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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 Magical World of Moss Gardening

Annie Martin - Timber Press (OR)
Format: Paperback

Mosses are a gardener's dream. These emerald beauties thrive where nothing else grows, and they provide year-round interest in all climates. Deer-resistant and immune to typical garden insects and diseases, mosses offer erosion control and help prevent water run-off. Try placing these...
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Kitchen Upgrades

Taunton Press - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Kitchen Upgrades is a compilation of the very best expert design and product advice, using real-world remodels to help professionals and passionate amateurs remodel a kitchen of any shape and size, on any budget. The pros take you through every step of the remodeling process, with over...
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The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design

Jinny Blom - Jacqui Small
Format: Hardcover

In The Thoughtful Gardener, Jinny Blom shares her insight into the creative process she has developed while designing more than 250 gardens around the world. Jinny believes that garden design should lead from a house and its context. For her, design is more a matter of intelligence and appropriateness...
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A House in the Country

Peter Pennoyer - Vendome Press
Format: Print book

Nestled amid the lush, gently rolling hills of cattle and horse farms in Millbrook, New York, is a handsome Greek Revival house that looks like it's always been there. In fact, it is brand new - the collaborative effort of architect Peter Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder....
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The Doable Off-Grid Homestead: Cultivating a Simple Life by Hand . . . on a Budget

SHANNON STONGER - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

If you've ever thought about starting your own farm or homestead but weren't sure how to get started, follow Shannon and Stewart Stonger, two self-made homesteaders, and their plan on how to start and succeed at homesteading. Shannon and Stewart left their home in the city and moved...
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Home: The Best of The New York Times Home Section: The Way We Live Now

Noel Millea - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Appealing and innovative houses that show creativity, ingenuity, and design savvy for all homeowners today. With striking photographs and compelling stories from its vast home-design archive, the editors of the New York Times's beloved Home section offer a look at how contemporary...
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Rooted in Design: Sprout Home's Guide to Creative Indoor Planting

Tara Heibel - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A stylish and full-color guide to creatively integrating indoor plants with home decor from the owners of the popular Sprout Home garden design boutiques.Indoor plants play a large role in the design and feel of a space. Focusing on indoor gardening--from small containers and vertical installations...
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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers

Tony Kirkham - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have...
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Handpicked: Simple, Sustainable, and Seasonal Flower Arrangements

INGRID CAROZZI - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book

Brooklyn-based florist Ingrid Carozzi reveals her secrets for creating flower arrangements that are modern, original, and organic in style. Organized by season, the book presents simple step-by-step instruction (how to measure, cut, and place each bloom) for making more than 35 arrangements....
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L'art de la Simplicit: How to Live More with Less

Dominique Loreau - Griffin
Format: Print book

If simplicity is an art, then Dominique Loreau is a master. Having lived in Japan for many years and inspired by Eastern philosophy, Loreau discovered the beauty of a life well lived through the art of simplicity. Her lifestyle rests on the principle of less is more, and imbues all areas...
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Indoor Edible Garden

Janette Marshall - DK
Format: Print book

Grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers in your home that look amazing and taste even better with Indoor Edible Garden.Featuring 28 innovative step-by-step projects, Indoor Edible Garden is a highly visual guide full of practical tips and stylish ideas for how to create edible...
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 7th Edition: Current with 2017-2020 Electrical Codes

COOL SPRINGS PRESS. - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

BLACK+DECKER's latest edition of the bestselling home-improvement book in North America for more than a decade is completely updated to conform to 2017-2020 national electrical codes. For more than ten years, BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Wiring has been the bestselling home...
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

Xerces Society. - Storey Books
Format: Print book

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract...
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The flower-powered garden : supercharge your borders and containers with bold, colourful plant combinations

Andy Vernon - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Discover the joy of a flower-driven garden! For many gardeners, the low-key colors of the naturalistic gardening movement are just too quiet. Andy Vernon, a self-professed flower fanatic, is one of these gardeners. In The Flower- Powered Garden, he urges everyone to embrace one of the most...
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

