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For lovers of animal stories or those craving a dishy peek inside the lives of NYC’s most affluent residents.
Easy to read a little bit at a time when inspiration is needed to continue (or to start) living sustainably. A helpful addition to a sustainable collection that already contains how-to guides.
This uplifting book addresses a difficult topic with hope, love, and a touch of humor. The illustrations and text make it suitable for children or adults coping with the loss of a pet. Recommended for readers needing grief support.
Scott is the rare photographer whose images allow animals’ personalities to come through. Heartwarming, quick-reading stories show how adopting or fostering a rescue cat can make a difference.
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A Home for All Seasons
A charming work illustrating how to seamlessly bring nature inside in every season. For readers who enjoy adding seasonal natural elements to their rooms, muted color palettes, and displaying carefully curated collections.
Libraries with extensive travel and design collections might appreciate this image-rich book, but budget-conscious readers probably won’t find many design tips they can take home with them.
A lovely, interior design book that spurs readers to aim for cozy, meaningful spaces that bring people together.
Damrosch’s wealth of information and easy-to-understand, conversational writing style will appeal to vegetable gardeners of all experience levels.
An informative, gorgeous book with useful tips for gardeners interested in incorporating food plants into their landscapes.
Seasoned and novice gardeners alike will appreciate the book’s organized layout and information, along with the breathtaking photos showcasing delicate bulbs in all of their glory.
An engaging work with stunning illustrations. Most useful for readers in the Pacific Northwest, but anyone interested in mushrooms will enjoy this beautiful book.
This highly recommended resource takes a holistic view of food waste. It asserts and demonstrates that reducing food waste also lowers packaging, plastic, budgetary wastes, which, in turn, minimizes people’s environmental footprints.
A lovely, inspirational work. Readers who crave the sea will marvel at the views, while those dreaming of hand-crafted tiles will be thrilled by rooms whose floors glisten with coastal colors.
From wood panels across floors, walls, and ceilings to double-hung windows, model boats, wood piles, bookshelves, and crowded kitchens, these spaces speak to a way of life, a statewide aesthetic, and a time-loved sense of being.
From pools to peacock chairs to peacocks roaming inside austere bedrooms, the images offer inspiration for design choices in garden landscapes and interior design. Many of the homes are lavish estates, and wealth is certainly on display. However, gazing at the photos of some of these buildings might leave readers with a feeling of mourning for the older structures whose walls have been weathered by time and history.
Dog lovers interested in holistic care and diet options for their beloved companions will flock to this well-researched book.
Just what ocean-obsessed readers have been yearning for. Each page is a pleasure and is flooded with a quiet, ocean-tinted glow.
This is a thorough guide that will be most helpful to patrons who need help training difficult dogs. It includes a good deal of background information and theory along with its practical suggestions.
A tremendous, captivating resource for rose gardeners. This eye-catching book will look great on seasonal displays about gardening.
What makes this book consequential is its sensibility and purpose. There are a number of outstanding books on building gardens, but the intentionality of this stands out. It is a title librarians should consider a part of a core collection.
This cheerful, whimsical, eminently browsable book will appeal to nature lovers, gardeners, artists, and readers who enjoy botanical art meshed with engaging narration.
Readers seeking inspiration will find it here, in color palettes, shapes, concepts of order and more naturalized spaces, and curated beauty.
Visionary Landscapes: Japanese Garden Design in North America, The Work of Five Contemporary Masters
While the scholarly nature of the book is evident in its endnotes and bibliography, the text and images expand the volume’s reach to lay gardeners wanting to both appreciate and learn from these professionals and perhaps model some of their practices.
A stunning, practical guide to propagating houseplants that’s elevated by Carter’s experience as an interior stylist. For all gardeners and readers interested in growing their plant collections.
Gardeners of all skill levels will find this title about growing herbs and spices to be helpful and accessible.
