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Brenda C. Adams: Cool Plants for Cold Climates : A Garden Designer's Perspective
A cold climate is no excuse for a dull, colorless garden. The key is knowing the right plants that will survive and thrive in even the chilliest environments. Who better to guide gardeners than an expert from the far north? Award-winning designer and Alaska gardener Brenda Adams has spent decades searching for exceptional plants that flourish in wintery climates. In Cool Plants for Cold Climates, she presents vivid and detailed portraits of the best and most beautiful of the bunch. When Adams moved from the warm Southwest to Alaska, she found herself in a different gardening world, with few guides on how to approach this new ecosystem. Now, more than twenty-five years later, she shares the secrets gained from her years of gardening experiments as well as bountiful advice from friends and local nurseries. She explains how to evaluate a plant, balancing its artistic attributes with its more utilitarian ones, as well as how to evaluate your space and soil. Adams then takes you into the nursery, offering guidance on how to pick the best of the best. Finally, she offers a detailed look at a wide variety of wonderful plants, highlighting those that offer overall beauty, are especially easy to care for, and solidly hardy. With more than three hundred vivid pictures of both individual plants and full gardens, Adams proves that there is a bounty of plants, in a rainbow of colors, waiting to brighten up your space.

Monique Anstee : As A Dog Thinketh : Daily Words of Wisdom for Dog People

Pam Scheunemann:Cool Clay Projects 

Uses an easy-to-read format featuring step-by-step instructions and materials needed to create polymer clay projects, including playful pens, double-dot bead necklaces, and picture frames.

William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream

Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction. Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander but has been promised to Demetrius by her father. Hermia's best friend Helena loves Demetrius, but in his obsession for Hermia Demetrius barely even notices her smitten friend. When Hermia and Lysander plan to elope all four find themselves in the forest late at night where the fairy Puck and his lord Oberon wreck havoc on the humans with a love potion that causes the victim to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking.

Lynne ChrJames H. McGregor: Athens

Revered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.
 

Minnie C. Fox, Toni Tipton-Martin: The Blue Grass Cook Book
African American cooks were not strangers in the kitchens of the Old South, but white southerners often failed to acknowledge their contributions. One of the first exceptions was Kentucky socialite Minnie C. Fox, who recognized the significant influence and importance of the African American cooks and wrote The Blue Grass Cook Book, first published in 1904. From biscuits and hams to ice creams and puddings, this cookbook is a collection of over three hundred recipes from family and friends, including black cooks, near Minnie Fox's Bourbon County, Kentucky, family estate and her Big Stone Gap, Virginia, home. In Fox's time, the culinary history of black women in the South was usually characterized by demoralizing portraits of servants toiling in'big house'kitchens. In contrast, The Blue Grass Cook Book, with its photographs of African American cooks at work and a passionate introduction by Fox's brother, respected Kentucky novelist John Fox Jr., offers insight into the complex bond between well-to-do mistresses and their cooks at the turn of the century. Toni Tipton-Martin's new introduction provides in-depth commentary on the social, cultural, and historical context of this significant cookbook. She presents background information on the Fox family and their apparently uncommon appreciation for the African Americans of their time. She reveals the vital role of the black cooks in the preparation and service required in establishing the well-known Southern hospitality tradition.

150 Summer Soups : The Only Compendium of Summer Soups You'll Ever Need

In summertime, the'living is easy'and making a delicious soup is, too. Check out 150 Summer Soups for a bounty of mouthwatering soups that are perfect for warm weather, from sophisticated starters like provencal soup and fava bean and sugar snap soup, to cooled and chilled soups like iced carrot and orange soup, and vichyssoise, to a hot and spicy favorite like crab and sweetcorn chowder, this compendium has an array of healthy, tempting soups to satisfy every palate. Also included are smooth and creamy soups, soups with fruity flavors, meals in a bowl, and soups with asian flavors, all drawn from the popular'500'series of cookbooks. You'll find fresh twists on classic recipes, like summer minestrone, as well as creative combinations, like almond and garlic soup with fresh grapes. Featuring full-color photography throughout, 150 Summer Soups also contains soups for people on vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free diets. These delectable recipes will have you saying'Soup's on!'