75 ways to make life easier—with baking soda Everyone has baking soda on hand to help cookies rise and keep the pantry smelling fresh. But this simple compound also has dozens of other applications for health, cleaning, gardening, and more. In The Baking Soda Companion, Suzy Scherr explains just how useful this all-natural pantry staple can be. Make extra-fluffy scrambled eggs, clean the coffee pot, soothe bug bites, mix up toothpaste and shampoo, remove stubborn grass stains, repel garden pests, and more. This is a straightforward, informative guide for anyone who wants to incorporate simple, affordable, and natural solutions into their day-to-day routine.

Discover 75 super-healthy uses for raw honey Honey is amazingly powerful, both in and out of the kitchen. Rich in vitamins and minerals, and containing antioxidant and antibacterial properties, honey can be used to soothe ulcers, burns, skin sores, inflammation, and more. And studies have shown honey does a better job of easing nighttime coughs and improving sleep than many commercial cough suppressants. In The Honey Companion, chef and DIY maven Suzy Scherr showcases recipes, home remedies, and beauty solutions that highlight honey’s unique flavor and utilize it in unexpected ways. She even includes clever household uses for beeswax. You can try: Honey-Sesame Popcorn Shortcut Baklava Herbal Cough Drops Burn treatment Conditioning Hair Treatment Beeswax Granite Countertop Polish

75 ways to make life easier—with baking soda Everyone has baking soda on hand to help cookies rise and keep the pantry smelling fresh. But this simple compound also has dozens of other applications for health, cleaning, gardening, and more. In The Baking Soda Companion, Suzy Scherr explains just how useful this all-natural pantry staple can be. Make extra-fluffy scrambled eggs, clean the coffee pot, soothe bug bites, mix up toothpaste and shampoo, remove stubborn grass stains, repel garden pests, and more. This is a straightforward, informative guide for anyone who wants to incorporate simple, affordable, and natural solutions into their day-to-day routine.

Good skin, healthy weight, digestion, even pest repellent—100 ways to use magical coconut oil Coconut oil should be a staple in every healthy person’s pantry. It is a superfood powerhouse in cooking, bringing moistness to baked goods and stability in the saucepan. It helps support the immune system with good-for-you fats. Use it for softer skin and more manageable hair. It’s the secret to better coffee: blended in with a morning joe, coconut oil increases energy and satisfies the appetite for hours. The Coconut Oil Companion provides instruction on how to get the most out of coconut oil, from recipes for cooking and baking, to health and wellness, beauty, and household uses, including: • Healthy Baking • Conditioning Hair Mask • Dental Care • All- Natural Soap • Bath Bombs • Furniture Polish Readers can take a natural approach to health, beauty, and home with coconut oil.

Natural Remedies and DIY Cleaners for a Safer, Natural Home Mom's Guide to a Clean & Healthy Home is a guidebook for using essential oils to keep your household naturally healthy and clean. It includes simple homemade recipes for everyday purposes: skincare, haircare, cleaning, and medicine, with a few extra natural remedies along the way! Revamp your entire home with natural, safer products. Mom's Guide to a Clean & Healthy Home contains a wealth of information about natural essential oils, what they are, how they work, and how to use them safely. In this book, find several simple recipes for clean beauty products, and even everyday cleaning products. All of these practical recipes can be used on a regular basis. Plus, discover natural health tips and learn how to make some swaps in the laundry room that will save you time and money! 100 DIY all-natural recipes, numerous natural living tips, and valuable essential oil education--this book has it all. In Mom's Guide to a Clean & Healthy Home, author Laura Ascher, the wellness advocate and essential oils expert behind the blog and YouTube channel Our Oily House, teaches you how to: Use essential oils safely and effectively to create a more natural lifestyle for your family Feel empowered to put together homemade skincare products, haircare products, and DIY cleaners Use essential oils for natural remedies for common ailments, and more! Readers of natural home and essential oil books like The Healing Power of Essential Oils, Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home, or Simply Living Well will love Mom's Guide to a Clean & Healthy Home.

Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.