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Cheap tricks
Thrift: How to Have a Stylish Home Without Breaking the Bank (Key Porter Books, $17).
Decorating your pad on the cheap doesn’t necessitate a trip to IKEA for wood-veneer bookshelves. This full-color home-improvement book gives frugal decorators stylish interior-design tips, projects and customizing ideas on how to bring new life to your floors, walls and furniture. Who knew living in a beautiful home could be so cost-effective?

Green shopping machine
The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide to a Better, Kinder, Healthier World (New World Library, $15).
You’ll never again suffer from buyer’s remorse after reading this book, which is full of shopping guidelines to help save the planet. Each chapter reveals how different industries, such as the garment industry, for example, affect the planet and what we can buy to live a greener life. It’s like heading to the market with Al Gore. Available in July.–Kevin Aeh