Readers in garden zones 4–7, based on the average extreme minimum winter temperature for the area, will enjoy Leach’s poetic and reverent writing style and tones as they learn how to protect their gardens from deer and the wintry elements.
A great gardening addition to collections. For gardeners, beginners, too, looking to maximize returns on their space.
A thorough guide to bonsai. A good addition for libraries and readers looking for a concise introduction to the hobby.
As a style guide to a certain way of living in the Cotswolds, it excels, providing inspiration for color pairings, furniture arrangement, and more. The tone is elegant, lovely, and gracious.
A guide for cooking and entertaining that’s as thoughtful as it is beautiful. Readers are encouraged to make the most of seasonal bounties and wonders by embracing rituals and gathering outdoors.
A mix of coffee-table book, art guide, and home decorating title, the audience for this most naturally makes it a fit for larger collections and universities supporting design programs.
This enjoyable coffee-table book, great for perusing and adding to collection displays, is a diverting read for a quick trip to a beautiful home and surrounding buildings. In some ways, this book is a more in-depth and expansive version of an enjoyable TV show about luxury homes without the nitty-gritty construction details.
Readers will treasure the suggested plants, deeply enjoy the writing, and be charmed with the entire package. Don’t miss this.
An attractive, inspiring book that shows that beautiful floral arrangements, from the simple to the exuberant, are within reach of all gardeners.
A feast for the eyes and blooming with inspiration, Raven’s text will please armchair gardeners and aid those looking to craft flower-filled delights.
A comprehensive and highly enjoyable guide to restoring old homes; while the coveted Brooklyn brownstone might not be accessible to all, the fundamental ideas can apply to any project.
With its daily and weekly home maintenance checklists, bright photographs, and handy list of organizational dos and don’ts, this book is a great resource for paring down and efficiently storing items so that they’re accessible and tidy.
Richardson’s playfulness and good humor shine in this book; he makes cleaning fun and provides excellent tips to refresh the whole house.
Fans of Seo will enjoy this book filled with life-hacks and ideas to help them reduce their environmental impact.
An excellent, beautifully illustrated choice for beginning herb growers seeking ideas for how to use their harvest, but it does not specify specific herbs to use for wellness.
Aspiring gardeners will savor this title that combines a gardening manual with an art book, thanks to Montgomery’s visually lush and stylistic photographs.
A practical guide to creating a sustainable homesteading lifestyle. Can also be used as a thorough case study.
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The New French Look
A comprehensive and beautiful guide that will have aspiring designers incorporating French styles into their homes with confidence and ease.
Spivey’s blunt style may not suit all readers, but his book offers plenty of solid advice and compassion for both dogs and their owners.
This is a funny, witty title that would be a good addition to the humor section of a library as well as the pet care section.
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The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer
Thanks to its enthusiastic, engaging narrator and vibrant color photographs, this informative book will appeal to vegetable gardeners who want to explore new methods and unexpected choices in their edible gardens.
This book reads more like an expanded seed catalogue, with just one chapter focused on how to harvest, dry, and store medicinal perennials. A highlight of the book is Alice’s beautiful watercolor illustrations.
A sure hit for pet lovers and anyone looking to peek into the lives and homes of the Manhattan elite.
This gorgeous book expertly gives both experienced and novice gardeners the tools and inspiration they need to start or enhance their gardens.
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Container Gardening—the Permaculture Way: Sustainably Grow Vegetables and More in Your Small Space
This work is an excellent book to hand to beginner gardeners and to include in collections that need more titles about container gardening.
With ample advice on everything from vet visits to nail trimming, as well as recommendations for toys, supplies, and additional training resources, Callahan’s book is an excellent guide that puts puppy welfare front and center.
A book heavy on interior design images and light on words highlights the beauty that comes from bringing the outdoors into a home.
Dog lovers and sports fans will enjoy the down-to-earth writing style of this behind-the-scenes perspective of the 1,049-mile-long “last great race on Earth.”
