“How-To” Books At The Library
How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If you need help with them, needing to improve on a current skill set, or are still looking to do something new this year, the library has a large assortment of books and other resources to help you kick off 2016 on the right foot! Below is just a small selection of books that can be borrowed from the Roslindale Branch Library.
Adult
How to Prepare for the GED Test
By Christopher Sharpe
Includes 2 full-length practice tests complete with answer explanations; covers all test sections on the new exam; reviews all question types : multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, drag and drop, drop down, hot spot, short answer, extended response; highlights the interactive features found on the new computerized test.
How to See Yourself as You Really Are
By Dalai Lama
Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama’s own life experiences, How to See Yourself As You Really Areis an inspirational and empowering guide to achieving self-awareness that can be read and enjoyed by spiritual seekers of all faiths.
How to Write a Business Plan
By Mike McKeever
Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! Thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one? This popular book will show you how to write the business plan and loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work.
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman
This exceptional package of Mark Bittman’s award-winning, blockbuster cookbook, How To Cook Everything, plus an interactive CD-ROM of the same name, takes cooking to a whole new level! It is a must-have resource for anyone who wants guidance from the best home cook in America, plus the ability to adapt Bittman’s expertise to the cooking needs of their daily lives with the tools offered by a CD-ROM.
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
By Brent Cole
Explains how to apply Carnegie’s advice to a world driven by electronic communication devices, sharing advice on topics ranging from e-mail etiquette to cyber bullying.
How To Get A Green Card
By Ilona Bray
This book provides a nuts-and-bolts guide on obtaining a green card to work and live in the United States. A definitive book that is also easy to read.
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style and Bad Habits
By Anne Berest
Four fabulous, smart, savvy French women offer up their highly amusing insider take on Parisian life, love, and liberty. The book brilliantly deconstructs the French woman’s views on culture, fashion, and attitude. It is a fun, self-deprecating book that will explain those confusing subjects: clothes, makeup, men, and lifestyle.
Teens/Young Adults
How to Write Great Essays
By Lauren Starkey
Write great essays every time! – Learn how clarity, word choice, and organization improve your writing – Build your knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation – Become familiar with editing, revising, and proofreading your essays – Master your skills and ace high school, SAT, and college admissions essays This book is specifically designed to help you write great essays, whether you have a half hour, or whether you have a few months to complete them. The stakes are high, but the targeted strategies found in this book will help you write great essays and succeed-every time.
How to Go to College on a Shoe String: The Insider’s Guide to Grants, Scholarships, Cheap Books, Fellowships, and Other Financial Aid Secrets
By Ann Marie O’Phelan
Maybe saving money to you does not matter, perhaps you won the lottery, but if you want to learn hundreds of innovative ways to save thousands on your college costs than this book is for you.
How To Be Black
By Baratunde Thurston
This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply “how to be.”
How To Play Drums
By James Blades
How to Play Drums offers an exciting new way to learn to play. Its easy-to-follow instructions and systematic approach enable you to develop excellent drumming technique and to achieve the best effects from the instruments. Whether you are a beginner or an intermediate drummer, you’ll find helpful advice.
How To Make Webcomics
By Scott Kurtz and Kristopher Straub
Scott Kurtz and Kristopher Straub offer their advice on how to create compelling characters, develop a solid comic strip, build a website, forge a community, and start earning money from your Webcomic without having to sell your soul.
How to Remember Everything: Memory Shortcuts to Help You Study Smarter- Grades 6-8
By Ellen Gibson
Designed in full-color with illustrations throughout, this incredible learning resource is also easy to use and highly accessible. Includes more than 200 clever mnemonics for English, Social Studies, Math and Science.
How To Talk To An Autistic Kid
By Daniel Stefanski
A collection of personal stories, knowledgeable explanations, and supportive advice written by a fourteen-year-old autistic boy to help provide readers with the confidence and tools necessary to befriend autistic kids.
Children
How To Write Poetry
By Paul B. Janeczko
Provides practical advice with checklists on the art of writing poetry.
How To Draw Endangered Animals
By Molly Walsh
Valuable tips on drawing styles and techniques make these best-sellers favorites with both aspiring artists and kids who just want to have fun.
How To Speak Politely and Why
By Munro Leaf
Illustrates the frequently misused words in grammar such as can and may or the lazy ones like ain’t and wanna.
How To Make Friends With A Giant
By Gennifer Choldenko
The other second-graders make fun of the new boy because he is so tall, but his short classmate Jake helps him fit in.
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