*Staff Picks for September*

Remember the wildly successful The Essential Bar Book (that orange cover!)? Well, it has a new companion–this compendium for both professional and home bartenders offers recipes, history, and techniques to create 150 essential cocktails, both modern and classic. And it’s gorgeously photographed. Cheers!

From the ultimate authority on home cooking and good taste, this cookbook of 110 delicious slow cooker recipes, with 110 photos, is the answer to busy weeknights with an emphasis on both flavor and simplicity. This cookbook is hot, hot, hot!

Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai—the happiness of always being busy—as revealed by the daily habits of the world’s longest-living people.

Here are 300 foolproof recipes to up your cookie game! America’s Test Kitchen brings all the cookie know-how, trouble-shooting tips and step photography for trickier techniques. Yum!

The award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, and more reveal the vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart. The Vietnam War is the companion volume to the major PBS film airing in September 2017.

Duck and Goose + Halloween? That’s a treat! The feathered friends are ready for a night of trick-or-treating in the meadow but they may just scare themselves silly.

You know you love his “happy little” clouds, mountains, and trees. Celebrating the soft-spoken man who encouraged millions of people to create their own art, The Bob Ross Coloring Book is the first-ever coloring book based on the art of this pop culture icon.

This practical guide is so much more than what fork goes where. It’s a modern entertainment guide for creative table styles, accessories, etiquette and more. The next book in the bestselling “How to” series, How to Set a Table is the perfect size to merchandise next to glassware, tabletop, and linens.

Nocturnal animals afraid of the dark–what could be funnier? We love Gianna Marino’s adorable bedtime book, and now that it’s in board book format, we know she’ll have more fans, especially those who like to sleep with the light on…

This slip-cased alphabet pop-up combines great design, must-touch appeal, and hidden delights–alphabet letters share spreads in unexpected ways such as a Letter in a Mailbox or a Pillow on a Quilt.

Witches aren’t just for Halloween anymore. Tap your inner sorceress and channel the dark arts for everything from cluttered apartments to dating disasters. Basic Witches offers historical and pop culture sidebars to situate the new witchcraft trend within a broader context and delivers witchy wisdom with humor, heart, and a modern sensibility.