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The Home & Garden Book Archives

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Swimming With Frogs
Ruth Ann Ingraham
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Life In The Brown County Hills.
(03/12/06)

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Feng Shui for the Rest of Us
Gabrielle Alizay
(Guest Reviewer - Jean Feingold)
What You Can Do Right Now to Change Your Life.
(02/26/06)

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Apprentice to a Garden
Evelyn J. Hadden
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
A new urban gardener goes wild.
(02/26/06)

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Treehouse Chronicles
S. Peter Lewis
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
One Man's Dream of Life Aloft.
(02/12/06)

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Why We Garden
Jim Nollman
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Cultivating a Sense of Place.
(07/03/05)

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Pure Sea Glass
Richard H. LaMotte
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Discovering Nature's Vanishing Gems.
(04/24/05)

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Trees of the West
Mabel Crittenden
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
A unique handbook to get to know your trees. (02/22/04)

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The Neighborhood Forager
Robert K. Henderson
(Reviewer - Kate Holmes)
A Guide for the Wild Food Gourmet. (09/07/03)

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Healing Plants of the Rocky Mountains
Darcy Williamson
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Illustrated by January Atkinson, an intimate journal of 31 native plants (04/06/03)

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A Writer's Garden
Ethel Pochocki
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Illustrated by Peter LaGue. A garden is where metaphor flourishes, parables abound & fairy stories thrive. (11/03/02)

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Dare to Repair
Sussman & Glakas-Tenet
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Home -- illustrated by Yeorgos Lampathakis. (09/29/02)

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A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
Wilbur F. Eastman Jr.
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
The Definitive Reference on Home Meat Preservation. (09/22/02)

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Deckscaping
Barbara W. Ellis
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Gardening and Landscaping On and Around Your Deck. How to surround your deck with spring flowers & fall berries, & fill it with flowers that will attract birds & butterflies, as well as create an edible landscape for yourself.
(04/14/02)

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Animal House Style
Julia Szabo
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
Designing a home to share with your pets. Haute decor for your home zoo.
(03/03/02)

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The Knitting Goddess
Deborah Bergman
Finding the Heart and Soul of Knitting Through Instruction, Projects, & Stories. Beautiful knitting goes with beautiful stories. This is from an author who learned to knit when she was in junior high.
(11/04/01)

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100 Vegetables and Where They Came From
William Woys Weaver
A Tour Through Our Extraordinary Culinary Heritage. A fascinating history of vegetables from around the world, their approximate flavors, their preferred usage voilÂ, onto our platters for supper! (07/08/01)

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