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|  | Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith
Your Backyard Herb Garden shows you how easy and pleasurable growing herbs can be. Miranda Smith gives you sound advice on choosing plants and matching them to the conditions in your yard. With the help of easy-to-follow photos and illustrations, she explains clearly how to prepare the soil, how to grow herbs from seeds or transplants, and how to care for your herbs once they're up and growing. You'll also find a wealth of information about propagating your herbs, preparing them for winter, and caring for them indoors, plus the best all-natural methods for protecting them from pests and diseases. Above all, Your Backyard Herb Garden shows you how to use and enjoy all the wonderful herbs your garden will produce. You'll learn how to harvest, dry, and freeze herbs, and how to make herbal vinegars, teas, seasonings, flavored cooking oils, jellies, and honeys. You'll also discover effective ways of using herbs to improve your health with infusions, salves, and tinctures. Finally, you'll learn how to fill your life with the scent of herbs as you make shampoos and skin creams, potpourris, pillows, bouquets, and wreaths. The herb directory provides a comprehensive guide to over 50 of the most popular herbs for home gardeners. Each herb is featured in a color photo, along with complete information on hardiness, planting, care, harvesting, and uses. AUTHOR: Miranda Smith
PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening 
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 | Zach's Rush by Boyd Gaines, William Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorne gets caught up in the Yukon gold rush of 1897. On his perilous journey to stake his claim, Jason adopts an injured sled dog, befriends a feisty girl, and even meets author Jack London. AUTHOR: Boyd Gaines, William Hobbs
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Five Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski
In this author's study of the dynamics of her own tough-luck, working-class family in 1970s Jersey City, she reveals the character of her childhood community at large-- a corrupt government leading a corrupt population, where alcoholism, gambling, and petty theft are the norm. AUTHOR: Helene Stapinski
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Taking place over the sweep of 200 years and six generations, this memoir-like story chronicles the life of a Jewish family in Jerusalem. Two narrators alternate to tell the tale: Eliezer, whose story is strictly factual, and his daughter Nomi, who shares the author's name and whose storytelling style is distinctly more like that of a novelist. AUTHOR: Nomi Eve
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Christopher Hurt, Leonard Peikoff
Rand's 1,200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of rational self-interest has been a steadily seller since it was published in 1957. AUTHOR: Ayn Rand, Christopher Hurt, Leonard Peikoff
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dreamer of Dune by Brian Herbert
Description not available.A chronicle of the life of the award-winning science-fiction writer, presented by his son, describes Herbert's childhood in Tacoma, Washington, his early years as a reporter and editor, his military service, his struggles to become published, and his creation of numerous works including Dune, The Green Brain, and The Santaroga Barrier. 35,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Brian Herbert
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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