A love letter to knitting (and a little crochet, too). Interviews, patterns, and a holistic look at the creative potential of knitting. Including 16 beautiful projects to knit and 8 to crochet, along with all the mind, body, spirit advice every knitter--and would-be knitter--craves.

The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen, a New Age believer, lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a suburb of Sacramento, surviving on the family trust fund--old money that his aunt and seventeen-year-old cousin are determined to get their hands on. When the family takes a trip to a cabin near South Lake Tahoe, tensions cause Galen to discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves.

Jim Brickman offers up the latest installment in his Sooth series, with a continuous string of music, melodies, and moments of calm that help listeners to relax and unwind.

Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of research, Dr. Brené Brown dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love,...