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Root, Nurture, Grow: The Essential Guide to Propagating Houseplants

ROSE RAY - Quadrille Publishing
Format: Hardcover

You've created your own house of plants, so what's next? The authors of House of Plants follow up their successful debut book with Root, Nurture, Grow - a practical and detailed guide to propagating and sharing indoor plants.The stylish handbook shows you how to make the most of your favorite...
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Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates

John Whitman - University of Minnesota Press
Format: Print book

Fresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard....
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Loose Leaf: Plants - Flowers - Projects - Inspiration

Wona Bae - Hardie Grant Books
Format: Print book

Showstopping floristry and plant installations, with projects to recreate at homeExploding off the page with astonishing beauty and style, here are some of the world's best in contemporary floral sculpture and installation to inspire your own creations at home. Alongside the superb...
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Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

Peter Burke - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps,...
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

MARGARETA MAGNUSSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostdning, do meaning "death" and stdning meaning "cleaning."...
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The New England Herb Gardener: Yankee Wisdom for North American Herb Growers

Patricia Turcotte - Countryman Pr
Format: Paperback

Profiles and provides growing information for seventy-five herbs, includes recipes for cooking, preparation of beauty products and medicine, and instructions for herbal crafts
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The New Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Matthew Biggs - Firefly Books
Format: Print book

Praise for the previous edition: "These three amazing authors have put together a must-have book for any vegetable grower." -- Washington Gardener "What is not included in this definitive and beautifully illustrated sourcebook on edible landscape?" -- The American...
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Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-Time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less

Derek "Deek" Diedricksen - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

For everyone who's ever dreamed of simplifying their life and downsizing their home, Micro Living offers an insider's look at what tiny house living is really like. Best-selling author and tiny house enthusiast Derek "Deek" Diedricksen profiles 40 tiny - but practical...
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Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Julie Morgenstern - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge -- parenting, from toddlers to teens -- with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime...
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Wabi-Sabi Welcome: Learning to Embrace the Imperfect and Entertain with Thoughtfulness and Ease

Julie Pointer-Adams - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

"An antidote to the veneer of perfectionism so often presented by books of its kind, Wabi-Sabi Welcome offers readers license to slow down and host guests with humility, intention, and contentment." - Nathan Williams, founder of KinfolkWabi-Sabi Welcome is sharing...
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How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home

Charles Wing - RSMeans
Format: Paperback

The updated and highly illustrated guide to understanding how just about everything in your house works! The revised and updated third edition of How Your House Works is a hands-on guide that gives you the low-down on why your faucet is leaking, your dishwasher is overflowing, or your...
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The Garden Primer: Second Edition

Barbara Damrosch - Workman
Format: Print book

The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods." - Chicago Tribune "Best of the crop." - House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea...
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Heirloom Plants: A Complete Compendium of Heritage Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs & Flowers

Lorraine Harrison - Ball Publishing
Format: Print book

It s nearly impossible for gardeners to resist the allure of heirloom plants. Their names alone sound inviting Flanders Purple kale, Golden Marconi sweet peppers, Moon & Stars watermelons, Turk s Turban squash, Scarlet Emperor running beans, and Jefferson plums and many growers claim...
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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything: Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do

POPULAR MECHANICS. - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference. Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don't recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing...
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The Martha Manual: How to Do

MARTHA STEWART - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Essential life skills from America's most trusted lifestyle expert - together in one beautiful and practical handbook, with hundreds of ideas, instructions, and inspirations Martha Stewart is America's go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many...
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The Indestructible Houseplant: 200 Beautiful, Easy-Care Plants that Everyone Can Grow

Tovah Martin - Timber Press (OR)
Format: Paperback

Tovah Martin, the undisputed Queen of Green, shows that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and - here's the crucial part - picking the right plants. These tough but beautiful plants can thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, and they're...
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Conran on Color

Terence Conran - Conran Octopus
Format: Hardcover

Terence Conran shares a lifetime of experience as one of the world's leading designers and retailers to explain how to make the most of this vibrant and dynamic ingredient in your homeSubtle and allusive, bold and invigorating, color is one of the single most powerful elements in design...
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Decks

David Toht - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Building a deck is one of the most popular outdoor projects for home DIYers. The job takes time and effort, but if you have some basic carpentry skills and the right tools, and you work slowly, carefully, and safely, you can produce a great-looking deck that you can be proud of. Author...
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150 Best of the Best House Ideas

Francesc Zamora Mola - Harperdesign
Format: Print book

Packed with hundreds of pages of beautiful and inspirational color photographs of homes from around the world, a visually stunning resource and guide - part of the successful 150 Best series - featuring the latest in modern home construction and design.A comprehensive collection of single-family...
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domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

Domino. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

From the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Since launching in 2005, domino has attracted a fiercely loyal following, which looks to the brand as the definitive source for decorating and style....
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Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk

Sally J Smith - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Add an exquisite flourish of design to your beloved green space or garden by adding tiny fairy homes inter-woven with nature. Fairy Houses gives you the instruction and inspiration you need! Have you ever seen a real fairy house? Not the ceramic ones at cavernous home improvement...
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Life in the Garden

PENELOPE LIVELY - Viking
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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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis - Artisan
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity...
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Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers

Louesa Roebuck - Ten Speed
Format: Print book

A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year.Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble...
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Your Home, Your Style: How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love

DONNA GARLOUGH - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

The first book from the style director for the popular home decor site Joss & Main is a lively, chic road map to finding and implementing your style at home. In this age of Instagram and Pinterest, there is no shortage of decorating inspiration. Then why is it so hard to make the leap...
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Install Your Own Solar Panels: Designing and Installing a Photovoltaic System to Power Your Home

Joe Burdick - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

Labor and related costs account for more than half of the price of the average home solar installation. But homeowners can save thousands of dollars with this user-friendly manual, which follows the same process professional contractors use. Through detailed directions and step-by-step...
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The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers

Marcia Gay Harden - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America's most revered actresses uses the imagery of flowers and the art of Ikebana to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's...
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A Woman's Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Betterand Get High Like a Lady

Nikki Furrer - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

A handbook for understanding and using marijuana, written just for women--whether they're using it for medicinal relief or for pleasure. This book is like having a knowledgeable salesperson across the counter at a dispensary who can hand-sell you a product to fit your mood and tastes--because...
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Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables

Joan Dye Gussow - Chelsea Green Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Michael Pollan calls her one of his food heroes. Barbara Kingsolver credits her with shaping the history and politics of food in the United States. And countless others who have vied for a food revolution, pushed organics, and reawakened Americans to growing their own food and eating locally...
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Home

Ellen DeGeneres - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book

Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen."
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The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening

Ron Krupp - Whetstone Books
Format: Print book

Here is an entertaining, common sense organic gardening book from a master of both gardening and storytelling. The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening reconnects us to the four gardening cycles of the year -- from spade to seed to grain to bread -- through anecdotes and history, poetry...
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