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Easy to read a little bit at a time when inspiration is needed to continue (or to start) living sustainably. A helpful addition to a sustainable collection that already contains how-to guides.
Libraries with extensive travel and design collections might appreciate this image-rich book, but budget-conscious readers probably won’t find many design tips they can take home with them.
Seasoned and novice gardeners alike will appreciate the book’s organized layout and information, along with the breathtaking photos showcasing delicate bulbs in all of their glory.
An engaging work with stunning illustrations. Most useful for readers in the Pacific Northwest, but anyone interested in mushrooms will enjoy this beautiful book.
Scott is the rare photographer whose images allow animals’ personalities to come through. Heartwarming, quick-reading stories show how adopting or fostering a rescue cat can make a difference.
A charming work illustrating how to seamlessly bring nature inside in every season. For readers who enjoy adding seasonal natural elements to their rooms, muted color palettes, and displaying carefully curated collections.
This uplifting book addresses a difficult topic with hope, love, and a touch of humor. The illustrations and text make it suitable for children or adults coping with the loss of a pet. Recommended for readers needing grief support.
This highly recommended resource takes a holistic view of food waste. It asserts and demonstrates that reducing food waste also lowers packaging, plastic, budgetary wastes, which, in turn, minimizes people’s environmental footprints.
This is a thorough guide that will be most helpful to patrons who need help training difficult dogs. It includes a good deal of background information and theory along with its practical suggestions.
What makes this book consequential is its sensibility and purpose. There are a number of outstanding books on building gardens, but the intentionality of this stands out. It is a title librarians should consider a part of a core collection.
This cheerful, whimsical, eminently browsable book will appeal to nature lovers, gardeners, artists, and readers who enjoy botanical art meshed with engaging narration.
While the scholarly nature of the book is evident in its endnotes and bibliography, the text and images expand the volume’s reach to lay gardeners wanting to both appreciate and learn from these professionals and perhaps model some of their practices.
A stunning, practical guide to propagating houseplants that’s elevated by Carter’s experience as an interior stylist. For all gardeners and readers interested in growing their plant collections.
Readers in garden zones 4–7, based on the average extreme minimum winter temperature for the area, will enjoy Leach’s poetic and reverent writing style and tones as they learn how to protect their gardens from deer and the wintry elements.
As a style guide to a certain way of living in the Cotswolds, it excels, providing inspiration for color pairings, furniture arrangement, and more. The tone is elegant, lovely, and gracious.
A guide for cooking and entertaining that’s as thoughtful as it is beautiful. Readers are encouraged to make the most of seasonal bounties and wonders by embracing rituals and gathering outdoors.
A lovely, inspirational work. Readers who crave the sea will marvel at the views, while those dreaming of hand-crafted tiles will be thrilled by rooms whose floors glisten with coastal colors.
From wood panels across floors, walls, and ceilings to double-hung windows, model boats, wood piles, bookshelves, and crowded kitchens, these spaces speak to a way of life, a statewide aesthetic, and a time-loved sense of being.
From pools to peacock chairs to peacocks roaming inside austere bedrooms, the images offer inspiration for design choices in garden landscapes and interior design. Many of the homes are lavish estates, and wealth is certainly on display. However, gazing at the photos of some of these buildings might leave readers with a feeling of mourning for the older structures whose walls have been weathered by time and history.
A mix of coffee-table book, art guide, and home decorating title, the audience for this most naturally makes it a fit for larger collections and universities supporting design programs.
This enjoyable coffee-table book, great for perusing and adding to collection displays, is a diverting read for a quick trip to a beautiful home and surrounding buildings. In some ways, this book is a more in-depth and expansive version of an enjoyable TV show about luxury homes without the nitty-gritty construction details.
A comprehensive and highly enjoyable guide to restoring old homes; while the coveted Brooklyn brownstone might not be accessible to all, the fundamental ideas can apply to any project.
With its daily and weekly home maintenance checklists, bright photographs, and handy list of organizational dos and don’ts, this book is a great resource for paring down and efficiently storing items so that they’re accessible and tidy.
Thanks to its enthusiastic, engaging narrator and vibrant color photographs, this informative book will appeal to vegetable gardeners who want to explore new methods and unexpected choices in their edible gardens.
This book reads more like an expanded seed catalogue, with just one chapter focused on how to harvest, dry, and store medicinal perennials. A highlight of the book is Alice’s beautiful watercolor illustrations.
With ample advice on everything from vet visits to nail trimming, as well as recommendations for toys, supplies, and additional training resources, Callahan’s book is an excellent guide that puts puppy welfare front and center.
Dog lovers and sports fans will enjoy the down-to-earth writing style of this behind-the-scenes perspective of the 1,049-mile-long “last great race on Earth.”
Readers who want to construct a new home, remodel an existing one, or learn how to design healthier spaces in their home will find this book delightfully resourceful.
An excellent, beautifully illustrated choice for beginning herb growers seeking ideas for how to use their harvest, but it does not specify specific herbs to use for wellness.
Aspiring gardeners will savor this title that combines a gardening manual with an art book, thanks to Montgomery’s visually lush and stylistic photographs.
Parkinson’s love for plants, gardening, and wildlife shines through in this conversational, lovely book. Most useful for intermediate or advanced gardeners.
A guide as easy and laid-back as the surfer style that inspired it. Will make readers want to add intriguing beachy design features into their own homes.
With stunning photographs and immaculate styling, this book is a recommended pick for browsing and finding simple and chic design inspiration and ideas.
This is the book to read when the world’s pollution problem becomes too overwhelming. Adding this title will round out collections containing only “how-to” sustainable life guides by providing an alternative slower transition that can still affect ecological change.
A fascinating, well-researched discussion of indigenous plants and garden design, including options for Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States.
An excellent choice for beginning and intermediate houseplant growers. The instructions are thorough and easy to understand, and the accompanying photographs complement them. The browsable “Plant Profiles” sections include a host of interesting choices.
Floral arrangers and gardeners interested in adding scented plants to their gardens will relish this title. Readers wishing to delve more deeply into this subject may also enjoy The Scentual Garden by Ken Druse and photographer Ellen Hoverkamp.
As resplendent and visually sumptuous as readers might expect, this would make a lovely gift for fans of art museums and design. Best for general readers interested in the material worlds and creative influences of artists.
A welcoming and insightful tour of homes that encourages readers to envision their interiors as comfortable places for expressing their personal stories and backgrounds.
Best for readers who want to make their spaces look expensive for less. A great addition to any DIY collection, with the potential to fly off the shelf.
Blackman and Cruz’s particular style isn’t affordable for everyone, but this book is good inspiration nonetheless for readers craving the modern gothic look. Best suited for rounding out collections that include brighter, minimalist interior design books.
Newcomers and dedicated fans of Slonem will enjoy. Great for university libraries with art programs for students to see the versatility their art forms can take.
A fun, inventive, and worthwhile addition to any library and for all sorts of plant parents. This is much more than a book about caring for houseplants.
Isabel, who hails from three generations of plant-loving family members, shares her expertise and knowledge of houseplants in this amusing, informative book, best for neophyte horticulturists who might not yet have a green thumb.
Readers will enjoy this look into eclectic and colorful maximalist style. A good addition to interior design collections that span a wide range of eras.
Aspiring architects, architecture fans, nature and design buffs, and readers looking for inspiration for their home will all find something to love inside this book.