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Land of Women
$18.95 Add to cartA bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural life
- Author: Sánchez, MarÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349634
- Language: English
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The SideRoad Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author
$18.95 Add to cartTake a trip down the U.P.’s many SideRoads with Sharon Kennedy
Penned by the author in recent years, The SideRoad Columnist presents a selection of previously published newspaper columns. To delight t
- Author: Kennedy, Sharon M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997369
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie
$37.99 Add to cartBetween the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those … [more below]
- Author: Hoy, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629939
- Language: English
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Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History
$22.95 Add to cartThe impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their descendants today. Michigan was home to three: in Baraga, H
- Author: Brunner, Sharon Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998020
- Language: English
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Thinking About Teaching: A Rural Social Studies Teacher’s Path to Strive for Excellence
$23.99 Add to cartTeaching is by far one of the most intellectually rewarding, emotionally challenging, and physically
exhausting careers in the world. This book explores the thoughts that author Casey T. Jakubowski, P- Author: Jakubowski, Casey T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1970133228
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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Nothing to Tell: Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women
$18.95 Add to cartSitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, between 1982 and 1988 oral historian Donna … [more below]
- Author: Gray, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0762779098
- Language: English
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Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
$22.00 Add to cartThe Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so
- Author: Jones, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0974504831
- Language: English
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Play Like a Girl
$18.95 Add to cartGrowing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After … [more below]
- Author: Roscher, Ellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1632280574
- Language: English
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Foxfire 7
$23.00 Add to cartFirst 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… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #7
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0385152442
- Language: English
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In The Village
$18.00 Add to cartAnthony Bailey’s intimate look at life in Stonington borough made waves when it was published. First appearing in 1971 as a serialized version in the New Yorker, a hard-cover version was published soo
- Author: Bailey, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0578251639
- Language: English
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst 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… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy
$15.95 Add to cartStories of a Small Town Farm Boy takes author Eric Duling’s 1960s childhood on a big-family farm and brings it to life starting with the story of an anxious child trying to acclimate into the first gr
- Author: Duling, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 22 2023
- ISBN10: 197726039X
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$46.58 Add to cartA revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0691176671
- Language: English
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Outdoor Education at School: Practical Activities and Problem-Solving Lessons
$26.99 Add to cartOutdoor Education at School contains sets of practical activities and problem-solving lessons for primary school students. Designed to be done completely within the school grounds and with minimal amo
- Author: Powell, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1922607428
- Language: English
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Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea
$21.95 Add to cartFocusing on the personal experiences of a California fruit farmer and the struggles of his neighbors in the San Joaquin Valley, a celebration of the agrarian lifestyle contrasts the corrupt values of … [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0684835703
- Language: English
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Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the Peopl
$17.99 Add to cartOne doctor’s courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community’s future–and exposed a national health crisis.
When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physicia… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1496446496
- Language: English
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Foxfire 2
$23.00 Add to cartFirst 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… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #2
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 22 1973
- ISBN10: 0385022670
- Language: English
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Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
$30.00 Read more“Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out…Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a jour- Author: Hoffman, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 164283159X
- Language: English
