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A homespun reference manual, this book offers both lighthearted and life-changing advice for homemakers and gardeners who want to rid their environs of dangerous chemicals, cleaning agents, pesticides, and other potentially harmful substances. Drawing on both time-tested solutions and recent ecologically sound innovations, the book promises to help users transform their homes into nontoxic havens. AUTHOR: Ellen Sandbeck
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening 
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 | Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian
A collection of pomes about 21 different types of insects and spiders including army ants, dragonflies, and mosquitoes. Color illustrations accompany the verses. AUTHOR: Douglas Florian
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Edith Wharton Abroad by Edith Wharton, Sarah B. Wright
These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton`s travel writing convey the writer`s control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the parentheses of travel --the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton`s unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos. AUTHOR: Edith Wharton, Sarah B. Wright
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Tangled Vines by Lyn Lifshin
An anthology of poems about mothers and daughters, including work by Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Marge Piercy. AUTHOR: Lyn Lifshin
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
Nobel Prize-winning poet/novelist Milosz chooses 300 of, in his opinion, the best poems ever written, from all over the world. Among the poets represented are Elizabeth Bishop, Wislawa Szymborska, Wang Wei, Raymond Carver, James Tate. AUTHOR: Czeslaw Milosz
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Tropical Look by Robert L. Riffle
Meant primarily for gardeners in USDA Zones 8-10, encompassing most of the southern U.S. and the West Coast, this groundbreaking encyclopedia of lush plants will also be useful to gardeners in other zones who are interested in growing tropical looking plants (as opposed to strictly tropical plants, which cannot endure a frost) as half-hardy, annual, or ? conservatory plants. AUTHOR: Robert L. Riffle
PUBLISHER: Timber Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening
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