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  • A Sweet Spot Called Home: Oakvale, WV

    How We Lived and Why It Matters

    by Carl Boggess Honaker, Susie Honaker Wirzbicki, Randolph Honaker ...
    Carl Boggess Honaker's thoughtful, playful, and at times transcendent memoir gives readers a delightfully vivid and nostalgic picture of life growing up in the lively Honaker family in Oakvale, West Virginia, during the 1930s. He includes tidbits of natural history, old-fashioned farming, one-room school days, character-shaping religion, fun recreation, the devastating impact of the depression, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

    by Mildred Armstrong Kalish ...
    I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Farm in the Green Mountains

    by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer ...
    Translated by Ida H. Washington, Carol E. Washington ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural VermontAlice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl ... Read more

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  • An Hour Before Daylight

    Memories Of A Rural Boyhood

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    “An American classic.” —The New YorkerIn An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden

    by Emily Whaley ...
    In conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley's garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life's work of a vibrant, sociable, opinionated, determined, forceful woman who has spent the last eighty-five years cultivating whatever life offered her. MRS. WHALEY AND HER CHARLESTON GARDEN captures and ... Read more

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  • Soil

    The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

    by Camille T Dungy ...
    A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Growing up in a Hutterite Colony

    by Peter Tschetter ...
    The writing of this book is for several reasons: one of which is an attempt to clarify to young Hutterites and also non-Hutterites how different we lived seventy-five years ago. I had an eventful childhood, which the readers may compare with their own. To compile a detailed account of colony life and history would be an extensive undertaking. So the reader will have to be content with the few ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Heirloom

    Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer

    by Tim Stark ...
    Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster ... Read more

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  • Chasing the White Dog

    An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine

    by Max Watman ...
    In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine -- the ... Read more

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  • Ever Wonder Why?

    Here Are the Answers!

    by Douglas B. Smith ...
    "Why?" is the first question we learn to ask as children and the one our parents have the hardest time answering. This is because "Why?" is the most difficult question to research.Why is the color blue used for boys?Why do worms come out onto sidewalks after a rain?Why do chefs wear tall hats?Everyone knows that . . .. . . Donuts have holes. . . We clink glasses before saying a toast. . . Golfers ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Country Matters

    The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse

    by Michael Korda, Success Research Cor ...
    “Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Korda’s engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in Country Matters.” —Washington PostWith his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once enterta ... Read more

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  • Foxfire 9

    by Foxfire Fund, Inc. ...
    Series Book 9 - Foxfire Series
    First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions.The ninth volume of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD