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House Beautiful Think Small: Make the Most of Every Square Foot

House Beautiful - Hearst; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Whether you're trying to make a tiny studio seem roomier, create a cozy cottage, or turn an unused alcove into something special, House Beautiful shows you how to think small . . . and create big. With simple strategies for establishing zones, tricking the eye, thinking vertically,...
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Growing the Midwest Garden

Edward Lyon - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Everyone wants a glorious garden, but conditions in the Midwest can make it a challenge to grow the most popular ornamentals. Let Midwest gardening expert Ed Lyon help you with his encyclopedic knowledge of the tips, techniques, and plants specifically suited to the heartland. Learn the regions...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lifevowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable,...
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House Beautiful Think Small: Make the Most of Every Square Foot

House Beautiful - Hearst; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Whether you're trying to make a tiny studio seem roomier, create a cozy cottage, or turn an unused alcove into something special, House Beautiful shows you how to think small . . . and create big. With simple strategies for establishing zones, tricking the eye, thinking vertically,...
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A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home: Painting, Crafting, and Decorating a Cheerful, More Inspiring Space

Elsie Larson - Potter Style
Format: Book

Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the dcor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture....
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

John Seymour - DK; 0100- edition
Format: Hardcover

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving,...
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Crafting a Colorful Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Personalizing Your Space with Color

Kristin Nicholas - Roost Books
Format: Hardcover

Knit, stitch, and paint your way to a more colorful and happy home with color expert and crafter Kristin Nicholas. Learn how to make your home sing through handmade crafts and a bold use of color. Kristin Nicholas, color expert and all-around master crafter, shares her secrets to selecting...
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Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener

Sharon Lovejoy - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Ever since she was old enough to help her grandmother in the garden, Sharon Lovejoy has spent her life working with plants--and along the way, through "trowel and error," she's accumulated hundreds and hundreds of remedies, tips, short-cuts, and cure-alls. Now Ms. Lovejoy--author...
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Jekka's Herb Cookbook

Jekka McVicar - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

"What's exciting and clever about what Jekka has done with this book is that she's focused on a 'hit-list,' her top-50 cooking herbs of all time, and gives you delicious and exciting ways of using them." -- From the foreword. Jekka McVicar -- whom Jamie Oliver...
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Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

Karen Maezen Miller - New World Library
Format: Paperback

Come See the Garden That Is Your LifeWhen Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness,...
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Coastal Living Beach House Happy: The Joy of Living by the Water

Antonia van der Meer - Oxmoor House, 2015.
Format: Print book

Beach people are not only "house proud, " but they are irrevocably "house "happy. "" With a unique attachment to their homes, coastal dwellers and their homes exude a certain warmth and beauty found nowhere else. "Beach House Happy "reveals six routes...
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Modern Country: Inspiring interiors for contemporary country living

Caroline Clifton-Mogg - Jacqui Small LLP; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The countryside remains a vital part of French life, but that does not mean that French country houses are set in decorative aspic. When designing modern houses, it is natural to employ contemporary design solutions, but these same types of solution and innovations work equally as well...
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Cupcakes and Cashmere at Home

Emily Schuman - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated follow up to the bestselling Cupcakes and Cashmere! In Cupcakes and Cashmere at Home, Emily Schuman expands on the personal lifestyle advice that her fans loved in her first book and on her popular blog, with a focus on interior design and entertaining at home. The book...
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Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style

Will Taylor - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Dive into a refreshing take on color from one of the world's leading interiors bloggers, Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, West Elm's "go-to blogger for color inspiration." What began as a popular blog attracting over 400,000 readers a month is now a gorgeous, color-popping...
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The New English Garden

Tim Richardson - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive overview of the contemporary English garden scene, by the dream team of Tim Richardson, most perceptive and insightful of contemporary writers on gardens, and renowned garden photographer Andrew Lawson.The past ten to fifteen years has been an exceptionally rich period...
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Coffee for Roses: ...and 70 Other Misleading Myths About Backyard Gardening

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

Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result...it might even do the opposite.  In her new book, garden...
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Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

Carol Wall - Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Format: Hardcover

"In this profoundly moving memoir, Owita teaches Wall how to find grace amid heartbreak and to accept that beauty exists because it is fleeting - as in her garden, as in life." - People, 4 stars"A perfect spring awakening." - Good HousekeepingA true story of a unique...
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From the Ground Up: A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation

Jeanne Nolan - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

An inspiring story for everyone who's ever dreamed of growing the food they eat When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the heart...
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Sarah Style

Sarah Richardson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the flawless style of Deborah Needlemans Domino comes the interior design book of the decade, from HGTV star, virtual sensation, and Canadian design queen Sarah Richardson. Ever wondered how to transform your laundry room from drab to fab Your kitchen from prison to paradise Your bedroom...
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Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook

LaManda Joy - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches. LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago's...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decks, Updated 5th Edition: Plan & Build Your Dream Deck

Editors of CPi - Cool Springs Press; 5 edition
Format: Paperback

The most detailed, most current and most complete deck building book on the market. It reflects the latest changes in building codes and it features deck building materials that are popular today. The additional two signatures (32 pages) contain all-new deck plans with complete plan drawings....
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Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life

Erin Gates - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style.Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms: Interiors and Decorative Arts

Margo Stipe - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistAn invitation into the evocative, human-scaled, and artful interiors designed by Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent...
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes

Deborah Madison - Ten Speed Press
Format: Book

In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these...
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart - Algonquin Books
Format: Book

Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet?  In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration,...
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Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life

Erin Gates - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style.Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical...
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The Drunken Botanist

Amy Stewart - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

The Essential, New York Times-Bestselling Guide to Botany and Booze. "A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants." - NPRs Morning Edition. "Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms: Interiors and Decorative Arts

Margo Stipe - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistAn invitation into the evocative, human-scaled, and artful interiors designed by Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent...
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The New English Garden

Tim Richardson - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive overview of the contemporary English garden scene, by the dream team of Tim Richardson, most perceptive and insightful of contemporary writers on gardens, and renowned garden photographer Andrew Lawson.The past ten to fifteen years has been an exceptionally rich period...
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

Jane Goodall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around...
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Create the Style You Crave on a Budget You Can Afford: The Sweet Spot Guide to Home Decor

Desha Peacock - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this unique and hip home décor style guide, you will find the inspiration to explore your own sense of style, discover the essence of what makes your home feel good to you, and learn how to mix vintage, modern, and thrift store finds to create the eclectic look you crave on a budget...
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Decorating for Real Life: The Shabby Nest's Guide to Beautiful, Family-Friendly Spaces

Wendy Hyde - Plain Sight Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Don t spend a fortune on home furnishings. Popular home-style blogger Wendy Hyde shows you how to combine store-bought pieces with DIY projects and a healthy dose of whimsy to create budget-friendly spaces that show off your style and personality.
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Gardening in Miniature: Create Your Own Tiny Living World

Janit Calvo - Timber Press
Format: Book

Get ready to journey into the huge world of growing small! The next garden trend combines the joy of gardening with the magic of miniatures. Gardening in Miniature is a complete guide to creating lush, living, small-scale gardens. It has everything you need to pick up this new hobby, including...
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