Thursday, November 24, 2011

Better Homes and Gardens Big Book of Home How-To (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)

Better Homes and Gardens Big Book of Home How-To (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)
  • Must-have resource and incredible value—the largest do-it-yourself home improvement book on the market.
  • Innovative layout appeals to readers of all skill levels by allowing them to either follow more than 200 step-by-step projects or look up specific techniques.
  • Fix it, build it, paint it with confidence—thorough instructions and more than 4,000 full-color, step-by-step illustrations guide homeowners effortlessly through even the most complex projects.
  • Based on the reader-tested and time-proven Better Homes and Gardens "Step-by-Step" series.
  • Priceless knowledge for every homeowner—valuable expert advice on buying and using the right tools, selecting building materials, keeping projects safe, and much more.

Price: $24.95


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

New Decorating Book (Better Homes & Gardens)

New Decorating Book (Better Homes & Gardens)This all-new 9th edition of the Better Homes and Gardens(r) New Decorating Book features tips on how to achieve a great new style within your budget. This book is packed with ideas for storage solutions, color combinations, floor-plan solutions and furniture arranging along with source information for featured items. With gorgeous photos to demonstrate a complete look, as well timeless secrets of good design, even the beginning home decorator can put together a great look while capturing your own individual style.

Price: $24.95


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Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (1930-2000 Limited Edition)

Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (1930-2000 Limited Edition)Available for a limited time only! This special anniversary edition features 70 years of best-loved recipes from all 10 previous editions of the popular "Red Plaid" cookbook - America's best-selling cookbook. A special nostalgic section features dozens of all-time best recipes from the past 10 editions. Includes a fun or historical fact with each all-time-best recipe. Contains all the 1,200+ recipes found in the latest (11th) edition of the New Cook Book. All recipes are tested in the Better Homes and Gardens(r) Test Kitchen and updated for today's cooking techniques and taste appeal. Every recipe includes nutrition information plus preparation and cooking times. Perfect gift book for weddings, anniversaries, and housewarmings.

Price: $26.95


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Before and After Decorating (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)

Before and After Decorating (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)
  • Easy makeover ideas to refresh every room in the house.

  • Riveting before-and-after photos clearly show the benefits of even small changes such as rearranging furniture and accessories.

  • Dramatic transformations with paint, wallpaper, new lighting, slipcovers, or storage pieces will inspire consumers with a little more time to invest.

  • Ideas for every decorating style, from contemporary to traditional to eclectic, will appeal to a broad range of homeowners.

Price: $19.99


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Monday, November 21, 2011

Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens

Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens

Home vegetable gardening is all the rage. Millions of Americans have picked up spade and hoe and are digging into the soil for the first time. But starting a garden isn’t always simple. Many hopeful growers find themselves confused by the dizzying array of things to know about soil quality, garden layout, seeds, temperatures, planting schedules, fertilizer, pests, watering, and harvesting. Still other first-time gardeners plant too much, only to find themselves overwhelmed and exhausted by July.

Barbara Pleasant is here to help. In Starter Vegetable Gardens, Pleasant a master gardener and award-winning gardening writer takes the guesswork out of growing food, explaining in simple, straightforward language how to start, maintain, and expand a bountiful vegetable garden in small, manageable spaces.

Pleasant presents 24 no-fail, small-scale garden plans from a simple bag garden (planted right in soil bags!) to an orderly border and from a family food factory to specialty beds for salads, Cajun flavors, and Italian cuisine. For each plan she provides plant and material lists, a plot layout, four-color photographs, and tips for succession planting to keep the garden productive all season long. Her all-organic approach ensures that the harvest is not simply tasty but also chemical-free.

Pleasant anticipates and answers novice gardeners myriad questions, guiding readers through the complexities of assessing site and soil, understanding the climate, choosing the very best vegetable varieties, starting seeds, identifying insect friends and foes, watering, fertilizing, mulching, and harvesting.

The books layout is friendly and accessible, filled with detailed images that bring the concepts to life. Both instructive and inspiring, Starter Vegetable Gardens is an essential one-stop resource for anyone just beginning to cultivate a vegetable-gardening green thumb.

