Alison Garden's Books

An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

Activities, People, Culture

By: Hardie Alison

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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

Activities, People, Culture

By: Hardie Alison

There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and been used in Chinese society through the ages. Apart from the aesthetic or philosophical aspects of Chinese gardens, you may see how gardens functioned as real estate, how they gave opportunities of employment to skilled artisans, how they opened up outdoor space to both elite and lower-class women, how they allowed men of different social classes and of different ethnicities to interact and gain mutual benefit: in short, how the existence of gardens exerted an influence on society as a whole. At the same time, the reader can find how the wider society, and even socio-economic changes beyond China's own borders, had an impact on how gardens in China developed.

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Shanghai Press

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1938368886

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9781938368882

The Place of Home

English domestic environments, 1914-2000

By: Alison Ravetz,Professor Alison Ravetz,R. Turkington

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The Place of Home

English domestic environments, 1914-2000

By: Alison Ravetz,Professor Alison Ravetz,R. Turkington

A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to co-operative housing are examined and several themes not previously brought together are linked, e.g. urban development/house design; technology at home/women and home; social meaning of home.

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Routledge

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1135158452

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9781135158453

At Home Pasadena

By: Jill Alison Ganon,Sandy Gillis

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At Home Pasadena

By: Jill Alison Ganon,Sandy Gillis

A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.

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Prospect Park Publishing

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0975393936

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9780975393932

Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama

By: Alison Findlay

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Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama

By: Alison Findlay

This study examines the playing spaces for early modern women's drama.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521839564

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9780521839563

Home

By: Alison Blunt,Robyn Dowling

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Home

By: Alison Blunt,Robyn Dowling

‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginaries of home are central to the construction of people’s identities. An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates ‘home’ within wider traditions of thought. It analyzes different sources, methods and examples in both historical and contemporary contexts; ranging from homes on the American frontier and imperial domesticity in British India, to Australian suburbs, multicultural London, and South Asian diasporic homes. The core argument of the book has three main parts that cut across each of its chapters: home-making identity and belonging homely and unhomely spaces. Each chapter includes text boxes and exercises and is well illustrated with cartoons, line drawings, and photographs. Outlining the social relations shaping, (and being influenced by) the geographies of home; and the imaginative as well as material importance of home, this book will be a valuable reference for students of geography, sociology, gender studies, and those interested in the home and domesticity.

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Routledge

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1134319517

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9781134319510

Sculpture Parks and Trails of Britain & Ireland

By: Alison Stace

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Sculpture Parks and Trails of Britain & Ireland

By: Alison Stace

The ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This exciting guide to the sculpture parks, trails and gardens of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is the perfect book for those who like art and the outdoors. Divided up into countries and regions, the book is informative as well as beautifully illustrated with fabulous images of sculptures by a broad array of international artists. It provides information on all the major sculpture venues of interest, featuring the best and most established, while also providing a wide range of other interesting places to visit and explore. Each feature provides directions of how to get there, along with an overview of the park or trail, and lists sculptures of particular interest and quality, while maps of each area will help you find places close by to visit. This makes it easy to see which places are suited to you depending on your preferences, level of interest and time available. This fully revised 2nd edition provides updated information and new entries for England, as well as brand new sections providing thorough coverage of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The ideal guide for those with a passion for both nature and sculptures.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789941431

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9781789941432

Council Housing and Culture

The History of a Social Experiment

By: Alison Ravetz

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Council Housing and Culture

The History of a Social Experiment

By: Alison Ravetz

Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.

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Routledge

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1134553749

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9781134553747

E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics

Each Imperishable Stanza

By: J. Alison Rosenblitt

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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics

Each Imperishable Stanza

By: J. Alison Rosenblitt

This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. The book also includes an edition of previously unpublished work by Cummings himself, unearthed from archival research. For the first time, the reader has access to the full scope of Cummings' translations from Horace, Homer, and Greek drama, as well as two short pieces of classically-related prose, a short 'Alcaics' and a previously unknown and classicizing parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This new work is exciting in its own right and essential to understanding Cummings' development as a poet.

