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  In Bloom - Growing Harvesting...

  Clare Nolan

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  Learn to design and maintain a bountiful flower garden at home with this comprehensive guide on everything from planting to flower arranging. 
   
  In this book, brimming with inspirational photographs, interior stylist Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a colorful, fragrant garden and using it to create spectacular floral displays for the home all year-round. Clare takes the mystery out of the growing process, offering clear advice on choosing the right plants for you, laying out your cutting patch, and planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of color, texture and shape, all at the right time.  
   
  An entire chapter on arranging will inspire you to create spectacular arrangements for your home without the need for complicated floristry techniques. Being able to step out of the back door and pick a single stem for beside the bed, pull together a posy for a friend or create a colorful centerpiece is an exciting and rewarding addition to the home gardening experience. 
   
  This volume covers:How to choose your plants, position your patch and grow luxurious flowersCultivation tips for annuals, biennials, bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, perennials, shrubs, trees, climbers, foliage and fillersWhen and how to harvest—and how to make your flowers last longerStyling guide for stunning arrangements that look like they came from a shopExpert advice from an experienced interiors stylist and lifestyle editor

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  Classic Cheese Cookery

  Peter Graham

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  This award-winning guide to serving, pairing, and cooking with cheese includes more than 300 recipes—plus photos and an extensive cheese checklist!   Critic and food writer Peter Graham’s Classic Cheese Cookery is the definitive book for satisfying the cravings of any cheese lover. With 18 chapters encompassing more than 300 recipes, you will find decadent inspirations for toasted and melted cheese, soups, pasta, pancakes, tarts, sauces, pastry, and much more. Alongside traditional recipes for soufflés, gratins, quiches, and cheesecakes, there are an enticing array of simple snacks and salads.   Inspired combinations, such as pears with pecorino and prawns with feta will tempt the adventurous, while vegetarians will be delighted by the extensive variety that cheese cookery offers them. A detailed checklist of cheeses guides the intrepid and the uninitiated alike, so whether you are searching for a new pasta sauce, an alternative to Welsh rarebit, or a refreshing approach to entertaining, Classic Cheese Cookery, has something for every occasion.

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  A New Spin on Drunkard's Path -...

  John Kubiniec

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  “John Kubiniec’s aim is to take the fear and mystery out of creating with curves, and has put together enough intriguing designs to tempt any quilter.” —Down Under Quilts 
   
  Shake up the Drunkard’s Path block with quilting teacher John Kubiniec. Go beyond the basics of curved piecing with twelve innovative projects based on a classic pattern. Discover how sewing pre-pieced units like rail fences, half-square triangles, and sixteen-patches can completely change up the Drunkard’s Path look. Take it a step further with creative sashings and add-ons to alter the finished layout. The end result looks complex but is actually easy to sew! 
   
  “The instructions are foolproof. It is amazing the variety you can create when you start to experiment—these twelve designs are all different and should keep any quilter happy for months. This is a book to ignite your creative imagination.” —yarnsandfabrics.co.uk 
   
  “Many quilters avoid curved piecing, but the projects in this book will make you want to try—and buy in! The quilts look very complicated, but John breaks down the steps to make it easy, and painless.” —Quilter’s Connection 
   
  “A new take on curved piecing. Go beyond the basics with twelve innovative projects based on a classic pattern.” —Today’s Quilter

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  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -...

  Hunter S. Thompson

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  Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best-seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly diverted to search for the American dream. Their quest is fueled by nearly every drug imaginable and quickly becomes a surreal experience that blurs the line between reality and fantasy. But there is more to this hilarious tale than reckless behavior-for underneath the hallucinogenic facade is a stinging criticism of American greed and consumerism.

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  Good Apple - Tales of a Southern...

  Elizabeth Passarellla

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  "For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated." 
  Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city--and, eventually, her husband--and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith first, and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it's worth. 
  Whether you have city lights or starry skies in your eye, Good Apple will show you that:God pursues each of us, no matter our own inconsistencies or failuresThere's beauty in the gray areas of our livesWe can all embrace the absurdity, chaos, and strange sacredness of life that brings us together 
  In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best. 
  Praise for Good Apple: 
  "With sly humor, ecumenical warmth, and disarming frankness, Elizabeth Passarella builds bridges between red and blue and North and South. Good Apple makes a strong case for New York City as the kingdom of God--and for handwritten thank-you notes." 
  --Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Why We Can't Sleep

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  Warriors - Life and death among...

  Gerald Hanley

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  Somalia is one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce and independent-minded tribesmen. It was here that Gerald Hanley spent the Second World War, charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote outstation. Rations were scarce, pay infrequent and his detachment of native soldiers near-mutinous. In these extreme conditions seven British officers committed suicide, but Hanley describes the period as the 'most valuable time' of his life. With intense curiosity and openmindedness, he explores the effects of loneliness. He comes to understand the Somalis' love of fighting and to admire their contempt for death. 'Of all the races of Africa,' he says, 'there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest: the Somalis.'

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