A mommy manifesto for the mom who proudly strives to be less-than-perfect
Michelle Lamar is a wry observer of the politics of elementary schools, the perfect moms who run them, and the kids who are trying to grow up without being embarrassed to death by their parents. This book imparts invaluable advice on how to survive the brutal world of parenting, bake sales, and the PTA.
The White Trash Mom Handbook is a welcome and humorous approach to handling the pressures of modern-day motherhood. Readers can get a good laugh while learning the knowledge and skills needed to become a White Trash Mom:
Fake Bakin’ - transform store-bought treats into bake sale bestsellers! Making Friends - how to spot a fellow White Trash Mom from 50 paces Helping Out - give back to the school without sacrificing your time or sanity.
The White Trash Mom Handbook will teach moms to let go of being the best and embrace their inner rebel so they can enjoy their kids more, avoid PTA purgatory, and get a real life.
About this product: Vickie Dellaquila draws on her experience as a professional organizer and senior move manager to share her most valuable tips on downsizing and moving. Here is a book that will help you downsize, organize, and move in an organized, efficient, and caring manner. With her background in healthcare and social services, Vickie brings expertise and warmth to helping seniors face the physical and emotional aspects of moving to a new home. Whether you are a senior embarking on this new chapter of your life or are helping family members or friends downsize and move, this book is your roadmap.
About this product: Discover the world of abandoned and derelict trailers as photographed by Bob Moore. Each page is a nostalgic treasure with old advertising, mementoes, and photos of the once proud homes of those who may have had a touch of the gypsy in their soul. Profusely illustrated, Trailer Trash is a must have for anyone who ever looked longingly at one of these steel or aluminum homes on wheels during the 1940s or 1950s.
Large format, 128 pages, softcover.
The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients.
High Tech Trashis a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in China and India where shiploads of discarded electronics arrive daily. There, they are "recycled"-picked apart by hand, exposing thousands of workers and community residents to toxics.
As Grossman notes, "This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story."
The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. IfSilent Springbrought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides,High Tech Trashcould do the same for a new generation of technology's products.
About this product: All Debbie Sue Overstreet got out of her marriage to the sheriff of Salt Lick, Texas, was a gas station that didn't pump! So she turned the property into the Styling Station, the best beauty parlor in town -- and if she didn't get rich, at least she learned all the local gossip.
But she wasn't prepared for the news that the nastiest woman in town had been bumped off! Suddenly, everyone's a suspect and Debbie Sue decides to go after the reward ... even if it means she's got to get close to Buddy, that lousy, good-looking ex-husband of hers.
Debbie Sue's investigation sends her on a wild ride. Who is the man named Eugene ... and what's with his alter-ego Janine? Where is the mysterious red-haired woman? Why is Buddy trying to get her back? And, scariest of all, when did she begin to think he could be right?
About this product: With a respectful nod to Ernie Mickler’s original WHITE TRASH COOKING, Kendra Bailey Morris pulls open the back door of her Granny Boohler’s kitchen to chronicle the next generation of cookin’ and socializin’ the Southern white trash way. Bubbling over with treasured family recipes, entertaining ideas, and crafty décor suggestions, WHITE TRASH GATHERINGS has the perfect dish for every occasion, whether it’s potlucking, just havin’ ‘em ovah, headin’ home for the holidays, or creating a holy gatherin’ from scratch. Next time the kin sets down to Sunday supper, serve it West Virginia style, and make sure there’s plenty, ‘cause when Maw Maw and Paw Paw come from down ‘round Possum Hollow, they’ll be expecting to leave with a belly-full.
About this product: The wild adventure begins once our trash hits the canas Elizabeth Royte boldly follows the things weve disposed of to their ultimate (often surprising) destination. Her highly praised book melds science, travel, anthropology, and a strong dose of clear-headed analysis as it reminds us how our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact.
About this product: The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told is simply amazing-- a completely unexpected joy and a gem of a book that made me weep and smile. It is about a "white trash boy" who loves a "white trash girl," how she responded to it, and how that love found its way through the pains of life in the white ghetto. While the story is full of romance, mystery, and good humor, it is mostly about the heart knowing its true course. The main characters are rough, uncultured, hard headed, and hard to understand, but they only want the things we all want-- love, freedom, the right to be themselves. Their dreams are our dreams, and sometimes, just sometimes, dreams come true! (But not in the way you would expect-- truly an amazing story!)