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Off the Shelf December 2015
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Home made winter
by Yvette van Boven
"HOME MADE blew readers away with its stunning package, delicious recipes, beautiful photos, step-by-step instruction, and Yvette van Boven's own hand-drawn artwork throughout the book. Van Boven's passion for great food and good humor could be felt on every page in the book. Now, in the follow-up HOME MADE WINTER, van Boven's heartfelt work is presented again, this time with recipes intended for the winter season. Inspired by her childhood in Ireland and her frequent sojourns in France, she has created a collection of recipes that will warm your heart. Chapters include Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch; Pies and Sweet Things for Tea Time; Beverages; To Start; and Dessert. She focuses on simple recipes for classic dishes such as apple cider, BBQ pulled pork, ricotta cheesecake, and more. Step-by-step, she explains how to make butter, beef sausage, and baileys. She also features her favorite winter holiday recipes. This book is sure to become the next must-have for home cooks"
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Gather : memorable menus for entertaining throughout the seasons
by Georgeanne Brennan
In this beautifully photographed book, renowned cookbook author Georgeanne Brennan brings a refreshing feeling of seasonal simplicity to the art of entertaining year-round. She invites readers to consider any occasion to gather people to the table: honoring parents in the springtime, Chinese New Year in the winter, a summer solstice party, or Thanksgiving two ways (traditional and vegetarian). For each season Brennan offers four to five complete menus with a tantalizing array of starters, finger foods, entrees, and desserts. In addition to 90 recipes, Gather includes decorating and cooking tips for setting the mood and ideas for saving time.
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Comfort food fix : feel-good favorites made healthy
by Ellie Krieger
The host of Healthy Appetite and author of the best-selling The Food You Crave presents 150 healthy adaptations for such classic favorites as meatloaf, lasagna and chicken pot pie, in a volume that shares easy-to-implement tips for rendering popular comfort foods lower in calories and fat.
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Fix-it and forget-it Christmas cookbook : 600 slow cooker holiday recipes
by Phyllis Pellman Good
The popular slow-cooker recipe-book series takes on Christmas, with 500 tasty recipes--including Seafood Cheese Fondue, Fruited Turkey and Yams and Holiday Spinach and Artichoke Dip--as well as such special sections as "Ideas for Meaningful Holidays" and "Happy Hosting Tips."
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All-time favorite gifts from the kitchen
by Jane E. Gentry
A festive compilation of holiday treats features more than two hundred easy-to-prepare recipes for a host of delectable sweets, snacks, spreads, candies, and more, along with special tips on gift wrapping and more than ninety photographs.
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The garden in winter : plant for beauty and interest in the quiet season
by Suzanne Frutig Bales
Explaining how to transform one's garden to provide year-round interest, an inspirational gardening handbook reveals how to add texture, color, shape, and beauty to the winter landscape, with suggestions for the best trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, and grasses, as well as container plantings, holiday decorating tips, and more.
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The bird garden
by Stephen W. Kress
"Roger Tory Peterson points out in the foreword to this engaging and practical book that the art of attracting birds to your backyard has gone beyond the window feeder and birdbath. Here are ideas for creating a habitat that meets all of the needs of birds--food, water, cover, and nesting sites. Kress, an ornithologist and author of two other books on birding, gives advice on selecting and planting the best vegetation to attract birds, building nesting structures and feeders, and ways to provide water throughout the year. Kress offers a guide to common birds and recommended plants. The guide is divided into five geographic regions: northeast, southeast, prairies and plains, mountains and deserts, and the Pacific Coast. For each region, there is a landscape design for the ideal bird garden. More than 300 trees, shrubs, and other plants are described, giving their growth habits, cultural preferences, hardiness, and the birds that rely on them for food or cover. A comprehensive, first-rate guide." -- Booklist
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Winter Hikes of Western Washington
by Craig Romano
A smart and portable way to get to the trailhead all year long Featuring the author's recommended trails for off-season hiking, the Winter Hikes Deck of Western Washington is a versatile pack of outdoor options. From lowland routes and rainforest rambles to coastal tramps and protected peaks, each card features a route description on one side and a map on the other. The deck includes twenty never-before-published hikes. Additional cards provide essentials for winter hiking, an index of hikes, and information on winter flora and fauna.
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Best groomed cross-country ski trails in Oregon : includes other favorite ski routes
by Mike Bogar
If you want fun and challenging cross-country skiing experiences that aren't in the backcountry, this is the guidebook for you. Cross-Country Ski Trails: Oregon is easy to use-all the routes are well-marked and the sno-parks are easily accessible from major highways and interstates. Ski areas are identified within regions and the trails in each region are carefully mapped out. Regions include southwest Washington, Mount Hood, Santiam Pass, central Oregon, Willamette Pass, southern Oregon, and eastern Oregon.