Thomas’s debut cookbook is a simple yet satisfying collection of recipes tailor-made for fans of the Cookie Co. franchise.
Readers who want to construct a new home, remodel an existing one, or learn how to design healthier spaces in their home will find this book delightfully resourceful.
A useful and well-illustrated survey of contemporary practitioners and examples of postmodern design.
Parkinson’s love for plants, gardening, and wildlife shines through in this conversational, lovely book. Most useful for intermediate or advanced gardeners.
A distinctive ready reference that will provide an abundance of positive takeaways and tips for both novices and the most seasoned florists.
A great, first-rate title for readers looking to foraging to connect with nature in a new and deeper way.
A fascinating, well-researched discussion of indigenous plants and garden design, including options for Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Houseplants for Beginners: A Simple Guide for New Plant Parents for Making Houseplants Thrive
An excellent choice for beginning and intermediate houseplant growers. The instructions are thorough and easy to understand, and the accompanying photographs complement them. The browsable “Plant Profiles” sections include a host of interesting choices.
Floral arrangers and gardeners interested in adding scented plants to their gardens will relish this title. Readers wishing to delve more deeply into this subject may also enjoy The Scentual Garden by Ken Druse and photographer Ellen Hoverkamp.
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Private Gardens of Philadelphia
Recommended for larger collections, especially those in mid-Atlantic states.
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Surf Style at Home
A guide as easy and laid-back as the surfer style that inspired it. Will make readers want to add intriguing beachy design features into their own homes.
With stunning photographs and immaculate styling, this book is a recommended pick for browsing and finding simple and chic design inspiration and ideas.
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Quiet Spaces
A great guide for readers with some interior design knowledge who are on the hunt for inspiration.
A beautiful book for readers researching affordable options for chic yet environmentally friendly ADU construction.
This is the book to read when the world’s pollution problem becomes too overwhelming. Adding this title will round out collections containing only “how-to” sustainable life guides by providing an alternative slower transition that can still affect ecological change.
Fixer to Fabulous fans will relish this book, heavily illustrated with examples of the Marrs family’s design and renovation ideas.
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Shut the Front Door: Make Any Space Feel Bigger, Better, and More Beautiful Without Going Broke
Best for readers who want to make their spaces look expensive for less. A great addition to any DIY collection, with the potential to fly off the shelf.
A well-written and fascinating volume that keeps readers engrossed. Best for fashion mavens and those who work in the industry.
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Living Bright
A fun, functional, and vibrant guide that teaches readers how to bring color into spaces in easy and creative ways.
This might work well as inspiration for aspiring interior designers with a healthy budget but not as a guide for general readers.
An inventive guide that combines succulent insight with craft ideas. Best for readers who are familiar with succulents or skilled in creating crafty projects.
Blackman and Cruz’s particular style isn’t affordable for everyone, but this book is good inspiration nonetheless for readers craving the modern gothic look. Best suited for rounding out collections that include brighter, minimalist interior design books.
Newcomers and dedicated fans of Slonem will enjoy. Great for university libraries with art programs for students to see the versatility their art forms can take.
A fun, inventive, and worthwhile addition to any library and for all sorts of plant parents. This is much more than a book about caring for houseplants.
Isabel, who hails from three generations of plant-loving family members, shares her expertise and knowledge of houseplants in this amusing, informative book, best for neophyte horticulturists who might not yet have a green thumb.
Readers will enjoy this look into eclectic and colorful maximalist style. A good addition to interior design collections that span a wide range of eras.
A feast for the eyes and the imagination for every type of gardener. A great addition to any gardening or art collection.
A smart purchase for libraries serving patrons who want to make a small home appealing and inviting.
Aspiring architects, architecture fans, nature and design buffs, and readers looking for inspiration for their home will all find something to love inside this book.
A highly detailed book that offers a multitude of tips for turning a house into a home by applying practical painting and styling principles.
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