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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition

Karl B. McKnight - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Second edition
Format: Second Edition

Toadstools, truffles, boletes and morels, witches' butter, conks, corals, puffballs and earthstars: mushrooms are both mysterious and ecologically essential. They can also be either delicious or deadly. Thousands of different species of mushrooms appear across North America in the woods,...
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Ben Rawlence - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover


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The Camper Book: A Celebration of a Moveable American Dream

Dave Hoekstra - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper. Not just for placid retirees anymore, camper culture has sprung up among simplicity-seeking millennials,...
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Appalachian Mushrooms: A Field Guide

WALTER STURGEON - Ohio University Press
Format: Paperback

From one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters - Walter E. Sturgeon - comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia. Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology, and detailed diagnostic...
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Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America

Pete Dunne - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America's birds of prey Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolize freedom and fierceness, and in Pete Dunne's definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunning color photographs showing raptors up close,...
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Greywater, Green Landscape: How to Install Simple Water-Saving Irrigation Systems in Your Yard

Laura Allen - Storey Books
Format: Print book

Keep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including...
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Paul T. T. Mason MS
Format: Paperback(Third Edition)

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are 'walking on eggshells' to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is 'yes,' someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder...
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The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains: Essays on Journeys Past and Present

Brent Martin - The History Press
Format: Paperback

In the eighteenth century, naturalist and artist William Bartram traveled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent time documenting both plant life and the customs of the Middle Town Cherokees. Since that time, men and women like Bartram have journeyed through Western North Carolina's...
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Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness

QING LI - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit...
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Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and Solar System

IAN RIDPATH - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback

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