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Gardening

Go ahead. Dig in that dirt.

Happy houseplants : 30 lovely varieties to brighten up your home

A garden miscellany : an illustrated guide to the elements of the garden

Essential green roof construction : the complete step-by-step guide

The little book of cacti and other succulents

101 organic gardening hacks : eco-friendly solutions to improve any garden

Visionary landscapes : Japanese garden design in North America the work of five contemporary masters

City green : public gardens of New York

Fearless gardening : be bold, break the rules, and grow what you love

Chasing Eden : design inspiration from the gardens at Hortulus Farm

The tree book : superior selections for landscapes, streetscapes, and gardens

New naturalism : designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden

Houseplants : the complete guide to choosing, growing, and caring for indoor plants

Zen garden design : mindful spaces by Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer

Adventures in Eden : an intimate tour of the private gardens of Europe

Harvest : unexpected projects using 47 extraordinary garden plants

Martha's Flowers : a practical guide to growing, gathering, and enjoying

Stylish succulents : Japanese inspired container gardens for small spaces

My houseplant changed my life : green well-being for the great indoors

Shrubs : discover the perfect plant for every place in your garden

The gardens of Bunny Mellon

Tulips : beautiful varieties for home and garden

Midwest gardener's handbook : all you need to know to plan, plant & maintain a Midwest garden : Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin

No-waste kitchen gardening : regrow your leftover greens, stalks, seeds, and more

Homegrown pantry : a gardener's guide to selecting the best varieties & planting the perfect amounts for what you want to eat year-round

Floratopia : 110 flower garden ideas for your yard, patio, or balcony

The healthy vegetable garden : a natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases

Nature's best hope : a new approach to conservation that starts in your yard

Growing under cover : techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden

Container gardening complete : creative projects for growing vegetables and flowers in small spaces

Houseplants : essential know-how and expert advice for success

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Laughs for Littles

Humorous stories for kids

Mercy Watson : princess in disguise

Judy Moody saves the world

The complete adventures of Johnny Mutton

My unwilling witch goes to ballet school

This is my book

What the dinosaurs did last night : a very messy adventure

Amelia Bedelia road trip!

Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel

Pirates love underpants

The great puppy invasion

Alien invasion in my backyard

Nanny Piggins and the wicked plan

Minnie and Moo : the case of the missing jelly donut

The sky is falling!

Deck the halls, we're off the walls!

Aaron is a good sport

Caring for your lion

There's a monster in your book

Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One

Imogene comes back!

Diario de Greg. La horrible realidad

Frantastic voyage

The holly joliday

The Underpants Zoo

Never race a runaway pumpkin

Ugly Cat & Pablo

The great brain

The cheerleaders of doom

The cookie fiasco

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Learn to Read!

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Paddington and the magic trick

Nate the Great and the pillowcase

Fluffy's 100th day of school

George Washington Carver

Big Dog and Little Dog : making a mistake

Darth Vader, rebel hunter!

I wish I was a lion

Arthur's back to school day

Nate the Great and the hungry book club

Pinkalicious and the perfect present

Young Cam Jansen and the double beach mystery

Frog's flying adventure

Four on the shore

Emmet's awesome day

Biscuit and the baby

The great train mystery

Corduroy makes a cake

Swing Otto, swing

Amelia Bedelia sleeps over

I am the artist!

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Young (Adult) Love

...and other stories to fill your bucket

The Blue Castle

Loveboat, Taipei

Far from normal

Scullion : a dishwasher's guide to mistaken identity

Every reason we shouldn't

Felix ever after

Famous in a small town

The realms of the gods

The way you make me feel

Forget me not : from the life of Willa Havisham

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

The upside of unrequited

A match made in mehendi

Funny, you don't look autistic : a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum

The Emperor Mage

I'll be the one

The princess and the fangirl : a geekerella fairy tale

Dinotopia : journey to Chandara

Together at midnight

When Dimple met Rishi

You should see me in a crown

I love you so mochi

Date me, Bryson Keller

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New Years Resolutions

The eat-clean diet recharged : lasting fat loss that's better than ever

Mindfulness goes mainstream : techniques

The Dubrow diet : interval eating to lose weight and feel ageless

Metabolism revolution : lose 14 pounds in 14 days and keep it off for life

Food can fix it : the superfood switch to fight fat, defy aging, and eat your way healthy

Fast burn! : the power of negative energy balance

Too many bubbles : a story about mindfulness

The rules of living well : a personal code for looking after yourself

Make peace with your mind : how mindfulness and compassion can free you from your inner critic

The mindful runner : finding your inner focus

What are you hungry for? : the Chopra solution to permanent weight loss, well-being, and lightness of soul

The switch : ignite your metabolism with intermittent fasting, protein cycling, and keto

Thinner this year : a younger next year book

21-day weight loss kickstart : boost metabolism, lower cholesterol, and dramatically improve your health

The fast800 diet : discover the ideal fasting formula to shed pounds, fight disease, and boost your overall health

The gut balance revolution : boost your metabolism, restore your inner ecology, and lose the weight for good!

