Have you ever wondered if one of your ancestors was a famous, important person? A President, or even a King or a Queen? Perhaps your last name is Washington, and you've always thought that you might be a distant relative of the father of our country. If you've shown a flair for painting or writing, maybe you've fantasized that you inherited your talent from an ancestor with a name like Michelangelo or Shakespeare. 
In How to Find Your Family Roots, William Latham shows you how to trace your family history in a simple, easy, and inexpensive manner. He'll show you how to find our information that has helped to shape who you are--not only in terms of your physical appearance, but your personality, beliefs, habits, and skills as well.

How to Find Your Family Roots

Reference

Latham, William

Genealogy

Santa Monica Press

In Letter Writing Made Easy!, author Margaret McCarthy offers sample letters for hundreds of common occasions. Need to write a thank you note? Want to dispute a bill? Having trouble expressing your feelings upon the death of a friend's loved one? McCarthy has provided samples which you can use as is, or modify to suit your own particular style or concerns. How to write more intimate personal letters How to write more powerful business correspondence Practical advice on format, style, tone, forms of address . . . and much more Includes hundreds of ready-to-use samples So put down that phone and write a letter! It's not only more personal, it's more effective. And with Letter Writing Made Easy!, writing a letter is a breeze!

Letter Writing Made Easy!: Featuring Sample Letters for Hundreds of Common Occasions, New Revised Edition

McCarthy, Margaret

Literature & Fiction

Do you wish you could be more organized? That you could save time doing household chores? That you could save money by maintaining your home yourself--before professional repairmen need to be called? In Helpful Household Hints, June King offers hundreds of simple tips that will make cleaning and organizing your home a breeze! For instance, do you know the most efficient way to make a bed? Or that you can remove many stains by using such items as yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, or toothpaste? You'll learn time and money-saving hints for your: Kitchen Bathrooms Bedrooms Walls and Floors Windows, Drapes and Doors Clothing and Laundry Furniture Closets and Storage Areas Garage and Yard Automobiles and much more! Ms. King will also explain the latest about safety measures you and your family should take when performing tasks around the house; what supplies you should keep on hand; how to make homemade alternatives to store bought goods; even information on hiring someone to help you in your home! Helpful Household Hints is the ultimate guide to housekeeping!

Helpful Household Hints

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

King, June

Home Improvement & Design

Offbeat Museums contains profiles of the curators and collections of America's most unusual museums. From the Banana Museum in California to the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in Florida, Saul Rubin takes you on a guided tour of the United States' strangest institutions, and introduces you to the offbeat people who run them. Included among the places you will visit are: Cockroach Hall of Fame The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Mister Ed's Elephant Museum The Museum of Jurassic Technology The Mütter Museum Houdini Historical Center UFO Enigma Museum The Museum of Menstruation Nut Museum 50 museums in all! In the age of cable television and the World Wide Web it's easy to smugly believe that we've seen it all. Such institutions as the Museum of Death, the Museum of Bathroom Tissue, and the Glore Psychiatric Museum suggest otherwise. By stepping outside the mainstream, these offbeat museums meet and even surpass the promise of more traditional museums: To amaze, inspire and enlighten the public. So turn off the TV, log off the Net, and let Offbeat Museums take you on a journey of unexpected wonder and discovery!

Offbeat Museums: The Collections and Curators of America's Most Unusual Museums

Rubin, Saul

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

1995 Santa Monica Press. Paperback.

A Christmas Treasury

Peterson, Monica

The Book of Good Habits contains nearly 2,000 simple and creative ways to enrich your life. Dirk Mathison uses wit, humor, satire and a dash of cynicism to blend his own good habit recommendations with those of a diverse array of philosophers and fools, from Confucius and Abraham Lincoln to James Brown and Groucho Marx. The habits range from the practical (keep a pair of tennis shoes at the office so you can take a quick run or power walk during breaks) to the sublime (drink green tea from a blue cup) to the ridiculous (slap up—if you must slap, make it a habit to slap someone who makes more money and is more prominent than yourself). The Book of Good Habits includes habits for the mind, health, safety, sex, love, friendship and parenting. At the heart of Mathison's book is the belief that if we change our daily behavior, our lives will change as well. And that it is through our habits that we give life to our ideas and our ideals. So chew on a bit of parsley for clean breath, use candles even when there's no special occasion, and enrich your life with The Book of Good Habits.

