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1) Before the coffee gets cold: a novel

Author

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

Series

Before the coffee gets cold volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory...

2) The book of hygge: the Danish art of contentment, comfort, and connection

Author

Thomsen Brits, Louisa

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"The centuries-old Danish tradition of Hygge (pronounced "hue-gah") comes from a country voted to be the happiest on earth, and its special custom of emotional warmth, slowness, and appreciation, is becoming increasingly familiar to an international audience. To hygge means to enjoy the good things in life with good people"--

3) The cottage fairy companion: a cottagecore guide to slow living, connecting to nature, and becoming enchanted again

Author

Merrill, Paola

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"Romanticize your life anywhere. The Cottage Fairy Companion helps readers open their eyes to the everyday magic right in front of them. It gives a new perspective by revealing the lessons nature teaches about finding beauty through the good times and the bad. Everyone from--city-dwellers to country bobkins--can find delight in this book. It shows that you do not need a cottage in the rustic countryside to achieve a cottagecore aesthetic, or to apply...

4) Escape into Cottagecore: embrace cozy countryside comfort in your everyday

Author

Jones, Ramona

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Cottagecore is a soft, fairytale world that combines traditional comforts with modern existence to create a sense of magic and retreat. Jones knows you may not be able to uproot your life and settle entirely off-grid in the middle of a forest, but she wants you to rekindle your love of nature-- and rediscover simple joys, wherever you may live. Her book is full of practical advice and inspiration to help you find happiness in the natural world, be...

5) Handmade candles & smudge sticks: 35 inspiring step-by-step projects

Author

Hardy, Emma

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"Learn how to make your own candles with these 35 projects ranging from subtly-scented and refined to pastel-colored glittering creations, plus smudge sticks to create a beautifully fragrant home."--Provided by publisher.

6) Herbal magic: a handbook of natural spells, charms, and potions

Author

Kane, Aurora

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The plant kingdom is one of the oldest magical tools in existence. Known for millennia to have beneficial properties for both physical and spiritual well-being, many species of plants have been incorporated into the spiritual and healing practices of cultures around the world. These magical herbs are considered incredible gifts by shamans, green witches, hedge witches, and every wild woman and wild man. This guide introduces the magical properties...

7) The little book of cottagecore: traditional skills for a simpler life

Author

Kent, Emily

8) Lumberjanes: Vol. 1,Beware the kitten holy

Author

Stevenson, Noelle

Series

Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1

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"Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together-- and they're not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!" --

9) The Maine farm table cookbook: 125 homegrown recipes from the Pine Tree State

Author

Shaffer, Kate

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"The best of Maine's local food, from noted farms like Dandelion Spring to esteemed restaurants like The Lost Kitchen. There's a lot more to Maine than stunning coastline. Sure, come for the incomparable lobster rolls or the state's renowned blueberries, but stay for the locally milled grains, organic grass-fed meats, and surprising foraged delicacies. The Pine Tree State's active food community springs to life in the hands of Kate Shaffer, Maine...

10) Nature and selected essays

Author

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Series

Penguin classics

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Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.

11) Pioneer Woman

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Ree Drummond shares her enthusiasm for the simple joys in life and inspires readers with her newest creation, The Pioneer Woman Magazine. Each issue is like a day with a good friend, full of helpful advice, great recipes, fun shopping and heartfelt stories – and lots of laughs.

12) The secret garden

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Series

Great illustrated classics

Formats:

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Teen Hardback - ELL

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When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...

13) The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit

Author

Finkel, Michael

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Type

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"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human...

14) The Tea Dragon Society

Author

O'Neill, Katie

Series

Tea dragon series volume 1

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After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.

15) Walden: and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Author

Thoreau, Henry David

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eAudiobook, eBook

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One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,

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16) The Wee Free Men

Author

Pratchett, Terry

Series

Discworld (Young adult) volume 2

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

17) Where the deer and the antelope play: the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside

Author

Offerman, Nick

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With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.