A Gutsy Girl; Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul with illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton $18
Why should girls miss out on the joy of adventure? They can jump off rocks, swing on ropes, and climb trees just as well as boys can. But girls often allow fear to stand in their way. In The Gutsy Girl, author Caroline Paul emboldens girls to seek out a life of exhilaration. Once a young scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear got in the way of the life she wanted--of excitement, confidence, self-reliance, friendship, and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers, climbed tall mountains, and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San Francisco. She shares her greatest escapades as well as those of other girls and women from throughout history, and offers engaging activities such as confidence-building stances, creating a compass, positive self-talk, and using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Each section includes a place for girls to "journal" their adventures, thus encouraging a new generation to develop a zest for challenges and a healthy relationship to risk. 
Do you have a Gutsy Girl in your life who could use some encouragement? This book is a wonderful mix of stories and things to do. Perfect gift for a 10 year old or 30 year old.


Just in time for Women's History Month comes the release of The Compete Wimmen's Comix compiled by Trina Robbins $100
This two-volume, slipcased set collects two decades of the groundbreaking underground/alternative anthology Wimmen's Comix.
This is an incredible collection of an amazing array of comix including some in 3-D. Not to be missed for a fan.



Cocktails for Drinkers: Not-Even-Remotely-Artisanal, Three-Ingredient-or-Less Cocktails That Get to the Point by Jennifer McCartney $14.95  It's the anti-hipster book for the person who just wants a good, simple cocktail. Period.






The Quick Six Fix by Stuart O'Keefe $27.99  Yet another attempt at simplicity. Preparing a meal doesn't need to be difficult or require a lot of time, celebrity chef Stuart O'Keeffe insists. If you work efficiently while keeping your space clean and cook with minimal yet flavorful ingredients, you can get a great meal from stove to table fast. In The Quick Six Fix, he offers dozens of delicious recipes for breakfast, salads, soups, pasta, fish, chicken, pork, beef, sides, and desserts that will get you in and out of the kitchen in thirty minutes or less. Each requires no more than 6 key ingredients, 6 minutes of prep work, and 6 minutes of clean up.

Half-Earth; Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson $25.95  Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent. Angrily challenging the fashionable theories of Anthropocenes, who contend that humans can survive alone in an Edenic bubble engineered for their own survival, Wilson documents that the biosphere does not belong to us. Yet, refusing to believe that our extinction is, as so many fear, predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending "Sixth Extinction" is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the earth.

And speaking of earth, we have a display of gardening books out since it's about that time to at least plan for what you'll grow now that we have some water in the dirt.