Includes 24 illustrated planting plans including:

  •  Easy-Care Bag Garden
  •  Backyard Veggie Border
  •  Front-Yard Food Supply
  •  Family Food Factory
  •  Paintbrush Beds
  •  High-Value Verticals
  •  Marinara Medley
  •  Managed Mulch Garden
  •  Sweet Corn & Company
  •  Cajun Spice
  •  Six-Weeks-Sooner Salad Garden


Price: $19.95


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Better Homes & Gardens Perennial Gardening

Better Homes & Gardens Perennial GardeningA comprehensive reference for planning, planting, and caring for the most popular perennials

Perennial Gardening from Better Homes and Gardens makes it easy to plan and maintain your ideal home garden with a wealth of smart guidance on selecting and caring for your perennials. All of the essentials are covered here, from planning the initial design to choosing the right perennials for your geographical region to maintaining your garden over time.

Perfect for gardeners of any and all skill levels, the book is packed with useful checklists, troubleshooting advice for common problems, handy at-a-glance charts, up-to-date coverage on new varieties and trends, and in-depth guidance on basic gardening techniques.

  • Includes a primer on perennials and plenty of inspirational designs, including color combinations and plant pairings
  • Features more than 700 gorgeous full-color photographs and colorful diagrams
  • Covers hundreds of varieties of perennials

Whether you're planning your first garden or looking to add perennials to the garden you love, Perennial Gardening covers everything you need to know.

Price: $19.95


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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Beautiful Baths (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)

Beautiful Baths (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)
  • Offers more than 180 pages of high-end trends and bathroom elements—more than the competition.
  • Features “room tour” presentation of 30 luxury bathrooms, showing each room from several angles along with numerous details; the competition shows only one or two shots of each bathroom.
  • Organized by style rather than by feature or element so readers can “shop” photos for complete looks and understand how to pull the elements together.

Price: $19.95


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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Cooking for Two

This absolutely indispensable and lavishly photographed guide will become a cornerstone work for years to come. It redefines the best way to "go green" and addresses a timely topic in a way designed to appeal to a growing and eager audience. Completely user-friendly and filled with motivational case studies and informative graphics. Every page leads would-be remodellers through the process of understanding their home and surroundings so they'll arrive at the perfect design solution.

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5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking)

5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking)
  • 237 tantalizing appetizers, savory soups, full-flavored stews, main dishes, meatless options, healthful choices, and luscious desserts.
  • No more than 5 ingredients per recipe, each of which coaxes the most flavor from the least effort.
  • A special bonus chapter features simple and quick-to-prepare 5-ingredient side-dish serve-alongs.
  • Favorite cuisines: Asian, Italian, Mexican and Mediterranean, plus comfort food, vegetarian choices and more
  • All recipes list ingredients needed, cook times, nutrition information, and calorie counts.

Price: $14.95


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Friday, November 18, 2011

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, PeopleThis unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to these style-makers’ private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.

Here are Madonna’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta’s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow’s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin’s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan’s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli’s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel’s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley’s miniature château on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho’s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley’s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton’s idyllic Provençal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld’s endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial.

Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the world’s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.

Price: $75.00


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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Deader Homes and Gardens: A Claire Malloy Mystery (Claire Malloy Mysteries)

Deader Homes and Gardens: A Claire Malloy Mystery (Claire Malloy Mysteries)
Claire Malloy discovers that house-hunting can be murder—literally—in the latest entry in Joan Hess's "wildly entertaining series." (Mystery Scene)
 
Back from her somewhat unusual honeymoon, Claire Malloy must face the harsh reality of life with her new husband, police chief Peter Rosen, and her teenage daughter Caron—three people simply can’t fit into her cosy two bedroom apartment. After a week of fruitless looking, she finally finds the perfect
place—a well preserved large house on a large plot of land in an area called Hollow Valley. There are only a few problems. Such as the real estate agent disappeared mid-showing and hasn’t been seen since. And the last owner died in circumstances labeled ’accidental’ but were actually both ’mysterious’ and ’dubious’. The family that owned the estate is now suing the lover of the dead owner over the rights to the property. Oh, and it isn’t really for sale. When the previous owner’s lover dies practically at her feet, Claire decides to take matters into her own hands. After all, to get the house of her dreams, first she has to find a killer. And all’s fair in love, war, and real estate.

