David Toht

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

A Back-To-Basics Guide to Self-Sufficiency

Presents a guide to living a more self-sufficient lifestyle by growing fruits and vegetables, raising small livestock, and preserving foods.

Backyard Homesteading

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Michelle Balz

Anna Stockton

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond

Composting for a New Generation covers the ins and outs of modern composting techniques, including vermicomposting, composting with nature, keyhole gardens, and urban composting, along with ideas for using homemade compost.

Composting for a New Generation

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Kelly Wood

Making the Most of Your Money, Space and Stuff

This book features 40 different projects that range from cooking to creating cleaning products to keeping chickens to container gardening. Projects are suitable for those with limited space.

Urban Farm Projects

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Hester van Overbeek

35 Contemporary Projects for Garden Furniture and Accessories

Create cool and contemporary garden furniture and accessories with 35 simple projects using pallet wood. Follow Hester van Overbeek's tutorials to make a huge variety of innovative items for the backyard. There are stylish and functional benches and tables, shelving units for plants, side tables, a work bench for a shed, storage ideas, and much more. Make a beautiful porch awning hung with fairy lights, on-trend hanging succulent holders, and an outdoor kitchen unit so you can prep food outside—it even has a built-in barbecue! You will learn to develop useful DIY skills including sawing, sanding, drilling, and various techniques for treating wood, so even complete beginners will soon become confident wielding tools! Whether your backyard is tiny and in the city or a homely cottage garden, there is something for everyone here, and you’ll soon be hunting for pallets wherever you go.

Pallet Wood Projects for Outdoor Spaces

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Chris McLaughlin

Discover the Benefits of Growing Your Vegetables and Fruit up Instead of Out

"Discover the many benefits of growing your vegetables and fruit up instead of out"--Cover.

Vertical Vegetable Gardening

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Pippa Greenwood

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Practical Guide to Gardening Basics

The New Gardener

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Hans-Åke Lilja

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library

From the founder of the #1 Stephen King news website Lilja’s Library comes a terrifying and deliciously creepy anthology of horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). Celebrating twenty years of the expansive Stephen King fan site Lilja’s Library, this creepy collection of stories is perfect for horror fans of all backgrounds. With a terrifying story that has never been previously included in any of Stephen King’s collections, Shining in the Dark is an unforgettable anthology, featuring short stories by some of the genre’s best-known and most talented authors. Stories include: “The Blue Air Compressor” by Stephen King “The Net” by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek “The Novel of the Holocaust” by Stewart O’Nan “Aeliana” by Bev Vincent “Pidgin and Theresa” by Clive Barker “An End To All Things “ by Brian Keene “Cemetery Dance” by Richard Chizmar “Drawn to the Flame” by Kevin Quigley “The Companion” by Ramsey Campbell “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe “A Mother’s Love” by Brian James Freeman “The Keeper’s Companion” by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Shining in the Dark

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Reader's Digest Editors

Alphabetically arranged entries cover pruning, propagating, transplanting, mulching, plant varieties, insect control, and diseases

1001 Hints and Tips for Your Garden

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Editors of Storey Publishing

39 Indispensable Projects to Increase the Bounty and Beauty of Your Garden

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for thirty-nine building projects for vegetable gardens, including a classic compost bin, a tool rack, potting bench, berry box, solar dryer, picnic table, garden swing, and flower press.

The Vegetable Gardener's Book of Building Projects

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Sunset Publishing Staff

Low maintenance handbook. Save time and money. 

Explains how to plan a low-maintenance garden, with suggestions on trees, shrubs, ground covers, and flowering plants for different climates, soils, and amount of shade or sun required

Easy-Care Gardening

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Ashley Johnston

Fifty Fun Projects to Make Without a Needle and Thread

Although Ashley Johnston is comfortable with a needle and thread -- and really enjoys making handmade items for her children and home -- she could certainly understand that sewing machines can strike fear and dread into the hearts of many crafters. The complicated machinery with the fussy parts as well as confusing pattern directions send many people running from any craft that requires sewing. No-Sew Love is filled with ideas for the non-sewing crafter or for the more casual sewist who would rather not haul out the sewing machine for a quick project. Materials all easily found at craft and fabric stores -- hem tape, fusible webbing, a variety of glues, and of course, fabric -- are all you need to whip up the 50 no-sew wonders in the book. There are throw pillows, grommet curtain panels, cute kids' clothing, holiday decorations, and even accessories for you! Projects are photographed at each step for crystal-clear directions, and sure-to-please results.

No-Sew Love

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Iris Murdoch

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A story of love and power

The Flight from the Enchanter

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Robert Fulford

Highlights the importance of storytelling. 

Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

Gossip, Literature, and Fictions of the Self - Master Narratives and the Patterns of History - The Literature of the Streets and the Shaping of News - The Cracked Mirror of Modernity - Nostalgia, Knighthood, and the Circle of Dreams.

The Triumph of Narrative

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Julian Cassell

Peter Parham

Decorating Hints & Tips contains: Tried-and Tested Techniques: Innovative ideas, shortcuts, and tricks of the trade enable you to achieve professional results. Ingenious Tips: Special tip boxes provide practical help, preventing problems and saving time and money. Effective Planning: Charts and checklists help you plan each project thoroughly before you begin. Special Effects: Easy-to-follow instructions help you create a range of decorative effects, whether you are starting from scratch or freshening up existing decor. Expert Advice: Professional decorators Julian Cassell and Peter Parham share thousands of tips from years of first-hand experience.

Decorating Hints & Tips

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An anthology of Western and Frontier stories by women

Anthology 

She Won the West

Charles Moore

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Volume I: from Grantham to the Falklands

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and initial period as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore illuminates Thatcher's youth--her relationship with her parents and early romantic attachments, including her courtship and marriage to Denis Thatcher--moving forward to the determination and boldness that marked even the very beginning of her political career. His account of her political relationship with Ronald Reagan is riveting. Throughout Moore explores in compelling detail the obstacles and indignities that Thatcher encountered as a woman in what was still overwhelmingly a man's world. A clear-eyed, fair account, conveying Thatcher's remarkable talents and sometimes infuriating qualities, Moore's portrait enlivens the woman who was prime minister for more than a decade (1979-1990), re-creating the circumstances and experiences that shaped one of the most significant world leaders of the postwar era.

Margaret Thatcher: the Authorized Biography

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Robert Smith

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The Philospohy of Everyday Life

What does it mean to be awake? What exactly is therapeutic about retail therapy? And what are you really working on when you're at your desk, in the gym, or having dinner? From getting ready in the morning, through heading to work, going to a party, having sex and falling back to sleep, Breakfast with Socrates provides an hour-by-hour commentary on what history's greatest philosophers have said about the meaning behind everything we do. A fascinating exploration of our daily lives, Breakfast with Socrates also draws on literature, art, politics and psychology to offer an informal introduction to the history of ideas that will help anyone to think more healthily. Breakfast will never be the same again...

Breakfast with Socrates

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F. H. Hinsley

Interior clean, no markings or underlining

The Inside Story of Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence operation in world history, the top secret workplace of the remarkable people who cracked Germany's vaunted Enigma Code. This fascinating book gathers together 27 first-hand accounts, written by members of the codebreakers team. Photos; illustrations.

Codebreakers

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William Faulkner

In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The Portable Faulkner .

The Portable Faulkner

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Mark E. Eberhart

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart

Did you know-- - It took more than an iceberg to sink the Titanic. - The Challenger disaster was predicted. - Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns. - A football team cannot lose momentum. - Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial reason. - Kryptonite bicycle locks are easily broken. "Things fall apart" is more than a poetic insight--it is a fundamental property of the physical world. Why Things Break explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. When Mark Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion--which prompted him to worry that when he cut into a stick of butter, he would inadvertently unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry professor, he remembered this childhood fear when he began to ponder the fact that we know more about how to split an atom than we do about how a pane of glass breaks. In Why Things Break, Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.

Why Things Break

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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell.

In December of 2000, FBI Special Agent Steven Carr of the bureau's Washington, D.C., office received a package from FBI New York- a series of coded letters from an anonymous sender to the Libyan consulate, offering to sell classified United States intelligence. The offer, and the threat, were all too real. A self-proclaimed CIA analyst with top secret clearance had information about U.S. reconnaissance satellites, air defense systems, weapons depots, munitions factories, and underground bunkers throughout the Middle East.

Rooting out the traitor would not be easy, but certain clues suggested a government agent with a military background, a family, and a dire need for money. Leading a diligent team of investigators and code breakers, Carr spent years hunting down a dangerous spy and his cache of stolen secrets.

In this fast-paced true-life spy thriller, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reveals how the FBI unraveled Regan's strange web of codes to build a case against a man who nearly collapsed America's military security.

The Spy Who Couldn't Spell

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Gregory D. Sumner

A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels

In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut’s outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably described as "an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness." Heroic and tragic, Vonnegut’s novels reflect the pain of his own life’s experiences, relieved by small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.

Unstuck in Time

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David Baron

A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

This epic story of a nineteenth century celestial drama will enthrall listeners, as the first coast to coast total solar eclipse in 99 years plunges America into darkness.

American Eclipse

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Raymond Chandler

In His Own Words

Told through Chandler's novels, short stories and letters, a rare glimpse into the life of "the man with no home" reveals what it was like to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction, discusses the work of his contemporaries and reveals his Hollywood relationships. 20,000 first printing.

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