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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2019
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| Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever Need by Tracy McCubbinWhat it is: a decluttering book that addresses why clutter happens and how to stop it by focusing on seven emotional blocks (such as "My Fantasy Stuff for My Fantasy Life") in addition to organizing advice.
Want a taste? "What I have discovered over the thousands of decluttering jobs I have done is that when clutter has gotten the upper hand, there is inevitably an emotional root." |
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| Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers by Nicole RuckerWhat it is: the debut cookbook of a popular California pastry chef and restaurateur who offers a wide variety of fruit-based recipes, from classics to new ideas, as well as tips on buying and using fruit.
Read this next: For another book by an innovative, knowledgeable pastry chef who clearly loves her work, try Stella Park's BraveTart. |
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| The Complete Diabetes Cookbook: The Healthy Way to Eat the Foods You Love by America's Test KitchenWhat's inside: more than 400 diabetes-friendly recipes tested for flavor and healthfulness and created with help from a registered dietitian and a medical doctor. Nutrition information is also provided for each recipe.
Winner of... the 2019 IACP Award for Health & Special Diet Cookbook. |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
What's inside: In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families.
Winner of... the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
What's inside: One of the coauthors tells his engaging and inspiring true story of hope, tenacity, and imagination, in which as an African teenager he built a windmill from scraps, creating electricity for his village—and a better life for himself and his family.
Winner of... the American Library Association (ALA) Alex Award in 2010
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
What's inside: The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Winner of... the Lincoln Award Nominee in 2008
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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