Let's Get Healthy

2009 is here and so is the chance for all of us to get healthy. It doesn't matter what we attempted to do last year and didn't accomplish. Remember the famous words of the character Scarlett O'Hara from the book Gone With the Wind: "Tomorrow is another day." Well that day is here and it is ours.

The following books will assist us in getting the information we need to select the right foods and recipes to help us get healthy.

The Beauty Diet: looking great has never been so delicious! by Lisa Drayer.

McGraw-Hill, 2009.

According to nationallyknown nutritionist Lisa Drayer, it's not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Her book reveals her top 10 beauty foods. Her easy-to-follow program offers a four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipes.

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ChefMD's big book of culinary medicine: a food lover's road map to losing weight, preventing disease, and getting really healthy. by John La Puma and Rebecca Powell Marx. Crown Publishers, 2008.

Dr. La Puma, renowned physician and professionally trained chef, offers a step-by-step eight week plan to motivate you and help you change your life by teaching you how to eat the right food so your "inner doctor" can do its work.

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Techniques of healthy cooking. by The Culinary Institute of America.

John Wiley, 2008.

Created by the experts at The Culinary Institute of America, this title is an indispensable companion in today’s health-conscious world. Drawing on the latest dietary guidelines, it provides detailed information for cooks eager to introduce more flavorful, healthier choices to their menus. Nearly 150 vibrant, all-new color photographs showcase finished dishes and illustrate the techniques, ingredients, and equipment of healthy cooking.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

It doesn't seem possible that it's been over 40 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Had he lived, he would have been 80 years old on January 15. BCL has a number of books on this famous leader, some of the newest additions are listed below.


Truth at Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten. Lyons Press, 2008


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What Would Martin Say? by Clarence B. Jones and Joel Engel.
Harper, 2008.

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As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom, by Richard Michelson. A.A. Knopf, 2008.

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King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff. Hill and Wang, 2008.

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Get Organized!

Take advantage of the wet weather to get your home or office organized. It's the perfect time to straighten out the inside so you can enjoy the outside when the weather improves. We have many books on organization, the following titles are just a few to get you started.

Eliminate Chaos: The 10-Step Process to Organize Your Home & Life by Laura Leist. Sasquatch Books, 2006.

Describing the organizing process and psychological reasons for clutter, Leist takes a room-by-room approach to organization. This colorful book is sure to inspire.

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Shelf Expression: 70 Projects & Ideas for Creative Storage & Display by Marthe Le Van. Lark Books, 2003.

Covering a wide array of shelving possibilities, Le Van creates not only practical but also visually attractive shelves for your home.

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Storage Solutions. Taunton Press, 2004.
Another title from one of the best publishers of home project books. This step-by-step guide shows the reader how to build a variety of cabinets, cubbies and other storage units.

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Renewals are possible for fantastic doorstoppers which have no holds on them.

Here is a short list of long books that most won't finish reading in 3 weeks. However, one should not hesitate to check out a thick book from the library. Right now there are holds on some of these books but these authors write other fatties, so don't worry. Books by Marcel Proust, Homer, John Gardiner, and Don Delillo are giant. We will renew all things twice as a normal policy if no one is on hold for that title. Let yourself be carried away from this madding world into a massive never-ending book.

1.The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. The powerful and liberating feminist novel that raised the consciousness of an entire generation.




2. Life, a Users Manual, by Georges Perec. The eye follows the paths that have been laid down for it in the work," begins Perec's encyclopedic novel, which details everything, animate and inamimate, in an imaginary apartment house. His characters unfailingly do the least expected: Laurelle, killed at her own wedding by a falling chandelier; Ingeborn, who casts a white actor as Otello; Gregoire, fired from a vegetarian restaurant for pouring beef extract in the vegetable soup; a judge's wife sentenced to hard labor. The author reserves the greatest irony for Percival Bartlebooth, like himself an artist.

3. Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon. By orchestrating fantastic, dramatic, and all-too-real goings-on in the Wild West, the Bowery, London, Gottingen, Venice, Mexico, Bukhara, Albania, and Tuva, Pynchon illuminates the human endeavor in all its longing, violence, hubris, and grace. A capacious, gritty, and tender epic.

4. Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. The huge cast and multilevel narrative serve a story that accelerates to a breathtaking, heartbreaking, unforgettable conclusion. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human.

5. 2666, by Roberto Bolaño. Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666 "was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope.

Did you resolve to stop smoking in 2009?

We have books and compact discs to help you if you have resolved to stop smoking in 2009!

Here are a few examples:

How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good (book on compact disc)

by Gillian Riley. Bolinda Publishing. 2007.

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Never Smoke Again : The Top 10 Ways to Stop Smoking Now & Forever

by Grant Cooper. Square One Publishers. 2007.

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Quit Before You Know It: The Stress-Free, Guilt-Free Way to Stop Smoking - By Planning Your Relapses.

by Sandra Rutter. Hazelden Publishing. 2006.

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Stop Smoking.

by Matthew Aldrich. Contemporary Books. 2006.

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