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Treat your shelf - Reading, viewing, and listening recommendations
  • Hobby Month
    • Podcasting for Dummies
    • The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
    • The Art of Mindful Birdwatching: Reflections on Freedom and Being
    • A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America
    • Kitchen Gardening for Beginners
    • Gardening for Everyone: Growing Vegetables, Herbs, and More at Home
    • The New Plant Collector: The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey
    • Beekeeping for Dummies
    • Easy Baking from Scratch
    • French Pastry 101: Learn the Art of Classic Baking with 60 Beginner-Friendly Recipes
    • Wisdom for Home Brewers: 500 Tips and Recipes for Making Great Beer
    • The Act of Sewing: How to Make and Modify Clothes to Wear Every Day
    • Woodworker's Handbook: The Beginner's Reference to Tools, Materials, and Skills, Plus Essential Projects to Make
    • Woodworking: The Complete Step-by-Step Manual
    • Mixed Media Handbook: Exploring Materials and Techniques
    • Junk Beautiful: She Sheds--Hundreds of Inspired Ideas for Your Backyard Retreat
    • Pottery for Beginners: Projects for Beautiful Ceramic Bowls, Mugs, Vases, and More
    • Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
    • The Unofficial Book of Cricut Crafts: The Ultimate Guide to Your Electric Cutting Machine
    • The Handmade Home: 75 Projects for Soaps, Candles, Picture Frames, Pillows, Wreaths and Scrapbooks
    • Amigurumi for Beginners: Learn to Crochet Creative Figures with 20 Easy Patterns
    • The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools, and Creative Projects with Yarn, Paper, Wire, and More
    • The Knowledgeable Knitter
    • The Beginner's Guide to Knitting: Easy Techniques and 8 Fun Projects
    • Complete Crochet Course: The Ultimate Reference Guide
    • Blackwork Embroidery in Colour: A Colourful Modern Twist on a Traditional Technique
    • Sew + Quilt: Techniques + Projects for Handstitching + Patchwork, a Beginner's Guide
    • Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
    • The Encyclopedia of Oil Techniques
    • Digital Photography Complete Course
    • Fundamentals of Photography: The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras
    • The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book: 40 Fast, Easy, and Fun Tabletop Games
    • Get a Hobby : 365 Things to Do for Fun (Not Work!)
    • The Art and Craft of the Short Story
    • The Ultimate Guide to Alabama Fishing
    • How to Read Music: Reading Music Made Simple
What's Cooking?
  • Cookbooks
    • The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook: 550+ Recipes for Warming Dinners, Holiday Roasts, Seasonal Desserts, Breads, Food Gifts, and More
    • Christmas Entertaining
    • A Very Prairie Christmas Bakebook: Cookies, Candies, Cakes & More: Vintage Baking to Celebrate the Festive Season
    • Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion
    • Baking for the Holidays: 50+ Treats for a Festive Season
    • Tables and Spreads: A Go-To Guide for Beautiful Snacks, Intimate Gatherings, and Inviting Feasts
    • Martha Stewart's Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook
    • Brilliant Bites: 75 Amazing Small Bites for Any Occasion
    • Butter Boards: 50+ Inventive Spreads for Entertaining
    • Christmas with Kim-Joy: A Festive Collection of Edible Cuteness
    • Christmas Family Gatherings: Recipes and Ideas for Celebrating with People You Love
    • The Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook: A Treasury of Timeless, Delicious Recipes
    • The Christmas Movie Cookbook: Recipes from Your Favorite Holiday Films
    • Holiday Cookies: 100+ Fun and Festive Treats
    • Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook
    • Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
    • Debbie Macomber's Christmas Cookbook
    • America--Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers
    • Everyday Grand: Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments
    • The Cash and Carter Family Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Johnny and June's Table
    • Thoughtful Cooking: Recipes Rooted in the New South
    • Feed These People: Slam-Dunk Recipes for Your Crew
    • Feed Your People: Recipes for Big-Batch, Big-Hearted Cooking and Recipes to Gather Around
    • Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends 4 Seasons Cookbook
    • Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Baking Cookbook
    • Now and Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers
    • See You on Sunday!: A Cookbook for Family and Friends
    • Eat, Drink, and Be Murray: A Feast of Family Fun and Favorites
    • Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader
    • The Best Recipe: American Classics
    • Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share
    • AllRecipes Family Favorites
    • Christmas from the Heart of the Home
    • Back Home with the Neelys: Comfort Food from Our Southern Kitchen to Yours
    • Around the Southern Table: Coming Home to Comforting Meals and Treasured Memories
    • The Unofficial Home Alone Cookbook: From a Lovely Cheese Pizza to a Highly Nutritious Mac and Cheese Dinner, Tasty Meals Inspired by a Holiday Classic
  • Cozy Mysteries
    • The Gift of the Magpie
    • Homeward Hound
    • The Christmas Thief
    • A Slayride Together with You
    • Sugar Cookie Murder
    • Stalking Around the Christmas Tree
    • A Gift of Bones
    • A Merry Little Murder Plot
    • A Christmas Legacy
    • Silent Bite
    • Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
    • Mrs. Claus and the Nightmare Before New Year's
    • A Catered New Year's Eve
    • Ho-Ho Homicide
    • Premeditated Peppermint
    • Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off
    • When Christmas Comes
    • Apple Cider Slaying
    • Christmas Carol Murder
    • A Christmas Resolution
    • It's a Wonderful Woof
    • Fleece Navidad
    • Murder of a Stacked Librarian
    • Christmas Card Murder
    • Dashing Through the Snowbirds
    • Aunt Dimity's Christmas
    • A Highland Christmas
    • The Christmas Murder Game
    • Here Comes Santa Paws
    • Away in a Manger
