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Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs Lesley Bremness Studio Books Softcover, 288pp $21.95 With more than 340,000 copies sold in hardcover, this essential, full-color resource is now available in paperback. Revealing the enormous potential of herbs, this sourcebook includes information on planting, growing, and harvesting herbs, as well as the main uses of herbs. It also offers an exhaustive identification guide, recipes, ideas for gifts, and much more.	Sewing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Sewing Editors/Creative Publishing Creative Publishing Hardcover, 224pp $24.95 Sewing 101 is a modern-day primer on the basic skills and techniques of sewing. This book is geared toward the absolute novice and assumes you know little or nothing about the craft. Filled with lots of step-by-step photos, useful sewing tip sidebars, and a painstakingly detailed glossary, Sewing 101 teaches you how to sew successfully. You will learn terminology used regularly in sewing, as well as all the basic skills that are the building blocks of the art. From threading the machine to sewing a straight stitch, to more complicated procedures such as installing zippers and following patterns, everything is covered.
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers Amy Stewart Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover, 306pp $23.95 We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So it’s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless.	Leading Residential Interior Desginers Pamela Lerner Jaccarino Sandow Media Hardcover, 344pp $39.95 The Perfect HomeBook Series elegantly displays Leading Residential Architects, Landscape Professionals, Custom Home Builders, Interior Designers, Kitchen and Bath Designers and Golf Course Communities in the United States; showcasing their work in a series of visually stunning, 300-page coffee-table books. The Perfect Home Book Series is destined to become the most sought-after resource featuring a wide array of shelter professionals from across the nation.
The Boy Mechanic: 200 Classic Things to Build Popular Mechanics Hearst Books Hardcover, 272pp $9.95 It's vintage boyhood and a miscellany of marvelous ideas: from kites and toboggans to workbenches and birdhouses, this collection of projects from Popular Mechanics' issues of long ago captures all the appeal of American ingenuity at the start of the last century.	The Knitting Answer Book Margaret Radcliffe Storey Books Softcover, 432pp $14.95 Every avid knitter has faced this dilemma: deep into a project at midnight, just trying to finish one more row, and, then . . . oh no, a dropped stitch three rows back! Help! If only there was a 24-hour hotline to answer every question a knitter might encounter. Well, now there is, with The Knitting Answer Book . The expert authors, Margaret Radcliffe and Edie Eckman, leave no question unanswered, no quandry unaddressed. Each book contains detailed, illustrated answers to literally hundreds of questions, from the common to the more unusual
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible Edward C. Smith Storey Books Softcover, 320pp $24.95 Discover the last W.O.R.D. in vegetable gardening with Ed Smith's amazing gardening system. By integrating four principles — Wide beds, Organic methods, Raised beds, and Deep beds — Smith reinvents vegetable gardening, making it possible for everyone to have the best, most successful garden ever.	Haley's Cleaning Hints Graham Haley Penguin Books Softcover, 256pp $14.95 Here are over 1000 ways to clean and organize your home and possessions using regular household products with multiple cleaning and stain-removing abilities. Destined to become a classic around the home, this sturdy and humorous guide also makes a great gift.
Shopping the North Carolina Furniture Outlets Ellen R. Shapiro Crown Publishing Softcover, 304pp $15.95 Shapiro presents prep work to do before shoppers purchase furniture such as making floor plans, taking measurements and photos, shopping locally to compare prices, how to shop at retail showrooms and factory outlets, and more.	Gardener's Bed-Book Richardson Little Wright Random House Softcover, 368pp $12.95 From the renowned editor of "House and Garden" magazine in the 1920s and 1930s comes an engaging and amusing collection of 365 short essays, one for each night of the year.
101 Ways Feng Shui Can Change Your Life Nancilee Wydra McGraw Hill Softcover, 224pp $14.95 Breathe new life into your home and heart with feng shui. Feng shui is the science of altering the environment to improve its effect on a person.	Complete Herb Encyclopedia Nico Vermeulen Value Publishing Hardcover, 320pp $14.99 A comprehensive guide, The Complete Herb Encyclopedia provides detailed information on over 600 varieties of herbs. This lovely book is an invaluable resource for both novice and veteran in the world of herbs.
Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew Rodale Press Softcover, 347pp $16.95 Square Foot Gardening presents a new way to garden in less space with less work. The book has been overwhelmingly accepted by gardeners across America. Bartholomew also hosts the popular PBS series of the same name.	Dare to Repair: A Do-it-Herself Guide Julie Sussman Harper Collins Softcover, 272pp $14.95 Dare to Repair is a do-it-herself book for every woman who would rather be self-reliant than rely on a super or contractor. No matter the depth of your pockets or the size of your home, a toilet will get clogged, a circuit breaker will trip, and a smoke detector will stop working. It's up to you how you'll deal with them -- live in denial, pay the piper, or get real and do it yourself. Dare to Repair demystifies these home repairs by providing information that other books leave out.