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144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Contains photo-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for twenty-two craft and salvage projects for the home, including tips to transform faucet handles into a towel rack, use a kitchen sink for an outdoor bar, and more, with advice on shopping for salvage, setting up a workshop, and related topics.
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253 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A celebration of both sustainability and design, this book presents beautiful interiors filled with salvaged, recycled, and repurposed objects from around the world. Artful home interiors are born from curiosity, creativity, and imagination, yet many of us fail to see a potential curtain rod in a bamboo stick or a kitchen counter in an old carpenter's bench. Anyone can create a beautiful home without expensive store-bought pieces simply by foraging...
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96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD ;4 3/4 in)
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English
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Two famed origami artists and award-winning authors offer 25 fun and innovative origami projects from their renowned Origamido Studio as well as many of the world's most talented paper-folding designers.
6) Gale force
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372 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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After witnessing her father's death in a maritime accident and becoming the captain of a salvage boat, McKenna Rhodes and her crew take a job helping a freighter. But there is more at stake than they know -- the Pacific Lion's crew includes a man on the run carrying fifty million dollars in stolen Yakuza bearer bonds. The Japanese gangsters want the money back... and they're not the only ones targeting the Lion.
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
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In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.
11) The family plot
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365 pages ; 22 cm
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Dahlia Dutton's father is thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Winthrow appears in his office and makes a deal for his company, Music City Salvage, to take over and liquidate her massive family estate in Chattanooga. He gives the job to Dahlia, who gathers a crew and a couple of trucks and heads for the estate -- an ancient house, a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Winthrow left out of the paperwork. She...
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...
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ix, 292 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity.
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"From plywood to hardwood flooring, to windows, doors, carpeting and more, salvaging building materials can save homeowners thousands of dollars. This book is a hands-on, do-it-yourselfer's guide that shows how to identify materials that can be salvaged efficiently and then gives step-by-step instructions on how to go about doing it"--
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212 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"Based on historical events, this gripping graphic novel chronicles the fierce physical, legal, and political battles sparked by the discovery of an ancient underwater treasure. May 2007. The American treasure-hunting company Ithaca Deep Sea captures the world's attention when it uncovers a priceless shipwreck. But just as Ithaca's swashbuckling leader begins to boast about its plunder, clues emerge suggesting that the sunken ship may have played...
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Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.Roxy Abruzzo, bestselling author Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She'd like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine's shady business dealings, though he's trying to reel her in. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up-and-up for a tidy profit....
19) Bailey & Blanket
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Everywhere Bailey goes, Blanket goes too. They love to adventure together. Until an uninvited guest joins the family picnic, and . . . disaster strikes. What will life be like without Blanket? Determined to keep the duo on their path of adventure, Dad crafts a plan."--
20) American wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it)
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xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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