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• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
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• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Plants for Free: Seeds And Cuttings To Fill Your Garden

In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment.

The Joy of Weeds: A Celebration Of Wild Plants

A colourful, illustrated celebration of wild plants around the world, and why we should love them not loathe them, with 50 graphic illustrations by Paul Farrell.

Dungeness: Coastal Architecture

The Kent coastal strip of Dungeness is a unique environment. Harshly vulnerable to the elements yet protected from inland development, it has enticed many architects, artists, photographers and creative thinkers, including of course renowned artist and film-maker Derek Jarman.

The Sustainable Home: Easy Ways To Live With Nature In Mind

Handy and inspirational tips and lists – how to reduce plastic consumption, clean with eco-friendly products and working with the seasons to bring the outdoors inside. A beautifully produced book on interiors with a focus on sustainability and wellbeing and creating a home with the environment in mind.

Hammer & Nail: Making And Assembling Furniture Designs Inspired By Enzo Mari

Inspired by radical Italian designer Enzo Mari, this practical book with step-by-step DIY projects for hand built, beautiful furniture is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry.

Painted Travels: Portraits Of Remarkable Places

An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby’s inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby’s Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, lobbies, vineyards, trains, casinos, members’ clubs and more, around the world.

101 Things to Do With a Banana

A bunch of truly ap-peeling things to do with this fruit basket staple.

All I Want for Christmas Is Yarn: 30 Crochet Projects For Festive Gifts And Decorations

Crochet yourself into the Christmas spirit with these 30 gorgeous patterns for decorations, festive outerwear and personal gifts..

The Modern Flower Press: Preserving The Beauty Of Nature

A contemporary, beautifully illustrated book on flowers, flower pressing and arranging.

Seaweed: Foraging, Collecting, Pressing

A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational and inspirational, this guide to bringing the outdoors inside is quite unlike anything on the market and will inspire all readers to begin their beach foraging journey.

Made with Love: Get Hooked With 30 Knitting And Crochet Patterns

Thread the love with Tom Daley’s eagerly awaited debut knitting and crochet book.

Collins GCSE Grade 9-1 Revision — AQA GCSE 9-1 FOOD PREPARATION & NUTRITION WORKBOOK: Ideal For Home Learning, 2023 And 2024 Exams

Collins GCSE Grade 9-1 Revision — AQA GCSE 9-1 FOOD PREPARATION & NUTRITION COMPLETE REVISION & PRACTICE: Ideal For Home Learning, 2023 And 2024 Exams

Coping with Christmas: A Fabulously Festive Christmas Companion

With a new introduction by Felicity Cloake “Fanny Cradock is the Queen of Christmas cooking” – The Telegraph

The Modern Gardener: A Practical Guide To Houseplants, Herbs And Container Gardening

Welcome to modern matchmaking – for plants! All you need to do is be honest about what you can invest into your plant relationship (attentiveness, experience … sunlight) and voila – The Modern Gardener will suggest the best matched plant partner for you.

A Garden Bird Year

Britain’s gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to hundreds of species of birds. Learn to pay attention to these visitors to your own garden or local park and you’ll have a front-row seat to the unfolding drama that is the garden bird’s year.

Notes from a Summer Cottage: The Intimate Life Of The Outside World

‘I went for a walk around the garden. A great tit warbled above a patch of coltsfoot. I felt a thousand discoveries awaited…'

Edible Garden: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide (Collins Gardening)

Grown your own food with expert gardener Joe Swift. Creating our own edible garden connects us with the natural world, improves our physical and mental health and contributes to eco-friendly and sustainable food production. If you want to learn to grow your own fruit and veg, Joe Swift shows you how with practical, easy-to-follow advice.

Modern Space: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide (Collins Gardening)

Design your own modern green space with expert gardener Joe Swift. Gardens connect us with the natural world, improve our physical and mental health, and allow us to showcase our personalities. Expert gardener Joe Swift’s practical, easy-to-follow advice will inspire readers to envision what is possible in even the smallest spaces.

Nature Garden: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide (Collins Gardening)

Support and protect the natural world with tips from expert gardener Joe Swift. With around 16 million UK gardens covering a larger area than all our nature reserves, you could say our largest nature reserve is one big garden! In this practical guide, Joe shows you how to support and protect our rich and varied wildlife habitats.

Small Garden: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide (Collins Gardening)

Create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift. Green spaces are the perfect antidote to fast city living. Learn how to create your own small garden with expert gardener Joe Swift’s practical, easy-to-follow advice. From courtyards to rooftops, transform awkward and unexciting spaces with inspirational ideas and solutions.

Indoor Green: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide (Collins Gardening)

Transform your home with tips from expert gardener Joe Swift. Indoor plants brighten our homes, connect us with the natural world and improve our physical and mental health. If you want to turn your living space into an Indoor Green haven, expert gardener Joe Swift shows you how with practical, easy-to-follow advice.

Escape Into Cottagecore: Embrace Cosy Countryside Comfort In Your Everyday

Find happiness in the natural world, be fully present where you are and free yourself from the expectations of others.

Plant Lady

Plant Ladies are the new (cooler) cat ladies.

The Keeper of Stories

‘I absolutely loved it! So different, clever, funny and charming’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde ‘Funny, wise, moving and full of lovely moments…The characters are endearing and unforgettable’ Hazel Prior, author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Away with the Penguins