Gifts

Visit some of the World's most beautiful places without going anywhere! Each monthly spread includes dozens of full-color images accompanied by engaging text packed with history, highlights, maps, and traveler's tips. An itinerary in photos! Travel...

Learn the fast and simple way to whittle in this fun introduction to woodcarving. One of the joys of whittling with a pocketknife is that you can do it just about anywhere. You don’t need any fancy equipment, and you don’t even need much...

2025 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all the advice, information and data that enthusiasts need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky. This in-depth...

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out of it, put it down and...

Keep the whole family entertained all year long with the perennial World's Bestselling Jokes Calendar! Packed with more than 300 puns, groaners, knock-knocks, and silly stories that are so bad, they're laugh-out-loud funny! A giggle to share every day of...

The World's Favorite Cat Calendar! Meet the adorable winners of the 2026 Cat Calendar Contest, with a wonderful photo for every day of the year - plus stories about the cats and their behavior. The beautiful full-color photographs are accompanied by...

Meet an adorable contest winner each day! These Captivating Canines are celebrated with full-color photographs and text that highlights everything we love about Man's Best Friend. Featuring dozens of Doggy Profiles, Funny Bones, Quotes, Pawverbs to live...

No other calendar on the market features more tiny pink noses, velvety soft ears, or mischievously sweet expressions - and they're all winners of the Annual Kitten Calendar Photo Contest! Each month features a large full-color photograph at the top of...

Dog-Gone Adorable! The cuddly, snuggly, and sometimes silly winners of the 2026 Puppy Calendar contest star in this joyful calendar! All Puppies, All The Time! Each month features a large full-color photograph at the top of the page and dozens more...

Following the popular trend in Bucket List books, this experiential guide will help visitors and residents alike discover some of the great things there are to do in Maine. Hardcover Ultimate to-do list for Mainers and visitors alike Photographs by Dan...

Identify maple, ash, oak, and more with easy-to-learn visual techniques. In this friendly and approachable field guide, writer and avid hiker Mark Mikolas shares a unique approach for year-round tree identification. His method, which centers on the...

How did the rude Rhinoceros get his baggy skin? How did a ‘satiably curious Elephant change the lives of his kin evermore? First told aloud to his young daughter (“O my Best Beloved”), Rudyard Kipling’s inspired answers to these...

A Dog’s Purpose - the #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture - is a perfect gift to introduce dog lovers to this wonderful series. Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional...

This beautiful picture book from award-winning author and illustrator Britta Teckentrup takes readers on a magical, moonlit adventure following a tiny star and invites all to dance with a host of animals. But is it all a dream? With peek-through pages...

There may be a million shark books. But only one of them comes with real shark teeth! Join Hermit Crab as he learns an important lesson about growing up: For every friend and adventure left behind, there are new ones just ahead! Board book Ideal for...

Hummingbirds are beautiful and mesmerizing. Did you know they can flick their tongue twelve times a second? Or that they tile their nests with pieces of lichen and moss (the nests themselves are spun from spiderwebs and thistledown)? Or that some species...

Do you know where your name comes from? Growing up in Germany, like so many children around the world, Diane Kruger felt like she didn’t fit in with the other kids. There was the pet bunny she talked to like a friend, her love of books, and even...

In this thrilling memoir by the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Tori McClure finds that what she is looking for lies not in a superhuman show of strength, but rather in embracing what it means to be human."In the end, I know I rowed...

The unlikely friendship between professor Brant Healey and Louis, an unlettered, superstitious woodsman, is at the heart of A Place in Mind. These two men love fishing and hunting, the rural Maine landscape, whiskey from tin cups, and the stories that...

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail - well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to...