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DEWALT HVAC Technician Certification Exam Guide - 2018

NORM CHRISTOPHERSON - DEWALT
Format: Paperback

The most complete and comprehensive HVAC technician certification book on the market now features updated information and an interactive online practice exam experience. The DEWALT HVAC Certification Exam Guide, 3E is fully equipped to give you the tools you need to prepare for the NATE,...
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

MARGARETA MAGNUSSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostdning, do meaning "death" and stdning meaning "cleaning."...
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Blue Ribbon Vegetable Gardening: The Secrets to Growing the Biggest and Best Prizewinning Produce

Jodi Torpey - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book

Win the blue ribbon every time! Master Gardener Jodi Torpey (WesternGardeners.com) offers all the information you need to grow champion vegetables -- beans, beets, cabbages, cucumbers, eggplants, onions, peppers, pumpkins, squash, and tomatoes -- covering everything from choosing the right...
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John Richardson: At Home

John Richardson - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Famed Picasso biographer and art historian Sir John Richardson opens the doors of residences from his life, revealing an autobiographical sketch through handsomely decorated rooms filled with art, antiques, and intriguing mementoes, each with a special story.John Richardson's Bohemian...
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Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers

Leslie F. Halleck - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

"Everything a plant parent needs to take their plant collection - and plant knowledge - to the next level." - Maria Failla, founder, Bloom & Grow Radio podcast Do you have a passion for houseplants? A desire to grow more tomatoes? Do you want a garden bursting with...
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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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Veranda A Room of One's Own: Personal Retreats & Sanctuaries

Kathryn O'Shea-Evans - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Take a tour of the most exquisite intimate retreats - inside and out. These beguiling, intimate, and restorative spaces are marvels of design. From serenely dreamy bedrooms to charming reading nooks and sophisticated studies, Veranda reveals a spectacular collection of indoor and outdoor...
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Miniature Terrariums: Tiny Glass Container Gardens Using Easy-to-Grow Plants and Inexpensive Glassware!

FOURWORDS. - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Small home gardens are growing in popularity, and miniature terrariums are the easiest and least expensive indoor garden of all. The beautiful photos in this book show you how to add a whimsical touch of green to any space: at work, at home, in your dorm room - even in your car!Terrarium...
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The Posy Book: Garden-Inspired Bouquets That Tell a Story

Teresa H. Sabankaya - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

"Like a favorite recipe, a posy is meant to be savored and shared. Try it yourself, and ... welcome a bit of floral enchantment into your life." -- Amy Stewart, author ofThe Drunken Botanist Inspired by the Victorian-era language of flowers, a posy is a small, round bouquet...
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Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Julie Morgenstern - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge -- parenting, from toddlers to teens -- with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime...
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The Joy of Tiny House Living: Everything You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge

Chris Schapdick - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback

Your indispensable manual for tiny house living!Comprehensive review of the practical considerations that go into building, owning, and living in a tiny home on wheelsWhat it means to upgrade to tiny, and what you should know about design, construction, and the legalities of living in a tiny...
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Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World

Nancy Striniste - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

"A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children's creativity, learning, and fun." - Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N Access to technology has created...
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The Martha Manual: How to Do

MARTHA STEWART - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Essential life skills from America's most trusted lifestyle expert - together in one beautiful and practical handbook, with hundreds of ideas, instructions, and inspirations Martha Stewart is America's go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many...
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Flowerpaedia: 1000 Flowers and their Meanings

Cheralyn Darcey - Rockpool Publishing
Format: Paperback

Flowerpaedia is a handy and engaging A-Z reference guide of over 1000 flowers, researched and compiled by botanical explorer Cheralyn Darcey. Readers will delight in understanding what each flower means--emotionally, spiritually, and symbolically--and the dictionary format allows people...
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The Autopilot Garden: A Guide to Hands-off Gardening

Luke Marion - Hobble Creek Press
Format: Paperback

Train your garden to practically grow itself with this new guide from YouTube gardening sensations Luke and Sindy Marion, founders of MIGardener. Instead of slaving away year after year, work smarter (not harder) by strategizing to help your garden become self-sufficient. Learn to break...
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Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden

Niki Jabbour - Storey
Format: Paperback

Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden...
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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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Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life

Francine Jay - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your schedule, the worries in your heart are too much? Make "lightly" your mantra, one lovely little word to live by, and transform your life.There's no shortage of decluttering books on the market,...
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The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest

HELENA MONCRIEFF - ECW Press
Format: Paperback

Examining the roots and fruits of the urban foodscapeOur cities are places of food polarities - food deserts and farmers' markets, hunger and food waste, fast food delivery and urban gardening. While locavores and preserving pros abound, many of us can't identify the fruit trees...
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Infinite Succulent: Miniature Living Art to Keep or Share

Rachael Cohen - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

Take your succulents to the next level with these stylish and creative projectsFrom blue- green to purple and pink, flower-shaped to squat and spiky or tall and fuzzy, the variety, versatility, and low-maintenance care of succulents makes them go-to plants for home gardeners. Here, succulent...
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The Backyard Herbal Apothecary: Effective Medicinal Remedies Using Commonly Found Herbs & Plants

Devon Young - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

Treat Ailments the Natural Way with Plants and Herbs from Your YardYour garden or neighborhood could hold all the plants and herbs you need to treat everything from respiratory issues to nerve pain to colic using natural remedies that are just as good for your body as they are for the environment....
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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding

Ted Floyd - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings,...
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Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper

Corrie Beth Hogg - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Houseplants are everywhere - on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions...
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Mini Meadows: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere around Your Yard

