A Rooftop Garden
Enjoy your own rooftop garden, even if you live in an apartment building! You can grow vegetables, herbs and flowers on your roof. Helpful suggestions and links, a personal experience with rooftop gardening, and a recipe for Rooftop Sun ... [... more]
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Annuals For Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for ...
Look no further for a book on annuals: This is THE book you'll need on annuals. I've been looking for two years for one that sorts flowers by use and growing conditions and tells you everything you need to know. Others make all annuals sound like they'll [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Legendary Hearts
For once, I agree with the others...: This is a really *GOOD* Lou Reed album. Its not his best, but it has the same band that served him so well on THE BLUE MASK (which is probably as close to the top of how great a Lou Reed record can get). There isn't [... more]
CDN$35.40
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Secret London
guidebook to london's secrets: I love this book! It has detailed instructions to find (and history of) little known spots in London that are marvelous. There are several color pictures and hand-drawn maps to help guide you on your walk. Some of the [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Tuscan Childhood
From Amazon.com: What could be more romantic than living in an ancient fortress, dining in its rooftop garden, and sleeping under the stars? English artists and intellectuals like the author's parents (painter Aubrey Waterfield and journalist Lina Duff [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel
From Amazon.co.uk: It has been said that one can see further only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honours that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early 19 [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Satisfaction
"I'm just not that sure about things anymore": Set in modern-day London this beautifully structured novel is all about the intersection of love, fate and chance, be it through marriage, family or through friendship. Satisfaction begins as a [... more]
CDN$26.04
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From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of ...
not much new since 1985: While I find Dr. Todd's work inspiring, this time around I was disappointed by this particular book. There isn't much new in it since the 1985 publication of Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, and City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Sky Gardens: Rooftops, Balconies, and Terraces
DISAPPOINTING: I love rooftop gardens and take care of one myself. What I've expected from this book was stunning illustrations, exciting exteriors, fresh ideas.... And I find out that the graphics is poor quality, different views of the same balcony are [... more]
CDN$40.08
Amazon CA |
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel
From Amazon.com: It has been said that one can see farther only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honors that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early-19th- [... more]
CDN$42.50
Amazon CA |
House of Cards: House of Cards
From Amazon.com: Connoisseurs of political chicanery will relish House of Cards, the mordantly funny story of Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a British politician with his eye on the top job. Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative Party and [... more]
CDN$34.99
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House of Cards Trilogy
From Amazon.com: Connoisseurs of political chicanery will relish House of Cards, the mordantly funny story of Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a British politician with his eye on the top job. Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative Party and [... more]
CDN$74.90
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