Books

Grow a Year’s Worth of Food for Your Family

Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less space than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, walks you through each step of the process, including how to

• decide which food crops are best for your area and family
• plan your garden to maximize the space you have
• protect your garden from common pests and diseases naturally
• determine when your fruits and vegetables are ready to be harvested
• improve soil health with simple techniques like crop rotation and backyard composting  

Sharing the same practices and techniques from her homestead, Melissa shows you how easy it can be to raise a year’s worth of produce at home. Simple-to-follow charts, worksheets, and photographs are provided throughout to help you through every phase of the gardening process.     

You can enjoy good eating and greater well-being for you and your family.

Measures 8” x 10”, 219 pages

In this ultimate collection of comfort-food breakfasts, this scrumptious cookbook is filled with everyone’s favorite morning and Brunch dishes.  No matter what you’re in the mood for, you’ll find inspiration for every palate and every occasion.

Over 100 recipes will satisfy any breakfast craving, whether you prefer a sweet or savory start to the day.  

You’ll find recipes for all the classics, such as butter- and syrup-drenched waffles; marmalade-stuffed French toast; scrambled eggs bursting with herbs and tomatoes; crispy corned beef hash; and sticky caramel-pecan rolls.

We've made it simple to prepare professional-quality pizza with sophisticated flavors and fresh seasonal ingredients. Developed by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen, this book's 25 illustrated recipes help you create unforgettable pizza to enjoy with family during the week and share with friends at festive gatherings.

• Includes 25 simple yet creative recipes for pizza with unique flavor combinations.
• Vegetarian choices include Mozzarella and Grana Padano with Truffle Oil & Arugula, Sei Formaggi and Wild Mushroom with Thyme & Fontina.
• Meat-based recipes include Salsiccia with Padron Peppers and Peach, Prosciutto & Arugula.
• Includes equipment list and tips on making pizza successfully in an oven or on an outdoor grill.
• Hardcover, 64 pages.

Fresh, flavorful Recipes for Every Meal...

Providing recipes for a nourishing diet that includes breakfasts, sides, lean protein and vegetable-forward entrees, grains, and even desserts, Everyday Healthy Cookbook serves as an informative guide to those seeking to change, enhance, or better understand nutrition—and incorporate healthy eating habits into daily meals.

Along with flavorful twists on recipes like Seared Cauliflower Steaks with Olive-Caper Gremolata and Mustard Dill Turkey Burgers, you'll also find nutritious no-fuss classics such as Loaded Avocado Toast, and Coconut Macarons.

Without having to invest in cookbooks promoting specific diets, you can create a wide-range of dishes that allows you to take charge of their diet in a way that works for youer lifestyle.

Sweet and Savory Recipes from Our Test Kitchen...

Be a hero at home or the next group gathering when you serve one of the over 120 delicious recipes in Baking Favorites, the essential collection of show-stopping recipes for homemade treats.

From kid-friendly treats such as Cinnamon Monkey Bread and Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, to contemporary desserts including Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake and Champagne and Raspberry Mini Layer Cakes.

The easy-to-follow recipes, expert tips, and beautiful photography will inspire home cooks to expand their baking repertoire and create delicious goodies for any occasion throughout the year.

Recipes for Eating & Enjoying Outdoors...

Featuring more than 125 classic and contemporary recipes with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal ingredients, Alfresco provides all you need to know about cooking and serving outdoor-oriented meals.  Vibrant photography and tablescapes interspersed throughout the pages provide inspiration for making every meal outdoors a special occasion.

The recipes span easy-to-eat and shareable appetizers (from skewers and flatbreads, to delicious favorites like paella); backyard favorites (such as grilled pizzas, whole grilled fish, and burgers); and fun desserts (like boozy ice cream floats and grilled peaches).

Home cooks will find ways to take advantage of the garden-fresh produce of spring, summer, and fall when menu planning and tips for making the most of outdoor settings. Entertaining advice, including suggestions for serving food safely and making batch drinks and snacks, will ensure cooks entertain and serve with confidence.

Fast, Flavorful Meals for the Dinnertable...

