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Because yesterday’s books were released so late, some of them may still be available. You can check them here.
Here are today’s. Whew! I think that due to the problems with releasing them yesterday, they tried to make up for it today. I spent all morning at this.
NONFICTION
General self-sufficiency and survival
Backwoods Home Magazine - Jan/Feb 2011 (#127)
”Back issue No. 127 contains: Jackie Clay shows you how to be comfortable and secure in your life and home even if the economy falters; how to make your own canned bacon; woodstove cooking, part 4 of Building Eric’s House, a 10-part series; healthy, hearty, meatless meals; cooking with a cast iorn stove; build a chicken tractor; growing onions; making a cheesy fish chowder; LED Lighting, part 1 (parts 2 and 3 are in Issue Nos. 128 and 129); Mas Ayoob talks about gun semantics; making small skillet treats; and Dave Duffy comments about California’s missed opportunity to legalize marijuana. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about feeding milk to chickens, de-fleaing the chicken coop, speckled and lumpy eggs, molting chickens, old eggs, cracking hazlenuts, canning pork and beans, saving seeds, caring for apple trees, refurbishing cast iron, a Quince tree, preserving dried foods, planning a new homestead, pigweed, making vinegar, bedbugs, and keeping weevils out.”
I noticed that the two Prep School books posted here this past week are still free:
Prep School: Preserving Meat Without Power
and Prep School: Hiding Guns 101
Deer Hunting Equipment
Great Loop Cruising: Two on a Trawler
I was not aware before that “the lock and canal systems of the U.S. and Canada designed for commercial vessels allows boat owners to cruise their boat in a continuous waterway around eastern North America.” I thought this might be very interesting information for some people with a boat to have in case they ever need to get somewhere without roads.
The route “includes the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal waterways, the Erie and Canadian Heritage Canals, the Great Lakes and inland rivers.”
Food and Farming/Gardening
Raised Bed Gardening - Ten Good Reasons For Growing Plants In A Raised Bed Garden
Reassuring bio—author grew up in a large family on a small farm.
Vegetable Container Gardening - Made Easy
By same author. Short.
Edible History: Easy Ancient Celtic, Gallic and Roman Techniques for Leavening Bread Without Modern Commercial Yeast
Best Chicken Breeds: 12 Types of Hens that Lay Lots of Eggs, Make Good Pets, and Fit in Small Yards (36-page Booklet)
25 Dutch Oven Recipes For The Vegetarian - Quick and Easy One Pot Meals (Vegetarian Cookbook and Vegetarian Recipes Collection)
Apparently includes processed foods, but may be helpful for ideas for meals outdoors in a dutch oven over a fire.
Health
Skin Wounds and Lesions A Concise Reference For Most Of Us ( Understanding, Intervening, Caring and Healing )”a reference book about the skin. It tackles the anatomy and physiology of the skin, the different types of wounds and lesions with their interventions and treatment, and the process of recovery and healing. It contains important information about skin cancer, shingles, pressure ulcer, skin cuts and burns. It is intended for educational purposes and encourages the reader to engage in self care.”
The Complete Herbal Guide: Heal Your Body Naturally and Maintain Optimal Health Using Alternative Medicine, Herbals, Vitamins, Fruits and Vegetables
Quite long and looks like quite in-depth. “an essential reference book for anyone interested in maintaining optimal health and overcoming disease. The book contains concise and comprehensive listings of over hundred conditions. This book has quick and easy references to the all information you need to maintain excellent health the natural way.”
NO MORE GLASSES - You CAN Get Rid Of Your Glasses Naturally!
Hard to tell what specific program you can do for your eyes, as it seems to be mixed right in with a lot of general self-help/overall health improvement. Don’t have time today to read and report about the details!
Read a Bit! Talk a Bit! Gardens
An activity book for carers of people with dementia. “Just because the short-term memory is failing, doesn’t mean that people suffering from different forms of dementia don’t like to talk. They do. The secret to a good conversation with a person who suffers from Alzheimer’s is to talk about things they do remember. This often takes them back decades, to their youth.”
Ideas/Theory
The Welfare State and its unintended consequences
Alert - How Iran Warfare Will Lead To World War 3?
Jack A$ Politics and Culture
Apologies for the title; I had a “Look Inside” and it seems long and in-depth enough to have some worthy content, but I can’t guarantee that as I haven’t read it all and won’t as I’m Canadian and have too much to read before American politics! The author is coming from a “redneck” conservative standpoint and the first part is about how Obama’s “redneck” comments are not accurate if applied to him (author.) Sorry this seems choppy. Hard to distill it!
Eichmann, Bureaucracy and the Holocaust
How bureaucracy can contribute to evil. “Based on an academic dissertation, this fully referenced work analyses Eichmann's actual documented role from a sociological perspective, …The unsettling conclusion is that modern methods of bureaucratic organisation contributed to Eichmann's moral blindness, leaving him more concerned with the minutiae of his professional life than the fate of those he transported to the death camps.”
True Accounts
Rural Roots
”This collection of short stories and poems is about the people who lived and loved in the pretty farming area settled by my grandparents and other Scandinavian families generations ago. Rural life in Kipling, Ontario, Canada, is celebrated in the pages ahead.”
Who Are You?
