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In spite of her privileged upbringing during the elegant 1820s, Abigail is spurred by a sense of adventure, and unbeknownst to her parents, she ministers to the bawdy revelers of London's most dangerous district. A well-intentioned outing ends in calamity, scandalizing the Aldridge family.

To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality the essential minerals lacking in our soil must be replaced, but this re-mineralization calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. The Intelligent Gardener demystifies the process while simultaneously debunking much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements. In doing so, it conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy people.

This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable web-based spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow.

Paradigm-shifting, The Kitchen Ecosystem will change how we think about food and cooking. Designed to create and use ingredients that maximize flavor, these 400 recipes are derived from 40 common ingredients–from asparagus to fish to zucchini–used at each stage of its “life cycle”: fresh, preserved and in a main dish.

Seasoned cooks know that the secret to great meals is this: The more you cook, the less you actually have to do to produce a delicious meal. The trick is to approach cooking as a continuum, where each meal draws on elements from a previous one and provides the building blocks for another. That synchronicity is a kitchen ecosystem.

For the farmers market regular as well as the bulk shopper, for everyday home cooks and aspirational ones, a kitchen ecosystem starts with cooking the freshest in-season ingredients available, preserving some to use in future recipes, and harnessing leftover components for other dishes. In The Kitchen Ecosystem, Eugenia Bone spins multiple dishes from single ingredients: homemade ricotta stars in a pasta dish while the leftover whey is used to braise pork loin; marinated peppers are tossed with shrimp one night and another evening chicken thighs and breast simmer in that leftover marinade. The bones left from a roast chicken bear just enough stock to make stracciatella for two. The small steps in creating “supporting ingredients” actually save time when it comes to putting together dinner.

Delicious food is not only a matter exceptional recipes—although there are an abundance of those here. Rather, it is a matter of approaching the kitchen as a system of connected foods. The Kitchen Ecosystem changes the paradigm of how we cook, and in doing so, it may change everything about the way we eat today.

We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture and multiseason interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they?

The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10-by-14-foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. In fact, the entire garden is mowed down at the end of the season!

The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs; size can be altered by treating the grid-like design as a modular building block that can be halved, doubled, or tripled as needed. This complete garden system makes a gorgeous perennial garden available to everyone, no matter their skill or the size of their space.

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.

The Lemonade Cookbook takes the bold flavors, imaginative dishes, and southern California lifestyle that have made the Lemonade brand an instant hit and captures them in a fresh, beautifully designed, full-color book.

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Three-year-old Matt Jamison hides under a bush by the creek, clutching his infant sister, Catty, as he watches Indians massacre his parents. His father's friends, Ben Clayton and his wife, Anne, rescue the orphans and raise them as their own. Growing up with the Claytons' own daughter, Eve, Matt's brotherly care matures into forbidden love. Unable to speak of his love for Eve and hurt his adoptive parents, Matt leaves his childhood ranch home to rove as a cowhand. Only their faith in God, their family and each other give them hope for the future. Regular Price $9.95. Now available at 50% off!

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For the Forest Band of the People, summer is a peaceful time of hunting and gathering. But when a band of Shaved-heads brutally attack, the People's women and children are carried off into slavery. Most accept their fate, but one of the captives, the courageous widow White Moon, vows to keep the traditions of the band alive until the day the survivors can be reunited with the People.

Her dream will inspire many of her tribe as they struggle to preserve their culture: a young hunter and his loyal wife, a troubled warrior on a vision quest, an aged storyteller, a wily trader -- until at last the special child is born who is destined to lead the Forest Band back to its rightful place in the Great Council of the People.

Delicious home-cooked meals your family will love with almost no prep time—it’s positively magical!

Grab your wand (or ladle) and get ready to whip up the healthiest, easiest-to-make food you’ll ever eat. Full of wholesome ingredients and flavors you have to taste to believe, these meals are faster than the drive-thru and much cheaper too! You won’t be able to resist.

• Raisin Bread French Toast Casserole
• Country Scalloped Potatoes
• Pork Carnitas
• Pot Roast Dips with Horseradish Cream Sauce
• Pumpkin Flan

With dozens of fantastic recipes for breakfasts, dinners, appetizers and dessert, this cookbook is perfect for busy families.

Experience the magic of your slow cooker every day of the week!

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Crispin Mayo was a stranger to the law of the gun. He had come west from Ireland to seek his fortune — one man with nothing but his fists to protect him. What he found instead was trouble. A cutthroat band of Confederate renegades were planning a train kidnapping. It was none of Mayo's business — until the desperate plea of a lady changed his mind. Soon the diehard rebels would be very sorry indeed they'd ever crossed paths with the lone man from Skibbereen.