Home and Garden

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Updated December 22, 2025
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The 5-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People
Nicole Johnsey Burke
Paper Book
Nurture a year-round gardening habit with just 5 minutes a day, from the author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit. Do you find joy in seeing a plant grow from seed to flower? Has your main setback for maintaining a successful garden been finding...
Your Natural Garden: A Practical Guide to Caring for an Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
Kelly D. Norris
Paper Book
Your Natural Garden is an authoritative, practical, and beautiful guide to tending a naturalistic garden.
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing
Martha Stewart
Paper Book
An instant New York Times Bestseller "If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. And if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a garden."  --Martha Stewart, Martha Netflix Documentary<...
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...
All New Square Foot Gardening, 4th Edition: The World’s Most Popular Growing Method to Harvest MORE Food from Less Space – Garden Anywhere! (All New Square Foot Gardening, 7)
Square Foot Gardening Foundation
Paper Book
This fully revised and updated 4th edition of All New! Square Foot Gardening brings the world's favorite gardening method to a whole new generation of gardeners.
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Jeff Chu
Paper Book
A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm "I needed this book. I think you need it, too."-Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful...
The Water-Smart Garden: Techniques and Strategies for Conserving, Capturing, and Efficiently Using Water in Today's Climate... and Tomorrow's
Noelle Johnson
Paper Book
The Water-Smart Garden is a complete guide to conserving, capturing, and efficiently using water in your landscape at a time when water-usage restrictions are on the rise.
The Handsewn Wardrobe: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches
Louisa Owen Sonstroem
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,...
The Art of Embroidery Design: A Workshop for Developing Your Own Original Stitching
Christi Johnson
Paper Book
From an acclaimed embroidery designer and bestselling author of Mystical Stitches, an accessible how-to guide full of original stitch designs that will inspire readers to pick up a needle and thread. Written for all levels of stitchers, The Art of...
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
Thor Hanson
Paper Book
An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy).    We all live on nature's...
Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health
Kathy Willis
Paper Book
A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection! An Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Nonfiction Book! A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the...
The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-Round Harvests
Huw Richards
Paper Book
Harvest year-round from your bountiful and sustainable fruit and vegetable garden. Huw Richards' ultimate guide to permaculture gardening, outlining the regenerative methods that make gardening easier to do while being more productive. Huw shows you how to expand your growing...
52 Weeks of Accessories: Beautiful Patterns for Year-round Knitting
Laine
Paper Book
52 Weeks of Accessories is a beautiful collection of 52 patterns to create cosy accessories and was created by 48 international designers. It is a great companion for those who love knitting hats, shawls, socks and mittens, but also includes some more fashion-forward projects like cowls...
The 10-Minute Gardener: How to Have a Veggie Garden and a Life―85 Time-Saving Tactics to be More Efficient and Grow More Food in Less Time
CaliKim
Paper Book
The 10-Minute Gardener is a quick-and-simple guide to garden care when there's no time to spare!
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...
Margaret Holzmann's Iconic Knit Blankets and More: 30+ Graphic Patterns for Blankets, Pillows, Tops, and Table Runners
Margaret Holzmann
Paper Book
Margaret Holzmann, author of the wildly popular Geometric Knit Blankets, is back, this time with themed designs featuring cats, dogs, houses, Christmas trees and candy canes, among other highly graphic, colorful designs. 30+ patterns for blankets and pillows, plus table runners and tops...
The Greenhouse Book: Make the Most of Your Greenhouse Throughout the Year
Tom Brown
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...
The Essential Book of Succulents: A Guide to the 250 Best Varieties for Beginners
Kentaro Kuroda
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...
Grow Food Anywhere: How to Plant the Right Crops in the Right Places and Help Your Garden Thrive
Lucy Chamberlain
Paper Book
Each area of a garden offers a different environment for plants, with differing levels of sun, soil, moisture, and more. In this book, expert gardener and vegetable grower Lucy Chamberlain breaks down the environments you may find in your garden into seven zones, from sunny and...
Colorful Homes for the Soul: Bright ideas for sustainable homes
Sara Bird
Paper Book
Color is a universal language and a channel for creativity and imagination. It taps into our minds, evokes emotions, and gets under our skin. In this book, Sara Bird and Dan Duchars share how to be inventive with color while making soulful and sustainable choices. In the first section, Color...
Creative Homeowner : Ultimate Guide to : Planting and growing vegetables at home
Editors of Creative Homeowner Press
Paper Book
Every vegetable gardener needs at least one comprehensive how-to book on their shelf. Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home is that book. It's an all-in-one resource for beginner and advanced gardeners with chapters on what you need to think about before starting a...
The Essential Bonsai Book: Techniques for Creating Beautiful Trees
Jonas Dupuich
Paper Book
A beautifully photographed, in-depth guide to the fundamental techniques used to create exquisite bonsai, from the author of The Little Book of Bonsai and the Bonsai Tonight blog. "Anyone working and living with these little trees will find essential guidance for making...
Propagating Plants: How to Grow Plants for Free
DK
Paper Book
Fill your garden with beautiful plants for next-to-nothing Do you long to grow your own plants from scratch? This complete guide from the experts at the RHS will teach you how to propagate virtually every type of plant. If you're a thrifty gardener who wants more...
Black and Decker Deck Codes and Standards 2nd Edition: How to Design, Build, Inspect, and Maintain a Safer Deck (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library)
Bruce Barker
Paper Book
"Whether you are a homeowner, a builder, or inspector, [BLACK+DECKER Deck Codes and Standards] is for you...this excellent and valuable manual is highly ­recommended."  --Library Journal, review of the first edition National codes expert Bruce A. Barker...

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