This solution-driven cookbook features more than 60 nourishing, family-friendly meals—from pot pies and gumbo to chicken wings and fried rice—designed specifically for the versatile Instant Pot.

Discover how quickly and effortlessly you can streamline meal prep and produce protein-rich dishes, savory strews, and comfort-food favorites the whole family will enjoy.

This go-to collection also includes a selection of everyday basics, from stocks and beans to grains and rice, plus expert tips and tricks for using the Instant Pot to simplify dinnertime.

Recipes for Everyday of the Year...

Cooks of every skill level will find inspiration for easy, healthy meals in Salad of the Day, a calendar-style cookbook offering 365 enticing salads for any season, occasion, or mood.  Vibrant, fresh, and versatile, salads make a fantastic meal or side dish any day of the year. Capture the essence of spring with a pasta salad featuring sugar snap peas and slender asparagus.

Savor the flavors of summer with juicy ripe tomatoes and sweet corn kernels tossed with piquant blue cheese. In autumn, enjoy a warm wild mushroom salad dressed in bacon vinaigrette.  During the winter, pair bright citrus fruits with skirt steak and peppery arugula.

Each recipe includes dressing recommendations, and helpful notes offer serving and substitution ideas.

Fresh Recipes That Taste Great...

Healthy eating doesn’t have to be a bummer for the school-age crowd. With this collection of 70+ tasty and nourishing recipes—kid-proven favorites plus fun ideas for serving them—young chefs will learn to cook enticing dishes that are also surprisingly nutritious.

With recipes such as healthyish banana bread, fruit-and-nut granola bars, inside-out veggie sushi rolls, and chicken-pineapple kebabs, aspiring cooks will be whipping up healthy dishes, featuring flavors they love, for all times of the day.

Helpful step-by-step instructions, lavish photographs of finished dishes, colorful illustrations, and expert tips and tricks will inspire kids to eat well with yummy dishes they make themselves.

365 Recipes for Every Day of the Year...

In this illuminating collection, you’ll find a different vegetable dish for every day of the year. Rustic and elegant, simple and complex, classic and contemporary, these 365 recipes will inspire you to put seasonal vegetables on every menu.

From tomato-topped bruschetta in summer to creamy scalloped potatoes in winter, roasted asparagus in spring to maple-glazed acorn squash in fall, there are hundreds of recipes here to tempt both the cook and the diner. Whether a weeknight supper or a special-occasion dinner, every dish from January to December focuses on what is fresh, seasonal, and delicious.

Bursting with color, texture, and flavor, vegetables reflect the changing seasons better than any other type of food.  Each of the 12 chapters opens with a colorful monthly calendar that provides an at-a-glance view of the dishes included.  Each recipe is accompanied with a note that might describe seasonings or unusual ingredients or offer serving suggestions, ideas for variations and garnishes, or other helpful tips. 

Great Recipes for Kids Who Love to Cook...

Easy and compelling recipes for kids and parents to enjoy as they spend time together.
Packed with more than 60 yummy recipes for easy-to-make treats, from crepes and cookies to fish tacos and nachos, Cooking for Kids makes cooking loads of fun!

This book features gorgeous photography and colorful Illustrations in a fun, uncomplicated book that kids and parents are sure to love. Kids will love dishes like cinnamon-swirl French toast for breakfast, or granola bars for after-school snacks.

Lots of colorful Illustrations and fun facts ensure they will have a blast whipping up their own creations in the kitchen. Delicious and simple, the recipes inspire creativity while teaching the basics of healthy eating and giving kids skills they can use throughout their lives.

This insightful devotional featuring Scripture verses from the King James Version of the Bible enriches men’s lives with wisdom from God’s Word and encouragements for daily living.
 
The King James Version of the Bible is one of the most venerable and popular translations in history, loved for its unrivaled eloquence and literary richness.
 
This collection of beautifully worded verses, coupled with short spiritual applications, makes a welcome addition to any man’s devotional library and quiet time with the Lord. Topics addressed in this devotional include the importance of seeking stillness, maintaining a healthy thought life, and forming strong friendships.  

