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- The Tree Collectors : Tales of Arboreal Obsession. by Stewart, Amy.;
In 'The Tree Collectors', Amy Stewart brings us 50 captivating stories of people who spend their lives in pursuit of rare and wonderful trees and are transformed in the process. Stewart populates this compendium with her own hand-drawn watercolour portraits of these extraordinary people and their trees, interspersed with side trips to investigate famous tree collections, arboreal glossaries, and even tips for unauthorized forestry. From the author of 'The Drunken Botanist'. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Nature Therapy; GARDENING / Essays & Narratives; NATURE / Plants / Trees; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany;
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- Futureproof your garden : environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less / by Stewart, Angus,author.; Stewart, Emma,author.;
A practical guide to creating and maintaining a water-efficient garden, including a comprehensive photographic plant directory, and insights into sustainable design, in big and small spaces. Welcome to your essential guide for creating healthy, sustainable, water-wise gardens and landscapes. Futureproof your garden is a go-to resource for anyone who wants expert advice on how to use, capture and store water efficiently in times of drought or deluge. Angus and Emma help you to choose plants that not only suit your personal style, but that can adapt to changing environments. A photographic plant directory is packed with information on what to plant where, and the pair share design know-how that's adaptable to outdoor spaces of all sizes. Soil care is considered in comprehensive detail, and photo essays offer step-by-step garden DIY how-tos-including wicking beds, capillary watering, deep irrigation and ollas. Make the most of a guide to plant selection that equips you to create landscapes that are functional, beautiful and resilient, covering techniques for ornamental, habitat and edible gardens.- Subjects: Drought-tolerant plants.; Gardening; Gardening.; Gardens; Sustainable agriculture.; Sustainable horticulture.; Xeriscaping.;
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- Believers : making a life at the end of the world / by Wells, Lisa,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Poet and essayist Lisa Wells takes us on a pilgrimage to the margins, where trailblazers and outliers imagine new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change"--- Subjects: Essays.; Human ecology.;
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- Where I come from : stories from the deep South / by Bragg, Rick,author.; Bragg, Rick.Essays.Selections.;
"A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"--- Subjects: Biographies.;
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- Dispersals On Plants, Borders, and Belonging [electronic resource] : by Lee, Jessica J..aut; Lee, Jessica J..nrt; cloudLibrary;
INSTANT TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER The prize-winning and bestselling author of Two Trees Make a Forest turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee’s hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they’ve made to reach us. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being “out of place”—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Lee looks at these plant species in their own context, even when we find them outside of it. Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Personal Memoirs; Trees;
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- Jesus Henry Christ [videorecording] / by Abrams, Aaron.; Collette, Toni.; Lee, Dennis.; Moore, Frank,1946-; Rose, Philip,1921-2011.; Sheen, Michael.; Spevack, Jason.; Weinstein, Samantha.; Williams, Dewshane.; Entertainment One (Firm);
Music, David Torn, Simon Taufique ; editor, Joan Sobel ; director of photography, Danny Moder.Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Jason Spevack, Samantha Weinstein, Frank Moore, Aaron Abrams, Dewshane Williams.A 10-year-old genius embarks on a search for his real father, and gets more than a few unexpected surprises along the way in the quirky sophomore feature from Fireflies in the Garden writer/director Dennis Lee. Henry James Hermin (Jason Spevack) began speaking in full sentences before he was a year old. And before he's even reached his teens, he's already in college. But the older Henry gets, the more he begins to wonder why he doesn't have a father. The son of a left-wing feminist named Patricia (Toni Collette), Henry is investigating his origins when he's kicked out of school for penning a controversial essay, and his grandfather Stan (Frank Moore) makes a shocking revelation: Henry is a test-tube baby. Upon learning that he has a half-sister named Audrey (Samantha Weinstein), and that she was conceived so that her father Dr. Slavkin O'Hara (Michael Sheen) could pen a best-seller titled "Born Gay or Made That Way?" the precocious boy decides to seek out his long-lost sibling. Later, as Henry and Audrey attempt to map out their family tree, the twisted roots make tracing their origins a formidable challenge, and a new kind of family begins to emerge.MPAA Rating: PG-13.DVD, widescreen presentation, 1.78:1, 16x9 (2.40:1) 5.1 Dolby Digital.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Dysfunctional families; Feature films.; Gifted boys; Single mothers; Test tube babies;
- © c2012., Entertainment One,
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- Farmhouse vegetables : a vegetable-forward cookbook / by Smith, Michael,1966 October 13-author.;
"From vegetable-forward dishes to full vegetarian meals, eating plants is more than just good for us. We thrive when we eat more vegetables! Inspired by the bounty of his culinary farm, chef Michael Smith shares everything that he has learned about vegetable cookery--ideas, techniques, and recipes--in this stunning cookbook so you can develop your own vegetable cooking style that suites your lifestyle. Whether leaning into eating more vegetables, going meat-free a few days a week, or vegetarian, you'll find unique and flavour-packed recipes where vegetables are always the star. Farmhouse Vegetables features a wide array of unique and approachable recipes, and simple pantry staples, to easily boost your cooking to include more veg from mains, sides, and even drinks and desserts including: Kabocha Squash and Ancho Cider Broth with sage pumpkin seed goat cheese pesto, and spicy roasted chickpeas; Lentil Soup with pea and mint fritters, and lentil sprouts; Soba Noodle Bowl with golden tofu, garden peas, cinnamon basil, and miso carrot broth; Whole Roasted Turnip with cranberry rosemary chutney; Basil Ratatouille and Swiss Chard Wraps with tomato marigold salsa; Potato-Crusted Smoked Salmon Potato Cakes with arugula dill salad and maritime mustard pickles; Potato, Leek, Mushroom, and Chicken Skillet Stew Ice Cream Sandwiches with carrot cake cookies and parsnip ice cream. Through mouthwatering recipes, inspiring essays, and gorgeous food and landscape photography, Michael shares his journey farming, cooking, and the versality and deliciousness of vegetables. You'll find lots of ways to continue enjoying meat (or not) on your terms while making vegetables (and lots of fruits) your first choice in the kitchen."--- Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Cooking (Vegetables); Vegetarian cooking.;
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- A dry white season [videorecording] / by Brando, Marlon,actor.; Mokae, Zakes,actor.; Ntshona, Winston,actor.; Palcy, Euzhan,film director.; Palcy, Euzhan,screenwriter,film director.; Prochnow, Jürgen,actor.; Sarandon, Susan,1946-actor.; Sutherland, Donald,1935-actor.; Suzman, Janet,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Brink, André P.(André Philippus),1935-2015.Droë wit seisoen.English.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,film distributor,presenter.;
Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Winston Ntshona, Marlon Brando, Zakes Mokae, Jurgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon.White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener, bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.; Apartheid; Blacks; Justice;
- For private home use only.
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- The comfort of crows : a backyard year / by Renkl, Margaret,author.; Renkl, Billy,illustrator.;
"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us."--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Renkl, Margaret.; Animals.; Backyard gardens.; Natural history.; Nature observation.; Nature.; Seasons.;
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- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales / by Sacks, Oliver,1933-2015,author.;
"From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything In Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.; Neurologists;
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