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  Finders Keepers Quilts - A Rare...

  Edie McGinnis, Susan Knapp

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  The quilter and Kansas City Star Quilts editor shares a collection of historic designs inspired by a treasure trove of antique American quilts.  Finders Keepers Quilts is based on a collection of quilts discovered in an abandoned farmhouse in Davis County, Iowa. As new owner Susan Knapp searched through the house, she found stone crocks, pretty dishes, and other intriguing odds and ends. But best of all, she found a box of beautiful quilts made in the early 1900s.    Famed quilter Edie McGinnis has worked with Susan to re-create these stunning designs, using reproduction fabric to reflect the time period in which they were made. She has also included an updated version of each quilt, with clear, concise instructions that will appeal to today’s modern quilters.

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  Java - The True Story of a...

  Sage Lewis

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  How do we find and keep our balance in a life that sometimes spins us off our center? Sage and Java weave a beautiful web of love in this story of trials, tribulations and triumphs. For anyone who's ever had a challenge themselves, or worked with a challenging animal (or human), this book is a gift. 
  EPILOGUE: Sometimes I still get frustrated having a challenging dog, but those moments are becoming further and further apart as we both get grayer and wiser. On most days, I'm eternally grateful for all Java's taught me. She's helped me become a better woman, and I don't think she ever intended such grandiose results. It was by no mistake how our paths crossed on that wintry morning at the shelter. She is an angel in my life. Where our paths lead us next, only the universe knows, but I still have my sparkly, silver magic wand in the back pocket of my old, faded blue jeans.....and a poop bag.

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  The Wellness Mama's 5-Step...

  Katie Wells

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  Katie Wells shares the secret behind how she manages five kids and a company without sacrificing her desire to embody a natural lifestyle. With her simple 5-step plan, she’ll show you how to transform your diet, get rid of the chemicals in your everyday life, and organize your time in order to achieve confidence and productivity. You will be able to detox by trading in your traditional household cleaning products, beauty products, and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals for more than 100 all-natural DIY recipes. You’ll also learn how to incorporate time-management strategies, bulk-cooking techniques, chore charts, meal plans, and more into your everyday life. This guide will provide the harried with advice on how to painlessly incorporate these tips and remedies and reap the benefits of a natural life.

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  The Full Catastrophe

  James Angelos

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  In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe's decades-old project of forging a closer union. In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present. It goes beyond the transient coverage in the daily headlines to deliver an enduring and absorbing portrait of modern Greece.

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  The Origin of the World

  Jp. A. Calosse, Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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  Lacan, the last owner of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, loved the painting so much that he couldn’t even bring himself to look at it. Instead, he hid it behind a “safer” painting.
  The Chinese called it the “valley of the roses” (watch out for the thorns!), the Persians, the “honey-pot” (watch out for the bees!), and the Greeks, “the mound of Venus” (mind the steep climb!); to each era its fantasies and its theories about the feminine mystique. Then there are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.

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  A Pig in Provence - Good Food...

  Georgeanne Brennan

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  A woman and her family give up life in 1970s America for a farmhouse in southern France in this memoir peppered with delicious French recipes. 
   
  From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life—this time in the South of France. In 1970, James Beard Award–winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigs and so began a life-affirming journey. Filled with delicious recipes and local color, this evocative and passionate memoir describes her life cooking and living in the Provençal tradition. 
   
  Praise for A Pig in Provence 
   
   
   
  “You can almost smell the lavender as you follow Brennan’s love affair with the province that became her second home and shaped the culinary persona of this cooking teacher and food author. Brennan is a talented storyteller.” —San Francisco Chronicle 
   
  “Georgeanne Brennan’s captivating memoir reminds me of why I, too, was enchanted by Provence. She beautifully captures the details of living in a place where the culture of the table ties a community together—where everyone knows the butcher and the baker, and everyone depends on the farmers.” —Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse 
   
  “Fascinating . . . Brennan revels equally in the preparation and consumption of the regional cuisine You can almost hear her lips smacking.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Georgeanne Brennan’s romance with Provence continues to deepen, and the result of her long residence there is an intimacy with local people, food, and folkways. I would love to pull up a chair to her table.” —Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

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