Join Emily A. Jensen with her book He is Strong: Devotions for When You Feel Weak, on a devotional journey to find God’s strength amid your weakness. Whether you think of yourself as overwhelmed, overlooked, or just not very good at life (or perhaps you avoid facing your own shortcomings), Emily shares relatable stories about her own feelings of weakness and points you to the gospel for wisdom, hope, and comfort. As the familiar hymn says, “They are weak, but He is strong.”
 
Let these Scripture-filled reflections remind you that Jesus loves you, even in your weakness. You can rely on the strength of God in any challenge you face.

Bestselling authors Emily A. Jensen and Laura Wifler show moms how to navigate their everyday decisions and current circumstances through a biblical lens, and experience the freedom and confidence in who God made them to be.

If there’s one thing moms love, it’s a formula. Give us the three-step process, the instruction manual, the straightforward solution for how to mother with excellence and we’ll give it our best shot.

But we all know motherhood isn’t that simple. Each decision seems to present a thousand overwhelming options, or our circumstances suddenly change and we can’t keep up with “the plan,” or we see another mom making different choices and begin to doubt our own. All of this leaves us questioning our decision-making in motherhood.

So how can we find a secure identity in motherhood and know we’re “good” before the throne of God? By understanding the gospel story and how all of scripture applies to our lives. We need more than just to know what to do.
We need to know who to be.

Join Emily and Laura as together you explore what it truly means to be a gospel mom, a woman who is renewed by Christ’s righteousness, knows her mission and purpose, and lives free from guilt and unhealthy comparison.

As friends, fellow moms, and expert guides, Emily and Laura walk you step-by-step through the practices and thinking of how to rest in the grace of Christ, gaining peace and assurance in your motherhood.

Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps parents see how God can use the everyday trials of child raising to radically transform how they view hardship and grow to become more like Jesus.

"Why me, Lord?"

Amid the toddler tantrums, the mealtime melees, and the backseat blowups, have you found yourself asking God that same question? Maybe even screaming it into a couch pillow? You're not alone.

Your most trying moments as a parent can quickly spiral into discouragement, hopelessness, and sometimes even resentment toward God or your family—partly because our culture has conditioned us to believe that anything this hard can't possibly be good for us.

Abbie Halberstadt, author of the bestselling M Is for Mama, shares scriptural wisdom and lessons learned from her own challenges as a mama of ten to help shift your perspective on the hardships of parenting and of life, in general.

When you begin to see struggles as a necessary part of God's plan for your spiritual growth, you can discover supernatural peace and purpose, even when you're down in the deepest trenches of parenthood.

If discipling your children sounds like a daunting, shame-filled impossibility, you’re not alone. As a children’s pastor and father of four, Chris Ammen has experienced your frustration firsthand and understands that most parents feel inadequate for the task. But what if our inadequacy isn’t a failure, but is just the place from which God chooses to work? 

In his debut book, Chris celebrates the freedom we have to disciple our children from a place of weakness and dependency on God while uncovering these key truths . . . 

Truth #1:  You are not the lynchpin of your child’s journey of discipleship. God is.

Truth #2: Discipleship is nothing less than God molding and shaping the entirety of our personhood into his image as those who delight in him and bring him glory.

Truth #3: You’re not qualified to disciple your children. But God is. And he can work through you to move your children closer to becoming more like his son, Jesus. 

Let’s explore together what discipleship is and isn’t and what we can do to partner with God in loving and discipling our kids. 

Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect parents, mothers are burdened with mixed messages about who they are and what choices they should make. If you feel pulled between high-fives and hard words, with culture’s solutions only raising more questions, you’re not alone.

But there is hope. 

You might think that Scripture doesn’t have much to say about the food you make for breakfast, how you view your postpartum body, or what school choice you make for your children, but a deeper look reveals that the Bible provides the framework for finding answers to your specific questions about modern motherhood.

Emily Jensen and Laura Wifler help you understand and apply the gospel to common issues moms face so you can connect your Sunday morning faith to the Monday morning tantrum.

Discover how closely the gospel connects with today’s motherhood. Join Emily and Laura as they walk through the redemptive story and reveal how the gospel applies to your everyday life, bringing hope, freedom, and joy in every area of motherhood.