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Happy Starts at Home

West, Rebecca - CICO

Use your home as a tool to make better changes happen in your life. Through aligning your heart, home and health, experience first-hand how small changes make a big difference. What does it take to be happy at home? It's not about buying or not buying a new couch. It's about whether...
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Kitchen Garden Revival: A modern guide to creating a stylish small-scale, low-maintenance edible garden

Nicole Johnsey Burke - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting - with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading...
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The Visual Handbook of Energy Conservation: A Comprehensive Guide to Reducing Energy Use at Home

Charlie Wing - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

From the author of the best-selling The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling over 300,000 copies sold in all three editions, comes a new book in the same graphic format that explains how to reduce energy use in the home. With a vast array of well-organized and easily accessible essential...
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The Good Living Guide to Beekeeping: Secrets of the Hive, Stories from the Field, and a Practical Guide That Explains It All

Dede Cummings - Good Books
Format: Print book

Beekeeping is nothing new - the ancient Egyptians were well versed in the benefits of living with bees - but in recent years, there has been a surge of folks struck with the desire to build and nurture a hive of their own. Beekeeping has become the passion of farmers in rural Vermont, urbanites...
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Wreaths: Fresh, Foraged and Dried Floral Arrangements

Terri Chandler - Quadrille Publishing
Format: Paperback

Wreaths explores the art of creating wonderful floral pieces, to gift or keep, through a collection of 20 beautiful and natural designs. Learn how to play around with color, foliage, texture, and architectural forms with a craft that is no longer just for Christmas.Packed with ideas, skills...
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Dear God . . . Please Help It Grow!: A Commonsense Guide to Gardening with Faith (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series)

Jerry Baker - American Master Products, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The toughest gardening problems are vanquished in this gospel that hails the four Ps: patience, practice, persistence, and prayer. Lighthearted and not overly pious, the book aims to revitalize tired old yards and their owners' souls by combining practical advice, stories and proverbs,...
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Native Plants of the Midwest: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden

Alan Branhagen - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Native Plants of the Midwest, by regional plant expert Alan Branhagan, features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden. Plant profiles for more than 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers,...
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The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art

Cathy James - Roost Books

Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas - however big or small...
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The Anatomy of Sheds: New Buildings from an Old Tradition

JANE FIELD-LEWIS - GIBBS SMITH INC PUB
Format: Print book

Super-cool spaces to relax, work, chill out, or escape. Over 50 real examples from around the world -- some simple and modest and some extravagant -- inspire and instruct the reader on how to create their own special space. The owners themselves describe how they have created their own hideaways,...
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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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