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Complete Guide to Quilting

Complete Guide to QuiltingA one-stop quilting reference for beginners and experts

Better Homes and Gardens Complete Guide to Quilting shows readers how to master every technique, method, tool, fabric, block, seam, knot, and stitch. It's like a private "show me" quilt class designed to help quilters expand their skills.

Price: $19.95


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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden

The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home GardenFor every gardener desiring to add apples, pears, cherries, and other tree fruit to their landscape here are hints and solid information from a professional horticulturist and experienced fruit grower. The Backyard Orchardist includes help on selecting the best fruit trees and information about each stage of growth and development, along with tips on harvest and storage of the fruit. Those with limited space will learn about growing dwarf fruit trees in containers.
Appendices include a fruit-growers monthly calendar, a trouble-shooting guide for reviving ailing trees, and a resource list of nurseries selling fruit trees.

Price: $16.95


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The Ultimate Casseroles Book (Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate)

The Ultimate Casseroles Book (Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate)You'll never run out of easy family-pleasing meal ideas with this massive collection of one-dish recipes

New in the Ultimate series, The Ultimate Casseroles Book offers hundreds of ideas that make dinner a breeze with one-dish recipes that take the hard work out of prep-time and clean-up. These recipes suit every occasion with old-fashioned comfort foods like macaroni and cheese and modern fare like Baked Risotto with Sausage and Artichokes, from a quick weeknight spaghetti bake to a fancy egg strata for brunch.

Packed with more than 400 hearty one-dish meals and more than 300 beautiful full-color photos, The Ultimate Casseroles Book is a great resource at a great price.

  • The book features more than 400 recipes, including comfort food favorites, classic casseroles, and modern dishes fit for family meals or group gatherings
  • 300 gorgeous photos and an inviting design make every page inspiring and easy to follow
  • Special features include a guide to bakeware, a Casserole Master Plan chart for planning menus, a bonus chapter on transforming yesterday's leftovers into tonight's casserole, and much more

Whether you're looking for a quick and easy way to get dinner on the table or want to enjoy home-cooked casseroles even better than what mom used to make, this is the ultimate guide to casseroles of every kind.

Price: $19.99


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Beds and Borders (Better Homes & Gardens)

Beds and Borders (Better Homes & Gardens)

A highly illustrated, plant-by-numbers guide to planning and planting your ideal garden

Whether you're planning your first garden or want to try something new without all the trial and error, Beds and Borders provides easy, step-by-step, illustrated plans for more than ninety garden projects.

Each project comes complete with an inspirational color photo and an overhead-plan-view planting plan with a planting grid to show correct spacing and plant size. A plant list accompanies each project and doubles as a shopping list, making it simple and easy to gather all your supplies and plants in one quick trip to your local garden supply store.

  • Features more than ninety garden projects and more than 300 photos and illustrations
  • Includes simple, well-illustrated, step-by-step instructions
  • Provides informative tips and hints, including descriptions of the best plants for specific circumstances, regional notes for ways to adapt gardens for various regions across the country, and frugal gardening suggestions.
  • Offers problem-solution features that detail regional notes to explain the best plants for particular regions and garden plans for difficult-to-landscape features like slopes and shade

For first-timers and green thumbs alike, Beds and Borders offers something for every gardener.

Price: $19.95


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Incredibly Awesome Crafts for Kids

Incredibly Awesome Crafts for KidsKids won't believe all the amazing hours of fun that are in store for them! This is a step-by-step crafts book that will spark the imaginations of 8- to 12-year-olds and provide lots of creative ideas for using everyday objects and crafting materials. Kids can make papier-mache Easter baskets, finger puppets, tie-dyed T-shirts, jewelry, and much more.

Price: $16.95


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Monday, November 14, 2011

20-Minute Super Suppers (Better Homes & Gardens Fresh & Simple)

20-Minute Super Suppers (Better Homes & Gardens Fresh & Simple)Sixty-five full-flavored, reliable recipes are featured, divided conveniently into six chapters covering chicken, meat sautes, fish and seafood, pasta, vegetarian meals, plus a chapter on mealtime solutions. 23 full-color photos. .