Peter Walsh - Rodale
Format: Print book

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed...
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Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wander & Wonder

Amie Sikes - Touchstone
Format: Print book

In their first book, the Junk Gypsies - sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show - combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson.Amie...
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

Dana K. White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff--you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain,...
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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
Format: Paperback

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...
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will...
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Fumio Sasaki - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided...
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The Ultimate Guide to Urban Farming: Sustainable Living in Your Home, Community, and Business

Nicole Faires - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

How to maximize your food production in an urban environment.The idea of bringing agriculture into the city has been promoted by many on both sides of the political fence: proponents of sustainability and prevention of climate change as well as those who worry about government and social...
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Glorious Shade: Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden

Jenny Rose Carey - Timber Press
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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Little Veggie Patch Co. DIY Garden Projects: Easy Activities For Edible Gardening and Backyard Fun

Matt Pember - Hardie Grant Books
Format: Print book

The Little Veggie Patch Company is a Melbourne based business that specializes in everything that encompasses the edible garden. From the design, installation and maintenance of home, school and corporate veggie patches, to everything you will need to care for them, they are dedicated to helping...
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Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

Lee Goldman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Print book

Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes,...
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Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes

Piet Oudolf - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

The soul of a famous garden, revealed Before it was restored, the High Line was an abandoned landscape overgrown with weeds and wild flowers. Today it is much more than that; it's a year-round garden, an unprecedentedly ecological urban park, a promenade and an ever-evolving cultural...
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Change Your Home, Change Your Life with Color: What's Your Color Story?

Moll Anderson - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

What is your color story? There is a reason we dream in color. Color speaks louder than words - it can not only brighten your home; it can brighten your life. Color can transform a room - your mood, your family, and even your well-being. Are you living life in color - or living in neutral?...
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The Cocktail Hour Garden: Creating Evening Landscapes for Relaxation and Entertaining

C. L. Fornari - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Print book

At the end of the day, what better place is there to kick back, chill out and make the world go away, than in your own backyard garden? Plant and cocktail lover C. L. Fornari shows how easy it is to create a garden atmosphere that sets the mood for private relaxation or festive occasions...
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

Mark D Sikes - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

The first book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration,...
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Cultivating Chaos: How to Enrich Landscapes with Self-Seeding Plants

Jonas Reif - Timber Press (OR)
Format: Hardcover

Self-seeding plants can create naturalistic gardens of great charm, but left to their own devices quickly spiral out of control. Maintaining the balance of plants so that a small number of robust species do not evict the others and developing the structure of the garden are important techniques...
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Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day

MELISSA MAKER - Avery
Format: Hardcover

The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living,...
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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

Erin Benzakein - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements...
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A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House

Gil Schafer, III. - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

For award-winning architect Gil Schafer, the most successful houses are the ones that celebrate the small moments of life - houses with timeless charm that are imbued with memory and anchored in a distinct sense of place. Essentially, Schafer believes a house is truly successful when the people...
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House Beautiful Style Secrets: What Every Room Needs

SOPHIE DONELSON - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

From the country's most popular interior design magazine comes a stylish, in-depth look at what it takes to make any room beautiful. House Beautiful Style Essentials: What Every Room Needs is an inspiring and hardworking handbook that shows readers how to create the rooms of their...
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Living in the Countryside

Taschen. - Taschen
Format: Print book

Fresh air: Europe's most inspiring country housesSoft meadows, birdsong, the starry depths of a clear night sky: in this book, TASCHEN celebrates the pleasures of country living with a European collection of rustic retreats. Through Sweden, Ireland, England, Holland, France, Greece,...
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Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change

Larry Weaner - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This beautiful book shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners. An essential addition to our knowledge of sustainable landscapes." - Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home This...
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Sunnylands: America's Midcentury Masterpiece

