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Home, Garden, and DIY September 2017
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Fashion jewelry : a beginner's guide to jewelry making
by Courtney Legenhausen
Bead stringing. Wire wrapping, Pearl knotting. This beginner-friendly guide, created by Courtney Legnhausen (owner of Lotus Jewelry), teaches all the basics of fashioning fun and attractive bracelets, rings, necklaces, and earrings. Detailed instructions and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs lay out the techniques.
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The Maker : Crafting a Unique Space
by Tamara Maynes
An essential guide to decorating and personalizing your home with handmade art, textiles, ceramics, lighting and furniture includes a DIY project with each chapter and interview with a high-profile maker and beautiful and inspiring photo examples.
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant : Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
by Veronica Peerless
Full of helpful tips, pictures, and informational panels, How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will turn your home into a beautiful greenhouse of healthy, happy plants.An introduction to the basics of horticulture shows readers how to keep plants alive, what to look for in a dying plant and how to turn the home into a plant-safe environment.
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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. |
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| The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr If you want to write your own memoir 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) 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. |
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