Price: $15.95


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects for Home and Garden

Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects for Home and GardenBits and pieces, pique assiette, memoryware -- there are many names for this unique folk art technique that has flourished for centuries around the world. Mosaic art, revered for its intricacy and beauty, can now be made by anyone with the simple methods found in Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics.

Marshall's easy-to-follow techniques make it fun for readers to transform everyday items into one-of-a-kind works of art by attaching broken dishes, ceramics, jewelry, and glass to a wide range of surfaces. With clear, step-by-step directions and inspiring photographs, crafters can create fabulous projects of their own, including flower pots and vases, lamps, fireplace mantels, bird baths and bird houses, plant stands, garden tables, walkways, and more!

Price: $16.95


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New Decorating Book (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)

New Decorating Book (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)A revised and updated edition of the flagship guide from the authorities on home decorating

The Better Homes and Gardens New Decorating Book has been the decorating resource readers have turned to for more than half a century. Like its predecessors, the Tenth Edition features solid instruction, hundreds of examples, and clear interpretation of design guidelines that generations of readers have come to expect. But this new edition of the classic decorating book also reflects today's approach to decorating—mixing styles for personal expression with an awareness of budget.

Organized in two parts, the first section is filled with room-by-room decorating guides and home tours to cover broad sweeps of decorating topics. The second section is organized by integral design topic: color, furniture arrangement, flooring, lighting, etc. Plus, inviting photography is complemented by workbook-style illustrations to help novice decorators understand the application of design concepts to specific rooms.

  • Advice for making smart color choices
  • What you need to know about mixing colors and patterns
  • How to select and hang window treatments
  • Ways to make smart use of wall art
  • The essentials on color theory
  • Trade secrets and tips from real designers

Whether you're a new homeowner, an apartment dweller, or looking to spruce up any tired space, Better Homes and Gardens New Decorating Book shows you how to give a real home high-impact style—without breaking the bank.

Price: $24.99


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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden)

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden)This absolutely indispensable and lavishly photographed guide will become a cornerstone work for years to come. It redefines the best way to "go green" and addresses a timely topic in a way designed to appeal to a growing and eager audience. Completely user-friendly and filled with motivational case studies and informative graphics. Every page leads would-be remodellers through the process of understanding their home and surroundings so they'll arrive at the perfect design solution.

Price: $24.95


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Outdoor Kitchens: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Design and Construction (Better Homes and Gardens)

Outdoor Kitchens: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Design and Construction (Better Homes and Gardens)
  • Insights and ideas for the cook, as well as smart tips for the builder.
  • Imaginative and detailed plans for outdoor kitchens in a variety of locations.
  • Addresses both form and function to help homeowners assess their needs for cooking and storage space.
  • Color photos provide inspiration on how to apply designs to any setting.
  • Special section provides all-time favorite grilling recipes and tips for outdoor cooking from the Better Homes and Gardens experts.

Price: $19.95


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Friday, November 11, 2011

Better Homes and Gardens Porch and Sunroom Planner (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)

Better Homes and Gardens Porch and Sunroom Planner (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)
  • Guides homeowners through choices to create better, more stylish outdoor rooms within budget.
  • Current information on materials for foundations, furnishings, floor and wall coverings, and more.
  • Practical information for wall construction, roofing types, drainage, site concerns, and other building details.
  • Extraordinary photographs inspire homeowners to bump out and build up to bring the outdoors in.
  • Handy worksheets combined with expert advice help homeowners avoid surprises.

Price: $14.95


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Step-by-Step Landscaping (Better Homes & Gardens Gardening)

Step-by-Step Landscaping (Better Homes & Gardens Gardening)A new edition of Better Homes and Gardens(r) best-selling landscaping book. Packed with 408 pages of all-new material from the editors of Better Homes and Gardens(r) books, this complete landscaping guide has everything you need to know transform your yard.
  • More than 700 stunning photographs and 100 complete step-by-step projects show you how to improve grading, plant successfully, build a deck, and much more.
  • Plus an all-new plant encyclopedia with 95 plant photos! It's everything you need to know to improve your view.
  • Step-by-step plans for patios, edging, walls, fences, water gardens, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, garden sculpture, and more.
  • Cost estimate, time needed to complete, skill level, and material list included with every project.
  • Hundreds of inspiring photographs, ideas, and plans.

