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Homesteading From Scratch: Building Your Self-Sufficient Homestead, Start to Finish

Steven Jones - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently - the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut, farm organically, connect to nature,...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like...
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America

Mark Sundeen - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound...
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Dry: A Memoir

Augusten Burroughs - St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home...
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Boy Erased: A Memoir

Garrard Conley - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"The power of Conley's story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy system, but in his lyrical writing about sexuality and love." - Los Angeles Times"This brave and bracing memoir is an urgent reminder that America remains a place where...
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Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older...
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