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  • Telling your story

    Preserve Your History Through Storytelling

    by Jerry Apps ...
    From the winner of the 2014 Regional Emmy Award for A Farm Winter with Jerry AppsJerry Apps, renowned author and veteran storyteller, believes that storytelling is the key to maintaining our humanity, fostering connection, and preserving our common history. In Telling Your Story, he offers tips for people who are interested in telling their own stories. Readers will learn how to choose stories ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Campfires and Loon Calls

    Travels in the Boundary Waters

    by Jerry Apps, Steve Apps ...
    Jerry Apps shares 25 years of wilderness canoeing experience—wicked thunderstorms, inquisitive bears, swamping a canoe, and watching the night sky filled with stars—as well as advice from how to set up a camp and protect food from hungry bears, to minimalist cooking, appreciating a rainy day, and a history of the Boundary Waters region. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rural Wit and Wisdom

    Time-Honored Values from the Heartland

    by Jerry Apps ...
    In an updated and expanded edition of a timeless classic, bestselling author Jerry Apps has written and collected oft-spoken phrases, observations, comments, and conundrums celebrating country life and rural living. Black and white photographs by Steve Apps, an award-winning photojournalist, complement the text that offers humorous, touching, and unique glimpses into the lighter side of life in ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Farm

    A History

    by Jerry Apps ...
    One of the Midwest's best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills, to his own family's 40 year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. In this quiet but epic tale, Apps describes the Native Americans who lived on the land for hundreds of years, tapping the maple trees and fishing the streams and lakes, as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • More Than Words

    A Memoir of a Writing Life

    by Jerry Apps ...
    In this combination memoir and craft book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares the next phase in his life story begun in Limping through Life and Once a Professor. Beginning with a boyhood surrounded by storytellers, Jerry takes readers along on his path to becoming one of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered writers. In characteristic no-nonsense style, he shares the joys, disappointments ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Old Farm Country Cookbook

    Recipes, Menus, and Memories

    by Jerry Apps, Susan Apps-Bodilly ...
    When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was in their food and where it came from. Delicious meals were at the center of every family and social affair, whether it be a threshing-day dinner with all the neighbors, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • When the White Pine Was King

    A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin

    by Jerry Apps ...
    “From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical ComplexFor more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin

    Nature’s Army at Work

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees, cutting trails, and reversing the effects of soil erosion. In his latest book, acclaimed environmental writer Jerry Apps presents the first comprehensive history of the CCC in Wisconsin. Apps guides ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Horse-Drawn Days

    A Century of Farming with Horses

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local cheese factory, and pulling the family buggy to church each Sunday, these animals were at the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Seeds of Suspicion

    A County Agent Searches for Common Ground

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Series Book 9 - Ames County Novel
    Scott Olson is the County Extension Agent for Ames County. He wants to solve the problems between the folks in his county after a rock with a disturbing message crashes through the window during a community meeting. Along with his coworkers, he tries to bring calm to a contentious community, while figuring out how to balance the dangers of his efforts with convincing his long-time love and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quiet Season

    Remembering Country Winters

    by Jerry Apps ...
    The Quiet SeasonRemembering Country WintersJerry Apps“As I think back to the days of my childhood, the frost-covered windows in my bedroom,the frigid walks to the country school, the excitement of a blizzard, and a hundred other memories, I realize that these experiences left an indelible mark on me and made me who I am today.”—From the IntroductionJerry Apps recalls winters growing up on a farm ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lunkers, Keepers, and Ones that Got Away

    Fish Tales from Four Generations of Anglers

    by Jerry Apps ...
    Stories of fishing with family and friends by beloved author Jerry AppsFrom his first experiences going fishing with his pa as a boy, Jerry Apps was hooked. Eighty-some years later, Apps reflects on a lifetime of fishing and the memories and lessons hauled in along the way. As he recounts the simple pleasures of casting a line from shore on a warm summer evening or reeling in a lunker on opening ... Read more

    $12.39 USD