“Abandoned in a log shack by their parents during the winter of 1949, Rose Turncliffe and her siblings survived. Sixty years later, Rose tells her story of a life filled with trials and tribulations. Her enduring faith in God has been her lifeline.”
Moving Forward: The Stories of Hometown Heroes
Stories of several people who had to fight to survive and triumph.
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FICTION
Nature Survival and other Hardship
White Clam
“When young Chet Palmer joined the crew of the coastal schooner Exact in the frontier city of Portland in Oregon Territory in the year 1851, he had no intention of losing his freedom. But a routine trading voyage to the Indian west coast of Vancouver Island, with a stop in Puget Sound to offload a group of pioneers who planned to build a city there, has left him in the alien world of the Nootka Indians as a slave and triggered an adventure of survival and enlightenment beyond his wildest imagination.…Chet realizes survival is up to him, a stranger in a strange land. He immerses himself in the ways of the Indians, constantly aware that his life hangs by a thread and danger lurks everywhere. In time, Chet's acquaintance with a fellow slave, a young Salish boy from the Washington Territory, turns to friendship and to partnership as they plot an escape to the freedom of the Puget Sound country to the south.”
Alone in the woods
A plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, trying to get Marty home to his wife in labour. “Through the next ten days, Marty experiences danger, depression, and fierce determination, trying to survive to see his first born child. ‘Now I understood what Buck meant by survival being mostly mental,’ he thinks to himself. Injured, bleeding, and battered, Marty endures attacks by wolves, bear, and a wild cat, and nearly drowns in a freezing river. He records his ordeal in his journal as he clings to memories of Robin. The author builds the excitement minute by minute, so that the reader walks each agonizing mile with his hero.”
Sara, a Canadian saga
“…They take us through the Great Depression and share with us the frustrations, dreams and challenges they face…This story appeals to all ages because Sara and Roy hold up a mirror and ask the reader to recognize truth about the human condition for many Canadian families through difficult economic times. “
The Heretic's Garden
“Southern France, 1243: Even as rampaging Crusaders destroy their village, Renata and Cebille, the village healers, lead a small group of little girls into the mountains to escape the carnage. The children have been training in the art of herbal healing, but the practice of such skills by women—even girls—has been condemned as witchcraft... The women need to keep their progress and the purpose of their journey secret, ...headed towards the fortress mount in Montségur for refuge and any news, hoping any other villagers left alive may make it there as well...” See link for more.
Mutations
A harrowing tale of survival while trapped underwater in a sunken ship, intrigue, and more.
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
Hollow Strength
Very well reviewed. Middle East intrique. “June, 2014. The world is shocked as Iran's newest and most powerful destroyer, the Shaheed, explodes and sinks on its maiden voyage, killing a full cadre of VIPs, including a dozen of the most powerful clerics in Iran. The ship's executive officer, Commander Mohsen Saeed of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, ashore during the explosion, frantically works to uncover the truth behind the sinking…he is targeted by death squads who want him to carry the secrets he has unearthed to his grave. Meanwhile, accusations of blame for the sinking of the Shaheed bring the US and Iran to the brink of war...Full of authentic detail from an author who has served as a field officer in the Directorate of Operations of the CIA…”
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
Humour. "The post-apocalyptic world isn’t that bad. Sure, there are mutants. But, for the people of New Hope, daily life isn’t so much a struggle of finding food or medicine as it is trying to find a new shortstop for their kickball team. This makes it difficult for a post-apocalyptic warrior to find work. "
THE FALL OF MAN Vol. I
(This and volumes 2-4 have been listed here previously.) “Immersed in her captor's apocalyptic ideology, Katrina learns that they're on crusade to bring peace to the Middle East--no matter what the cost. If she can't prevent their misguided ploy, a scourge will befall humanity, redefining our interpretation of the word MANKIND. In an attempt to prevent Armageddon, IT'S CREATED!!!”
We need a Revolution
European dystopian future (military rule)
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
The Zul Enigma
“a futuristic thriller fused in reality, seamlessly weaves New Age beliefs with hard, scientific facts. Set in 2068 it follows a quest to expose the perpetrator behind a cataclysmic event that occurs on 21 December 2012, end of the Mayan calendar, that changes the world forever. …Set against a backdrop of climate change, overpopulation, world war, alien visitations, presidential plots, global deception and a new world order…”
The Intruders (Visitors Trilogy, #1)
“The White House has been engulfed by the shadow of a mysterious ship...the Visitors make no contact, until one day, they leave. Suddenly the Earth goes still. Billions of people disappear at once. There’s no trace as to where the vast population has gone. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Freeman and his cousin Alex, are two of the few left behind. While fighting for survival they join a girl named Sarah...They must overcome great obstacles before ending their treacherous journey.” First of a planned trilogy.
The Forever Contract (A Dystopian YA Novella)
“In the very near future, the country is plunged into drought and unrest. Scarce resources and constant heat are making life completely miserable. Casey doesn't think she can stand slugging back another gel pack or working one more shift at the wells. Fortunately, there's a solution: anyone over the age of seventeen can sign the Forever Contract and enter a utopian paradise.”
Shared at these places:
click to see lots of excellent blog posts about these topics
http://frugallysustainable.com/2012/10/frugal-days-sustainable-ways-48/
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