Janice Lyle - Vendome
Format: Print book

With its pastel green and yellow interior, its dazzling collection of Impressionist paintings, and long, low sofas that look like vintage Cadillac convertibles, Sunnylands was a Versailles for the Space Age. In Palm Springs, the mecca of midcentury modern architecture, this immaculately...
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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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Garden photography workshop : expert tips and techniques for capturing the essence of your ... garden

Andrea Jones - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Learn to take better garden photos! One of the most rewarding aspects of gardening is sharing its beauty, both physically with those who visit and virtually with those who only see it on a screen. But capturing a garden's true essence is difficult, and often the moments worth sharing...
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The Beginner's Guide to Building a Garden One Project at a Time: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard

Sally Roth - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A fresh approach and simple way to transform your yard! The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend...
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The Grumpy Gardener: An A to Z Guide from the Galaxys Most Irritable Green Thumb

Steve Bender - TI Inc. Books
Format: Hardcover

Definitive gardening advice - along with a story or two - for the novice or expert from one of the nations most-trusted, and Grumpy, sources.. Gardeners from across the country have turned to Southern Living Senior Garden Editor Steven Bender - known affectionately as "The Grumpy Gardener"...
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The Complete Guide to Growing Tomatoes: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply - Including Heirloom Tomatoes

Cherie H Everhart - Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
Format: Print book

In this newly updated guide, you will learn the fundamental aspects of all tomato plants that have helped growers around the world create the largest tomatoes. Topics include: The basics of composting and fertilization and what each tomato plant benefits best from How to select your...
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The Home Decluttering Diet: Organize Your Way to a Clean and Lean House

Jennifer Lifford - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

Put Your House on a Diet for Long-Term Results If you're sick of the clutter around your home and can't find any organization systems that work for you, it's time to put your house on a diet. Starting with a 30-day home detox to quickly shed some of that excess weight, you will gain the confidence,...
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Happiness the Mindful Way

Ken A. Verni Psy.D. - DK
Format: Hardcover

Happiness: The Mindful Way is a practical step-by-step guide to help focus the mind, improve performance, and be happy.This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide is filled with infographics and questionnaires, making the road to happiness an enjoyable, personal journey. Discover how breathing...
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The Perfect Treehouse: From Site Selection to Design & Construction

Django Kroner - Popular Woodworking Books
Format: Print book

Treehouses awaken the little kid inside all of us. The idea of having a fantasy house in the treetops appeals to pretty much everyone one. But building a treehouse the right way takes a lot of thought, planning, hard work and attention to detail. This book is here to help you dream big,...
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The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations: Playing with Size, Shape, and Color to Create Spectacular Paper Arrangements

LIVIA CETTI - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book

In The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Arrangements, artist Livia Cetti ups the ante with a host of grander and more intricate flowers and projects - more blooms, more petals, stronger stems, and bigger, bolder arrangements! Cetti will teach you how to play with size, shape, color, and texture...
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Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style

Joseph Tychonievich - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Rediscover a classic garden technique! Rock gardening - the art of growing alpines and other miniature plants in the company of rocks in order to recreate the look of a rugged mountaintop - has been surging in popularity. Time and space constraints, chronic drought in the American West,...
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Everyday Monet: A Giverny-Inspired Gardening and Lifestyle Guide to Living Your Best Impressionist Life

AILEEN BORDMAN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Bring Monet's paintings and gardens to life using this gorgeously illustrated book that will teach you how to create a Monet lifestyle from your living room to your kitchen to your garden - from the documentarian and author of Monet's Palate Cookbook, with the support of the American steward...
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Make Yourself at Home: Design Your Space to Discover Your True Self

Moorea Seal - Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the blockbuster hit journals The 52 Lists Project and 52 Lists for Happiness, comes a book to help you design your space to discover what is really important to you and express the creativity and style you already have! This book is all about beautifying your life inside...
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Unf*ck Your Habitat: Youre Better Than Your Mess

