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There are 39 items in this department.
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 | | This Organic Life HB
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 | | 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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