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Updated March 17, 2026
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Gardenista: the low-impact garden : a sourcebook for sustainable outdoor spaces
Wilson, Kendra
Paper Book
A comprehensive and lushly illustrated guide to earth-friendly gardening from the experts at Gardenista.  In Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden, author Kendra Wilson covers everything you need to know to create a garden that's good for the planet--and to...
Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design
Teresa Woodard
Paper Book
Explore a maximalist approach to gardening with this vibrant photography book that features 20 aspirational gardens that prove "more" is better. Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice--yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant...
How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard
Douglas W. Tallamy
Paper Book
From a New York Times bestselling author, a wildlife ecology expert and environmental advocate provides readers with the next step in their ecological journey. In How Can I Help?, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and...
The Forever Home: Classic, Clever Design to Help You Put Down Roots
Mikel Welch
Paper Book
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . This stunning, easy-to-follow design book shows homeowners and renters how to maximize their budget and create a space that is functional, timeless, and uniquely their own-from the co-host of Netflix's Hack My Home and in-house design expert...
The Essential Guide to Bulbs: Grow a Bounty of Beautiful Bulbs in Gardens and Containers
Jenny Rose Carey
Paper Book
"Infectious and encouraging...this book is indeed "essential" reading for expert gardeners as well as newbies just dipping their trowel into bulb growing." ―The Seattle Times "This beautifully photographed, comprehensive resource...offers deep knowledge and encouragement...
DIY: Repair, Renovate, and Decorate with Over 450 Step-by-Step Projects
Peter Parham
Paper Book
An updated edition of the best-selling DIY manual you can't afford to be without, with expert know-how for success every time. Whether you need to do a quick fix or a large DIY project, find out how to tackle any DIY task with confidence following this revised and updated step-by...
The Cook's Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Selecting, Growing, and Savoring the Tastiest Vegetables of Each Season: A Cookbook
Kevin West
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed author of Saving the Season comes an accessible, comprehensive, and inspiring guide to growing your own garden and incorporating homegrown produce into everyday cooking-no matter how much or how little space you have. For Kevin West, the...
Greenhouse Book: Make the Most of Your Greenhouse Throughout the Year : Make the Most of Your Greenhouse Throughout the Year
Brown, Tom.
Paper Book
The ultimate guide to gardening under glass. Thinking of buying a greenhouse but aren't sure what to grow in it, or how? Or maybe you've inherited a garden with a greenhouse, but haven't got a clue what to do with it? Whatever your journey to growing under glass, this book gives a...
Birth Flower Embroidery: A Month-by-Month Celebration of Floral Embroidery
Amy L. Frazer
Create personalized, floral embroidery projects with Birth Flower Embroidery, featuring unique designs for every month's birth flowers. Celebrate every month of the year with stunning floral embroidery patterns in Birth Flower Embroidery. This beautifully curated...
Elements of Timeless Style: Creating a Forever Home
Erin Gates
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Elements of Style, Erin Gates, this is a stunningly inspirational, practical, and delightfully personal book filled with crisp takeaway advice for anyone who is designing their "forever" home. Erin Gates is...
Patchwork granny square blankets : learn to crochet quilt-inspired afghans, home decor, and more
Gibney, Anita
Paper Book
Patchwork Granny Square Blankets combines classic granny square motifs with quilt block design to create colorful and unique patchwork blankets for every home.
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Nicole Nehrig
Paper Book
Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating...
The essential book of succulents : a guide to the 250 best varieties for beginners
Kuroda, Kentaro
Paper Book
"Striking and practical. A perfect fit for those who already love succulents and those ready to fall in love." --Library Journal Learn all about the most beautiful, hardy and easy-to-grow succulent varieties! The Essential Book of Succulents is...
The vintage farmhouse garden : your guide to creating a vintage-inspired outdoor space
Kaiser, Rhonda
Paper Book
With the insight and inspiration found in The Vintage Farmhouse Garden, you'll create a gorgeous, vintage-inspired outdoor space, overflowing with style and charm. Garden and design influencer Rhonda Kaiser (@southernhomeandfarm) partners vintage-inspired design with the...