Rachel Hoffman - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Hardcover

"The perfect housekeeping guide for somebody who is overwhelmed with their mess and cant figure out how to start." -Lifehacker"An accessible guide on how to clean for normal people." -Livestrong"It actually changed my life and my home; Im serious." -Book RiotFinally,...
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French Accents: Farmhouse French Style For Today's Home

Anita Joyce - Cedar Fort, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

There's nothing better than a little "joie de vivre" to brighten up your decor! Filled with gorgeous photography and an abundance of helpful design ideas, this book is guaranteed to bring the cozy comfort of classic French style into your home. Learn how to create an inviting...
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The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being

Kathi Keville - Timber Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

Immerse yourself in the healing power of fragrance! The Aromatherapy Garden explains how fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and how easy it is to add this captivating element to gardens large and small. It reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant...
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Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto

Leslie Buck - Timber Press
Format: Print book

What do you discover when you cut back? At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most...
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Herb Gardening: How to Prepare the Soil, Choose Your Plants, and Care For, Harvest, and Use Your Herbs

Melissa Melton Snyder - Countryman Press
Format: Print book

A comprehensive guide to starting an herb garden, written for beginners The consummate beginners guide for anyone interested in starting an herb garden. It will explain, in simple terms, everything you need to know about choosing the site, preparing the soil, choosing the plants, caring...
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures

Roma Agrawal - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building...
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She Sheds: A Room of Your Own

Erika Kotite - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Create your very own hideaway right at home with She Sheds.They've got their man caves, and it's time for you to have a space of your own. She Sheds shows you how to create cozy getaways with inspiration from across the country. Start by defining the goal and purpose of your...
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Happy Home Outside: Everyday Magic for Outdoor Life

Charlotte Hedeman Gueniau - Jacqui Small
Format: Hardcover

Colour and a sense of fun are central to the RICE ethos. Fresh from the success of her first interiors book, Happy Home, Charlotte has taken RICE style outside.This is a fun-loving collection of outdoor decorating and styling solutions, from seating and other furniture to lighting...
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The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife

Nancy Lawson - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists...
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir

Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary...
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Bulletproof: The Cookbook: Lose Up to a Pound a Day, Increase Your Energy, and End Food Cravings for Good

Dave Asprey - Rodale Books
Format: Print book

In The Bulletproof Diet, Dave Asprey turned conventional diet wisdom on its head, outlining the plan responsible for his 100-pound weight loss, which he came to by "biohacking" his body and optimizing every aspect of his health. The unconventional plan urges you to skip...
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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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Country Living Rustic Homes: Barns, Cabins, Cottages & Farmhouses

Country Living - Hearst
Format: Print book

Reclaim, repurpose, refurbish, or restore your way to the country-style home of your dreams! Rustic touches borrowed from barns, cabins, cottages, and farmhouses make even modern homes feel warm and snug. Country Living offers an abundance of inspiring ideas and gorgeous photographs...
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The Family Handyman Ultimate 1 Day Projects

Family Handyman - Readers Digest
Format: Paperback

From the experts at The Family Handyman (the #1 home improvement magazine) come more than 100 do-it-yourself projects ideal for every homeowner or apartment dweller - each can be completed in a half day or lessMake big improvements in just a few hours, indoors or out! Small, simple,...
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books

Marta McDowell - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

"For gardeners, botanists, and fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this book looks at the beloved Little House on the Prairie author's relationship to nature." - Publishers Weekly The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books springs from a life lived in partnership with...
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The Complete Book of Home Cleaning: 276 Green & Natural Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for a Clean & Happy Space

Toni Hammersley - Weldon Owen
Format: Print book

The follow-up to the bestselling Complete Book of Home Organization, the Complete Book of Home Cleaning is a foolproof, eco-friendly guide to cleaning your home. From establishing routines, making schedules, and DIYing green cleaning solutions to help keep every area of your home neat,...
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Ditch the City and Go Country: How to Master the Art of Rural Life From a Former City Dweller

