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An inspiring book-meets-planning tool brimming with realistic tips and beautiful imagery; Storied Weddings encourages you to examine your tastes, family history, hobbies, styles, and other bits and pieces of your story to weave into your wedding celebration, your storied wedding. Filled with wedding florals, venues, cocktail recipes, bouquet recipes, table setting ideas, color pairings, and more, the book also features charming stories from past couples, real wedding images, and insightful pro tips throughout. A thoughtful Q&A brings a spark to the process--incorporating these questions will encourage couples to really personalize every detail--to bring to life your vision for a timeless celebration that is perfectly you.

Pies are perennial, but no one ever claimed they're easy to make. Amanda Dalton Wilbanks, owner of The Southern Baked Pie Company in Georgia, wants to change that. With only one pastry recipe, pies of every size can be made for any meal: full-size, mini, tassies, and handheld pies both savory and sweet. Each chapter features a full menu centered on a holiday or occasion, with recipes for side dishes, appetizers, and more to complement the flavors of the starring pie.

Drawing on inspiration from his personal style, world travels, and client experience, Grant K. Gibson takes you on a journey to curate your perfect home. This highly instructional design book covers wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling, in an engaging and comprehensive look at what makes a home both functional and beautiful. Learn the importance of not just decorating with objects, but infusing your living space with items that have meaning in your own life. Each chapter focuses on a different element of the home: foyer, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedrooms, kids' rooms, and bathrooms and powder rooms. Discover Grant's design philosophy--and the questions you should be asking yourself--as it pertains to each respective room. Sidebars with design secrets, decorating tips, and how-tos provide further instruction. Thorough and personable, showcasing photography from Grant's portfolio, his travels, and vast collection of previously unpublished snapshots taken in the process of his design work, The Curated Home is home décor inspiration at its best.

This alphabet primer introduces little ones to the Festival of Lights with 26 illustrations featuring Hanukkah-themed concepts, such as latkes, gelt, the menorah, and of course dreidels. Full color.

This ABC primer introduces toddlers to what they should expect when they're ready to go to school. Paprocki's colorful and wonderfully detailed illustrations bring to life concepts from the school bus to the classroom. Full color.

The local bookstore, a place of wonder, refuge, and rejuvenation for book lovers the world over. Books & Mortar is a celebration of these literary strongholds. Sixty-eight oil paintings capture these storefronts at a moment in time, and pair the artwork with anecdotes about the shops and reflections on bookselling by many of the owners themselves. A delightful gift for an avid reader, an inspiration for any bookstore owner, Books & Mortar is the perfect keepsake for anyone's personal library.

Building a fabulous gingerbread house is quick and easy using the patterns and ideas found in Easy Gingerbread Houses. There's no need for the messy and time-consuming tasks of mixing dough, rolling it out, baking it, and waiting for it to harden. All of the houses in this book are made using graham crackers, cookies, cereal, ice cream cones, frostings, and candy treats. For a fun family activity, create a Sweetheart Cottage, a Cozy Cabin, a Big Red Barn, a Blue Dollhouse, a Mermaid Palace, Santa's Castle, or even a Tiki Hut.

Spaghetti and meatballs, bathtubs and bubbles, storms and rainbows, ice cream and sprinkles. Featuring familiar duos that are often inseparable, this charmingly illustrated lift-the-flap board book is full of fun ways for parents to tell their toddlers, "I love you." Full color.

A bilingual slide-the-tab board book, with text in English and Spanish. Cleverly introduce basic ideas about what happens in the morning when you wake up, including a rooster crowing, an alarm clock ringing, Dad shaving, and neighbors making coffee. The tabs add fun and unexpected movement for illustrator Xavier Salomó's simple but engaging art.

A bilingual slide-the-tab board book, with text in English and Spanish. Cleverly provides a number of gentle good night wishes for baby at bedtime, as baby along with the cat, the trees outside, and even baby's house all close their eyes and fall asleep. The sliding tabs do the work of closing the eyes on illustrator Xavier Salomó's simple but engaging art.

