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  • Broken Harbour

    Winner of the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year

    by Tana French ...
    Series series Dublin Murder Squad
    THE STUNNING, AWARD-WINNING THRILLER FROM THE MODERN QUEEN OF CRIME FICTION'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'Tana French is one of the most assured crime novelists writing today and Broken Harbour affirms her reputation' TIME OUT'With Broken Harbour, Tana French should cement her na... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Minimalisme: Conseils et Stratégies pour Éliminer le Stress, Libérer L'esprit et Créer la Joie et le Bonheur

    by Liv Lindgren ...
    De nos jours, nous passons notre temps entourés de biens et nous sommes bombardés de marketing et de publicité pour en acheter encore plus. Mais la vérité est qu'acheter plus de choses ne vous apporte ni joie ni bonheur.Au contraire, des études montrent qu'accumuler plus de biens entraîne le stress, la confusion mentale est due au fait de passer son temps en désordre à cause des choses dont on n'a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hobbit Homes & Yurts: A Guide to Living Off-Grid

    by Hugh Morshead ...
    Hobbit Homes and Yurts: A Guide to Living Off-Grid is a practical guide to creating a home and a life with greater independence from conventional systems.Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, Hugh Morshead shares what he has learned building and living in unconventional homes, from yurts and earthbag structures to the systems that make off-grid life work. The book covers natural building, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carpentry Made Easy - The Science and Art of Framing - With Specific Instructions for Building Balloon Frames, Barn Frames, Mill Frames, Warehouses, Church Spires

    by William E. Bell ...
    Framing is an element of construction that refers to the fitting together of pieces of wood or metal to give a structure support and shape. This vintage book contains a complete introductory guide to the subject, offering instructions and information pertaining to the construction and installation of frames for barns, mills, warehouses, church spires, etc. This volume is highly recommended for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sister Parish Design: On Decorating

    by Susan Bartlett Crater, Libby Cameron ...
    Discover how to bring to your home the classic American style of Parish-Hadley, the design firm known for decorating the Kennedy White House."This is a book all decorating habitués would like. Susan Crater and Libby Cameron take you inside the rarefied world of decorating to show you how you can achieve a range of fresh looks that have never gone out of style, full of color, charm, and lasting ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • If Walls Could Talk

    An intimate history of the home

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home.Through the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Building Your Custom Home For Dummies

    by Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster, Peter Economy, Anne Mary Ciminelli ...
    You deserve a home that meets your specific needs and desires!If you find yourself dreaming of the perfect patio, the ideal kitchen, and inviting rooms where you love to spend time, it might just be time to start building! With Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, you won’t have to feel intimidated as you plan, finance, and oversee construction on your new oasis. You’ll learn what it takes to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Design a Healthy Home

    100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

    by Oliver Heath ...
    With indoor air pollution at its worst, and many of us spending more time in our own homes, this interior design guide will help you create calm, social, and comfortable spaces.Let leading sustainability architect, Oliver Heath, give you all the practical solutions you need to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing.Inside the pages of this home decor book, you'll discover how to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Simple Living Handbook

    Discover the Joy of a De-Cluttered Life

    by Lorilee Lippincott ...
    Where did all this stuff come from? I don’t have time for a life. I need to get away! Ever feel this way? Society is quick to fill our minds and homes with all the latest gadgets, tools, obligations, and entertainment, but what happens when it all doesn’t fit? The Simple Living Handbook is a how-to memoir about creating a life that has space for what really matters to you.Lippincott’s road to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Room Additions

    Designing & Building *Garage Conversions *Attic Add-ons *Bath & Kitchen Expansions *Bump-out Additio

    by Chris Peterson ...
    Series series Black & Decker Complete Guide
    Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren’t fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information about the remodeling process. But it also is much more than that: it’s a hardworking how-to ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Play and the City

    How to Create Places and Spaces To Help Us Thrive

    by Alex Bonham ...
    Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn and innovate.Cities have always been sites of play, bringing people together and pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible. And now we need our cities to encourage and facilitate play of all kinds more than ever. If we want a world for our ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Seawater and Sawdust

    Two pensioners build a wooden boat

    by Lorraine Owen, Tom Owen ...
    Seawater and Sawdust is a book about many things. Primarily it is the account of two pensioners building a wooden boat, but it is also a tale of life's many adventures. Tom and Lorraine Owen were no beginners at boat-building when they set out on this mammoth project in 2015, but with a combined age of more than 120 years they certainly exceeded all expectations with such an exceptional build ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home Improvement Projects for the Busy & Broke

