November 10, 2011 / Leslie

Happy Haul-idays Giveaway!

2nd Annual Holiday Giveaway

To celebrate the holidays, Chronicle Books, an independent publisher of distinctive books and gifts with fine art titles in design, art, architecture, and photography, is offering one lucky blogger and one of their readers the opportunity to win a selection of Chronicle books valued at up to $500. In addition, they will donate $500 in books to a charity chosen by the winning blogger.

Below is the list of books I’ve chosen. If you enjoy nature, photography and cooking this is the contest to enter. Click on the title for more information about each book. Then leave your comment to enter to win. Contest is open to US residents 18 years of age and older. Enter by December 2nd.

Cooking

Country Cooking of Italy
By Colman Andrews $50.00

Drawing on more than 40 years of experience traveling and eating in Italy, Andrews explores every region, from Piedmont to Puglia, and provides the fascinating origins of dishes both familiar and unexpected. This gloriously photographed keepsake depicts an ingredient-focused culture deeply rooted in rural traditions, in which even the most sophisticated dishes derive from …

Poulet
160 Remarkable Recipes that Exalt the Honest Chicken
By Cree LeFavour $27.50
Poulet is more than just a cookbook dedicated to chicken: it is an ode to this worldwide favorite. More than 150 thoughtful recipes cover the globe to breathe new life into the well-loved chicken supper. Five chapters are organized by flavor profile—American, Bistro, Latin, East and South Asian, and North African/Mediterranean—to bring to the table wherever you live.

The Big Book of Breakfast
Serious Comfort Food for Any Time of the Day
By Maryana Vollstedt $19.95

The Big Book of Breakfasts starts the day right with over 280 recipes for every kind of breakfast food imaginable. Its classic Maryana Vollstedt: every delicious dish is so easy to make you can hit the snooze button again and again. From classic blue-plate specials of Corned Beef Hash and Eggs to an innovative brunch of Spicy Orange Pancakes…

Fast, Fresh & Green
More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers
By Susie Middleton $24.95

This new bible for all things vegetable from Fine Cooking’s Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of eaters who want to get the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and greens into their daily diet. Susie Middleton shares her love of healthful, delicious veggies with a guide to shopping for and cooking delectable meatless meals…

Home and Garden

Homegrown Pure and Simple
Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table
By Michel Nischan, with Mary Goodbody $35.00

In this follow-up to Taste Pure and Simplewinner of the James Beard Cookbook AwardMichel Nischan takes his philosophy of healthy cooking from garden to kitchen. Inspired to provide his growing family with meals as full of flavor as those he’d enjoyed at his mother’s table, Michel planted a garden of his own. The result was a delicious array of recipes …

The Mediterranean Herb Cookbook
Fresh and Savory Recipes from the Mediterranean Garden
By Georgeanne Brennan $22.95

For centuries, the Mediterraneans have taken full advantage of a landscape abundant with fresh herbs to create their vibrant, colorful cuisine. With The Mediterranean Herb Cookbook, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan brings the intoxicating tastes and aromas of the Mediterranean right into your kitchen via easy-to-follow instructions on growing, storing, and, most of all, cooking delicious dishes

Decorate
1,000 Professional Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home
By Holly Becker and Joanna Copestick $35.00

The world’s top designers and leading decor experts including Kelly Wearstler, Amy Butler, Jonathan Adler, and many others come together to share over 1,000 professional tips, ideas, and solutions for every room and every budget. Written and compiled by Holly Becker, founder of the hugely popular design blog Decor8, and Joanna Copestick, acclaimed lifestyle writer, this intensive home dcor program combines beautiful inspiration with nuts-and-bolts how-to for stunning results.

Nature

Bird Songs Bible
The Complete, Illustrated Reference for North American Birds $125.00

Bird Songs Bible covers the sights and sounds of every single breeding bird in North America, nearly 750 in all. This utterly distinctive package features a state-of-the-art digital audio player that brings to life the birds’ songs and calls with the touch of a button.

Nests
Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them $29.95
By Sharon Beals

Lovely images of nests and eggs are set against rich black backgrounds, and are accompanied by fascinating and informative portraits—conveyed through words and illustrations—of the birds that built them. A beautiful volume, Nests is the perfect gift for birders, bird lovers, and anyone captivated by the fleeting and fascinating splendor of the natural world.

Bird Watching
Princeton Architectural Press $50.00
By Paula McCartney

Handwritten notations recording species, location, size, and markings describe well-rendered and flawlessly composed photographs of a wide variety of passerines, orperching birds, in their natural settings in locations across the United States. Page after page of the most wonderfully diverse species of birds are perfectly posed in picturesque natural settingsa bird-watcher’s dream.

The Meaning of Trees
Botany History Healing Love $19.95
By Fred Hageneder

Featuring 50 different types of tree, this informative compendium describes each by way of botanical qualities; medicinal uses for their leaves, bark, and wood; cultural symbolism; magical associations; and so much more. Fascinating facts abound: the Druids believed that only the wood of the yew tree was fit to make wands; a Ukrainian tonic of birch leaves contains the same healing properties as aspirin.

Other

Graphic Design for Nondesigners
Essential Knowledge, Tips, and Tricks $22.95
By Tony Seddon and Jane Waterhouse

Not a graphic designer? Not a problem! Whether the project’s a birthday card, a poster, or a flier, Graphic Design for Nondesigners is here to help. Twenty step-by-step projects for designing everything from Web sites to business cards to T-shirts are accompanied by a clear and concise initiation into the basic principles of graphic design…

A few notebooks and some notecards:

Botanicals Notebooks 12.95

Butterfly Fields Eco-Journal 10.95

Vintage Blossom Notecards 9.95

For your chance to win these books, a $500 value, leave a comment. Be sure to include your email address in the comment form so Chronicle can contact you if you win. Email addresses are not published. Enter by midnight EST December 2nd. US residents only (Sorry international readers, sponsor’s rules). Official contest rules here. That’s it! Good luck and Happy Haul-idays.