Price: $24.95


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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover

Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden loverThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Price: $33.75


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Landscaping: Planning, Planting, Building (Better Homes and Gardens(R): Step-by-Step Series)

Landscaping: Planning, Planting, Building (Better Homes and Gardens(R): Step-by-Step Series)500 color photos and more than 100 illustrations.

All techniques for designing and shaping a landscape plan and common outdoor structures.

Includes plant identification photos and charts.

Price: $15.95


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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Window Treatments for Every Room (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)

Window Treatments for Every Room (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)
  • Features dozens of beautiful window treatments, including draperies, valances, shades, shutters, and blinds
  • Strategies for dressing up any window treatment with decorative rods, finials, trims, tassels, and tiebacks
  • Tips and tricks for measuring windows
  • Advice for choosing the right styles and fabrics to ensure privacy and climate control
  • More than ten step-by-step projects, from easy make-it-yourself treatments to stylish embellishments for ready-mades
  • Chapters organized by room—from private areas such as bedrooms and baths to public spaces such as kitchens and living rooms—help readers find what they're looking for fast

Price: $14.95


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Bath Design Guide (Better Homes & Gardens)

Bath Design Guide (Better Homes & Gardens)
  • Includes a gallery of the latest bathroom products, fixtures, and design trends to demonstrate a variety of amazing bathroom designs.
  • Contains a special cost guide with pictures of good, better, and best materials to use to achieve the most sought-after bathroom while staying on budget.
  • Features unique sections that demonstrate how to avoid costly mistakes by checking local building codes and choosing low-maintenance materials.
  • Has a new, larger format; heavier, glossier paper; and more pages than any previous edition.
  • Includes expert tips from nationally renowned bathroom designers to bring to life elegant, inviting baths.

Price: $19.95


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Better Homes and Gardens American Patchwork and Quilting

Better Homes and Gardens American Patchwork and QuiltingBetter Homes and Gardens American Patchwork & Quilting [c]1985 1st edition 6th Printing Hard Cover. DJ has a crease on the front botton edge, a cople long deep scratches on the back , and dents and wear on the corners and edges. The back dj flap has creases on the top and bottom corners. Hardcover has light wear on the corners. Pages in good condition. Contents: Profiles of Patchwork, Learning to Piece with Squares and Rectangles, Patchwork Sampler,-A New Look at Old Patterns, Working With Log Cabin Blocks, Growing Up with Patchwork, Piecing on the Bias-Triangles, Diamonds, and Hexagons, Patchwork Stars-A Galaxy of Favorite Designs, Mastering Curves and Appliqued Pieces, Decorating with Patchwork, Quiting and Finishing your Patchwork, Living with Patchwork, our patchwork Heritages-Yhe Quilt Show. ISBN

Price: $24.95


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Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable, Fruit & Herb Gardening

Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable, Fruit & Herb GardeningMake your backyard a farmer's market with Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb Gardening

If you want the freshest fruits, vegetables, and herbs around, why not grow them yourself? Home gardens are a great way to slash your grocery budget and eat great food throughout the year. Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb Gardening from Better Homes and Gardens is packed with simple step-by-step guidance on starting your own easy and affordable kitchen garden.

The book includes explanatory diagrams, photographs and charts, and clear instructions that make planting, feeding, and harvesting your garden a breeze. This easy-to-follow guide covers it all-from container gardens, to large-scale garden projects, to a little herb garden on the balcony.

  • Features more than 150 encyclopedia entries of vegetables, fruits, and herbs with step-by-step instructions on planting, growing, and harvesting
  • Illustrated with more than 450 beautiful full-color photographs that offer helpful guidance and plenty of inspiration
  • Includes special sections on storing your harvested foods as well as tips on composting and helpful seasonality charts
  • Offers garden projects and planting plans with shopping lists for tools and plants.

Whether you want to start a major new edible garden project or just add a little fresh produce to your pantry, Vegetable, Fruit, & Herb Gardeningis the easy-to-understand, comprehensive guide you need.

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Monday, November 7, 2011

HomeMade: 101 Easy-to-Make Things for Your Garden, Home, or Farm

HomeMade: 101 Easy-to-Make Things for Your Garden, Home, or FarmComplete, easy-to-follow directions that will save time and money. Projects include a lawn chair, compost bin, and movable shed.