Mike Lizotte - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

The word "meadow" conjures images of wide expanses of land, but a mini meadow - a kind of informal flower garden started with seed sown directly into the soil - can be any size; plus, it's fun, easy to grow, and good for the planet. With as little as 50 square feet and for less...
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Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden

DAVID C MICHENER - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Peony features growing advice for one of the most beautiful and popular flowering plants. You'll learn the history of the plant, discover the different types of peonies available, and enjoy profiles of the best 194 varieties. Growing information includes details on climate, soil,...
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Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home with Blooms, Branches, and Foraged Materials All Year Round

Ariella Chezar - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

This lavishly photographed book from renowned floral designer Ariella Chezar provides step-by-step instructions for 39 seasonal floral arrangements and projects that celebrate the splendor of flowers, the bounty of the changing seasons, and the wild beauty of nature in your home.Just as fruits...
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Elements of Family Style: Elegant Spaces for Everyday Life

Erin Gates - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and popular lifestyle blogger Erin Gates shares everything you need to know about designing a beautifully stylish - yet practical and functional - family home through candid advice, inspirational ideas, and lessons learned.Loved by her readers for her chic...
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The Edible Herb Garden

ROSALIND CREASY - Periplus Editions
Format: Paperback

With Edible Herb Garden, you can reap the joys and benefits of growing herbs at home!Edible Herb Garden is an all-inclusive guide to herb gardening, with several delicious herb recipes included. It features information on growing an incredible selection of fragrant and savory herbs. Then,...
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Atmosphere: the seven elements of great design

James Howard - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

"You can feel the sense of atmosphere in the rooms Jim creates. . . . He is a master of making rooms magically come alive." - Newell Turner, Editorial Director, ELLE Décor, House Beautiful, Veranda. Jim Howard creates luxe yet comfortable homes for sophisticated clients around...
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Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family

MARY APPELHOF - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under...
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Practical Cactus and Succulent Book: The Definitive Guide to Choosing, Displaying, and Caring for more than 200 Cacti

Fran Bailey - DK
Format: Paperback

Choose the right plant from 200 varieties of cacti and succulents, and learn how to grow and show them off with help from this comprehensive guide.How can you encourage your bunny ear cactus to flower and flourish? What is the best method for propagating an Echeveria or Kalanchoe? What...
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Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

Jan Johnsen - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

Expert tips and beautiful photography from a veteran landscaperWhether it's ten square feet or ten acres, a backyard is something everyone wants to use to their best advantage. No matter the size or shape, an outdoor green space can be transformed from a neglected or untamed patch of dirt...
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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

Gretchen Rubin - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering, the beloved author of The Happiness Project shows us how to take control of our stuff - and, by extension, our lives. Gretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make...
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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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Vanlife Diaries: Finding Freedom on the Open Road

Kathleen Morton - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A photography book celebrating the nomadic lifestyle and community of vanlife through interviews, essential advice for living on the road, and more than 200 photos of tiny rolling homes.Inspired by the blog and Instagram account, Vanlife Diaries is an inspiring and detailed look...
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In Bloom: Growing, Harvesting, and Arranging Homegrown Flowers All Year Round

Clare Nolan - CompanionHouse Books
Format: Paperback

Enhance Your Home with Flowers In this beautifully designed book, brimming with inspirational photographs, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular displays that will fill your home with color and the gorgeous scent of the garden year-round....
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Living Floral: Entertaining and Decorating with Flowers

Margot Shaw - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with top stylemakers' and designers' innovative floral design ideas to enliven the home, Living Floral will resonate with those who appreciate the beauty and everyday luxury of flowers.For this inspirational, yet instructive, book Shaw presents portraits of top tastemakers...
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The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends

Scott Shrader - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces--for entertaining, playing, and relaxing.Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the back yard, bar seating by the outdoor oven. California native and exterior...
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The English Country House Garden

George Plumptre - White Lion Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Revised and updated edition. There is something special about the English country house garden: from its quiet verdant lawns to its high yew hedges, this is a style much-desired and copied around the world. The English country house is most often conceived as a private, intimate place,...
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Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe: Declutter and re-jig your wardrobe to transform your life

Elika Gibbs - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

Bring order to your wardrobe, love your clothes again, and get dressed in an instant with the help of the Practical Princess."We all need a Practical Princess in our lives." The Times. In Practical Princess Perfect Wardrobe, the stylist, organizational whizz and wardrobe expert...
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Grow Your Own in Pots: With 30 step-by-step projects using vegetables, fruit and herbs

KAY MAGUIRE - Mitchell Beazley
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Practical Book of the Year 2013 at the UK Garden Media Guild Awards.Grow Your Own Crops in Pots is the natural successor to Carol Klein's bestselling Grow your own Veg, which has sold more than 300,000 copies since publication. With this book you can turn the tiniest...
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Orchid Modern: Living and Designing with the World's Most Elegant Houseplants

Marc Hachadourian
Format: Paperback


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Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life

Jen Chillingsworth - Quadrille Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce our waste and plastics, choose organic food when shopping, eat less meat, and opt for environmentally friendly cleaning products. Yet we often wish we were doing more and it can be overwhelming...
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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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Interiors - The Greatest Rooms of the Century

Phaidon Editors - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

More than 400 of the world's best living spaces created by over 400 of the most influential people in interior design in one luxurious book Oversized and available in four collectable velvet covers to decorate any space in style, Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century is the ultimate...
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias

Andy Vernon - Timber Press, 2014.
Format: Print book

Dahlias are the showgirls of the garden. Their colorful blooms, from purple, pink, and white to yellow, orange, and red, come in a huge variety of sizes and shapes. The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias is packed with everything you need to know to grow these fantastic flowers. The book...
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