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Oxford University Press

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0191079871

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9780191079870

The Toxin-Free Home

A Guide to Maintaining a Clean, Eco-Friendly, and Healthy Home

By: Alison Haynes

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The Toxin-Free Home

A Guide to Maintaining a Clean, Eco-Friendly, and Healthy Home

By: Alison Haynes

With the amount of junk a family can amass, it seems impossible to keep a tidy home. Home Detox Handbook teaches you how to tackle every cleaning project in your home with ease, from washing stained laundry to scouring kitchen cupboards to creating your own shampoo from household ingredients. The methods presented are not just simple, they are also natural, eco-friendly replacements for store-bought, chemical-filled cleaners. And who wants to subject himself to all the chemical cleaners it takes to keep germs at bay? Alison Haynes has created a comprehensive guide to keeping your home not only sparkling, but also healthy, organized, and running efficiently. Organized by room, each chapter has easy-to-follow instructions for any household query. Here are just some of the amazing tricks Home Detox Handbook will teach you: Use lavender oil as a natural mosquito repellent. Clean and shine patent leather with petroleum jelly. Remove red wine stains from carpets with white wine and rubbing alcohol. Make an organic facial mask for oily skin using ingredients from your fridge. Recycle soap scraps into a whole new cleaner. And many more squeaky-clean tips! With 200 color photographs and step-by-step instructions, Home Detox Handbook is your one-stop resource for eco- and child-friendly solutions to your cleaning needs. From cleaning hardwood floors to getting gum out of hair to reviving limp flowers, this book will help you keep all corners of your home in its best shape. It’s a must-have for anyone managing a household or living on their own for the first time.

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Skyhorse

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151070311X

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9781510703117

Lure Of The Japanese Garden

By: Alison Main,Newell Platten

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Lure Of The Japanese Garden

By: Alison Main,Newell Platten

This book is a delightful journey through the gardens of Japan, their art, culture, and history. This beautifully designed book is a guide to gardens in Japan and a revelation of their historical and cultural contexts. Offering a tour of over 120 gardens spanning east, west, north, and south in Japan, the authors provide a brief description, beautiful photographs, and directions for easy reference, interwoven with notes on personal experiences and travel in different seasons. A glossary of terms and a chronological summary of the gardens in different historical periods are included. A perfect reference for visitors to Japan as well as armchair travelers, this book is the first to show such a wide geographical spread of gardens throughout Japan, and will be beloved by all garden lovers and anyone captivated by this unique element of Japanese culture. 120 color photographs and illustrations. - Publisher.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730913

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9780393730913

Food Fears

From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems

By: Alison Blay-Palmer

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Food Fears

From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems

By: Alison Blay-Palmer

Drawing on a wealth of empirical research into mainstream and alternative North American food systems, this book discusses how sustainable, grass roots, local food systems offer a template for meaningful individual activism as a way to bring about change from the bottom up, while at the same time creating pressure for policy changes at all levels of government.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754672484

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9780754672487

The Gardener and the Carpenter

What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

By: Alison Gopnik

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The Gardener and the Carpenter

What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

By: Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--

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Macmillan

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0374229708

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9780374229702

Alison and Peter Smithson

From the House of the Future to a House of Today

By: Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England)

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Alison and Peter Smithson

From the House of the Future to a House of Today

By: Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England)

Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and as founding members of Team 10 they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of Modern Architecture. Their polemics and designs - addressing issues such as the rising consumer society and the orientation of urban planning - laid the foundations for New Brutalism and the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s. An important adaptation made by the Smithsons and their generation was the rejection of modernism's machine aesthetics. The new notions of place and territory were juxtaposed to Le Corbusier's machine à habiter. To the Smithsons a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location and able to meet the ordinary requirements of everyday life and to accommodate its inhabitants' individual patterns of use. This exhibition examines the evolution of the Smithsons' approach to this everyday "art of inhabitation." It does this by extensively documenting most of their designs for individual dwellings, especially their optimistic House of the Future of 1956 and the series of renovations of and additions to the fairy-tale-like Hexenhaus in Germany from the late 1980s onward

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010 Publishers

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9064505284

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9789064505287

Guardians Of The Crown Complete Collection/By The Sword/The King's Man/Exile's Return

By: Alison Stuart

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Guardians Of The Crown Complete Collection/By The Sword/The King's Man/Exile's Return

By: Alison Stuart

From award–winning author Alison Stuart comes a stirring historical trilogy about soldiers, spies, and the strong women that love them. By The Sword England 1650. In the aftermath of the execution of the King, England totters once more on the brink of civil war. Kate Ashley finds her loyalty to the Parliamentary cause tested when she inherits responsibility for the estate of the Royalist Thornton family. Jonathan Thornton, exiled and hunted for his loyalty to the King's cause now returns to England to garner support for the young King. Finding Kate in his family home, he sees in her a chance at a life he doesn't deserve. But love is fragile in the face of history. What hope can one soldier and one woman hold in times like these? The King's Man London 1654: Kit Lovell is a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time cheating at cards, living off his wealthy and attractive mistress and plotting the death of Oliver Cromwell. Penniless and friendless, Thamsine Granville has lost everything. Terrified, in pain and alone, she hurls a piece of brick at the coach of Oliver Cromwell and earns herself an immediate death sentence. Only the quick thinking of a stranger saves her. Far from the bored, benevolent rescuer that he seems, Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal – a world that has no room for falling in love. Torn between Thamsine and loyalty to his King, Kit's carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel. He must make one last desperate gamble – the cost of which might be his life. Exile's Return England, 1659: Following the death of Cromwell, a new king is poised to ascend the throne of England. Imprisoned, exiled and tortured, fugitive Daniel Lovell returns to England, determined to kill the man who murdered his father. But his plans for revenge must wait, as the King has one last mission for him. Agnes Fletcher's lover is dead, and when his two orphaned children are torn from her care by their scheming guardian, she embarks on a perilous journey to save them. She didn't plan on meeting the infamous Daniel Lovell. Thrown together with separate quests – and competing obligations – Daniel and Agnes make their way from London to the English countryside, danger at every turn. Will they find the peace they crave, or will their fledgling love be a final casualty of war?