The Book of Good Habits: Simple and Creative Ways to Enrich Your Life

Humor & Entertainment

Mathison, Dirk

Humor

This authoritative guide to those annoying and embarrassing tricks everyone grows up with (and maybe never outgrow) provides "sage" advice for the young and the young at heart. Arranged in encyclopedic format, each of the more than 50 entries includes a formal definition of the prank, followed by tips for execution and countermeasures. Illustrations document the best technique for affixing a "kick me" sign to someone's back, or how to wriggle out of a noogie-giver's clutches. A ranking system places each act on a scale of 1 to 10 for its degree of pain, embarrassment, annoyance, and degree of difficulty. Other fun and irritating tricks include the Burp ’n' Blow, the Rat Tail, the Eskimo Hook, and the Marker ’Stache.

Atomic Wedgies, Wet Willies, & Other Acts of Roguery

Martin, Dan

Tananbaum, Greg

Elvis Presley Passed Here is an amazing portrait of the bizarre, shocking, weird, and wonderful moments that have come to define American popular culture. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed James Dean Died Here and Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here, this third collection of the locations where the most significant events in American popular culture took place offers a fully illustrated encyclopedic look at the most famous—and infamous—pop culture events, providing historical information on more than 600 landmarks as well as their exact locations (including, of course, the Los Angeles park where Elvis Presley and his entourage would organize spirited touch football games against other celebrities).

Elvis Presley Passed Here: Even More Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks

Epting, Chris

Travel

5,000 Reasons to Smile . . . for Chicks is an illustrated list of 5,000 inspirational tips and suggestions that make life so unique and enjoyable for today’s busy woman. This entertaining menu of food for thought compiles aspects of daily lifeincluding people, places, material objects, experiences, and feelingsthat encourage chicks to relish their femininity. Examples include: A great bargain, apartments that take pets, sleeping in, 2-for-1 drink specials, green tea, a sizzling good-night kiss, apple martinis, a well-deserved promotion, Sex and the City DVDs, sending valentines to all of your single friends, a new chick-lit novel, road trips, buying your own condo, Nick and Nora flannel pajamas, buttercream-scented candles, and 400-thread-count sheets. With today’s hectic lifestyle, women might only have a few moments to steal away and indulge. With 5,000 Reasons to Smile . . . for Chicks, they can open to any page, for any amount of time, and find ideas for inspiration, relaxation, or a reason to simply smile.

5,000 Reasons to Smile . . . for Chicks

Delellis, Sally

French for Le Snob is written for sophisticated English speakers who enjoy being in the limelight as they tittle-tattle about la femme fatale, la belle brunette, l'enfant terrible, and la crème de la crème, while drinking a café noir in their pied-à-terre. Designed to enable quick-witted individuals to use the many French loanwords of the English vocabulary with an impeccable French pronunciation, this unique book details and defines more than 2,500 French terms that have become a part of the English lexicon. French for Le Snob is for keen-minded English speakers who take pleasure in being multi-faceted, different, distingué, intellectual, bilingual, literate, polished, learned, or francophile, and for just being snobby when they want or need to be! Its many definitions will allow creative individuals to spice up their conversations with colorful French expressions and interesting anecdotes when talking about food, wine, theatre, painting, literature, ballet, architecture, and fashion, among many other topics. French for Le Snob gives educated English speakers from all walks of life the ammunition they need to use the English language in a learned, colorful, fun, and sophisticated manner in their daily interactions: chefs, foodies, restaurateurs, oenophiles, architects, graphic and interior designers, antique dealers, writers, actors, musicians, dancers, fine artists, fashion designers and editors, models, English teachers, French teachers . . . . anybody who wants to use le mot juste will find it in French for Le Snob!

French for Le Snob: Adding Panache to Your Everyday Conversations

Reche, Yvette

Words, Language & Grammar

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