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The Secret Life of Plants
Used: $9.00
Trade Paper
List Price $17.00

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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

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I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech...
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How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
New: $35.00
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How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
by Mark Bittman

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You must use the Bittman. Normally, I like lots of glossy photos and little banter in cookbooks, but How to Cook Everything is the exception. I've used it to cook a twenty-pound turkey, make sushi, and prepare all the strange vegetables that tempt me at...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith

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A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she...
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
by William Stafford

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I think of William Stafford as part grandfather/part favorite college professor. Although he was neither to me, his poems have a quiet truth that I both admire and adore. I wish I could have heard him teach at Lewis and Clark College or read as Oregon's...
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
by Sue Hubbell

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Sue Hubbell makes me yearn to be a beekeeper in the Ozarks — to rely on a place for my survival and my happiness. Divorced and alone on her hundred acre farm, Hubbell heals as she writes about her work as a commercial beekeeper and her peninsula...
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
by O E Rolvaag

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Suspecting I was born in the wrong era, I have always been fascinated by pioneer life. As a child, I read Little House on the Prairie and imagined a simpler time. Rölvaag captures that feeling for me with the story of Per Hansa, who travels from...
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The Way We Live: An Ultimate Treasury for Global Design Inspiration
New: $75.00
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The Way We Live: An Ultimate Treasury for Global Design Inspiration
by Stafford Cliff

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This massive interior design book is amazing with page after page of striking and detailed images. Photos are arranged by subject, with pages dedicated to archways, or fireplaces, or kitchen tables from all over the world. The photographs are indexed and...
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