The Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women who Propelled us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars

By Nathalia Holt

There’s a total lunar eclipse, known as super blue blood moon happening on January 31^st!

Why not get in the mood for the eclipse by learning about the Rocket Girls – a group of women who worked on NASA’s first probes to the moon. Nathalia Holt’s book, The Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women who Propelled us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, reminds of the integral role that this group of women (also known as ‘the human computers’) played in the advancement of space exploration.

 

An Invitation to Health

By Dianne Hales and Lara Lauzon

If getting healthy is part of your new year’s resolution, An Invitation to Health is a great place to start. Full of research, information and advice to encourage you to make healthy lifestyle choices, this book will help you break bad habits and begin the new year feeling good.

 

The Maker’s Manual: a Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution

By Andrea Maiette and Paolo Aliverti

Interested in learning new skills in the new year? The Maker’s Manual: a Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution will teach you how to transform your ideas into actual tangible projects. Covering skills like 3-D printing and programming, The Maker’s Manual is loaded with colour photographs to guide you through each of your projects.

 

Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking

By Jessica Koslow

If you’re interested in trying out some new recipes over the holidays, check out Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking. The chef from LA’s popular restaurant, Sqirl, shares some of her favorite recipes in this beautifully-styled cookbook.

 

Handbook of Vitamins edited by Janos Zempleni, John W. Suttie, Jesse F. Gregory III, Patrick J. Stover. Feeling vitamin-deficient from the lack of sun? Considering upping your vitamin intake to help fight off colds through the winter months? The Handbook of Vitamins answers every vitamin-related question you could possibly have. The book includes a handy index so you can easily look up the specific vitamins you’re after.

 

Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide

By Merilyn Simonds

If you’ve hit a road block in your holiday shopping trying to decide on whether to gift a print or ebook version of your favorite novel, why not check out Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide first? Explore the pros and cons of print vs. digital and join the author in challenging some of the assumptions we make about reading.

 

How to Drive: Real World Instruction and Advice from Hollywood’s Top Driver

By Ben Collins

In the cold, dark and rainy fall and winter months, road visibility is often reduced and staying safe on the road can be a greater challenge. How to Drive: Real World Instruction and Advice from Hollywood’s Top Driver, provides expert advice on winter road safety and how to handle your car in inclement weather.

 

Rain: a Natural and Cultural History, by Cynthia Barnett

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rainy season is here. Why not fully embrace the rain by learning all about it? Rain: a Natural and Cultural History, by Cynthia Barnett demonstrates how rain can be both productive and destructive by examining the cultural and scientific role of rain over the past 4 billion years.