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The Nourishing Homestead: One Back-to-the-Land Family's Plan for Cultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit

Ben Hewitt · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

A practiculture way to grow nutrient-dense food, produce healthy fats, and live the good life The Nourishing Homestead tells the story of how we can create truly satisfying, permanent, nourished relationships to the land, nature, and one another. The Hewitts offer practical ways to grow...
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The Family of Jesus

Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

America's favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection...
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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

Heather Lende · Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestselling first book, If You Lived Here, I’d...
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Igniting the Fire: The Movements and Mentors Who Shaped Billy Graham

Jake Hanson · Shiloh Run Press
Format: Paperback

Everyone knows Billy Graham. . .but who knows what propelled him to world prominence as the greatest evangelist of his time? Find out in Igniting the Fire. This brand-new biography focuses on Graham’s formative years, from his boyhood through college, to his bursting onto the national...
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Summer of the Dead

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

High summer in Ackers Gap, West Virginia--but no ones enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain....
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The Strange Case of the Mad Professor: A True Tale of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, and Attempted Murder

Peter Kobel · Lyons Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were for an animal behavior experiment, but a jury found...
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult

BRUCE HANDY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An irresistible, nostalgic, and insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy.In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston....
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Cruel Death

M. William Phelps · Pinnacle Books; Reissue edition
Format: Kindle Edition

"Phelps is one of America's finest true-crime writers." --Vincent Bugliosi "Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." -Allison BrennanIt was Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season. Thousands headed to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy its scenic...
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

David Ritz · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left...
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Winter brothers : a season at the edge of America

Ivan Doig · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 246
Format: eBook

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The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace

Rachel Starnes · Penguin Books
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

When she fell in love with her brother's best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern - marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling...
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Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior

Mindy Budgor · skirt!; First edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Only the combination of cultural curiosity, passion, fearlessness and a set of Jewish parents breathing fire down her neck could lead a sane human being to buy a one-way ticket to Nairobi and face probable death in an effort to become the world’s first female Maasai warrior.Warrior...
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Amish Confidential

Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view...
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France

Susan Ottaway · Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War. When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering...
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