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The Missing Footprints is told by Wayne Richard Wooten, who decided to write the story of his family tree. When he began tracing his grandfather's lineage, his inquiries lead to the discoveries of a missing link in the family chain, occuring during the Civil War. The story tells how he uncovers this link, beginnig with a mysterious experience.

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Buster Jenkins has a down-home way of telling stories to draw the reader in, touching the heart with warmth and laughter. With what he calls "old-timey" tales about the simple pleasures of milking cows, old millponds, lye soap and outhouses, Jenkins knows how to entertain his readers.

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"Where Should I Live When I Retire?" clearly shows you the advantages and disadvantages of continuing-care communities. You'll learn whatt to look for, what to steer clear of, what you have a right to expect, how you can understand contracts, and how you can best make the transistion when you move.

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The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering.

Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Before the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Gardening When It Counts, a Mother Earth News book, helps you rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food.

Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world, except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps $200 worth of hand tools and about the same amount spent on supplies — working an average of two hours a day during the growing season.

About the author:

Steve Solomon is a well-known West Coast gardener and author of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, which has appeared in five editions.

Recommended Product for Wiser Living: Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, Mother Earth News is recommending books to its readers. For more than 40 years, Mother Earth News has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

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Author Dan Larsen leads you on a journey into the prairies of yesteryear, capturing the heart and soul of family, neighbors and community. Larsen shares his memories from a past he can still feel in his soul. For readers wanting to feel like a part of the past and have a few chuckles along the way, this one is for you.

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This 112-page book pairs 50 charming black-and-white photographs of dogs with simple and inspiring quotes from a variety of sources. It celebrates those fun moments we share with our dogs, from feeding times to afternoon snacks enjoyed on the sly.

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Taming the frontier is a daunting task — one that can't be burdened by the luxuries of life, including romance. When four settlers take on the challenging Colorado territory, they are surprised by how love springs up alongside their labors.

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If you are interested in reforming America’s food system, we highly recommend this new Guide. Informed input from concerned citizens is the only thing that will counter the powerful vested interests and bring us a fresh food/farm policy that serves public health, job creation, land stewardship and even national security.

Every five years, the U.S. Congress passes complex legislation called the Farm Bill. Primarily accountable for setting the budgets and work plans for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Farm Bill is the essential economic and policy engine that drives our food and farming system and provides nutritional assistance to tens of millions of Americans—many of them children. In recent years, more and more citizens are realizing just how much is at stake in this political chess game.

Originally published in 2007, Food Fight is Daniel Imhoff's highly acclaimed primer on the complex issues contained within the Farm Bill. Now in a newly updated and expanded edition, Imhoff looks ahead at this important issue, as the debate for 2012 is already underway. With the legislation due to be reauthorized in late 2012, Food Fight offers a critical resource that can help concerned citizens deconstruct this challenging bill, organize in their communities and press their elected representatives to serve the public good, rather than vested interests.

The Guide explains:

• The Farm Bill’s connection to the national obesity epidemic…
• The problems with subsidizing the expansion of corn-based ethanol…
• The myths of “cheap food”…
• Who wins and who loses from heavily subsidized industrial ag systems.

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Ellie can't wait to graduate. She and Andrew have been waiting to get married, but Andrew announces they have to postpone the wedding. As their plans unravel, it looks as if their love may not survive. Is this the end of their dream?