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HarperCollins Australia

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1489241507

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9781489241504

By The Sword

By: Alison Stuart

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By The Sword

By: Alison Stuart

From award–winning author Alison Stuart comes a stirring historical trilogy about soldiers, spies, and the strong women that love them. England 1650. In the aftermath of the execution of the King, England totters once more on the brink of civil war. The country will be divided and lives lost as Charles II makes a last bid to regain his throne. Kate Ashley finds her loyalty to the Parliamentary cause tested when she inherits responsibility for the estate of the Royalist Thornton family. To protect the people she cares about, she will need all her wits to restore its fortunes and fend off the ever–present threat of greedy neighbours. Jonathan Thornton, exiled and hunted for his loyalty to the King's cause now returns to England to garner support for the cause of the young King. Haunted by the demons of his past, Jonathan risks death at every turn and brings danger to those who love him. Finding Kate in his family home, he sees in her the hope for his future, and a chance at a life he doesn't deserve. In the aftermath of the Battle of Worcester, Jonathan must face his nemesis, and in turn, learn the secret that will change his life forever. But love is fragile in the face of history, and their lives are manipulated by events out of their control. What hope can one soldier and one woman hold in times like these?

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HarperCollins Australia

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0857992368

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9780857992369

Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between

By: Alison Steadman

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Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between

By: Alison Steadman

The first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008665427

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9780008665425

Feng Shui for You and Your Cat

By: Alison Daniels

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Feng Shui for You and Your Cat

By: Alison Daniels

This purr-fectly charming book offers practical guidance for bringing positive energy to a cat owner's home, establishing a healthy harmony between its human and feline occupants. 200 color illustrations.

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Watson-Guptill Publications

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0823016552

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9780823016556

Eon

By: Alison Goodman

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Eon

By: Alison Goodman

Previously published as 'Two Pearls of Wisdom' EON will bring this critically-acclaimed story to a new, younger audience. Under the harsh regime of an ambitious master, candidate Eon is training to become a Dragoneye - a powerful lord able to master wind and water to protect the land. But Eon also harbours a desperate secret - Eon is, in fact, Eona, a young woman who has endured years of disguise as a boy for the chance to practise the Dragoneye's art. In a world where women are only hidden wives or servants, Eona's dangerous deception is punishable by death. Still in disguise, Eona's unprecedented talent thrusts her into the centre of a lethal struggle for the Imperial throne. Summoned by the Emperor to the opulent and teacherous court, Eona must learn to trust her power and find the strength to face a vicious enemy who would seize her magic and her life. Inspired by the rich myths and traditions of Ancient China, this is a fast-paced, exhilarating page-turner that shimmers with energy dragons, and dazzles with deadly intrigue and breathtaking swordplay.

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HarperCollins Australia

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1743095880

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9781743095881

The Dream Scene

How to Interpret and Understand Your Dreams

By: Alison Bell

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The Dream Scene

How to Interpret and Understand Your Dreams

By: Alison Bell

An in-depth look at dream interpretation; also discusses nightmares, famous dreams throughout history, and daydreaming.

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156565160X

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Stillwater Creek

By: Alison Booth

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Stillwater Creek

By: Alison Booth

Alison Booth’s dazzling debut, set in a beautiful coastal town of NSW, is an unforgettable, heart-warming novel about love and loss, betrayal and hope... It's 1957 and, after the death of her husband, pianist Ilona Talivaldis and her nine-year-old daughter Zidra, travel to the remote coastal town of Jingera in New South Wales. Ilona, a concentration camp survivor from Latvia, is searching for peace and the opportunity to start anew. In her beautiful vine-covered cottage on the edge of the lagoon, she has plans to set herself up as a piano teacher. The weeks pass, and slowly mother and daughter get to know the townsfolk - including kind-hearted butcher George Cadwallader, who is forever gazing at the stars; his son, Jim, a boy wise beyond his years; Peter Vincent, former wartime pilot and prisoner-of-war; and Cherry Bates, the publican's wife who is about to make a horrifying discovery... For Jingera is not quite the utopia Ilona imagines it to be - and at risk is the one thing Ilona holds dear...

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424

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Random House Australia

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1864715774

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9781864715774

Things to Do with Mom

By: Alison Maloney

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Things to Do with Mom

By: Alison Maloney

You'll never be bored again! This guide is full of fun and creative ways to spend time with mom, indoors and out. You'll learn how to: Treat Mom to a spa day Make a miniature garden together Plan a perfect picnic Create a haunted house ...and much more!

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0545134013

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9780545134019

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