    How to Get Your $h!t Together and Live Like an Adult

    by Christina Salway ...
    Searching for a house or apartment is difficult enough on its own-transforming it into your home is an entirely different story, especially for those who have never lived on their own before. As millenials create their first homes away from home, they are bombarded with constant DIY ideas and articles on social media. Unfortunately, many of the seemingly simple ideas are beyond the average twenty ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Extraordinary Projects Bible

    Duct Tape Tote Bags, Homemade Rockets, and Other Awesome Projects Anyone Can Make

    by Instructables.com ...
    Continuing the Instructables series with Skyhorse Publishing, a mammoth collection of projects has been selected and curated for this special best-of volume of Instructables. The guides in this book cover the entire spectrum of possibilities that the popular website has to offer, showcasing how online communities can foster and nurture creativity.From outdoor agricultural projects to finding new ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Declutter Anything

    A Room-by-Room Guide to Cleaning Your Home and Simplifying Your Life

    by Ed Morrow, Sheree Bykofsky, Rita Rosenkranz ...
    Discover new ways to clean your home and simplify your life in this handy and creative guidebook.Does your house bulge with clutter? Are your possessions weighing you down? Is your home an unorganized mess?Turn it around-ban sagging shelves, bulging cupboards, and bursting closets-with this fun and effective guide. In a step-by-step, easy-to-follow approach, the authors suggest ways to change ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints

    Timeless Bits of Household Wisdom for Today's Home and Garden

    Edited by Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE ...
    Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That's because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Declutter Your Home Effectively House Cleaning Hacks to a Clutter Free Life

    by K. Collins ...
    Do you break out into a cold sweat the last time somebody dropped by unexpectedly? Do you constantly lose things in your home? Does it take longer time to find things you were looking for? Do you have a small space but too many stuff? Do you spend a long time cleaning all the stuff in your home? Can you access all areas of your home without any hassle?Do any of these ring true for you? If you ... Read more

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  • Simpler Living Handbook

    A Back to Basics Guide to Organizing, Decluttering, Streamlining, and More

    by Jeff Davidson ...
    The ultimate guide to streamlining your life.Life moves too quickly these days, as technology, work, and personal commitments make it almost impossible to relax and enjoy life. Finding yourself stressed over the clutter in your kitchen or the mass of paper in front of your computer? Relax. This book will help. Filled with tips on how to uncomplicate your daily routine, eliminate stress at home and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Small Space Living

    Expert Tips and Techniques on Using Closets, Corners, and Every Other Space in Your Home

    by Roberta Sandenbergh ...
    Complete with demonstrative illustrations and photographs, Small Space Living offers more than one hundred space-saving ideas from Roberta Sandenbergh, a.k.a the Small Space Architect.Sandenbergh will introduce you to the idea of space opportunities—untapped areas in every home that can be expanded for storage and organizational purposes. A space opportunity might be as simple as using an empty ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Weekend Homesteader

    A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency

    by Anna Hess ...
    The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month—so whether it’s January or June you’ll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Mini Farming

    Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

    by Brett L. Markham ...
    More than 150,000 copies sold—National Bestseller!Go back to basics—compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more—with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold).Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Simpler Living

    A Back to Basics Guide to Cleaning, Furnishing, Storing, Decluttering, Streamlining, Organizing, and More

    by Jeff Davidson ...
    Life moves too quickly these days, as technology, work, and personal commitments make it almost impossible to relax and enjoy life. Finding yourself stressed over the clutter in your kitchen or the mass of paper in front of your computer? Relax. This book will help. Filled with tips on how to uncomplicate your daily routine, eliminate stress at home and work, and more, this book will help you free ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Maximizing Your Mini Farm

    Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

    by Brett L. Markham ...
    Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Now expanding exponentially on his bestselling Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre, Brett Markham gives you tips, tricks, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • New Beginnings at Roseford Hall

    Escape to the country for a heartwarming series from Fay Keenan

    by Fay Keenan ...
    Series Book 1 - Roseford
    The start of an escapist, heartwarming romantic series from bestselling author Fay KeenanLife in London has lost its sparkle for Stella Simpson.So when she gets the opportunity to escape to the country for a year, it seems too good a chance to miss. In the beautiful Somerset countryside, the majestic Roseford Hall has been painstakingly restored and is now ready for its grand opening. And as the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus