Books and Activities

Epic Salads will satisfy every salad craving, no matter your mood. The latest vegetarian cookbook from plant-based cook Jessica Prescott, Epic Salads includes over 60 recipes from light and fresh to hearty and wholesome. Rather than a side or simple starter, this book shows you how to make delicious and filling salads that are meals in their own right. Jess walks you through the five key elements for building delicious salads: leaf, body, protein, dressing and crunch. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll never make a boring salad again. From a simple soba noodle salad to a showstopping haloumi, chickpea and rice salad or the ultimate loaded guacamole, there’s something everyone will love. Whether you’re looking for a fresh lunch option or need to feed a family of fussy eaters, Epic Salads is the unpretentious guide to making delicious, easy and accessible plant-based meals.

Hack Your Nervous System is your "cheat code" to reclaiming a sense of calm, safety, and regulation in your life. HYNS was created by a licensed mental health counselor and is infused with 60 Evidence-Based Mind-Body practices that have been sourced and adapted from the ancient lineages of Yoga, Qi Gong, Buddhism, and Eastern Medicine, as well as the present day science of Somatic Therapy.

These decks have been designed with the utmost care and organized through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, a groundbreaking concept that helps regulate and bring flexibility to your Nervous System. They provide you with accessible and effective techniques to soothe and regulate, allowing you to reclaim control over your well-being.

Crafted from high-quality, matte-finished card stock. Sturdy construction ensures long-lasting durability and safety of product integrity in transit. Vibrant colors and high-definition printing.    

Expand your journaling with this five-year memory book journal Jot down ideas or highlights one page for every day and compare your entries to the same date in years past in this notebook. 

For many of us, one of our strongest – yet vaguest – desires is to be more creative. But how can we achieve this? Creativity isn’t reserved for artists – it’s about how we think, explore and play. It’s a skill we can nurture and gently tease out of ourselves. This set of cards is a tool to help us awaken the imaginative and original parts of our minds. Each prompt invites us to surprise ourselves, ask unusual questions and rediscover our longing to create something new.

Unlock the power of self-reflection with this set of 52 prompt cards designed to guide your journaling journey. Delve deeper into your thoughts, emotions, and priorities as you explore meaningful topics for self-exploration.

Let these thought-provoking prompts inspire and motivate you as you embark on a path to better understanding yourself and finding clarity. Elevate your journaling experience with these insightful cards and pave the way to a more purposeful and calm mindset.

In a culture that constantly tells us to do more of everything but simultaneously pressures us to do nothing, Permission to Rest is a passionate cry for a more regulated, resourced, and rested life.

Wellness expert Ashley Neese combines personal essays, contemplative questions, scientific research, and somatic practices to help us disrupt the state of urgency, reflect inward, and relax deeply. Neese examines common beliefs around rest and offers support and guidance to challenge the shame, guilt, and discomfort that often arise when we attempt to slow down.

Neese presents a series of body-focused best practices for those who are running on empty, such as Cultivating a Rest/Work Rhythm, Nature Bathing, and Social Media Sabbatical. She addresses common roadblocks when beginning a rest practice, the incredible health benefits of prioritizing rest, and a number of holistic resources for developing a sustainable relationship with rest.

In the modern home, it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed, and more whether it's personal, comfortable, and filled with the objects you love. Through inspiring home tours and practical advice on how and what to collect, Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer take you on an educational and highly visual journey through the questions at the core of their design philosophy: What makes an object worth having? Why should we collect objects, and how do they impact our lives?

How to Live with Objects guides collectors, design lovers, and novices alike towards a more sophisticated and skilled mindset in acquiring and living with objects. Khemsurov and Singer offer a detailed primer on how to maximize the thoughtfulness of your space, regardless of your size limitations or style preferences. 

A roadmap to the varied sometimes delightful, sometimes daunting realities of dating It is so natural to want our dating days to come to an end, but we should never lose sight of the genuine merits and delights that lie closely entwined with their pains.

Dating might seem like a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can last and help us flourish. 