Price: $14.95


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Driftwood Furniture: Practical Projects for Your Home and Garden

Driftwood Furniture: Practical Projects for Your Home and GardenFrom the beach to the backyard.

Driftwood is an ideal building material. It is abundant, renewable and (best of all) free. It is easy to work with, does not require complicated tools and the results are guaranteed to be unique since no two pieces of driftwood are the same.

Using driftwood adds to the rustic setting of any garden or patio. Because of the natural process that creates driftwood, it requires no finishes and it is naturally waterproof and bug-free. Author Derek Douglas shows how to construct beautiful and useful chairs, tables, benches, arbors, and decorative objects. Thirty projects are featured that will appeal to novice and experienced woodworkers alike.

The book explains the entire process of creating a driftwood item from how to choose and store driftwood to design tips and the final construction. The necessary materials and tools are fully listed and most are found in the average toolbox.

Each clearly illustrated project in Driftwood Furniture is fully explained with valuable tips and practical advice. The results are fun, whimsical and durable.

Projects include: - Adirondack chair - Sleigh planter - Boat planter - 3-legged and 4-legged chair - Tricycle planter - Hanging flower pot holder - Hooded chair

Price: $29.95


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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Christmas Ornaments to Make: 101 Sparkling Holiday Trims (Better Homes & Gardens (Paperback))

Christmas Ornaments to Make: 101 Sparkling Holiday Trims (Better Homes & Gardens (Paperback))Includes 101 pretty-to-look-at, simple-to-do projects.

Custom ornament designs appeal to both novice and expert crafters.

This project book includes step-by-step instructions, patterns, and ideas.

Price: $15.95


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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Halloween Tricks and Treats (Better Homes & Gardens Crafts)

Product Description
Cool ideas for personalizing any Halloween party

From spooky to whimsical and everything in between, Halloween Tricks and Treats is a treasure-trove of neat ideas and helpful how-tos for adding a personal touch to your Halloween parties and celebrations. You'll get instructions for throwing Halloween parties that are festive for the whole family and learn how to make Halloween decorations that will transform your home into the spookiest place on the block. Plus, you'll get tasty recipes for Halloween treats, easy-to-follow craft projects, and step-by-step instructions for making handmade Halloween costumes that are clever, creative, and fun. Geared toward families and jam-packed with great ideas, you'll get

  • Halloween party ideas and kitchen-tested recipes
  • Instructions for making handmade Halloween decorations and holiday crafts
  • Halloween costume patterns and ideas for kids' games

Halloween Tricks and Treats shows you how to have imaginative Halloween celebrations that are achievable for any level of crafting ability.

Craft Excerpts from Halloween Tricks and Treats


Scary Sculls

Furry Spiders

Spellbinding Soup

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Anyone Can Cook DVD Edition: Step-by-Step Recipes Just for You (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen)

Anyone Can Cook DVD Edition: Step-by-Step Recipes Just for You (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen)

Product Description

The ultimate visual guide to cooking for anyone who needs to learn quickly and without a lot of fuss!

No other guide makes learning to cook (or becoming a more accomplished cook) this easy! With nearly 1,000 photographs, Anyone Can Cook brings you right into the kitchen, providing a visual guide to basic cooking skills and showing the appealing finished dish, while 575 recipes show how to create delicious food, from breakfast favorites to savory toasted sandwiches to quick meat main dishes.

This incredibly easy-to-follow guide offers

  • An 84-page visual intro to cooking that answers any question you might have about ingredients, tools, and techniques
  • A skill level icon that lets you know if a recipe is easy, easier, or easiest to make
  • An "Ask Mom" feature at the bottom of every page where you'll find questions you might have about that recipe and a cross-reference to the page with the answer
  • Super-easy recipes-from the comfort foods you crave (mashed potatoes and mini meat loaves) to some of the delicacies you enjoy in restaurants (Indian curries and Thai-style wraps)

For anyone who wants to make home-cooked meals but could use a helpful hand in the kitchen, Anyone Can Cook is brimming with useful advice and tips to get you started cooking fabulous meals quickly and with confidence!

