NCW Libraries

Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce our waste and plastics, choose organic food when shopping, eat less meat, and opt for environmentally friendly cleaning products. Yet we often wish we were doing more and it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Live Green is a practical guide of 52 tips and changes you can make to your home and lifestyle over the course of a year. Tackling all areas...

Transform your garden into an autumn paradise with "The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition". Navigate the season's nuances with confidence, from selecting plants that paint your garden with hues of harvest to mastering techniques for a flourishing garden. Explore chapters dedicated to perennials, annuals, cool-season vegetables, and troubleshooting pest management. Equip yourself with essential tools, embrace sustainable practices, and discover innovative...

Just the thought of "going green" can make you feel blue. Trying to live sustainably sounds like a whole lot of work and a whole lot of deprivation. Josh Piven aims to both shrink your carbon footprint and soothe your eco-anxiety. In a guidebook that's as funny as it is practical, he shows you how to green every room of the house-and have a good time doing it.

"Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James-a well-known author of dark, macabre children's books-he's led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life....

If there's one name for Jesus that captures the whole heart of God, it is Emmanuel—God with us. No other name similarly expresses the fullness of God's eternal desire for His image-bearers. He's always wanted us to be with Him. From the bestselling author and artist behind GraceLaced and Beholding and Becoming comes this gorgeous exploration of what it means to intimately experience God's presence in our daily lives. Ruth Chou Simons welcomes...

Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening offers gardeners and - beginners to - insight into how to become fully food self-reliant and, in the process, transform their relationship to the food they produce and eat. With more than forty years' experience of redefining gardening's boundaries, author Will Bonsall shows how readers can eliminate the use of off-farm inputs like fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures by practicing...

"What's the solution to gaining the balanced, meaningful life you desire with your family? Create traditions that bring joy and significance. Popular "Smartter Each Day" blogger and mom of three, Jessica Smartt explains why memory-making is the puzzle piece that today's families are longing for. She highlights ten tradition-gifts kids need most, including a rich resource of two hundred-plus unique traditions. She also offers practical encouragement...

"In Created to Dream, Pastor Rick Warren offers an empowering and practical reminder that no matter the challenges you face or how impossible your situation might seem, God has a dream for your life that he promises to carry to completion"-- "God has a dream for your life--and in this concise yet powerful volume, beloved pastor and trusted teacher Rick Warren explains the process God uses to fulfill the dream he gives you. The Bible is full of stories...

The growing homesteading and self-reliant living movements and are depicted in this illustrated book of the family behind the Wranglerstar YouTube channel. This is their personal story of how they left an urban setting behind to live in the beautiful wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. They share the blueprint they developed for a life of freedom from the daily grind. They also share their life of faith and community, giving freely of advice and...