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  Make Your Home a Nature Reserve

  Donna Mullen

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  Bees, butterflies, bats, badgers …
  These beautiful and fascinating creatures need a little help from us, as their natural habitats are under pressure.
  It's time to invite nature into your home – whether it's a window box, a suburban garden or a farm. Learn how to build a pond, make places for bats to roost and spaces for hedgehogs to ramble. Discover the amazing secret lives of Ireland's wildlife, from tiny bugs to large mammals.
  Do try this at home!

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  Making Miniature Scenes

  Sharon Harvey

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  Explore the amazing art of making miniatures, using simple inexpensive materials and the recycling of little bits and pieces found around the home. Discover the joy of creating and, using whatever craft skills you may have, learn how to create your own little world in miniature. Making Miniature Scenes opens up this miniature world to all, novice and expert alike, giving a clear guide on where to get inspiration for, and how to plan and build, your dioramas, Details of how to make miniatures using different materials and suggestions as to where they can be obtained, Detailed guides to five complete projects in different scales, Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to all the elements of the projects, including furniture, soft furnishings, artwork, plants, food, fixtures and fittings, and lighting.

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  Unforgettable Gardens - 500...

  Trust The Gardens

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  A glorious celebration, this landmark book is an exploration of the greatest gardens, parks and landscapes in Britain, with stunning photography accompanied by insightful text from leading garden historians and conservators.
  It is lovingly curated by The Gardens Trust, a prominent UK conservation charity dedicated to preserving, studying and spotlighting historic gardens.
  Arranged chronologically, it covers around 60 individual gardens, specially selected to give a broad historical overview of British garden design from the Early Modern Period up until the Millennium. Each chapter also includes an intruiging essay, exploring the wider changes in social context, taste and style in each period.
  Entries include:
  • Elizabethan splendour at Kenilworth Castle.
  
  • Spectacular landscapes by Capability Brown at Alnwick Castle and Chatsworth.
  
  • Birkenhead Park, the Victorian inspiration for New York's Central Park.
  
  • The classic cottage garden created by Margery Fish at East Lambrook, Somerset.
  
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay's modern Scottish masterpiece, Little Sparta.
  Go on a voyage of garden discovery with this beautiful book, and learn more about the gardens and landscapes that are a much-loved part of our shared national story.

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  Elsie Marks Book 2

  Elsie Marks

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  Not Yet Available

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  Alexandra Petri's US History -...

  Alexandra Petri

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  A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed! 
   
   
   
  Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri's "historical fan fiction" draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation's complicated past. 
   
   
   
  On Petri's deranged timeline, John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. Nearly eighty short, hilarious pieces span centuries of American history and culture. Nikola Tesla's friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon. The characters from Sesame Street invade Normandy. And Mark Twain—who famously said reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated—offers a detailed account of his undeath, in which he becomes a zombie. 
   
    
   
  This side-splitting work of historical humor shows why Alexandra Petri has been hailed as a "genius," a "national treasure," and "one of the funniest writers alive."

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  Big Book of West Virginia Ghost...

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

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  This “fantastic collection of the Mountain State's ghostlore . . . takes readers into the legends and the phenomena like no one else can” (Jeff Belanger, author of The World’s Most Haunted Places). Rich in history and natural splendor, West Virginia also boasts a wealth of unexplained mysteries. In this volume, noted paranormal researcher Rosemary Ellen Guiley delves into more than one hundred accounts of hauntings from across the state.   From the restless spirits of the Hatfields and McCoys to John Brown’s ghost at Harper’s Ferry, Guiley shows that the region’s history is still very much with us. She also explores lesser-known mysterious places such as Droop Mountain, where headless spectors roam, and the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a site replete with tortured phantoms. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.

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