Recipe Excerpts from Anyone Can Cook


Barbecue Quesadillas

Shiitake Mushroom-Tomato Bisque

Asian Salmon with Oven-Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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Friday, November 4, 2011

Build an Extreme Green Raised Bed Garden

Build an Extreme Green Raised Bed GardenThis construction project shows how to build a raised bed garden that is slightly different from conventional wisdom. Designed with the weekend do-it-yourselfer in mind, this project requires minimal skills to complete.

Price: $2.99


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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Ideas and How-To: Outdoor Kitchens (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)

Ideas and How-To: Outdoor Kitchens (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)
  • This book helps homeowners evaluate their outdoor kitchen needs and wishes, explore the available options, and identify choices that will work for them.
  • Charts, graphs, and cutaway diagrams pinpoint essential information, whether the homeowners are building the kitchen themselves or hiring a contractor to do the work.
  • Inspirational photos of existing outdoor kitchens range from basic to elaborate. Real-life examples show the variety of amenities available and provide ideas for combining materials to create a style that harmonizes with the home's architectural style.
  • The book gives plenty of practical advice for addressing each element needed in an outdoor kitchen: cooking surfaces, food preparation surfaces, and storage for food and supplies.

Price: $19.95


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Bromeliads for Home and Garden

Bromeliads for Home and Garden

Diverse, elegant, colorful, and easy to cultivate

"This book presents the basic information necessary to help beginner and intermediate Bromeliad growers produce a wide array of excellent flowering plants in an easy-to-read style."--Thomas J. Sheehan, author of Orchids to Know and Grow

"An excellent introduction, as well as a complete reference, to a fascinating group of colorful plants that should appeal to all gardeners."--Paul Martin Brown, editor of the North American Native Orchid Journal

There are more than 3,000 recognized species of Bromeliads including the pineapple and Spanish moss. Bromeliads offer an array of colorful plants that are easy to care for and available in the marketplace. Further, Bromeliads make handsome companion plants to orchids as the two often grow side by side in the wild.

Bromeliads for Home and Garden provides a comprehensive overview on Bromeliad cultivation. Brilliantly illustrated with over 100 color images, this straightforward, easy-to-use guide focuses on the most popular species. Author Jack Kramer has personally grown each one of the 200 plants featured in the work, in climates as diverse as those found in Illinois, California, and Florida. He writes with clear, practical information that gardeners of any skill level can use.

The incredible variety and colorful elegance of Bromeliads offer the possibility of year-round brilliance, and many varieties thrive both indoors and out. Pick up a copy of Bromeliads for Home and Garden today to enhance your home and landscape with these exceptional plants.

 

Jack Kramer is the author of numerous gardening books including 100 Orchids for Florida and Complete Houseplants. He has appeared on national TV and has given lectures across the country on a wide range of horticultural subjects. He lives in Naples, Florida.

Price: $26.95


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Ultimate Cookie Book (Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate)

The Ultimate Cookie Book (Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate)
  • 450 fantastic cookie recipes, from tried-and-true classics to unbeatable brownies to fabulous favorites that span the globe.
  • Enticing color photos of cookies on every spread.
  • Storage instructions are included for every recipe.
  • Prep, Chill, Bake, and Stand times are highlighted for each recipe.
  • Bonus chapters: Our Holiday Best and Quick Candies.
  • Chapter divider pages include feature text.
  • Full-color baking and decorating guide filled with ingredient information, tips, and techniques from the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen.

Price: $19.95


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Welcome Home Garden Club: A Twilight, Texas Novel

The Welcome Home Garden Club: A Twilight, Texas Novel

Traditional meaning of Pink and White Roses: I love you still and always will.

Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left for Iraq. Now she raises her small son while her matchmaking gardening club members drive her crazy. Then Caitlyn's world turns upside-down when Gideon swaggers back to Twilight.

Gideon had left town in the middle of night with threats ringing in his ears. A lot of things have changed since then. This bad boy-turned-Green Beret bears scars from the war, the timid girl he loved is an independent mother, and the father who refused to recognize his son in life has, in death, left him a vast cattle ranch.

He still aches for Caitlyn, and now there's a dark-haired boy who looks exactly like Gideon did at that age. Could the child be his? And can this war-weary soldier overcome the scars of the past to claim the family he so richly deserves?

Price: $7.99


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