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See more detail | | Our Farm
Our Farm is a real life look at a family-five kids and three dogs included-and the farm they work together, season by season. Told through the voices of the children and candid photos of them, this inside view of life on their cattle farm is authentic and sometimes surprising.
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See more detail | | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
"This is a story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew ... and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air"
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See more detail | | And You Know You Should Be Glad. And in this hour of need, as the closest of friends will do, Bob, Allen, Chuck, and Dan put aside the demands of their own lives, came together, and saw Jack through to the end of his journey.
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See more detail | | Little Heathens
For many years author Mildred Kalish had the urge to describe that treasure trove of memories of a time gone forever. In response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, she gives this report on her early life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression.
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See more detail | | Gene Stratton-Porter Novelist and Naturalist
The traditional values and reverence for nature that her novels reflect continue to attract an admiring and responsive audience. Many of her novels have been issued in new editions, and demand among antique collectors for original editions is intense. However, until now, the famous Hoosier has been neglected by biographers, Judith Reick Long and the Indiana Historical Society seek to correct this injustice. Born on a farm in Wabash County, Indiana, in 1863, the youngest of twelve children, Gene Stratton spent much of her childhood roaming the woods and observing wildlife. It was during this time that she developed the independence of spirit and love of nature that would guide her actions throughout her life.
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See more detail | | Still Here Ram Dass
Ram Dass helps us explore the joy, pain, and opportunities of the ripening seasons of our lives. It is a perspective on aging, changing, and dying that he hopes will make the tumultuous process a little easier for all of us. As we enter the later stages of life, the big questions of peace and of purpose have reappeared, this time demanding answers.
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See more detail | | Buffalo for the Broken Heart
Buffalo for the Broken Hear. A fascinating read! This is a bold, brave and beautifully written book that should be required reading for every cattleman and beef-eater in America.
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See more detail | | Tom Brown Jr. The Search
Tom Brown's second book, an autobiography describing his adventures growing up under the tutelage of Stalking Wolf (his apache mentor), difficult tracking cases as an adult, and ending with Tom's most difficult tracking test of all, tracking Stalking Wolf to his final resting place. A great book that expresses the author's philosophy of native spirituality well.
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See more detail | | Tom Brown Jr The Vision
The first of Tom Brown's autobiographical books that focus on the spiritual side of his apprenticeship with Stalking Wolf, the Lipan Apache mentor he called "Grandfather". This title was originally planned to be the first half of a larger book called "Vision Quest", then split because of publisher's concerns about size.
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See more detail | | Singing Creek
Capturing America's heart in 1920, Opal's childhood diary became an immediate bestseller. Innocent and intimate, this haunting diary reveals the life of a kind of feminine Peter Pan in the Oregon wilderness. Rediscovered and proven authentic by the bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh, it is now accompanied by a biography and afterword. Opal Whitely was an extraordinary girl born in 1897. Opal could speak to nature and nature could speak to her. This book contains the fascinating diary she wrote as a child and a biography of Opal researched and written by Benjamin Hoff
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See more detail | | Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting
In an upbeat, humorous, and somewhat irreverent style, Lynn Grabhorn introduces us to the amazing Law of Attraction, a new and rapidly unfolding realm of feelings that physicians, scientists, physicists, and theologians are coming to believe are very, very, real. In Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, Lynn clarifies why most of our dreams have never materialized, why the majority of us have lived with all-too-empty bank accounts, tough relationships, failing health, and often spiritually un-fulfilling lives. Most importantly, in an easy-to-read style peppered with logical explanations, simple steps and true-life examples, Lynn Grabhorn shows us how to turn it all around--right now.
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See more detail | | You Can Go Home Again PB
You Can Go Home Again. The author, Gene Logsdon, witnessed the dying-down days of a farming culture that really had not changed much since the invention of the scythe.
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See more detail | | Loving and Leaving the Good Life
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen Nearing's Memoir of their life together and an inspiring testimonial to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, social justice, and peace.
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See more detail | | The Good Life, Helen & Scott Nearing
The Good Life: Helen & Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-sufficient Living. "An underground bible for the city-weary." - Newsweek. Contains two classics; Living the Good Life plus Continuing the Good Life. The Good Life is about a twentieth-century pioneering venture in a New England community, derived from twenty years of living in the backwoods of Vermont. This book aims to present a technical, economic, sociological, and psychological report on what the Nearings tried to do, how they did it, and how well or ill they succeeded in achieving their purposes.
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See more detail | | To Build the Life You Want
Whether you are out of work or interested in reframing your job, this book will speak to your soul. There is a comforting tone in Marsha's personal approach to the search for jobs and career. This is an affirming book that encourages experimentation, trust of the inner voice and a spiritual perspective to achieving financial security and new avenues of work. Her prescriptions make sense. They apply to real life as we all know it.