Hardback book | 128 pages | 161mm x 115mm

Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make, and the cost of repeated failure is immense. This book explains why we have the ‘types’ we do, and how our early experiences give us scripts of how and whom we love.

This richly illustrated book from a lauded cheesemonger--perfect for all cheese fans, from newcomers to experts--teaches you how to make a stylish cheese platter, repurpose nibs and bits of leftover cheese into something delicious, and expand your cheese palate and taste cheeses properly. Alongside the history and fundamentals of cheese-making, you'll even learn why cheese is actually good for you (and doesn't make you fat!), find enlightenment on the great dairy debate--pasteurized versus not pasteurized--and improve your cheese vocabulary with a handy lexicon chart.

Grazing is an enchanting way to eat. It means skipping from dish to dish, tasting different things without committing to a single one. It’s about creating multiple dishes that work together as a meal, that all share a theme, an aesthetic.

When she entertains, or even pulls together a quick dinner for just two, food stylist Suzanne Lenzer enjoys this tapas-style of eating—and with her guidance, you can too.

 When it comes to making small plates at home, start with cheese and charcuterie, but then combine this classic with a few easy dishes that make a meal special.

Try your hand at fun, fast recipes like chickpea fries with Meyer lemon-scented aioli; roasted beet tartare with cheese and pistachios; kale, spinach, and Pecorino pizza slivers; sardine bruchetta with fennel and preserved lemons; scallop and plum ceviche with tarragon; and lemon-lavender posset—to name just a few. Making delicious, beautiful dishes and snacks for grazing, whether for two or twelve, doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming.

James Beard Award-winning chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi share the secrets of their beloved restaurant, which has become synonymous with New York City’s Greenwich Village. Since 2014, Via Carota has been a destination for food lovers, celebrities, and well-informed travelers because of its impeccable Italian fare. 

 Emphasizing vegetables and seasonal cooking, the dishes that come out of Williams and Sodi’s kitchen are astonishing in their simplicity yet dazzling in their elegance. Now, with this beautiful, deeply personal cookbook, they share the keys to cooking Via Carota’s traditional (but not too traditional) cuisine at home.

Here are more than 140 recipes, including:  

• Lasagna Cacio e Pepe   • Roasted Carrots with Spiced Yogurt and Pistachios   • Tuscan Onion Soup   • Potato Gnocchi   • Sweet Ricotta Cake   • and more! 

Have fun doodling away with our multi-color 6-in-1 ballpoint pens. Each pen comes with 6 different colors in a retractable design; choose from black, red, orange, green, blue and purple. Simply press lightly to switch between the colors you want. The different colors make marking, organizing and color coding information a snap. Use the pens on stationery, for doodling, journal writing, and more. Great for school, office, and home alike.

Lesbian lizards, gay orgies of manatees, polyamorous oystercatchers, trans clownfish, bisexual red deer, and masturbating bonobos! This coloring book celebrates the diversity of animals and the way our beautiful queer communities exist far beyond the realms of human culture. So many of us grew up with wildlife programs and school biology classes that never once mention these natural aspects of life on Earth. It was all ‚male meets female, seduces her with his bright feathers or funky dance and they very quickly mate. The implication has always been that that the whole point of life is to make little baby animals and there was nothing in the great natural world that might challenge the cis-het norms of biologists. This entertaining and educational resource, created by trans woman and ecologist. Otter Lieffe, and richly illustrated by Anja Van Geert, liberates this knowledge and helps free us all to express our true selves.

Spirited self-care for women in transition. An essential toolkit for women in all stages of life transitions, the Moon Divas Guidebook offers accessible, fun and interactive support. Whether you are changing careers, beginning or ending a relationship, parenting, healing, grieving, birthing, graduating or longing to create your best, most possible life, Lara and Deva have developed self-care and sustenance practices to nurture positive, proactive transformation. Includes: art and writing prompts, delicious seasonal recipes, garden remedies, cyclic celebrations and community creation tips... plus more! 