Creative Homeowner : Landscaping with Stone : 2025 : Third Edition
Mark Wolfe
Paper Book
Updated with new projects, information on climate change, and tables and sections detailing commonly used landscape sand, gravel, and stone materials, this new edition offers a complete and accessible guide to landscape design and outdoor projects for the home and garden. Featuring a framework for...
Personal Color: The Definitive Guide to Finding and Wearing Your Best Colors
Anuschka Rees
Paper Book
The definitive modern guide to finding your season and best colors, from the author of The Curated Closet. Why do some colors look radiant and effortless on one person but completely wash out another? The answer is color theory. In Personal Color, you'll harness the...
My plastic-free home : simple steps to live more sustainably
Jones, Kate
Paper Book
A beautiful, inspirational guide to keeping a sustainable home. Are you ready to create a sanctuary of sustainability? In a world overflowing with consumerism, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But Kate Jones (founder of The Natural Living Shop and creator of @my_plastic_free...
The Gardens of Mien Ruys: Strong Design, Lush Planting, and the Origins of the Modernist Garden
Conny den Hollander
Paper Book
A celebration of 100 years of the Mien Ruys Gardens, where legendary designer Mien Ruys conducted her lifetime of experimentations and innovations that have deeply informed today's naturalistic gardening movement. Widely considered the Mother of the Modernist garden...
The manga guide to organic vegetable gardening : detailed tips for growing 50 types of vegetables, fruits and herbs
Yoda, Hideki
Paper Book
Make the most of your organic garden--with this playful yet wonderfully detailed guide! Manga artist and passionate home gardener Hideki Yoda illustrates the joy and simplicity of raising vegetables in your own small home garden. He covers everything from creating the rows...
Live With the Things You Love: And You'll Live Happily Ever After
Mary Randolph Carter
Paper Book
With her trademark style and love of heirlooms and beautiful old objects, best-selling author Mary Randolph Carter delves into the interiors of real-life tastemakers (antique dealers, stylists, artists, and boutique owners) to explore how our homes are the perfect canvas for our self...
Kawaii Appliqué Quilts from Japan: How One Country’s Love of All Things Tiny Powers Today's Most Intricate Quilts (with 5 Projects from Top Designers)
Naomi Ichikawa
Paper Book
The story behind the amazing, extremely detailed quilts rising in popularity today, with five kawaii projects to make. "An enchanting celebration of kawaii ('small and cute') quilts . . . Crafters will marvel at this." --Publishers WeeklySTARRED Review Understand how...
RHS Fungi for Gardeners: Know Your Garden Fungi and How to Grow Them
DK
Paper Book
Discover the wonder of fungi and the vital role they play in your garden with expert guidance from the RHS. Did you know that the world's largest living organism is a fungus? Or that without fungi we would disappear under a mountain of dead leaves? Fungi are all...
The home bird : creating joyful interiors where old meets new
Hervin, Elle
Paper Book
Curate a modern vintage look for your home with the first book from interiors stylist Elle Hervin (@elle_the_home_bird). Learn how to marry old with new and create a beautiful home that embraces period style while keeping practicality and sustainability at the...
The flower farmers : inspiration & advice from expert growers
Prinzing, Debra
Paper Book
Twenty-nine of today's most inspiring flower farmers present stories, how-to-cultivate expertise, and favorite new varieties in a lushly photographed guide to feed your every floral fantasy Flower farmers are the Top Chefs of the gardening world, with dedicated social media...
Tunisian crochet : a stitch dictionary with 501 stitches to explore
Harrison, Lori
Paper Book
Discover the ultimate guide to Tunisian crochet with this comprehensive stitch dictionary, featuring over 500 stitches and stitch patterns. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced maker, this book is your go-to resource for exploring Tunisian crochet stitches. 500+ Tunisian...
