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Shepherd’s Sight

A Farming Life

by Barbara McLean ...

“A small masterpiece of the rural life.” — The Times Literary SupplementA Globe 100 best book of 2024“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the LarkA restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario fa... ... Read more

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“A small masterpiece of the rural life.” — The Times Literary SupplementA Globe 100 best book of 2024“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the LarkA restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario fa...
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Shepherd's Sight

A Farming Life

by Barbara McLean ...

Narrated by Robin Siegerman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the
... Read more

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Did I Ever Tell You?

A Memoir

by Genevieve Kingston ...

Narrated by Genevieve Kingston ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

A true story of a mother’s love, kept alive through gifts, letters, and time.When Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston lost her mother at age eleven, she was left with more than memories. Her mother had prepared a chest filled with handwritten letters and carefully chosen gifts—for the birthdays and major life milestones they wouldn’t get to share.As Did I Ever Tell You? begins, only three packages remain: ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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A true story of a mother’s love, kept alive through gifts, letters, and time.When Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston lost her mother at age eleven, she was left with more than memories. Her mother had prepared a chest filled with handwritten letters and carefully chosen gifts—for the birthdays and major life milestones they wouldn’t get to share.As Did I Ever Tell You? begins, only three packages remain:
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The Mango Tree

A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

by Annabelle Tometich ...

Narrated by Annabelle Tometich ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now

Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

by Christopher Ingraham ...

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet ... Read more

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The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet
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Unsettled

Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada's West, 1813-1816

by Robert Lower ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 34 min

The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and lettersUnsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and lettersUnsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal.
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The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick)

A Backyard Year

by Margaret Renkl ...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club September ’24 Pick)THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous b... ... Read more

$23.99 USD

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club September ’24 Pick)THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous b...
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Trauma Farm

A Rebel History of Rural Life

by Brian Brett ...

The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a "gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world" and our place in it ( Vancouver Sun).The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on ... Read more

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The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a "gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world" and our place in it ( Vancouver Sun).The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on
... Read more
Drawing: Horses

Learn to paint step by step

by William Powell ...

Series series How to Draw & Paint
With assistance from Michele Maltseff, artist Walter T. Foster shows you how to render a variety of different horse breeds in pencil, with tips on adding touches with charcoal, crayon, and brush and ink. In this step-by-step book, he explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing to its fullest. You will learn about various ... Read more

$8.99 USD

With assistance from Michele Maltseff, artist Walter T. Foster shows you how to render a variety of different horse breeds in pencil, with tips on adding touches with charcoal, crayon, and brush and ink. In this step-by-step book, he explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing to its fullest. You will learn about various
... Read more
Rooted

Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

by Sarah Langford ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of *Islands of Abandonment'*A beautifully written, incredibly timely book' - Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless NightsWhen barrister and author Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of ... ... Read more

$12.79 USD

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of *Islands of Abandonment'*A beautifully written, incredibly timely book' - Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless NightsWhen barrister and author Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of ...
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Seed to Dust

Life, Nature, and a Country Garden

by Marc Hamer ...

For readers of Late Migrations and H is for HawkA stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)"With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. H ... Read more

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For readers of Late Migrations and H is for HawkA stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)"With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. H
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My Father and Other Animals

How I Took on the Family Farm

by Sam Vincent ...

Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023‘My Father and Other Animals is a warm, surprising and beautifully crafted book.’ —Billy Griffiths, author of Deep Time DreamingSam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023‘My Father and Other Animals is a warm, surprising and beautifully crafted book.’ —Billy Griffiths, author of Deep Time DreamingSam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn
... Read more

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