Flower Introductions for 1989
When the wind chill plummets, the snow blows, and temperatures plunge to -40C, most gardeners are more than willing to sit close to a wood stove (move over, cat) and fantasize amid the 1089 offerings of seed catalogs. Although few of these newer ... [... more]
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The Woodburner's Companion: Practical Ways of Heating ...
 The Suburban Guide to Wood Heat: In his earlier, complementary book "The Harrowsmith Country Life Guide to Wood Heat" Dirk Thomas lays out burning wood for heat from A to Z. Everything is covered from felling and limbing trees, using block and [... more]
CDN$17.19
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Songs For Christmas
From Amazon.com: Every year it's an issue: how does one stomach the onset of holiday music? With an endless stream of overplayed pop stars stirring what Sufjan Stevens calls "That Creepy Christmas Feeling," how does one navigate the sound of [... more]
CDN$24.99
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Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable ...
Busy hippie chick's dream: Greg Pahl's book organizes everything you need to know about heating with alternative fuels in a very "non-techy, quick to find salient facts" manner.I used his book to help me make choices in buying and installing a [... more]
CDN$38.95
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The Woodburner's Companion: Practical Ways of Heating ...
The Suburban Guide to Wood Heat: In his earlier, complementary book "The Harrowsmith Country Life Guide to Wood Heat" Dirk Thomas lays out burning wood for heat from A to Z. Everything is covered from felling and limbing trees, using block and [... more]
CDN$16.56
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A Son of War
From Amazon.co.uk: Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War begins where A Soldier's Return ended. The previous novel--a moving account of the struggles, social and psychological, faced by a Burma veteran returning to Cumbrian hometown life with his wife and six-year- [... more]
CDN$14.00
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Christmas Album
From Amazon.co.uk: While most festive-themed rock offerings are as palatable as turkey leftovers or January credit card statements, Jethro Tull's The Christmas Album is 2003's folk-rock feast for the ears, a veritable hamper of delicacy bulging with [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Mountie in Mukluks: The Arctic Adventures of Bill White
THE WAY IT WAS: LIFE IN THE OLD NORTH: I have a whole passel of personal connections with this book. Not only did I once live on the arctic coast for several years, I've fished the mouth of the river that almost took Bill's life. I was still living in [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and ...
Turb Back the Clock: I've read more books about baseball history that I care to admit, but nary one by a female, let alone a woman who doesn't write about it for a living. It oughtn't to come as a total surprise, though, baseball being the game that men [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Son of War
From Amazon.co.uk: Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War begins where A Soldier's Return ended. The previous novel--a moving account of the struggles, social and psychological, faced by a Burma veteran returning to Cumbrian hometown life with his wife and six-year- [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
From Amazon.com: From the very start, we know that many of the characters in Kathleen Cambor's haunting first novel will die before it's over. This lends a sepia-toned dignity to what is already a fairly somber tale. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden [... more]
CDN$14.95
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The Animal Hedge
Incredible Folk Art Illustrations, Touching Story: Readers will have a hard time believing Bagram Ibatoulline's folk art illustrations were recently done in watercolor and gouache and are not true 19th c. folk art paintings. With their aged look and [... more]
CDN$17.70
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