Holmes, Roger.
Summary: Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, third edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each situation is presented with a variation, for a total of 46 designs. In addition, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Homeowner Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.6 HOLMcCullough, Nick
Summary: "McCullough is on a mission to debunk thinking that American gardens are simply picket-lined lawns or copy-cats of esteemed European and Japanese cousins. After road tripping from sea to shining sea, he has carefully curated a list that undoubtedly proves the point. American garden designers are creating distinctive gardens with an All-American flair. They embrace the industrial grit of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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Summary: Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's Midwest & the Great Lakes' Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features a collection of amazing drives, from day escapes to multi-week adventures. Follow the Tribal Trails, see Highway 61's vistas, and conquer Chicago. Get to the Midwest & Great Lakes, rent a car, and hit the road! Itineraries for classic road trips plus other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2022
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Summary: "The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.70 CLATankard, Judith B.
Summary: "In this thoroughly revised edition of "Gardens of the arts and crafts movement", landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and the United States, with an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge a truly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2018
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Summary: "It is January 12, 1888, and you are caught by surprise by a powerful blizzard that sweeps across the Midwest. Dangerously cold temperatures, high winds, and deep snow make travel nearly impossible. Will you be able to find your way home through the storm after leaving school? Can you find your father after he becomes lost in the blinding snow? Will you be able to help your students find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLDaniels, Jaret C.
Summary: "Butterflies are fascinating, beautiful, and a joy to behold. Now observing them is even better with the Butterflies of the Midwest Field Guide. This handy book by acclaimed author and professional entomologist Jaret C. Daniels makes field identification simple and informative. It features 198 species of butterflies (and common moths) organized by color for ease of use. Detailed photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Publications 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: "The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are world famous for their camps built from the land, surrounded by some of the most inspiring, untamed and stunning landscape in the world. This rugged terrain gave birth to its own form of distinctive architecture that has stood the test of time and remains a classic. Although the original great camps of the 1900s were so talked about because of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.097 OBODarke, Rick.
Summary: “Quoting seminal figures....Darke reexamines the pertinence of arts and crafts ideals for our own gardens...[and] sidebar boxes...suggest[ing] specific plants and planting methods, and types of materials and decorative embellishments. A bevy of beautiful photographs illustrates Darke’s thoughtful and inspiring ruminations.”—Booklist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Friedman/Fairfax 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712 DARWalters, Ryan S.
Summary: "He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery History 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDING, WARREN G. WALHardin, Lara Love
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "The broad reach of this field guide will lead readers to wildflowers occurring commonly in regions across the Midwest. This eight-state region (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa) contains a surprising variety of ecosystems. This field guide will feature more than 1,000 species in all major midwestern environments, such as forests and woodlands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 582.13 HOMKingsbury, Noël
Summary: A stunning exploration of one of the hottest trends in garden design, nature-based planting with an eco-aware approach, featuring the work of leading designers such as Sean Hogan, Piet Oudolf, and Dan Pearson.0Forget the mild, manicured gardens of the past: planting today is undergoing a revolution in taste and aesthetics. This is the first comprehensive overview of a new planting approach that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 KINFehribach, Paul
Summary: "Acclaimed Chicago chef Paul Fehribach surveys the tremendous diversity of localist food practices across the Midwest. Fehribach focuses not only on present trends but on a cultural migration from the Ohio River Valley north- and westward. The book will feature many remarkable recipes-e.g., bacon fat-fried Turkey Red Wheat pancakes; delicata squash stuffed with hominy, dried blueberries, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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Summary: With many pollinators threatened, gardeners can make a real difference by planting native species that support these amazing creatures. If you're a gardener (or aspiring gardener) in the northern US, this guide is a go-to reference to the most beneficial plants in your area. Through profiles of more than 300 native plants, featuring illustrations and photos, you'll discover information about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0974 JOHJ.D. Loizeaux Lumber Company
Summary: Unabridged republication of rare plan book published by Loizeaux building-supply and lumber companies of New Jersey in 1927. Illustrations and floor plans for 134 houses in many styles — New England Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Gothic or Half Timber, Modern English, Italian, Spanish Mission and more. Over 230 halftone and line illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athenaeum 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 CLASummary: "In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728 SMABird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRManchester, William
Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MANSummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOIFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023