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Glorious Shade: Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden

Jenny Rose Carey · Timber Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous gardenShade is one of the most common garden situations homeowner's have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can triumph over challenging areas and learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Glorious Shade celebrates the benefits...
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Country Living Mini Makeovers: Easy Ways to Transform Every Room

Country Living · Hearst
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

When it's time for a quick change, these 250 mini-makeovers for your home are fun and easy! No major remodeling necessary! Sometimes, all it takes are a few small changes to refresh your home and make you happy. These micro-decorating ideas from Country Living add beauty to every room,...
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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden

Alain Baraton · Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,...
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Second Bloom: Cathy Graham's Art of the Table

Alexis Clark · Vendome Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Artist, collector, and entertaining guru Cathy Graham shares her secrets for gracious living and memorable get-togethers in Second Bloom. Graham covers the essential elements that make every event shine - flowers, paper components, table setting, and food presentation. Quentin Bacon's...
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Onward and Upward in the Garden

Katherine S. White · NYRB Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazines first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White,...
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The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

Mark W Chase · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

One in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery - and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an astonishing array of colors, forms, and smells that captivate growers from all walks of life...
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Simply Clean: The Proven Method for Keeping Your Home Organized, Clean, and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day

Becky Rapinchuk · Touchstone
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.Becky Rapinchuk, the "Clean Mama," understands that many people...
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At Home in the Garden

Carolyne Roehm · Potter Style
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this exquisitely lush volume, lifestyle legend Carolyne Roehm celebrates her gardens as outdoor living rooms, revealing how she chooses the plants, flowers, and layouts; how she entertains guests with gorgeous table settings and breathtaking arrangements; and how she savors the hours...
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Reese Witherspoon · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty...
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Make Something Good Today: A Memoir

TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. · Gallery Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy, is within...
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The Painted Home by Dena: Patterns, Textures, and Colors for Inspired Living with 20 Projects and an Original Stencil

John Ellis · Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Dena Fishbein believes that putting a paintbrush in someone’s hands opens up the imagination to a new world of color and design opportunities. The woman behind internationally acclaimed merchandise company Dena Designs shows how her hand-painted style combines vintage and traditional...
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Nathan Turner's I Love California: Live, Eat, and Entertain the West Coast Way

Nathan Turner · Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Designer Nathan Turner's style is synonymous with the easy glam of California living. His first book introduced readers to his casual American style and chic design sense. Now, he has written a love letter to his home state in I Love California. This book is a journey up and down Highway...
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The Value of Weeds

Ann Cliff · Crowood Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Weeds are wild plants that have survived in the face of centuries of hostility. Many gardeners who are unfamiliar with the versatility of weeds think of them as a nuisance. They can be good, bad, dangerous, or beautiful. Above all, they are tough. This essential guide explores the virtues...
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Private Gardens of Paris

· Flammarion
Format: Hardcover

An exclusive glimpse into the hidden world of secret Parisian gardens. A hidden landscape lies behind Paris’s urban facades. Whether grandiose or modest, manicured or untended, these secret gardens, rarely seen by casual passersby, are timeless enclaves that provide verdant refuge...
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Life in the Garden

PENELOPE LIVELY · Viking
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards...
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