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Build a Rain Barrel

Sally McGraw · The Child's World
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Introduces the importance of water conservation and explainshow to build an efficient rainwater storage container. Additional features to aid comprehension include detailed step-by-step illustrations, a clear list of materials, informative captions and callouts, fast facts, suggestions...
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Smoke Over Steamtown

Dennis Livesey · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

Through Dennis A. Livesey's camera lens, readers will experience the thrill of the steam railroad, a transportation system that dominated the USA for over 100 years and helped build a nation. In 131 photographs of Steamtown -- a heritage railroad -- see the billowing smoke and the flashing...
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Crochet So Lovely: 21 Carefree Lace Designs

Kristin Omdahl · Interweave
Format: Print book

Oh-so-Lovely crochet lace designs! Enjoy 21 beautiful crochet patterns that you will wear again and again in Crochet So Lovely. Author Kristin Omdahl offers a collection of crochet lace patterns along specific themes--creating interesting lace by playing with gauge; creating allover lace;...
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Ageless Beauty the French Way: Secrets from Three Generations of French Beauty Editors

Cle?mence von Mueffling · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A magical guide." -- Aerin Lauder, style and image director for the Estée Lauder CompaniesFrom three generations of French beauty experts, Ageless Beauty the French Way is the ultimate book of tips, products, practices and French beauty secrets in ten categories such as Hair,...
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The Wedding Dress: Newly Revised and Updated Collector's Edition

OLEG CASSINI · Rizzoli
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This quintessential book on the wedding dress, newly revised and updated in a collector's edition, is an exciting look at a variety of luxurious wedding dresses, celebrating their beauty, sophistication, and romance. From Jacqueline Kennedy to Grace Kelly, Oleg Cassini's designs...
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Keith Houston · W W Norton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated." -- Erik Spiekermann, typographerWe may love...
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Home Automation For Dummies

Dwight Spivey · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The easy way to control your home appliances Do you want to control common household appliances and amenities from your smartphone or tablet, wherever you happen to be? Home Automation For Dummies guides you through installing and setting up app-controlled devices in your home, such as heating...
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Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2017

Terry Kovel · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

The 49th edition of Kovels', the leading antiques price guide, includes 25,000 listings and more than 2,500 full-color photographs. Kovels' is the most complete and best-illustrated price guide available, from the most trusted name in the industry. It features exceptionally well-organized,...
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Build a Neighborhood Library

Annette Gulati · The Child's World
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Introduces the importance of reusing resources and explainshow to make a small library to exchange books. Additional features to aid comprehension include detailed step-by-step illustrations, a clear list of materials, informative captions and callouts, fast facts, suggestions on how kids...
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Getting Started Knitting Socks

Ann Budd · Interweave
Format: Hardcover

From cast-on stitches to binding off, this handbook details the simple steps needed to turn seemingly complicated sock knitting projects into easy and enjoyable activities. Helpful photographs and instructional drawings ensure that even inexperienced knitters will be able to produce high-quality...
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How to decorate.

Farrow & Ball. · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Set to become the bible of home decoration, Farrow & Ball How to Decorate provides a highly practical and inspirational guide to the successful use of paint and paper in any home, large or small, urban or country. Published on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the iconic brand,...
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The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well

Deborah Needleman · Potter Style; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Style is a luxury and luxury is simply what makes you happyOver the years founding editor in chief of domino magazine Deborah Needleman has seen all kinds of rooms with all kinds of furnishings Her conclusion Itrsquos not hard to create a relaxed stylish and comfortable home Just a few well-considered...
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