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Snowshoe routes, Oregon : Oregon
by Shea Andersen
Snowshoe Routes: Oregon is the state's first complete guide to this increasingly popular sport. Routes range from beginner to backcountry, and the majority are easily accessible from the major cities of Portland, Eugene, and Bend. Included is information on snowshoe equipment and technique, clothing and footwear, winter safety, avalanche safety, and winter camping.
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Small move, big change : using microresolutions to transform your life permanently
by Caroline L. Arnold
Arguing that determination and willpower alone are insufficient to overcoming deeply ingrained habits, a guide to focusing one's self-control on precise behavioral targets to enable meaningful change draws on the author's own successes and failures as case-study examples of effective "microresolution" practices.
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A Christmas escape : a novel
by Anne Perry
Seeking comfort in his loneliness in a small Mediterranean hotel during the holiday season, widower James Latterly is introduced to the island's beauty by an orphaned teen before a violent quarrel and a shocking claim culminate in a murder that Charles realizes has been committed by a fellow guest.
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The Mistletoe Inn : a novel
by Richard Paul Evans
Signing up for a writing retreat to assuage a broken heart after one too many romantic disappointments, 32-year-old Kimberly Rossetti looks forward to meeting a favorite writer and bonds with a fellow aspirant who gives her insight into her writing while gradually revealing his dark past. By the author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise.
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A Christmas bride in Pinecraft
by Shelley Shepard Gray
A New York Times and USA Today best-selling author concludes her Amish Brides of Pinecraft series with a story of forgiveness and trusting one's heart … just in time for Christmas.
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Cape Light : together for Christmas
by Katherine Spencer
As Molly Harding attempts to shoulder the burden for her catering-company partner—Betty Bowman, who is caring for her ill husband—single mother Carrie Munro begins to fall for the child psychologist who is helping her with her son. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Angel Island novels.
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Wishes for Christmas
by Fern Michaels
A crossover holiday story featuring favorite characters from the Sisterhood and Godmothers series finds Maggie preparing a tribute to a beloved teacher while Toots investigates a mystery surrounding a designer from an exclusive Charleston firm.
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Dashing through the snow : a Christmas novel
by Debbie Macomber
Sharing a rental car when they are unable to book a flight to Seattle, loyal daughter Ashley Davidson and independent contractor Kevin Tyler find their respective holiday plans challenged by interpersonal clashes and a misunderstanding with the law.
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Winter stroll : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
A sequel to Winter Street finds inn owner Kelley Quinn and his family busily preparing for the holiday season, which is thrown into unexpected chaos by the machinations of three vindictive exes. By the author of the best-sellers Beautiful Day and The Matchmaker.
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Christmas bells : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A holiday tale inspired by Longfellow's classic poem follows the experiences of a dedicated Boston teacher who, in the face of a somber season, finds inspiration and renewal at the church where she volunteers. By the New York Times best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.
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The winter solstice
by Ellen B. Jackson
Presents some of the beliefs that different peoples have associated with the shortest day of the year, reviews the astronomical basis of the solstice, and explains the influences of ancient customs on modern holidays.
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The return of the light : twelve tales from around the world for the winter solstice
by Carolyn McVickar Edwards
The winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still," marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year, and it comes either on December 20th or 21st. Celebrations honoring the winter solstice as a moment of transition and renewal date back thousands of years and occur among many peoples on every continent. The Return of the Light makes an ideal companion for everyone who carries on this tradition, no matter what their faith. Storyteller Carolyn McVickar Edwards retells twelve traditional tales—from North America, China, Scandinavia, India, Africa, South America, Europe, and Polynesia—that honor this magical moment. These are stories that will renew our wonder of the miracle of rebirth and the power of transition from darkness into light.
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The shortest day : celebrating the winter solstice
by Wendy Pfeffer
Describes how and why daylight grows shorter as winter approaches, the effect of shorter days on animals and people, and how the winter solstice has been celebrated throughout history.
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On earth
by G. Brian Karas
Take a journey into space to explore the earth's rotation, the various seasons, weather patterns, the process of day turning into night, and more through simple text and bold illustrations.
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Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
by Robert Frost
Originally published in 1978, this reissued version and special gift edition with three new spreads and vellum jacket captures the beauty of a wintry eve in New England.
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Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
A Caldecott-winning tale illuminates the work of photographer Wilson Bentley, who throughout his life endeavored to capture the extraordinary beauty of snowflakes in his icy Vermont home. By the author of Banjo Granny and the illustrator of From Dawn Till Dusk.
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