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• Smart Soapmaking

  the Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably

  Watson, Anne L.

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  Make your own. #nonfiction #how-to

• The Book of Form and Emptiness

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, the book is bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking. (Goodreads)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Keep House While Drowning

  a Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

  Davis, KC

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  A professional therapist offers support and tips for those struggling to maintain a clean house while struggling with issues such anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD or a lack of support. (NoveList) #nonfiction

• The Trauma Cleaner

  One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

  Krasnostein, Sarah

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  A riveting biography of Sandra Pankhurst, a larger-than-life trans woman who runs a trauma cleaning business in Australia. Topics include: Pankhurst's rough childhood as an adoptee living in an abusive household, her complicated relationship with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Messy Cities

  Why We Can't Plan Everything

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  Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything argues that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Simply Clean

  the Proven Method for Keeping Your Home Organized, Clean, and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day

  Rapinchuk, Becky

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  From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day. (Goodreads) #nonfiction

• Messy

  the Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

  Harford, Tim, 1973-

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  A book about the genuine benefits of being messy at home, at work, in the classroom and beyond. #nonfiction #business #psychology

• Housekeeping

  Robinson, Marilynne

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  Ruth, a young girl struggling to overcome haunting family memories in a town which will not ler her forget, gradually grows close to Sylvie, the sister of her dead mother. #classics #literary #reflective

• The Remains of the Day

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  Stevens, an aging butler dedicated to the dignity of his profession, takes to the road to convince Ms. Bent -- a now-married former housekeeper -- to resume her duties at Darlington Hall. As Stevens journeys, he reflects on their prior acquaintance;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Humans

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there is more to the human race than he suspected and embarking on a darkly comic effort to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soulful Simplicity

  How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More

  Carver, Courtney

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  The author shows us how to pursue practical minimalism so we can create more with less—more space, more time, and even more love. Carver invites us to look at the big picture, discover what's most important to us, and reclaim lightness and ease by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home

  Housekeeping Hacks You Can't Live Without

  Pateras, Melissa Dilkes

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  This is an all-purpose housekeeping guide, filled with practical skills grounded in joyful living and written in a cheeky, approachable voice. #nonfiction #self-help #humour #how-to

• Veronica

  Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-

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  Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul’s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hotel

  Calle, Sophie

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  Working as a chambermaid for the Hotel C. in Venice, Italy, Sophie Calle stashes her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, so that as she cleans and tidies, she can also sort through the evidence of the hotel guests’ lives. Assigned twelve…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything

  a Maximalist Style Guide

  Ahern, Abigail

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  Welcome to the 'more is more' world of decorating, or as it's more commonly know in the business, Maximalism. A style that embraces the beautiful colour palettes, luxurious textiles, patterns and embellishment. Maximalism is the epitome of passion,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warehouse

  a Novel

  Hart, Rob (Fiction writer)

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  Set in a near-future America wracked by violence, unemployment and climate change, two employees of a world-saving global giant discover their employers' true agenda. #dystopian #thrillers

• The Bluest Eye

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Madeline's Good Dirt & Junk Collection

  Berger, Madeline

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  This project taps into how Berger would like people to perceive different parts of their community and different parts of their neighborhood that people don't always tap into and often take for granted. (Goodreads) #graphic-novel #local-author

• The Gifts of Imperfection

  Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

  Brown, Brené

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  Brown explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an 'imperfect' life and embracing living authentically. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twice Shy

  Hogle, Sarah

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  Inheriting half of a Tennessee estate in considerable need of repairs, a hopeless romantic clashes with her fellow heir, an alluring but stoic groundskeeper whose visions for the property differ from her own. (NoveList) #romance #rom-com