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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2017
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| 350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets by Jan EatonOffering a treasury of tips, techniques, and trade secrets for crocheters (both new and experienced), this wide-ranging book provides numerous projects and quick fixes for problems crocheters may encounter. It also discusses everything from choosing the right hook and yarn to creating your own designs. Step-by-step color photos enhance the text and will have readers crocheting something fine in no time. |
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Welcome to the Farm : How-To Wisdom From the Elliott Homestead
by Shaye Elliott
The homesteading movement is continuing to grow, as more people are stepping up to have a hand in where their food comes from. Whether you want to dabble or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome to the Farm is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to growing the very best food right in your own backyard. Shaye Elliott takes readers on a journey that teaches them how to harvest baskets full of organic produce, milk a dairy cow (and make butter), plant a homestead orchard, can jams and jellies, and even raise chickens and bees. From her experience running The Elliott Homestead, Shaye provides all the how-to wisdom you need to know. Welcome to the Farm is aimed to serve homesteaders and urban-farmers alike, guiding them through the beginning stages of small-area farming and utilizing whatever amount of space they have available for optimal and delicious food production.
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| Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers by Annette Goliti Gutierrez and Mary GrayIf you're tired of trying to find the perfect (and affordable) planter, stop searching and make your own! Projects are sorted by material (concrete, plastics, metals, terra-cotta, and organic materials) and come with colorful photographs and a list of tools and materials needed. Along with step-by-step instructions that detail how to make a tiled cinderblock planter, flying saucer planter, and 21 more planters, the authors also offer encouragement to try your own ideas. |
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| The Harvest Baker: 150 Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Fresh-Picked Flavors of Fruits, Herbs & Vegetables by Ken HaedrichIncorporating a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and herbs into muffins, scones, flatbreads, calzones, pizzas, cookies, cakes, pies, and more, The Harvest Baker includes dishes such as tomato slab pie, savory vegetable skillet bread, sweet potato buttermilk biscuits, fresh mint brownies, and three-berry crostata. Recommendations for baking tools as well as recipes for glazes and sauces are also included. This bounty of sweet and savory dishes will inspire and delight gardeners, bakers, and those who just like to eat good food. |
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The Art and Craft of Wood : A Practical Guide to Harvesting, Choosing, Reclaiming, Preparing, Crafting, and Building with Raw Wood
by Silas J. Kyler
Aimed at the woodworking hobbyist or aspiring DIYer, The Art and Craft of Wood introduces readers to the basics of wood craft. This book will inspire you to make something of your own through simple, approachable instructions and inspiring step-by-step photos. As a reader, you will learn valuable skills, including: Where to find wood that you can reclaim for your own use - How to mill, stack, dry, and flatten your log into useable lumber - Create a variety of useful household furnishings in 7 step-by-step projects ranging in difficulty from novice to more complicated - What to do with leftover material, such as making firestarters and animal bedding. The authors have lived the process and share what they learned along the way, including the fulfillment of crafting a beautiful, practical item from wood that has been overlooked or discarded.
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Pantry and Palate : Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food
by Simon Thibault
What is Acadian food? It is humble, homey, and comforting. It is made with love and devotion from a larder that is small but mighty, and holds history within itself. And it is made to be eaten. In Pantry and Palate, journalist Simon Thibault explores his Acadian roots by scouring old family recipes, ladies' auxiliary cookbooks, and folk wisdom for 50 of the best-loved recipes of Acadians past and present. Recipes run the gamut, from the art of pickling beets to old-fashioned foodways such as rendering lard and cooking with head cheese, to Acadian staples like Classic French Canadian Tourtière and Seafood Chowder, and a delicious roster of desserts from Rhubarb Custard Pie to Acadian Panna Cotta. Including essays celebrating the stories behind the recipes, a foreword by bestselling author Naomi Duguid (Taste of Persia), and photos by noted food photographer Noah Fecks, Pantry and Palate is magnifique from page to plate.
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Focus on: Creative Writing |
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| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley FishStanley Fish, college professor and connoisseur of fine sentences, explains why the building block of writing is the sentence. In this informative and entertaining book, he discusses how to craft good prose as well as how to know well-written works when you see (or hear) them. Drawing on examples from movies, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Martin Luther King Jr., Antonin Scalia, Elmore Leonard, and more, Fish inspires as he illustrates. New writers may want to start here; as Fish says, "if you know sentences, you know everything." |
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| The Art of Memoir by Mary KarrMemoirs have been having a moment for a while now. If you want to write your own and would like an irreverent guide, this funny yet full-bodied bestseller is a good place to start. Mary Karr, a university professor and the author of widely acclaimed memoirs (Cherry, and Lit), uses examples from her own books (along with others by favorite authors), shares literary anecdotes, and discusses her writing process while identifying the elements of a successful memoir. |
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| Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le GuinPopular author Ursula K. Le Guin presents practical advice on how to pen a good narrative. To that end, she covers the sound of language, point of view and voice, sentence length and complex syntax, narration, grammar and punctuation, workshops and peer groups, and more. Using discussions, examples, and specific practice exercises (such as writing the same scene from different points of view), this book is like a writing workshop you can do at home. |
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Letters to a Young Writer : Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
by Colum McCann
A collection of essays featuring advice to beginner writers draws on the award-winning author's distinguished career as a teacher and writer, outlining strategies to tapping creative inspiration while working through the challenges of writer's block, criticism and the evolving nature of one's written work. By the best-selling author of Let the Great World Spin.
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