    • Mrs. Jeffries and the Midwinter Murders
    • A Crafty Christmas
    • Twisted Tea Christmas
    • Santa Cruise
    • A Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange
    • Not a Creature was Purring
Get your hands dirty
  • Gardening
    • The Raised Bed Book: The Definitive Step-By-Step Guide to Elevated Growing
    • Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
    • Holistic Homesteading: A Guide to a Sustainable and Regenerative Lifestyle
    • The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques
    • Rain Gardens: Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World
    • Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives
    • Fallscaping: Extending Your Garden Season Into Autumn
    • Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
    • The Heirloom Gardener: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World
    • Small Plot, High Yield Gardening: Grow Like a Pro, Save Money, and Eat Well from Your Front (or Back or Side) Yard 100% Organic Produce Garden
    • Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, and Overwinter
    • Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
    • Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days
    • Herb Gardening: How to Prepare the Soil, Choose Your Plants, and Care for, Harvest, and Use Your Herbs
    • 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs That Deer Don't Eat
    • Container Succulents: Creative Idea for Beginners
    • Essential Succulents: The Beginner's Guide
    • The New Plant Collector: The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey
    • Dr. Houseplant: An Indispensable Guide to Keeping Your Indoor Plants Healthy and Happy
    • Houseplant Hookups: All the Dirt You Need to Find the Perfect Match
    • The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More
    • Edible Landscaping
    • New Landscaping Ideas That Work
    • Heirloom Gardening in the South: Yesterday's Plants for Today's Gardens
    • The Intelligent Gardner: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food
    • Tiny + Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere
    • Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
    • The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening: Grow Beautiful Vegetable, Herbs, and Flowers--the Easy Way!
    • Foodscaping: Practical and Innovative Ways to Create an Edible Landscape
    • The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
    • A Time to Plant: Southern-Style Garden Living
    • Month-by-Month Gardening in Alabama
    • The Southeast Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
    • Southern Gardening All Year Long
    • The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams
    • Garden Alchemy: 80 Recipes and Concoctions for Organic Fertilizers, Plant Elixers, Potting Mixes, Pest Deterrents, and More
once up a crime
  • True Crime
    • The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
    • The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country
    • Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy
    • The Seven Five
    • Brother's Keeper
    • Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal That Shocked America
    • All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
    • The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
    • The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age America
    • American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    • We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
    • Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
    • The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
    • Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
    • The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
    • Hello Charlie: Letters from a Serial Killer
    • Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
    • The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
    • The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
    • Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
    • Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
    • Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
    • The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
    • Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod
    • The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
    • Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
    • The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
    • Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
    • Murder at Teal's Pond
    • Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
    • The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
    • Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
    • The Infamous Birmingham Axe Murders: Prohibition Gangsters and Vigilante Justice
    • Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search fro Justice
Bingeable TV Series
  • TV Series
    • Mammals
    • Star trek discovery. Season one
    • Ted Lasso : the Richmond way. Season 2
    • Superstore. Season two
    • Anthony Bourdain, no reservations. Collection 2
    • Brothers and sisters. The complete first season
    • CSI: NY. The complete second season
    • Dexter. The second season
    • Endeavour. Series 2.
    • Fringe. The complete third season
    • Game of thrones. The complete third season
    • How the universe works. Season 2.
    • Inspector Lewis. Series 2
    • Justified. The complete third season
    • Lie to me. Season 2.
    • Madam Secretary. Season 2.
    • New girl. The complete second season
    • Outlander. Season two
    • Poldark. The complete second season
    • Rick and Morty. Season 1
    • Sherlock. Season three.
    • The Americans. The complete third season.
    • The following. The complete second season.
    • The crown. The complete second season
    • The IT crowd. The complete third season
    • The Kennedys
    • The long song
    • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
    • The office. Season two
    • The prisoner. The complete series
    • The stand : 2020 limited series.
    • The Tick : [the big blue bug of justice is here!]
    • The undoing
    • The wire. The complete first season
    • True Detective Season 3.
    • Vikings. Season 2.