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Take a Butterfly Under Your Wing From a spectacular cloud of migrating Monarchs to a vivid Red Admiral lighting on your arm, butterflies take your breath away with their beauty and freshness. In this magnificent book, butterfly expert Rick Mikula shows how you can identify, care for, and raise butterflies in your own back yard so they will grace our earth for all time. Brimming with photos, insights, tips, and a dozen projects, this book is id...

This is the basic book -- yet with all the essential details -- for the family that decides to keep a cow for all the benefits she can provide. Learn first the costs, the gains, what she gives and takes. There are practical, fully illustrated chapters that include: - The history and behavior of the cow.- Nutritional needs, from grass to milk.- Buying a cow -- the sources, breeds and factors to consider.- Handling techniques, housing and fencin...

These linked stories are "a brilliant evocation of what it's like to be a young, clueless dude on the make . . . it's smart and stylish and horribly funny" (Steve Almond, author of "My Life in Heavy Metal").

The author/illustrator of "Very California" offers an original, entertaining, and colorful paean to one of America's most historic and popular destinations--Charleston. Full color.

Fragrant essences lift the spirits, stimulate the senses, and enhance relaxation after a trying day. This practical guide shows how essential oils -- used in the home and on the go -- can greatly improve the quality of busy lives. Comprehensive information on the essential oils extracted from herbs, flowers, roots, barks, and resins includes which ones to use regularly, which to use with caution, and which to avoid altogether. Dozens of simple...

She was the loneliest puppy in the litter—a deaf and partially blind albino Great Dane. She had huge, sky blue eyes. And when Dan Dye reached for her, she struggled to her feet like a clumsy foal, raised her forehead to his, and announced, as clearly as if she had actually spoken the words, You know I'm the one. Now get me outta here!

Discover the comfort of easy gaits! It's easy to fall in love with gaited horses, says author Lee Ziegler, and not just because they tend to be handsome animals with good dispositions. More important, their special gaits are comfortable to ride over long distances (unlike the jarring trot), making them a trail rider's dream come true. Whether it's the running walk of the Tennessee Walker, the fox trot of the Missouri Fox Trotter, the Rocky Mou...

Hold your dream cottage in your hands! Both a practical plans book and an inspirational idea book, Dream Cottages is a must for would-be cottage owners and for those who just like to dream.The cottage holds a special place in our minds and hearts as a place of retreat, peace, and relaxation as well as an expression of a family's own personality and lifestyle. In this elegantly illustrated book, Catherine Tredway presents 25 dream-inspiring cot...

The essential ingredient for full enjoyment of your river, lake, pond, or oceanfront property. If you're fortunate enough to own waterfront property, you know that a dock is essential for realizing maximum value and enjoyment of that land. Now you can build your own dock, or repair an existing dock, with this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide -- the only book devoted exclusively to residential docks. The Dock Manual contains 10 complete plan fo...

Cellaring Wine gives readers the information they need to develop a system to enjoy wine as it's meant to be enjoyed: matured to excellence. The home wine cellar is more than a building project--rather, it is a working system of selecting wines that will age, laying them down properly, and drinking them whey they reach their glorious fulfillment.

Lawyer and riding instructor Jan Dawson will help you create and maintain a safe riding environment. Teaching Safe Horsemanship covers: * Understanding horse nature and responses * Becoming an effective, certified instructor * Constructing a lesson plan with sample lessons * Teaching a high-risk longe and jumping techniques * Assessing the characteristics of lesson horses * Weeding out potentially dangerous animals This comprehensive handbook ...

Design the Perfect Landscape for Your Home - In 12 Simple Steps! Let Janet Macunovich's practical approach to design help you transform your yard and garden into the landscape of your dreams! New homeowners and first - time landscapers will love this specific, easy-to-understand method. Experienced gardeners will appreciate the professional advice and helpful tips for improving their yards and gardens. Whatever your experience, this book will ...

Share the pleasure. Unveil the mystery. This joyous, innovative book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

SUPPER AT SEVEN, DINNER AT ONE O'CLOCK At one o'clock Henretta rings first the little brass dinner bell in the shape of a lady in a hoop skirt, and then the old black iron bell at the back door. We gather in the dining room, weaving together the individual threads of our mornings and our lives. We seat ourselves and Judge says grace. Typically, Miss Lady has had an attack of "nerves" and is dabbing at her eyes with her handkerchief. ...Judge i...

It's here! The only book you need to brew great-tasting beer at home. If you can boil water and combine ingredients, you can learn the skills you need to make top-notch beer. Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide is a simple yet complete overview for brewers of all levels. Brewmaster Dave Miller offers up-to-date advice on cutting-edge techniques and successfully guides you through the entire brewing process.

From the author of "Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me" comes this great baby shower or Mother's Day gift--a hilarious take on the nitty-gritty of the first year of motherhood. Two color. Illustrations throughout.

Like her first two award-winning novels (Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman), A Cure for Dreams is set in the rural and small-town South and draws richly upon the author's ear for comic turns of phrase and her sure grasp of the humor, pathos, and dignity of supposedly "ordinary" people. The determination of the women of the story to assert themselves in confining, dependent situations makes for uplifting, enjoyable reading.

Mix Up Some Magic with Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & Essential Oils Stir your imagination and summon enchanted creatures by bringing the fragrances of the garden into your home. Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances will help you to fully embrace and celebrate the changing seasons with recipes for bewitching blends of dried flowers, herbs, and fruits, including: -- Dance of the Morning Nymphs -- Pan's Song -- Midsummer Night's Dream -- Enchanted Forest ...

A magical journey. A safari in your hands.   Animals in living motion, as real as if you were there. The cheetah bounds, the lion charges. The African elephant snaps its ears. Using unique Photicular technology, SAFARI is the adventure of a lifetime, and a book unlike any other.   Experience it for yourself.

All the practical advice and sound information parents need for the second year of life, including full chapters on health and safety issues, is here in one authoritative, yet lively volume. Starting at month 13 and continuing through month 24, WHAT TO EXPECT THE SECOND YEAR covers every step in a child's growth and behavior process from the end of babyhood through the beginnnings of toddlerhood.