Sagebrush and Solitude

Sagebrush and SolitudeBy: Ann M. Wolfe The first book on the great American landscape painter to focus primarily on his work in Nevada, capturing the beauty of the American West, its open spaces and the developing landscape at the dawn of the modern era. This is the first comprehensive publication on the paintings, letters, photographs, and poetry made by Maynard Dixon (18751946) while he was in Nevada. This large, landscape format book accompanies a blockbuster exhibition

It would also be good for independent reading by students interested in biographies or political figures

Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz draws on her years spent in Mexico to offer a comprehensive and delectable sampling of Mexican cuisine

and the clash between science and fundamentalism

and tastes of late-summer Provence

Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic—the star of her school's running team

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Tutored by the brightest minds

with a gentle rhyme and wonderful illustrations by Louise Forshaw

each scene can be completed multiple times for hours of screen-free fun

With the same insights Quindlen brought to motherhood in Living Out Loud and to growing older in Lots of Candles

Her first instinct was to say no—there was no history of cancer in her family