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  An Enduring Wilderness -...

  Robert Burley

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  pbiFeaturing tributes from award-winning writers/b/i/p
  pIn a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada’s first and only urban national park./p
  pBurley’s photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto’s best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands. Though confined to the city limits, iAn Enduring Wilderness/i is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves./p

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  Paul Cézanne

  Élie Faure

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  Cézanne was perhaps the most complex artist of the 19th century. One of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, his works and ideas were crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. 
  Cézanne’s ambition, in his own words, was "to make out of Impressionism something as solid and durable as the paintings of the museums". He aimed to achieve the monumental in a modern language of glowing, vibrating tones. Cézanne wanted to retain the natural colour of an object and to harmonize it with the various influences of light and shade trying to destroy it; to work out a scale of tones expressing the mass and character of the form.

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  I Really Didn't Think This...

  Beth Evans

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  Popular Instagram artist Beth Evans (197k followers) tackles a range of issues-from whimsical musings to deeply personal struggles-in this imaginative anti-guide to being your own person. 
  Welcome To Adulthood! Hey, wait—where are you going…? 
  Did you ever wish your best friend—the person you would trust with your innermost secrets, the person whose wisdom and comfort you seek in times of stress or self-doubt—could draw? Popular Instagram illustrator, Beth Evans, has made a name for herself writing comics and sharing her personal experiences on life as she enters and navigates adulthood. Her ability to find humor in common situations around love, social anxieties, depression and work has created a cult-like following from her 217k Instagram fans. 
  Like Mindy Kaling meets Hyperbole and a Half, I Really Didn't Think This Through gets at the heart of what makes life both so challenging and so joyful—figuring out how to be a person in the world. This book is a compendium of Beth's collected wisdom and stories, interwoven with her tremendously popular and loveable illustrations. The book is a wonderful mix of fun (playful meditations on the band Rush and international pen-pals) and thoughtful (Beth delves into her personal history with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression while commiserating on topics like dating and credit card shame) all with a simple candor that anyone from a teen to their grandparent can relate to. Through all of her experiences, Beth manages to extract valuable lessons, and the book is replete with friendly advice about caring for yourself, getting help no matter what your problems are, and embracing what makes you happy. Beth is a compelling storyteller, her drawings picking up where her words leave off, creating an approachable and immersive experience for the reader. Beth's work feels like a hug from your best friend. And like a best friend, she's here to say "You got this!"

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  Abbott and Costello: Making a Movie

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  The boys are trying to get guest Dorothy Lamour to appear in their new picture. Dorothy reads one of her lines as, Bing Hope and Bob Crosby. Abbott and Costello rescue Dorothy from a desert Sheik.

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  Navy Dog - A Dog's Days in the...

  Neal J. Kusumoto Captain US Navy...

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  Having Seaman Jenna as the mascot on the USS Vandegrift was never meant to be a statement or symbolic act, or to put the crew on the radars of four-star admirals. Jenna came aboard unannounced, a Christmas gift that brought instant joy to the crew and transformed a gray ship into a home for 225 sailors. Her addition was not pre-approved by the chain of command—contrary to military protocol. Before long, Jenna became a phenomenon—the only dog on a Navy ship since World War II—despite the best efforts to keep her from the public eye. This orphaned Shiba Inu and the displaced crew shared countless adventures and trials during her five years on board. Jenna dodged being eaten in Korea (a country that still views dogs as edible fare), sidestepped Hawaii's strict quarantine law, avoided threats of being shot in Australia, charmed a Chinese admiral, and nearly initiated an international incident in Pakistan. Jenna became a symbol of the ship and of free will, and created a bond amongst the crew that remains strong decades later . . . long after her death. Neal Kusumoto is proud to say that he was the captain of that fine ship, blessed with a magnificent crew that included one special sea dog. Join Seaman Jenna as a part of the crew on her five-year adventure on the high seas.

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  Backyard Herb Gardening - How To...

  HowExpert, Deborah Harding

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  Herbs are some of the most versatile plants in the world. They grow in the worst type of soil, are drought tolerant, and require very little maintenance. Use them to flavor all kinds of foods, make skin and hair care products of your own, enhance your vegetable garden, cure common ailments, clean your home, and make it smell wonderful. It sounds almost too good to be true, but this audiobook will give you the inside story on how to use these wonderful plants and save money along with keeping harmful chemicals away from your home, children, pets, and yourself.   
  About the expert: Deborah C. Harding watched and helped her mom and dad in an extensive garden and learned all about using herbs from her grandmother. She and her late husband grew more than 250 varieties of herbs, vegetables, and flowers in their tiny city lot and proved that gardening with herbs can be addicting, but it is a good addiction. She supplied the neighborhood with herbs for cooking, curing, scenting, cleaning, and more.   
  She currently resides in NE Ohio and has become a teacher to her two grown daughters, a grandson, and anyone else who wants to learn about herbs. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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