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Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Jessica Walliser - Timber Press
Format: Book

It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden.Attracting...
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Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving

Tim Hollister - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Most driving literature for parents focuses on how to teach a teen to drive, without explaining why teen driving is so dangerous in the first place or giving parents a plan to preempt the hazards teens face. By contrast, Not So Fast empowers and guides parents to understand the causes and situations...
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Love Where You Live: At Home in the Country

Joan Osofsky - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Design expert Joan Osofsky of Hammertown Barn, a popular lifestyle store, shares her in-depth knowledge on stylish modern country living with a collection of creative ideas and real-life tips for making your home warm and welcoming. Joan Osofsky’s liberating philosophy about cozy...
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Handmade for the Garden: 75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space with DIY Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

Susan Guagliumi - Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Format: Paperback

The DIY craze has moved beyond the craft room and into the garden! Relying on easy-to-find, inexpensive, and repurposed materials, Handmade for the Garden is a treasure trove of original projects that not only make planting and growing efficient and successful but also add a personal...
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Decorate Fearlessly: Using Whimsy, Confidence, and a Dash of Surprise to Create Deeply Personal Spaces

Susanna Salk - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Featuring inspiring interiors from today’s top designers, Decorate Fearlessly shows us how to be bold and personal with our design choices, creating spaces that we love to live in. Decorate Fearlessly is both a photographic trove of fabulously designed homes—by such renowned...
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Remodelista

Julie Carlson - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

Remodelista.com is the go-to, undisputed authority for home design enthusiasts, remodelers, architects, and designers. Unlike sites that cater to all tastes, Remodelista has a singular and clearly defined aesthetic: classic pieces trump designs that are trendy and transient, and well-edited...
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Christmas with Southern Living 2008: Great Recipes - Easy Entertaining - Festive Decorations - Gift Ideas

Southern Living - Oxmoor House; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The Christmas experts at Southern Living magazine continue the holiday tradition with this all-new 28th edition of Christmas with Southern Living, the cooking, entertaining, and decorating classic that's steeped in gracious Southern style.One-hundred forty brand-new recipes—the...
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Prints in Paris 1900: From Elite to the Street

Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho - Mercatorfonds
Format: Hardcover

The Van Gogh Museum is home to one of the world's finest collections of French prints of the fin-de-sicle(1890-1905) . This book, based on several years of intensive research into these works and their original context, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of Parisian printmaking, from...
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Little Book of Coco Chanel: Her Life, Work and Style

Orange Hippo! - Orange Hippo!
Format: Hardcover

Almost 50 years after her death, Coco Chanel remains one of the world's most influential fashion designers. Her story is one of creative brilliance and innovation - she was a driving force in freeing women from the restrictive clothing they had been obliged to wear for generations....
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