Lara Vesta, MFA and Deva Munay, CMT are teachers of writing, self-care, ceremony and spiritual practice in their respective communities of Portland, OR and Big Sur, CA. This book is born from the Moon Divas workshop series they co-facilitate.

Transform your beach walk into a practice in mindfulness. In a take-anywhere package, this darling pocket guide is the perfect companion for your next beachcombing adventure. Discover surprising facts about shoreline treasures-including abalone, sand dollars, sea stars, and wrack-as well as simple ways to center yourself in a place of stillness. With calming meditations that connect you to the sounds, smells, and textures of the coast, Beachcombing makes it easy to enjoy quiet, contemplative moments by the water. Coastal dwellers, ocean-lovers, environmentalists, and mindfulness practitioners will adore this delightful book, which makes a lovely gift alongside binoculars, a beach towel, or a sun hat.

Get to know your botanical neighbors! A coloring book of some of Maria's favorite flowers and plants from her neighborhood walks and hiking trails. 23-page features plants you can get to know as you color.

At over 400 pages and packed with 1000 full-color photos and illustrations, this is truly the category-defining book on the subject of printmaking. Perfect for students and casual and professional artists, with lots of great reference information for print collectors as well, this is the ultimate guide to the ins and outs of every variety of printmaking practiced today. In addition to in-depth step-by-step instructions, The Printmaking Bible features artist profiles that take you behind the scenes to show how professionals in the field create their work. You'll also find historical information on printmaking techniques, troubleshooting tips, and an extensive resource section.

In Designing Brands, the Creative Voyage team provides a backstage view into eight studios who produce some of the world’s most captivating visual identities. Alongside these independent agencies’ greatest projects, the book features in-depth conversations with their leaders and collaborators. This select group of industry experts shares intimate details about their processes and the art of creating with rationality, thoughtfulness, and intuition. 

The Compatibility Game is a unique tool designed for individuals in a relationship, whether it be romantic or otherwise. It offers a platform to assess and understand the level of compatibility between two people. By exploring their values, ambitions, goals, and beliefs, the game helps in identifying areas of similarity and differences. It emphasizes open communication and discussion to determine the significance of these aspects. It's important to note that the game does not imply that incompatibilities cannot be overcome; rather, it promotes the importance of compromise in building successful relationships.

An inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn's 1970s countercultural self-build manuals

There is perhaps no other fabric so inextricably associated with a country as is denim with the United States of America. First popularized by Levi’s iconic jean designs in the mid-1800s, denim quickly became the material of choice for working-class Americans, spurring an influx of other brands making workwear with the durable and ubiquitous fabric—from Wrangler and Lee to OshKosh and Carhartt.

In the 1950s, denim moved from a work fabric to leisurewear. A large part of this transition was a new generation trying to connect with the rugged, patriotic spirit that the ordinary worker had come to symbolize after the onset of World War II.

This volume traces the origins of this shift through a compendium of photos, drawn primarily from the archive of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), featuring American workers in denim. In both black and white and color, we see ordinary American laborers in the fields, dam construction workers, women toiling on the Chicago railroad, unemployed miners and steelworkers prepa

This holistic personal journal sheds light on the otherwise misunderstood details that take part in each of the four menstrual phases: menstruation, pre-ovulation, ovulation, and pre-menstruation.

The Menstrual Calendar Journal includes examples of dietary and herbal suggestions to support you in each menstrual phase. It additionally includes four totally customizable pages for each phase‚ a calendar to track your cycle, lined paper to write your new moon wishes or monthly intentions, graph paper to track your basal body temperature, blank paper for your creative musings, a cycle dial to give you a snapshot of where you'll be in your cycle throughout the month, and an 11" x 17" Lunar Calendar!

This journal is intended for those not on hormonal birth control (hormonal contraceptives prevent ovulation and interrupt hormonal changes in the body so this resource will not be applicable), those who want to gain awareness around their menstrual cycle and fertility, and those who want to track their body's fertility signs so they can avoid or achieve pregnancy.