Thoreau's famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists. Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that described his Walden home, and entertains with the successes and difficulties of the trip and the quirks of his companion and their guide, Joseph Polis, told with a wit and insight that can only be found in Thoreau.

Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. My First Summer in the Sierra is Muir's account of his adventures and observations while working as a shepherd in the Yosemite Valley, which later became Yosemite National Park as a direct result of Muir's writings and activism. Muir's heartfelt and often humorous descriptions of his first summer spent in the Sierra will captivate and inspire long-time fans and novice naturalists alike.

The hilarious book that the South's very own Dolly Parton described as "fun, informative, and oh-so Southern," Talk Southern To Me is a love letter to the South, y'all. Essays 'bout charm, beauty and style, chewin' the fat, love, parenting, and more--full of yes ma'ams and no sirs, casseroles and cheese balls, taffeta and pom-poms . . . plus more Southern phrases than you can shake a stick at. If you're not from the South, bless your heart, pay attention cause there's a ton of wisdom to be found in these heartfelt, humorous ways. Southerners speak their own unique version of the English language, and you'll come to understand it in these pages. It's a linguistic art. And it's gooder than grits, y'all.

Timeless staples from around the world meet new, innovative flavor combinations in sixty delicious savory, sweet, and easy-to-eat recipes featuring dip-able, delectable flatbreads. Anni Daulter's Flatbread: Toppings, Dips, and Drizzles takes a fresh approach to serving these staples with a collection of recipes, including various types of flatbreads, that tempt the taste buds with dips, drizzles, and creative toppings to make appetizers, main courses, and desserts. If bread truly is the staff of life, these recipes will make life worth living.

Math is the basic foundation upon which most of the other areas of STEAM rely. This primer introduces many mathematical concepts in a context showing how they are connected with many things in everyday life. Full color..

The gregarious star of the popular television cooking show, New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton, is at it again with a second cookbook showcasing even more of his delicious Creole and Cajun recipes. Kevin Belton's New Orleans Kitchen offers tasty New Orleans classic dishes like Crawfish Pie, Fried Oyster Po-Boy with Blue Cheese and Buffalo Sauce, and Duck and Andouille Gumbo with Potato Salad, as well as foreign favorites with a little New Orleans twist, like Cuban Paella, Vietnamese Wonton Soup with Shrimp Dumplings, and Greek Souvlaki with Tzatziki. Belton's exciting flavors and engaging writing alongside Eugenia Uhl's mouthwatering photographs make this new cookbook a must-have.

This primer about the "A" in "STEAM" (the Arts) introduces children to the many different types of creative fields in the arts, including drawing and painting, music and dance, writing, design, architecture, and photography. Full color.

With this newest volume in the best-selling Slanguage series, author Mike Ellis provides translations and pronunciation guides for nearly 300 more French words and phrases, focusing on such categories as clothing and fashion, dining, entertainment, cooking and baking, and destinations. These pocket-sized guides are easy to use and make great gifts for kids or adults who want a fun way to learn the basics of a new language. Just use the easy pronunciation guide that incorporates easy English terms and fun and helpful illustrations, and you'll be saying things like "What's up?" (Quad Enough) and "Kisses, sweetie" (Bee Zoo Shoe Shoe) in no time.

Across these 295 recipes for sourdough bread, the potential of eight different flours, wild yeast and probiotic bacteria is explored, leading to an exciting variety of artisanal loaves, bagels, brioche and more.

Whether she carried you for nine months or embodies the meaning of mom in your life; whether it's to celebrate your best friend's baby shower, or your very first grandchild, Motherhood is a beautiful keepsake for every kind of mom. Celebrate the powerful love, inimitable strength, and indispensable humor it takes to be a mom with this intimate collection. Imaginative illustrations in watercolor, gouache, and ink paired with inspired quotations--some silly, some solemn, all true--serves as a standalone token of affection or the perfect finishing touch to a gift.

Little ones can join Phileas Fogg and Passepartout as they circle the globe in this BabyLit Primer based on Jules Verne's classic tale. They travel using trains, ships, palanquins, a carriage, a sled, and even an elephant. Full color.