ALISSA MORRIS - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

The No-Nonsense Guide For Country Dreamers Though moving to the country takes determination, every ex-urbanite says it was the best decision they ever made. The same rings true for Alissa Hessler, who relocated from Seattle to rural Maine years ago and has never looked back. In this book...
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Container Gardens: Over 200 Fresh Ideas for Indoor and Outdoor Inspired Plantings

The Editors of Southern Living - TI Inc. Books
Format: Paperback

Lack of space? Lack of time? No gardening experience? Need inspiration? No matter the issue, Southern Living magazine has the answer so that anyone can have a beautiful garden year-round using the brands newest book on container gardening. Container Gardens is a smart and sensible guide...
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Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

Ed Caesar - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first major work about marathon running - including the current heated battle among the world's elite runners to reach the two-hour barrier - and how psychology, technology, economics, and the latest science affect the potential of human performance.Two hours, to cover 26 miles and 385 yards....
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Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season

CEDRIC POLLET - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

Cedric Pollet is the author / photographer of the acclaimed book Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees (over 50,000 sales worldwide) . In his next book, he visits 20 of the most beautiful winter gardens in France and the UK, showing with stunning photography the ways in which...
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150 Best Interior Design Ideas

none - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

An in-depth review of the latest trends in residential interior designs from internationally renowned architects and designers, showcasing 150 full-color profiles and 500 pages of color photos - an outstanding addition to the popular 150 Best series.In 150 Best Interior Design Ideas you'll...
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Weeds of the Northeast

Richard H Uva - Cornell Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover

Here, at last, is a lavishly illustrated manual for ready identification of 299 common and economically important weeds in the region south to Virginia, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. Based on vegetative rather than floral characteristics, this practical guide...
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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your Houses Dirty Little Secrets

Dana White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Audiobook

Bring your home out of the mess its in - and learn how to keep it under control.Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it go this way again? Youre not alone. But there is hope...
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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Scott Hoffman Black - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where...
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Aquaponics

Caleb Warnock - Familius, 2016.
Format: Print book

In the first aquaponic book to provide information on lawns, gardens, and vertical gardens, self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shows us how fish, plants, a flower bed, water, and a drain combine to create a masterful ecosystem that can sustain your family. Aquaponic gardening mimics...
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Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration

Carl Dellatore - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

Poised to become the essential book on design, Interior Design Master Class collects the expertise and knowledge of the best interior designers working today. Opening Interior Design Master Class is like sitting down to the best dinner party you've ever attended. A classic...
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Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes

Cassie Liversidge - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge...
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Timeless Beauty: Over 100 Tips, Secrets, and Shortcuts to Looking Great

Christie Brinkley - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

In her first book in more than 30 years, supermodel Christie Brinkley shares the secrets shes learned on what to eat, how to apply makeup like a pro, and what to wear to look like a knock out. . From tips on which skincare products really make our skin look younger to which foods cut inflammation...
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Better Homes and Gardens Flea Market Style: Fresh Ideas for Your Vintage Finds

Samantha Thorpe - Better Homes and Gardens Books
Format: Paperback

The Indispensible Guide to Scoring, Using, Collecting, and Displaying Vintage Flea Market Finds Flea markets, Craigslist, and even a neighbor's curb can yield vintage treasures that make a house sparkle. But knowing what to do with those pieces can be intimidating. This innovative book...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection

Louisa Thomsen Brits - Plume
Format: Print book

When life gets hectic, work grows stressful, and the days fly by, unplug and tune in. Hygge (hoo-gah) is a Danish word but a universal feeling of being warm, safe, comforted, and sheltered - an experience of belonging to the moment and to each other. Hygge anchors us, reminding us to slow...
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The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation

Ian Smith - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of SHRED and Blast the Sugar Out, the ultimate guide to clean eating!What is clean eating? In his newest diet book, Dr. Ian K. Smith teaches readers the benefits of clean eating and how to implement...
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Hydrangeas for American Gardens

Michael A. Dirr - Timber Press
Format: Illustrated]

The sheer number of choices among Hydrangea species, hybrids, and cultivated varieties can be overwhelming even for the most advanced gardeners. How to choose from among the hundreds of mopheads, climbers, lacecaps, and oakleafs, to name just a few? And how to care for hydrangeas in American...
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Country Living American Style: Decorate * Create * Celebrate

Country Living - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Country Living celebrates all-American design from sea to shining sea: quaint New England towns, dusty Texas ranches, woodsy log cabins, and Main Street, Anywhere, USA. Here are our country's most beloved styles on vivid display - its architecture, ornaments, textiles, and other more...
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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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Zen Chic Inspired: A Guide to Modern Quilt Design

BRIGITTE HEITLAND - THAT PATCHWORK PLACE
Format: Print book

Design a modern quilt the Zen Chic way! Quilter and interior-design expert Brigitte Heitland shows you how to use the unique colors and decor elements in your favorite rooms to inspire quilts that will be right at home.You don't have to be an interior designer to make a modern quilt...
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The Family Handyman Ultimate Organizing Solutions

Family Handyman - Reader's Digest Association
Format: Paperback

Make your home neater and more convenient - and a better place to live! Most homes actually have plenty of storage space, but much of that space is disorganized, inconvenient and wasted. Best Organizing Solutions helps you solve all of those problems with simple, ingenious projects that...
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Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants In Your Garden

Noël Kingsbury - Timber Press
Format: Print book

The intriguing stories about our favorite plants! The oldest rose fossil was found in Colorado and dates to 35 million years ago. Marigolds, infamous for their ability to self-seed, are named for an Etruscan god who sprang from a ploughed field. And daffodils - an icon of spring - were...
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The New Bohemians Handbook: Come Home to Good Vibes

Justina Blakeney - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways....
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Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere

Tara Nolan - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Join the revolution and create a beautiful raised bed garden with inspiration from the ultimate raised bed gardening guidebook! Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is its ultimate guidebook. The book includes information about...
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Vogue Living: Country, City, Coast

Hamish Bowles - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The next collection of all-new beautiful houses and gardens that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the last decade, with more than 400 full-color photographs.Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: City, Country, by the Sea is an irresistible voyage through some of the world's...
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The Gentleman's Farm: American Hunt Country Houses

Laurie Ossman - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

This sumptuous volume features gracious country homes that blend the very best of vernacular tradition, classical architecture, and high-style elegance. For four centuries, the ideal of the gentleman's farm has inspired Virginians to create extraordinary homes on landscapes of unparalleled...
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English Houses: Inspirational Interiors from City Apartments to Country Manor Houses

Ben Pentreath - Ryland
Format: Print book

In this timeless and beautiful book, renowned architectural and interior designer, writer, shop-keeper and blogger Ben Pentreath presents a fresh and insightful overview of the classic English style.Visiting 12 very different homes, Ben explores and appraises the unique spirit of the English...
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basementsEven when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces...
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The Perfect Bath

Barbara Sallick - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

A chic, polished guide to creating your dream bathroom, including engaging interviews with top designers and practical advice for homeowners. Whether you call it your sanctuary, retreat, oasis, or spa, the bath is unlike any other room in the house. It can be the most private and indulgent...
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Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

Rory Feek - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes, it's not only what we plant but where we're planted.Now raising their 3-year old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey's passing, Rory Feek digs deep into the soil of his life and career to share the choices made and lessons learned that helped turn a middle Tennessee farm into...
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The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance

Dan Prendergast - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

A practical reference for experienced and novice tree owners alike. If you are fortunate enough to live on property that includes trees, The Tree Doctor is the ideal, fully-illustrated manual for care and maintenance. A sapling requires different care than does a young tree or a mature...
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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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How to Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition:

JOHN JEAVONS - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

The world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power. Long before it was a trend, How to Grow More Vegetables brought backyard ecosystems...
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