The Gifts from Losing You is a poignant chronicle that shares a family's experience of their first year grieving the sudden loss of their only son and brother, aged 19. Written by his mother, it is a story of personal tragedy, immeasurable love, heartbreak, and sadness, coupled with gratitude, courage, and perseverance. Her reflections explore the themes of loss, shock, pain, acceptance, and eternal love. She focuses on how her family found a way to weave their grief into the fabric of their lives while opening their hearts and minds to the gifts bestow on them. She discovers that deep despair and blessing can co-exist simultaneously in grief. This unique perspective has guided them in their healing, enabling them to live alongside their heartache. From her experience as a health coach, she shares the self-care practices that enabled her to cope with her devastating reality. For anyone suffering the loss of a child or a loved one, this part memoir, part self-help book provides hope and inspiration, with insights to help you navigate your path out of the dark, toward the light.

'Green Gifting': The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable and Thoughtful Gifts for Every Occasion Does your heart yearn to present the perfect gift without compromising your responsibility towards our environment? Let journalist and environmental advocate, Kate Kent, guide you on a joyous journey towards mindful giving with her exceptional handbook, 'Green Gifting'. Immerse yourself in this Special Report, where Kate unravels the universe of eco-friendly gifting, exploring unique ways of expressing your affection while actively contributing to a healthier planet. Begin by understanding the impact of your gift choices and then proceed to turn your celebrations green! 'Green Gifting' explores: Handpicked sustainable and ethical gift options for all occasions and budgets Engaging DIY ideas for making homemade gifts with minimal environmental footprints Amusing gifts from nature's basket that are sure to touch hearts Experience-oriented gifts that provide memorable occasions without accumulating material things Eco-friendly wrapping and presentation ideas to ensure your gifts are entirely green Experience the satisfaction of presenting thoughtful gifts that complement sustainability goals. Let 'Green Gifting' redefine your celebrations and inspire your circle to make greener choices. Cheers to greener gifting and happier celebrations!

Tips and techniques for spectacular and sustainable gift wrapping From simple bows and neat corners to Japanese fabric wrapping, this book shows how to wow friends and family with beautifully wrapped gifts while minimising waste. You will learn how to master the art of wrapping through easy step-by-step instructions of key techniques. There are ideas for creating both simple and intricate designs, all made using materials that are recyclable, reusable and sustainable. Techniques include wrapping with pleats and pockets, using paper bags and how to wrap unusual shaped gifts, such as bottles. A section on Furoshiki, fabric wrapping, shows how to create gift wraps from tea towels and beautiful pieces of fabric. There's also guidance on ribbons, bows, string, wool and using plants and flowers to create the perfect gift. Bursting with ideas, this innovative book offers a mindful creative outlet that will both delight friends and family and help save the planet by reducing waste.

Children learn about the life cycle of a plant in this beautiful kids gardening book. Readers follow an empowering story of life's journey—a journey that brings change and growth. The perfect choice if you are looking for back to school books and gifts for kids! Plant it—water it—weed it—protect it—and under the blossoms is the perfect shady nook to read a book! Pretty soon it's time to pick all those long, lean beans, and to harvest a full season of garden knowledge and experience. A green bean can teach much about seeds and seasons and cycles—but it also can make us appreciate the challenges it must overcome. This gorgeous book is at once simple and profound. You may be surprised and pleased by the questions and observations of your children after reading this together. Great for parents, teachers, or gift givers looking for: back to school gifts or supplies inspirational books for young readers the perfect "planting seeds for kids" book to explore this summer! The ideal gardening book for kids ages 4-8

The picture book inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Green Book Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars, so this would be an adventure. But she soon found out that Black travelers weren't treated very well in some towns. Many hotels and gas stations refused service to Black people. Daddy was upset about something called Jim Crow laws . . . Finally, a friendly attendant at a gas station showed Ruth's family The Green Book. It listed all of the places that would welcome Black travelers. With this guidebook—and the kindness of strangers—Ruth could finally make a safe journey from Chicago to her grandma's house in Alabama. Ruth's story is fiction, but The Green Book and its role in helping a generation of African American travelers avoid some of the indignities of Jim Crow are historical fact.

Cloth Bags That Are Reusable, Beautiful and Simple to Make Cloth bags of all sorts are now part of our daily lives. We take them to the grocery store, fill them at the mall, tote them on our wrists, and use them again and again. Noting the satisfaction we get when we can wrap our gifts in a special way, author Sonja Hakala has developed an easy method for you to make colorful and unique versions of drawstring bags that are sure to provoke ooohs and aaahs from everyone fortunate enough to receive one. (Or for you to love if you keep it for yourself.) Filled with colorful illustrations and clear instructions, Sonja explains how to make a basic bag with the sewing tools you already have, and fabric that you'll probably find stowed away in your stash or in your scrap pile. Then she adds three different ways to take this basic bag and make it even more special. In 12 easy-to-follow steps, you will cut, fold, fashion, and sew an eco-friendly, reusable, sturdy, and beautiful, fully-lined drawstring bag that reflects your unique taste. Think about it-this way of wrapping a gift will be like no one else's. Henry David Thoreau once said "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" and Sonja's philosophy about everything she designs is close to the same. "Those of us who sew, design, and create accumulate all sorts of materials and tools. I set out to use what was at hand when I created these bags so that everyone, no matter their level of expertise, could make them. You can even hand sew them if you like." In addition to adding sparkle to a hostess gift or a present under the tree or as a way to make a birthday or shower gift even more special, these wonderful bags please their recipients throughout the year. Enjoy!

The author and green living expert shares savvy tips on how to celebrate Christmas in ways that are eco-friendly and cost-conscious. Anna Getty—a chef, writer, mother, and organic living expert—helps families reduce their carbon footprint and save money while enjoying the festive traditions of Christmas. Anna advises how to best choose a tree (real or fake?), mitigate the negative effects of holiday travel, recycle post-holiday, and more. Anna also shares favorite holiday recipes for organic appetizers and homemade craft ideas such as pinecone wreaths and recycled sweater pillows. With inspiring photographs, extensive resources, and advice from the “Lazy Environmentalist” Josh Dorfman, Seventh Generation’s Jeffrey Hollender, and other leading eco-experts, families might just find that these tips help them stay green all year long—the perfect New Year’s resolution!

Danny Seo's brand Simply Green is a way of living that embraces certain rules–Be Authentic, Be Resourceful, Be Simple, Be Unexpected, Be Truthful, and Be an Individual. In Simply Green: Giving Danny takes these goals and creates projects that are both thoughtful and sustainable while still being stylish and beautiful. The book has 50 quick and simple projects to create beautiful gift wrapping, tags, and handmade treasures from everyday materials. Projects include: Recycling oversized gift calendar pages turned into gift wrapping Old silk flowers reborn as stunning flowering bows Luxury store bags turned into personalized gift bags Jazzing up boring gift store cards Making organic soy treasure candles

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post, Shondaland, NPR Books, Parade, Lit Hub, PureWow, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, NYLON, Alta, Ms. Magazine, Debutiful and Good Housekeeping Best Book of Fall A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging—of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.