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Mother's Day Favorites!
Mother's Day Favorites!
Pair a Gardening Journal with one of our Favorite Gardening Books!
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Successful Gardening Journal By Reader's Digest & Robert Dolezal 9780895778925 / $14.95 / Reader's Digest Association A workbook that offers practicality, innovation, and a way to keep your personal gardening notes all in one place. |
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Garden My Heart: Organic Strategies for Backyard Sustainability By Cecil Bothwell, C. L. Bothwell 9780615220321 / $14.00 / Brave Ulysses Books Garden writer and editor Cecil Bothwell delivers a series of essays reflecting almost 40 years as an organic gardener, with characteristic insight and humor. The book is a guide through the seasons and the weeds, with ideas about edible landscaping and vermiculture, back yard ponds and alternatives to the suburban lawn, by a writer with a deep background in environmentalism and green living. Bothwell is the author of several books including the best-selling guide, Finding Your Way in Asheville, and the critically acclaimed biography, The Prince of War: Billy Graham's Crusade for a Wholly Christian Empire. |
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Garden Anywhere By Alys Fowler 9780811868754 / $24.95 / Chronicle Books Have a small patch of soil? Or just a window box? Not a problem. Garden Anywhere shows how anyone can create an oasis in the smallest of spaces. We're not talking just a simple pot of marigolds, here. Garden Anywhere outlines everything an aspiring gardener needs to know to sow a bounteous, thriving garden. Alys Fowler, trained at the New York Botanical Garden, guides readers through the process from the ground up—from planning the garden to composting, pruning, harvesting, and propagating. Stylish photos illustrate the how-tos while Alys shares tips on creating gorgeous container gardens, herb gardens, kitchen gardens and more, without spending a fortune. |
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Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start By C. Colston Burrell 9781594868535 / $22.95 / Rodale Books Perennial Combinations features plant medleys that bring color, texture, and excitement to the garden in every season. The book features 130 of the best pernnial combinations with photographs of each grouping, along with a numbered photo key and plant list. |
Pair a Cooking Journal with one
of our Favorite Cook Books!
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking Journal By Sidonie Coryn, Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle 9780307381927 / $12.95 / Potter Style Write down favorite recipes, dinner party notes, or thoughts of any kind in this journal, featuring the original cover design from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks in American culinary history. |
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I By Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck 9780375413407 / $40.00 / Knopf Since there has never been a book as instructive and as workable as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the techniques learned here can be applied to recipes in all other French cookbooks, making them infinitely more usable. In compiling the secrets of famous cordons bleus, the authors have produced a magnificent volume that is sure to find the place of honor in every kitchen in America. |
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Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 By Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker 9780743246262 / $35.00 / Scribner
Even after 75 years, the span of culinary information is breathtaking and covers everything from boiling eggs (there are two schools of thought) to showstopping, celebratory dishes such as Beef Wellington, Roast Turkey and Bread Stuffing, and Crown Roast of Pork. |
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Steamboat Entertains: Winning Recipes from Ski Town USA By Entertains Steamboat 9780963101020 / $24.95 / Steamboat Entertains A must have for every Steamboat Kitchen! |
Other GREAT book ideas for Mother's Day!
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Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities By Elizabeth Edwards 9780767931366 / $22.95 / Broadway The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity. |
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The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir By Katrina Kenison 9780446409483 / $23.99 / Springboard Press The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store. |
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel By Jeannette Walls 9781416586289 / $26.00 / Scribner Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.
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Claiming Ground By Laura Bell 9780307272881 / $24.95 / Knopf Quietly profound and moving, astonishing in its honesty, in its deep familiarity with country rarely seen so clearly, and in beauties all its own, Claiming Ground is a truly singular memoir. |
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Shadow Tag By Louise Erdrich 9780061536090 / $25.99 / Harper As her home increasingly becomes a place of violence and secrets, and she drifts into alcoholism, Irene moves to end her marriage. But her attachment to Gil is filled with shadowy need and delicious ironies. In brilliantly controlled prose, Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and one family's struggle for survival and redemption. |
Book of the Season
Let our staff select a book just for Mom in each of the next four seasons, or tell us what genre she likes to read and we'll select the best of that genre, or even better, let us talk to Mom and together we'll find her perfect next read - in each of the next four seasons. What better to give than a year's experience of reading.
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