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1) 10-fold origami: fabulous paperfolds you can make in just 10 steps!

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Make world-class origami art in just 10 steps with this beautiful and friendly origami book. Want to add a little Zen to your life? All you need is something to fold and the desire to express yourself! Renowned American origami artist and theorist Peter Engel features a completely original take on a very classic subject in this paper craft book, which features beautiful full-colored illustrations and easy-to-follow diagrams for 26 wide-ranging origami...

2) The art & craft of the blacksmith: techniques and inspiration for the modern smith

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"The Art and Craft of the Blacksmith is a visually stunning introduction to the tools, techniques, and traditions every modern smith needs to know"--

3) The art of paper quilling: designing handcrafted gifts and cards

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Choi, Claire Sun-ok

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An exquisite paper art book featuring quilling techniques for cards and gifts. With a focus on simple, elegant projects, the The Art of Paper Quilling offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, gifts, and more. The designs are all built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork....

4) The backyard astronomer's guide

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Dickinson, Terence

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"This classic, groundbreaking guide has been the go-to field guide for both beginning and experienced amateur astronomers for nearly 30 years. The fourth edition, scheduled for release in 2021, brings Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer's invaluable manual completely up-to-date. Setting a new standard for astronomy guides, it will serve as the touchstone for the next generation of stargazers as well as longtime devotees. Technology and astronomical understanding...

5) Baking with Dorie: sweet, salty & simple

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Greenspan, Dorie

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"From James Beard Award-winning and NYT best-selling author Dorie Greenspan, a baking book of more than 150 exciting recipes Say "Dorie Greenspan" and think baking. The renowned author of thirteen cookbooks and winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards offers a collection that celebrates the sweet, the savory, and the simple. Every recipe is signature Dorie: easy-beginners can ace every technique in this book-and accessible, made with everyday...

6) Baking with less sugar: recipes for desserts using natural sweeteners and little-to-no white sugar

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Recipes for mouthwatering desserts with minimal refined sugar from the James Beard Award–winning pastry chef and author of Flour.

Trust Joanne Chang—beloved author of the bestselling Flour and a Harvard math major to boot—to come up with this winning formula: minus the sugar = plus the flavor. The sixty-plus recipes here are an eye-opener for anyone who loves to bake and wants to cut back on...

7) The beginner's guide to hand building: functional and sculptural projects for the home potter

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Essential Ceramics Skills

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"The Beginner's Guide to Hand Building is a friendly, contemporary take on the classic hand-building book - perfect for new and returning ceramic artists"--

8) The big book of makerspace projects: inspiring makers to experiment, create, and learn

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Graves, Colleen

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Provides an interactive, easy-to-follow guide that is filled with classroom-tested, low-cost DIY makerspace projects and challenges that feature clear, non-technical step-by-step instructions inspire creativity and foster imagination in makers at every skill level. Features dozens of classroom-tested, hands-on DIY projects and challenges. Each project features clear, non-technical step-by-step instructions with photos and illustrations to ensure success,...

9) Birds of New England

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Falcon pocket guide

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"Each Falcon Field Guide to birds introduces the 180 most common and sought-after species in a state. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, these informative guides make it easy to identify birds in a backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas. Each bird is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a color illustration showing its important features. Birds are organized...

10) Canning for a new generation: bold, fresh, flavors for the modern pantry

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Krissoff, Liana

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Organized by season, Krissoff's recipes illustrate fresh ways to preserve the harvest throughout the year, employing techniques like water-bath canning that are safe and easy to follow. The recipes are all created with small-batch yields in mind, which will appeal to beginner canners and expert homesteaders alike. Krissoff addresses special diet concerns with recipes for low-sugar or sugar-free preserves, as well as methods for canning jams and preserves...

11) Chess for dummies

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Chess For Dummies is for anyone who wants to become a better chess player. Whether you've been playing chess for years or never played at all, this clearly written and easy-to-understand guide will help you with your game. Contains over 350 illustrations to help readers master the game. Ever since chess originated in the 17th century in ancient India, it has grown to become recognized as the most ancient, intellectual, and cultural game of its time....

12) The complete idiot's guide to learning Spanish

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Complete idiot's guide

13) Cooking at home: or, how I learned to stop worrying about recipes (and love my microwave)

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"The globally renowned chef of Momofuku, star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious, and bestselling author of Eat a Peach now shares the kitchen hacks and culinary tricks he uses as a new home cook for a growing family--and shows the rest of us how to make the most of our cooking skills. Being a chef can make you the absolute worst kind of home cook. Either you're too fussy when dinner just needs to be on the table (without an hour of dishes to do afterwards),...

14) Cooking for Jeffrey: a Barefoot Contessa cookbook

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Barefoot Contessa cookbook

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Ina's most personal cookbook yet is filled with the recipes Jeffrey and their friends request most often, as well as stories from Ina and Jeffrey's many years together. There are traditional dishes that she's updated, such as Brisket with Onions and Leeks, and Tsimmes. Desserts range from simple Apple Pie Bars to showstoppers like Vanilla Rum Panna Cotta with Salted Caramel. For the first time, Ina has included a chapter devoted to bread and cheese,...

15) Craft in the real world: rethinking fiction writing and workshopping

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Salesses, Matthew

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"A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations inform storytelling."-- "The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold reevaluation of the elements...

16) Creating welded sculpture

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Hale, Nathan Cabot

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Profusely illustrated guide, newly revised, offers detailed coverage of basic tools and techniques of welded sculpture. Abstract shapes, modeling solid figures, arc welding, large-scale welding, more. 196 illustrations.

17) Drink the harvest: making and preserving juices, wines, meads, teas, and ciders

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Skip the sugary commercial drinks and make fresh, delicious beverages in your own kitchen-- from your own garden, or from farmers' market finds. These recipes and techniques will introduce you to a whole new world of garden goodness.

18) Dungeon master's guide

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This book contains tools a Dungeon Master needs to provide stories and game play. A resource for new and existing Dungeon Masters to engage in both adventure and world creation, with rules, guidelines, and advice from the game's experts. Created as part of a massive public playtest involving more than 170,000 fans of the game.

19) Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies

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Slavicsek, Bill

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Explore the fantasy world of D&D and delve into dungeons, slay monsters, and gain treasure!

If you've been thinking of playing D&D or you've played before and you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition, this is the book for you. Here's what you need to know to join the fantasy fun.

D&D terminology — understand what ability check, modifier, saving throw, AC, gp, hp, and XP mean

Roll the dice —

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20) Everyday watercolor: learn to paint watercolor in 30 days

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"A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces"--