Life with flowers : inspiration and lessons from the garden
Palmer, Frances (Potter)
Paper Book
Become a part of artist and master gardener Frances Palmer's world as she shares everything she knows about growing and arranging flowers in this gorgeous book--"Flower lovers, prepare for peak inspiration" (Amy Merrick, author of On Flowers). In this follow...
The Granny Squares Bible: 110 Designs to Mix, Match and Crochet
Hiroko Aono-Billson
Paper Book
The ultimate guide to granny square crochet: 110 colorful and contemporary designs plus a complete primer on tools, materials and key techniques. Discover 110 inspiring designs: 59 granny squares and swatches, 21 geometric motifs and 30 flowers. From classic squares...
Homegrown handgathered : the complete guide to living off your garden
Goddin, Silvan
Paper Book
Use your garden to grow more than 15 important crops that can fulfill your nutritional needs and your cravings for a more sustainable life. Growing food is good for you, your community, and the planet. Informed by scientific research, Indigenous knowledge, and the authors' years of...
Simple designs for meditative knitting : 19 easy, beautiful patterns for a mindful experience
Breen, Barbara
Paper Book
Did you know you can "knit" your way to peace of mind? In this mindful knitting book, Barbara Breen explores easy knitting projects for beginners and shares tips for knitting your way to relaxation. Within these pages, you'll find 18 knitting patterns crafted specifically with meditative knitting in...
Next-Level Needlepoint: Over 100 skill-building stitches and techniques for modern tapestry embroidery
Emma Homent
Paper Book
Get ready to take your needlepoint to the next level and gain the confidence to start making bold stitching choices! A book of decorative stitches is like a candy store for needlepointers but sometimes the choice can be overwhelming. In Next-Level Needlepoint,...
Fiber craft heritage : easy-to-learn textile techniques from the stone age to today, with 52 try-it projects
Fischer, Doris (Excavation technician)
Paper Book
A celebration of the rich heritage of fiber art and its connection to modern makers. "Loads of inspiration." --Booklist Discover the artistry and history behind 14 traditional textile techniques in this richly illustrated, deeply researched guide for fiber enthusiasts...
Grow a New Garden: Plan, design and transform any outdoor space
Becky Searle
Paper Book
"Aspirational, accessible, awesome."--Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden Create a new garden that blooms for you, in any space or patch of land that you want to call a garden. In Grow a New Garden, Becky Searle (@sow_much_more...
Dopamine Home: A bold guide to mood-boosting interiors
Rachel Verney
Paper Book
Create a joyful, mood-boosting home through the transformative power of dopamine decor. Bold use of color, energetic patterns, a mixture of textures: dopamine decor is all about getting your neurotransmitters pumping to unlock joy and ...
Creative zigzag rope sewing projects : 16 projects and a dozen techniques for making bowls, totes, and more
Haar, Denise
Paper Book
If you've ever wanted to turn your sewing habit into something even more substantial, this rope sewing guide is the perfect companion! Author Denise Haar puts together 18 distinct projects - unique bowls, baskets, a wine caddy, placemat and even handbags - to bring your sewing to the next level....
New ways with crochet : 50 innovative crochet stitch patterns and projects
Fedotova, Olena.
Paper Book
Discover exciting new crochet stitches and stitch patterns that will take your crochet to the next level. Learn how to manipulate simple crochet stitches to create interesting new textures and patterns that can be combined for endless experimentation. In addition...
The handsewn wardrobe : a complete guide to making your own clothes : from patternmaking to the finishing stitches
Sonstroem, Louisa Owen
Paper Book
Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-kind guide.  Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans,...
Creative Modern Crochet for the Home: Stunning projects using simple techniques
Lucy Djevdet
Paper Book
Brighten up your home with 12 inspiring modern crochet projects from popular crafter Lucy Djevdet (@craftingbylucy). Featuring fresh designs and contemporary textures, this book contains design-led, sustainable projects that will help you 'make do' rather than 'buy new'. ...

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