Mark Griffiths
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English
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20 projects using reclaimed timber. If you’ve always admired experienced makers woodwork but felt too daunted to try wood as a hobby yourself, Woodworking in a Weekend will change your mind. Twenty easy-to-make projects will give you the confidence to give wood a try, and each project gives such good results that even beginners will want to make them all. Projects are laid out like recipes: ingredients, techniques, and steps to follow and there...
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English
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A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers
Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book. The Lotus Quest takes Griffiths from the headquarters of the Linnaean Society in London to a mountain top in northern Japan. As he travels in search of this...
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English
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This in-depth lifecycle and behavior study of a group of egrets takes place over the course of ten days. As the birds settle into the canopy of a mountain forest to nest, mate, and rear their young, they become neighbors with herons in a kind of high-rise bird colony and fight over the available nesting space. There, they face threats to their precarious treetop nests from late snow storms and high winds. But before they depart the colony for their...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Technology was designed to make our lives easier, and yet it's one of the biggest drivers of family rifts and stress. Making healthy and realistic decisions about when and where you really need technology can be tricky but is essential for restoring harmony in your home. Stop Staring at Screens has the answers you need. * Find sanity-saving solutions and practical tips * Follow diagnostic quizzes * Identify key triggers * Address common issues * Learn...
Series
Love comes softly volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie knows that it is time to move on. She heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie redirects her feelings and when the "orphan train" arrives in town, she adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be...
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There's no such thing as miracles. That's what a skeptical reporter (Kirk Cameron) thought until he met Craig Shergold (Thomas Sangster). Craig is an eight-year-old boy with a brain tumor and less than a year to live. Looking for hope, his mother (Catherine Oxenberg) pushes to break the Guinness World Record for receiving the most get-well cards. They receive an incredible 1.3 million cards and shatter the old record. However, Craig continues to get...
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A year after a failed undercover operation in Vietnam, Mike Weston finds out that the partner he thought was dead is still alive in a brutal prison camp. He leaves his small tourist boat business in Tahiti to go back for him, only to be captured himself. Unbeknownst to him, his sister and his crew, a group of fellow ex-marines, come to his rescue.