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See more detail | | Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish
This book is the captivating and true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts to seek out and live with the Amish. Discovering lives shaped by unfamiliar yet comforting ideas about time, work, and community, Bender is gently coaxed to consider whether there is a better way to lead a good life. Her journey begins in a New York men's clothing store. There she is spellbound by the vibrant colors and stunning geometric simplicity of the Amish quilts used as background in a display. Heeding a persistent inner voice, Bender searches for Amish families willing to allow her to visit and share in their daily lives.
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See more detail | | Mother and Child
Mothers are the first and most important teachers of humanity. For thousands of years, traditional cultures have recognized what we are just beginning to rediscover: that a mother's words in the ears of her child have the power to provide the foundation for a healthy, well-adjusted human being. Award-winning journalist and photographer Jan Reynolds explored the mother-child relationship while living with women above the Arctic Circle, the Himalayas, the Sahara, the Aboriginal Outback, the Amazon territory, and Mongolia.
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See more detail | | Letters from the Woods
Whether it's an extended voyage across wind-swept Canadian waters or a weekend jaunt on a slow-moving southern stream, we come away with a feeling of warmth and joy as if we've just made new friends and become part of the journey ourselves
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See more detail | | Mentors Spirit
True mentors, Sinetar teaches, are "artists of encouragement," who help us discover what is unique about our calling in life and encourage us to pursue it. She unfolds a way to use our inborn "spiritual intelligence" to see the world and everything in it as a potential mentor
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See more detail | | Tom Brown Jr. Tracker
The Tracker - The true story of Tom Brown Jr. The most powerful and magical high spiritual adventure since The Teachings of Don Juan. In what promises to be the most acclaimed new voice of spirit, man and nature since Castaneda, the famous "Pine Barrens" tracker reveals how he acquired the skill that has saved dozens of lives-including his own.
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See more detail | | Lords of Folly
The setting is rural Minnesota in the early 1950s, where a group of seminarians make their way to Ascension Seminary in Shakopee to complete their education as Oblates of St Joseph. The young men question everything about the lives they lead studying for the priesthood.
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See more detail | | Henry and the Great Society
In dedication Roush wrote: " I write with no higher hopes than motivate the rooster at daybreak". I do not expect to be appreciated or even tolerated, but I hope to awaken some to a new day." And so, to those who are homesick and do not realize that the "home" for which they are longing is not a geographical location, but a way of life, I sincerely dedicate this small effort."
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See more detail | | The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
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See more detail | | This Organic Life PB
Confessions of a Pioneer Suburban Homesteader. This inspirational book is hard to categorize: A great mix of memoir, how-to manual, and locally grown food manifesto. It reads like an over-the-back-fence talk with an old friend. You'll enjoy her stories about how she and her husband Alan Gussow made silk purses out of the sows ear properties they had purchased. You'll love her recipes and you will be fascinated by her exploits with pest garden animals. If you are a suburban garden wannabee this book will help bring your dream alive.
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See more detail | | Coming Home to Eat
A vibrant portrait of the essential cultural relations to the foods that truly nourish us, affirming our bonds to family, community, landscape, and season.
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See more detail | | And You Know You Should Be Glad CD. Bob Greene reads his book about his best friend Jack. And in this hour of need, as the closest of friends will do, Bob, Allen, Chuck, and Dan put aside the demands of their own lives, came together, and saw Jack through to the end of his journey.
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See more detail | | Pictures from the Farm by John C Allen & Sons. The American family farm through their extensive compilation of photographs spanning three generations.
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See more detail | | Joseph Campbell A Fire in the Mind
Joseph Campbell A Fire in the Mind, contains a wealth of information from personal journals, letters, interviews with friends and family, most generously provided by his widow, Jean Erdman Campbell.
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See more detail | | D' Ya Want a Possum? by author Rick Mansfield. From the Ozarks Hills of Shannon County Missouri, along the Current River, be amazed at the beliefs and culture of these Ozarks neighbors, and the meaning of some sayings that you might never have heard before, or never knew what they meant.
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See more detail | | Born Country
Born Country by Randy Owen. The book will reveal never-before-shared material about Randy’s close relationship with his father, his troubled teen years, and how his down-home country roots kept him grounded.
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See more detail | | Made from Scratch
Made from Scratch. Inspired by her growing admiration for small farmers and her growing distaste for rampant consumerism, 26-year-old web designer Jenna Woginrich decided to take control of her life, what she ate, what she wore, and how she spent her free time.
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See more detail | | My Stroke of Insight
My Stroke of Insight. Taylor helps other injured people rebuild their brains after trauma, and helps the rest of us gain a better understanding of the mysteries of our brains.
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See more detail | | How I learned to stop worrying and love the barn. Catherine Friend was happy being an author and writing instructor. She always wore clean clothes. She never had anything disagreeable stuck to the bottom of her shoes. That all changed the day she agreed to help her partner Melissa fulfill Melissa's lifelong ambition to farm in Minnesota.
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