Badass habits : cultivate the awareness, boundaries, and daily upgrades you need to make them stick

The end of overeating : taking control of the insatiable American appetite

Breathe like a bear

The DASH diet for weight loss : lose weight and keep it off--the healthy way--with America's most respected diet

The here-and-now habit : how mindfulness can help you break unhealthy habits once and for all.

Niksen : the Dutch art of doing nothing

Listen like an elephant

Intuitive fasting : the flexible four-week intermittent fasting plan to recharge your metabolism and renew your health

Aging backwards : reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day

Hard to break : why our brains make habits stick

The diet myth : why the secret to health and weight loss is already in your gut

The book of overthinking : how to stop the cycle of worry.

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Earth Month

You don't have to wait until Earth Day to learn about ways to protect our planet. To follow the City of Iowa City's happenings, visit www.icgov.org/sustainability.

Green building & remodeling for dummies

Extreme cities : the peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change

Behind the curve : science and the politics of global warming

Nature as measure : the selected essays of Wes Jackson

Prefabulous + almost off the grid : your path to building an energy-independent home

Toms River : a story of science and salvation

Wildland sentinel : field notes from an Iowa conservation officer

We are the weather makers : the history of climate change

The great pivot : creating meaningful work to build a sustainable future

Lemons and lavender : the eco guide to better housekeeping

The future Earth : a radical vision for what's possible in the age of warming

Inconvenient facts : the science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know

The hands-on home : a seasonal guide to cooking, preserving & natural homekeeping

Sustainability : a love story

Troubled water : what's wrong with what we drink

Whole earth discipline : an ecopragmatist manifesto

Treading on thin air : atmospheric physics, forensic meteorology, and climate change : how weather shapes our everyday lives

Green washed : why we can't buy our way to a green planet

The boiling river : adventure and discovery in the Amazon

Garden city : supergreen buildings, urban skyscapes and the new planted space

Two percent solutions for the planet : 50 low-cost, low-tech, nature-based practices for combatting hunger, drought, and climate change

Restore. Recycle. Repurpose. {create a beautiful home}

Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future

The sustainability secret : rethinking our diet to transform the world

Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?

Timeless simplicity : creative living in a consumer society

A farewell to ice : a report from the Arctic

No place to go : how public toilets fail our private needs

The town that food saved : how one community found vitality in local food

City chicks : keeping micro-flocks of laying hens as garden helpers, compost creators, bio-recyclers and local food suppliers

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Nordic Noir

Murder by the bookend : an antique bookshop mystery

The diva says cheesecake!

Independent bones

The resistance girl

Out stealing horses

Claw & disorder

In the heat of the moment

Ghost blows a kiss

Furmidable foes

Long Island iced Tina

A few drops of bitters

The broken spine

Deadly ever after : a lighthouse library mystery

Mums and mayhem

Peril on the page

Tonight you're dead

Totally pawstruck

Show me the bunny

Murder at the PTA

The colonel's wife : a novel

Animal instinct

Aunt Dimity and the enchanted cottage

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Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction

When you love a true story, well told

The scientist and the spy : a true story of China, the FBI, and industrial espionage

Good blood : a doctor, a donor, and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies

Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers

Educated : a memoir

The year of dangerous days : riots, refugees, and cocaine in Miami 1980

Chasing the thrill : obsession, death, and glory in America's most extraordinary treasure hunt

The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia

A night to remember

The last goodnight : a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal

Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders

Russians among us : sleeper cells, ghost stories, and the hunt for Putin's spies

Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman

Flight of the diamond smugglers : a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa

Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith /-

The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

Peaks on the horizon : two journeys in Tibet

A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament

The great secret : the classified World War II disaster that launched the war on cancer

The world beneath their feet : mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas

Outlaw platoon : heroes, renegades, infidels, and the brotherhood of war in Afghanistan

Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era

A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences.

The glass castle : a memoir

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