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Heartland Horticulture By Bonnie L. Poquette - 11/01/2009
Midwestern gardeners are legendary for enduring and outwitting winter, with its heavy snowpack and recurring freezes and thaws. Most of them also reckon with a relatively short growing period. All of them find their horticultural plans complicated by hot, humid summers. In fact, the Midwest deals with four seasons dictating special considerations for plants, pests, and chores! This article use... More
African America Celebrates By Barbara Hoffert - 11/01/2009
Arts Farebrother, Rachel. The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance. Ashgate. Dec. 2009. 226p. ISBN 978-0-7546-6198-6. $99.95. King-Hammond, Leslie. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Vol. 8: Hughie Lee-Smith. Pomegranate. Feb. 2010. 124p. ISBN 978-0-7649-5351-4. $35. Biography Hawkins, Martha.
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Heartland Horticulture By Bonnie L. Poquette - 11/01/2009
Midwestern gardeners are legendary for enduring and outwitting winter, with its heavy snowpack and recurring freezes and thaws. Most of them also reckon with a relatively short growing period. All of them find their horticultural plans complicated by hot, humid summers. In fact, the Midwest deals with four seasons dictating special considerations for plants, pests, and chores! This article use...
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ShelfRenewal Rebecca Vnuk, Adult Services Director, Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library October 29, 2009 Web Crush of the Week: Bookgasm
In honor of the Halloween weekend, we decided this week's Web Crush of the Week will ... More
In the Bookroom Wilda Williams, , Library Journal August 14, 2009 Happy Birthday, Julia Child!
August 15 marks what would have been Julia Child's 97th birthday. And what better gif... More
In the Bookroom Bette-Lee Fox, Managing Editor, June 24, 2009 Recommending Romance
When it comes to romances, I consider myself fairly well read. In fact, of the RUSA R... More
Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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