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Transform your garden into an autumn paradise with "The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition". Navigate the season's nuances with confidence, from selecting plants that paint your garden with hues of harvest to mastering techniques for a flourishing garden. Explore chapters dedicated to perennials, annuals, cool-season vegetables, and troubleshooting pest management. Equip yourself with essential tools, embrace sustainable practices, and discover innovative...
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New Society Publishers
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2021.
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Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency
Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.
The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe. This means that many of us have to cut...
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Zondervan Books
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[2022]
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"An invitation to an ordinary yet radical way of life, using historic Christian practices as both inspiring vision and practical instruction for how to encounter the wondrous, mysterious, living God through prayer. Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, most people--even most Bible-believing Christians--find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or,...
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Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing]
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• an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
• the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis. For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life's biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are.
Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom...
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A boozy ice cream drink can be a fun and delicious addition to any occasion. This book contains a collection of prepare-ahead ice cream drink recipes to make entertaining simple and easy. Each recipe is accompanied by garnish suggestions to help make your drinks look as fancy as they do in a restaurant and impress.
Features: Small Batch Conversion Recipes. Alcohol-Free Options. Garnish Suggestions.
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Sourcebooks
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[2023]
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"A writer and mom with decades of experience working in Silicon Valley, Jessica Carew Kraft grew fed up with her life filled with digital screens and deep anxieties about the future of humanity and nature. She quit her job and set out to learn about "rewilding" from people who reject the comforts and convenience of civilization to live in nature using Stone Age tools and skills. A suburbanite with a husband, kids, and a mortgage, she learned to turn...
7) Floriography
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Are you seeking a new, fun, and unique way to express your
emotions and convey messages to your loved ones or
acquaintances? Look no further than the language of flowers, or
floriography, the art of assigning meanings to various flowers,
colors, and arrangements.
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No problem! We'll have you up and running, foodwise, in no time.
So, how do we know all this stuff?
Well, we were helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show when we realized we had accumulated enough material to help out almost anyone. A student, game show contestant, or the wannabe foodie who lives in all of us.
KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink provides a cornucopia of cooking advice, food safety tips, mixed...
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Did you know that you can transform your backyard space – no matter how small – into an enviable, sustainable, reliable, and self-sufficient homestead for homegrown fruits and vegetables, as well as livestock? Yes, you can.
You have probably heard about backyard homesteading, or maybe you even have a bit of knowledge about it. However, my bet is you don't know whether it is something you would like to try out or not.
These are all questions that...
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You can stockpile all the rice you like... but do you know how you're going to cook it if you're without power for months on end?
If the power grid fails, it's not just your lights that go out. It's your water supply. It's your heating and cooling system. It's all your usual ways of cooking food or doing the laundry.
Without the grid, life as we know it changes in an instant.
Are you prepared for that?
In this audiobook, you'll discover:
The...
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Zondervan Books
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[2022]
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"The wisdom and insight every couple needs to keep your marriage together when the trials of life threaten to rip it apart and how you can fortify your marriage ahead of time. Every marriage will face disaster. Illness or cancer. Job loss or financial burdens. Addiction. Anxiety. Infidelity. Loss of faith. It's not a question of if your marriage will face trials. It's a question of when. Whether you've been married for five years or fifty, your marriage...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2024.
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In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
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"A New Yorker Best Book of the Year" Bénédicte Savoy is professor in the Department of Art History at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2016 to 2021. She is the coeditor of Translocations: Histories of Dislocated Cultural Assets; Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets; and The Museum Is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums. She is the author (with Felwine...
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How many survivors will it take for us to see the life behind the abortion?
Today's culture would have us believe that abortion is simply a choice, a right, a controversial argument, and a religious and political issue of pro-life vs. pro-choice. It has become easy to think of the unborn as disposable products of conception-medical waste. But all of that changes when that "product of conception" defies the odds and arrives into this world as a living,...
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Living on high alert drains your energy and steals your joy. There is a better way and Seizing the Good Life will help you find it as it takes you through the Gospel of John.
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson believes we really can have a growing faith and know a surprising, sustaining joy despite the chaos of breaking news and a culture bent on erasing the Everlasting God. “Seizing the Good Life” takes the Gospel of John and teaches the reader how to...
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The relationship between a father and daughter is profound. Jay and Rae Anne Payleitner share their own insights into this sometimes complicated but ultimately fulfilling relationship. Rooted in Scripture and full of stories, this book will deepen dads' and daughters' appreciation for one another.
The relationship between a father and daughter can be uniquely close and utterly mystifying. But an active and prepared father can make all the difference...
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The colleague who threatens your position at work. The friend who talks behind your back. The woman who seems to have it all together-while you are barely hanging on.
Sometimes the women in our lives feel like enemies. But the real enemy is the one who is trying to defeat you with lies that lead to insecurity and isolation, discord and division. She's Not Your Enemy equips us to battle Satan's deception through the solid truth of God's Word. Popular...
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The football coach who fought all the way to Supreme Court for his right to pray shares his inspiring story of courage, redemption, and grace.
When Coach Joe Kennedy started offering a prayer on the field after each high school football game, the school district tried to shut him down, launching a seven-year legal battle that went to the Supreme Court-twice. In June 2022, he won. Average Joe is the story of an unlikely champion of religious freedom....
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Distorted views of intimate relationships abound. Let's offer youth a better option.
Social media, television, and the Internet feed destructive information to tweens, teens, and young adults. Hookup culture, the acceptance of sending nudes, and rampant pornography contribute to unrealistic sexual expectations. At what cost?
Barb Winters addresses the heavy loads of anxiety, worry, and depression among young people. She offers practical advice for...
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