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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2017
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Real Food Projects : 30 Skills, 47 Recipes from Scratch
by Kate Walsh
Survive the twenty-first century with good, clean, healthy food from Kate Walsh's Real Food Projects. Kate curates 30 of the most important and inspiring things you can do in your kitchen, divided into easy, medium to more complicated projects.
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One Bowl Meals Cookbook
by Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen
Whether it’s a rice bowl, grain bowl, salad bowl, vegetarian or made with seafood or meat, there’s a simplicity and comfort in eating a full and balanced meal out of a bowl. One Bowl Meals will inspire readers to mix and match their favorite flavors and foods to create simple, satisfying meals.
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The Savvy Shopper's Cookbook
by Amy Sheppard
Packed with delicious, cheap and, for the most part, healthy midweek meal ideas to match your shopping habits, this book shows you how to navigate supermarkets and shop for fewer ingredients at low prices, without compromising on your favourite meals. It also includes mouth-watering dishes including Caramelised Onion and Goat's Cheese Tart.
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Fan Fare : Game Day Recipes for Delicious Finger Foods, Drinks & More
by Kate McMillan
Whether or not the game is any good doesn’t matter as long as you have great eats: eating well during the game is nearly as important as the game itself. Packed with classic game day fare, from munchies and small bites to classic tailgating stand-bys and stadium standards, this book is your complete guide to game-day-grub.
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Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
by Zoe Adjonyoh
Zoe's Ghana Kitchen was a pop-up restaurant in the UK that grew into a huge success by word-of-mouth. Here Zoe takes traditional Ghanaian recipes and re-mixes them for the modern kitchen. From Pan-roasted Cod with Grains of Paradise and Nkruma (Okra) Tempura to Coconut and Cassava Cake and Cubeb Spiced Shortbread, Ghanaian food is always fun, always relaxed and always tasty!
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Hot mess kitchen : recipes for your delicious disastrous life
by Gabi Moskowitz
Decades ago, every young woman left home knowing how to cook, but now, well, not so much. And while they're happy times have changed, authors Gabi Moskowitz and Miranda Berman want to save millennials from the perils of takeout and take back the kitchen with their new book, HOT MESS KITCHEN.
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Bold Flavored Vegan Cooking : Healthy Plant-Based Recipes with a Kick
by Celine Steen
Celine Steen, founder of the popular food blog Have Cake Will Travel, embraces dynamic seasoning with umami-rich, meat-free ingredients like dried shiitake mushrooms, tamari, miso and matcha. Celine adds new levels of flavor to your favorite dishes with unique combinations of aromatic spices, from Szechuan peppercorn to dried árbol chiles. Her dishes are nothing short of bold and memorable.
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Coffee Drinks : An Illustrated Infographic Guide to What's in Your Cup
by Merlin Jobst
Do you know your Cappuccino from your Cortado or your Americano from your Affogato? When you’re at the counter of the coffee shop, faced with a menu of drinks as long as the line of people eagerly waiting for that morning blast of caffeine, the minutiae and mechanics of coffee can be a little mind-bending. With this simple infographic guide that clearly explains the composition of all the main types of coffeedrinks available, you’ll be able to identify what you’re sipping and how best you like it, making this an essential addition to the collection for anyone who’s addicted to great coffee.
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Friendsgiving : Celebrate Your Family of Friends
by Alexandra Shytsman
A guide to hosting a stress-free, festive holiday gathering for family and friends provides menus that blend classic and internationally inspired foods, themed decorating tips, make-ahead suggestions and recommendations for vegan and gluten-free diets.
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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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So close to amazing : stories of a DIY life gone wrong ... and learning to find the beauty in every imperfection
by KariAnne Wood
Fans of The Magnolia Story and The Pioneer Woman will love this debut memoir from the beloved Thistlewood Farms blogger. So Close to Amazing is a collection of hilarious and heartfelt reflections on getting it almost right―and how, instead of giving up, we can choose to simply embrace our real selves right where we are. It’s a story of transparency and honesty and recognizing that perfection is completely overemphasized and overrated. It’s about grace and learning from mistakes and rejoicing in every victory, no matter how small. Because when you find joy in the “you” God created you to be, you’ll discover the amazing that was there all along.
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Focus on: Creative Writing
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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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On writing : a memoir of the craft
by Stephen King
The author of The Stand, The Shining, and other great books shares his insights into the craft of writing, offering a breezy, humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer. 500,000 first printing. BOMC Main. QPB Alt.
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Writing Tools : 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
by Roy Peter Clark
Introduces a collection of fifty universal tools and strategies that writers of all kinds can use every day, accompanied by hundreds of examples from journalism and literature, ranging from "Watch those adverbs" to "Turn Your Notebook into a Camera." Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Bedford Public Library
2424 Forest Ridge Dr.
Bedford, Texas 76021
817-952-2350
www.bedfordlibrary.org
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