Western Europe to rubble, and in the aftermath of that debacle extreme poverty, due in large part to the harshness of peace treaties, swept over the defeated nations. The hardships of those times made it inevitable that some governments would attempt recovery through authoritarian and military means. In the United States, conditions first flourished and then, after the stock market crashed in 1929, sank into a Great Depression. Stresses were very grave, but rather than resorting to arms American citizens yielded to reforms instituted through measures of the New Deal, the hallmark of Roosevelt's presidency.

Meanwhile, totalitarian leaders in Germany and Italy encouraged huge rearmament programs and began encroaching upon neighboring governments. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and smaller nations were taken over by Nazis, thereby adding to a Reich which der Fuhrer (the leader) and his cohorts claimed would last a thousand years. Driven by that zeal, the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) in 1939 invaded Poland, and another World War was begun. Roosevelt and his interactions with Churchill, who was urgently seeking U.S. assistance -- while the American population wanted no part in another war -- make up a central theme of the current work.

The Rise and Fall of Franklin D. Roosevelt will appeal to readers who want to know more about the Great Depression, the New Deal, and events leading to World War II.

The Voice of College by Dr. Michael Severin & Kipp Van Dyke (Paperback)

The Freshman Experience. A success manual for your first year of college.

The streamlined style of the The Voice of College: the Freshmen Experience makes it easy to read and visually appealing with extensive usage of lists, illustrations, stories and points to ponder. This comprehensive book covers all major freshmen topics including: transitioning to college, academics, dorms, roommates, dating, finances, alcohol, laundry, and everything in between! This handbook is arranged in the chronology of a typical freshman student's experience, ranging from summer orientation to leaving campus in the spring. As a freshmen guide book, it prepares students for the major professional and personal choices they will encounter during college. The Voice of College has the practical and insightful information that a college freshman needs and wants with refreshing, unique humor to keep the reader interested. Dr. Michael Severin and Kipp Van Dyke have over 15 years of combined experience helping thousands of first-year college students while living in the residence halls and working on college campuses.

We Hope You Like This Song by Bree Housley (Paperback)

From fourth grade onward, shy, nervous Bree Housley and fearless, outgoing Shelly were an inseparable, albeit unlikely, pair. Their friendship survived everything from the awkward years of junior high to the transformative upheavals of early adulthood—until, at the young age of 25, Shelly lost her life to complications caused by Preeclampsia.

We Hope You Like This Song is a tribute to the ineffable, incomparable bond that we call friendship, and a celebration of living life to the fullest. Housley recounts how she and her sister found a way to keep Shelly’s memory alive—by spending a year doing crazy things that Shelly would have done, like giving Valentines to strangers, singing at a karaoke bar, and letting her boyfriend pick out her outfits for a week. In the process, she paints a vivid, often hilarious, portrait of her fun-loving, social butterfly best friend and the many adventures they had growing up together in '80s and ’90s small-town America. Sweet, poignant, and yet somehow laugh-out-loud funny, We Hope You Like This Song is a touching story of love, loss, and the honoring of a friendship after it’s gone.