Saskatchewan Book Awards winners were announced on April 28

Here are some of the Non-Fiction Awards. For the full list, go to the link above:

Book of the Year:

* Darren R. Préfontaine: Gabriel Dumont : li chef michif in images and in words
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Non-Fiction Award:

* Curtis R. McManus: Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937

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* Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson won the Scholarly Writing Award, the First Peoples’ Writing Award and the Regina Book Award for their book Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers.
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Click here for the full list online on the Booklist website:
Top Ten Craft and Gardening Books.

I've pulled just the gardening books for this blog post.

The brief descriptions/reviews are by the list's author Brad Hooper.

American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards; What Our Gardens Tell Us about Who We Are. By Wade Graham.

Garden designer and historian Graham presents a fresh, critical, and brilliantly wide-ranging interpretation of the form, function, and meaning of American gardens.
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The Edible Front Yard. By Ivette Soler.

Soler inspires and guides readers in transforming their front yards into beautifully diverse gardens that provide delicious, healthy produce, both tried-and-true and exotic.
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. By Andrea Wulf.

In her uniquely discerning and zestfully anecdotal inquiry, Wulf astutely traces how profoundly the great horticultural passions of the Founding Fathers (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison) shaped America’s founding principles.
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The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Own Food: Save Money, Live Better, and Enjoy Life with Food from Your Garden or Orchard. By Monte Burch.

Burch offers exceptionally lucid how-to gardening guidance to encourage readers to grow their own fruits and vegetables to save money, improve their health, protect the environment, and enjoy food like never before.
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The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers. By Edward C. Smith.

Best-selling garden guru Smith explains with enthusiasm precisely how to use containers to grow, harvest, and enjoy homegrown vegetables, yard or no yard.

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Look for more gardening books by using "gardening" as a key word and sorting the list by date.

Fine-tune your search by adding key words like vegetable gardening or container gardening or landscape gardening

posted by Sharon

The Cure for Everything! Untangling the Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness, and Happiness
by Timothy Caulfield

Summary: The surprising truth about what it takes to be healthy In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness in order to sell us services and products that mostly don't work. Want great abs? You won't get them by using the latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy. Are you trying to lose ten pounds? Diet books are a waste of trees. Do you rely on health-care practitioners-either mainstream or alternative-to provide the cure for what ails you? Then beware! Both Big Pharma and naturopathy are powerful forces that have products and services to sell. Caulfield doesn't just talk the talk. He signs up for circuit training with a Hollywood trainer who cultivates the abs of the stars. With his own Food Advisory Team (FAT) made up of specialists in nutrition and diet, Caulfield makes a lifestyle change that really works. (Mainly it involves eating less than he is used to. Much less.) And when he embarks on a holiday cruise, dreading motion sickness, he takes along both a homeopathic and pharmaceutical remedy-with surprising results. This is a lighthearted book with a serious theme. Caulfield demonstrates that the truth about being healthy is easy to find-but often hard to do.

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Here's some of what the National Post review had to say:
By the end of the book, Caulfield gets at the deep irony in the fact that we’ve never had so much scientific knowledge at our fingertips, yet “it is being subjected to an unprecedented number of perverting influences.” This geeky diet tome, then, becomes a compelling and timely argument for science and a reminder that science is an iterative process, breakthroughs are rare, and there are no magical cures for everything.

“Science, when done properly, is worth defending,” he writes. “And it’s worth defending because when it’s not twisted, it actually can make us healthier.”

Read the full National Post review of The Cure for Everything.

Check out what other books comes up with the key words (health happiness nutrition)