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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2017
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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... 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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Marbled, Swirled, and Layered: 150 Recipes and Variations for Artful Bars, Cookies, Pies...
by Irvin Lin; photography by Linda Xiao
In his debut cookbook, pastry chef and blogger Irvin Lin lays down a solid groundwork of baking basics before launching into his imaginative dessert recipes, which are designed to be both visually dazzling and delectable. Appealing to various skill levels and palates, Lin shares recipes for more than 200 treats (including cinnamon spiral icebox cookies and Seville orange bars with salted shortbread and gin meringue), infusing his proficiency and humor into each, no matter how simple or complex. For further creative pastries, bakers may want to try Erin Patinkin and Agatha Kulaga's Ovenly; those who want to keep honing their core skills can't go wrong with Dorie Greenspan's Baking.
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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 three acclaimed memoirs (The Liar's Club, 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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| A Poetry Handbook by Mary OliverA lot of us feel about poetry the way we feel about art; we know what we like. If you want to pen some verses that you like or even just want to understand poetry better, Mary Oliver's quintessential book, first published over 20 years ago, offers advice on both. Though this isn't a thick book, she covers a lot of ground here, addressing imitation, meter and rhyme, sound, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, the importance of reading poetry, and workshops. Booklist says, "she so deeply knows her craft that she can describe it with perfect simplicity and concision." |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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The Public Library 501 Copper NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 505-768-5141abqlibrary.org |
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