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Today's books:
NONFICTION
General self-sufficiency and survival
Weekend Homesteader: November
”Chilly November weather drives even the most hardy homesteaders inside. But the onset of the cold season doesn't mean the end of fun homesteading projects. This month, you'll learn to rotate garden beds to keep diseases at bay, to store drinking water for use during power outages, to put an entire chicken to use in the kitchen, and to bring in cash without going to the office.
"For those of you who are new to Weekend Homesteader, this series walks you through the basics of growing your own food, cooking the bounty, preparing for emergency power outages, and achieving financial independence. Technically, the series began in May (or November in the southern hemisphere), but most of the projects are designed to be accessible even to someone starting from square one each month. This ebook, and each other volume in the series, presents one easy and fun project for each weekend so that you'll keep making headway without becoming overwhelmed.”
Go Bag | Survival | Survival Pack | How To Build A Go Bag That Will Keep You Alive!
BORN IDENTITY: How to Raise Your Kid to Be a PERFECT SPY
Teaching your child important traits for life and dealing with crisis using examples of famous fictional spies. Short but with succinct value, in my opinion after a look through. I know I would have been inspired as a kid (and my kids would now) to learn mental skills if I thought the end goal might to help me survive, strategize, etc, in extreme situations.
Effective Martial Arts Training with No Equipment or Partner vol. 1: Functional strength, Balance and Explosive power
Jim Crumley's Secrets of Bowhunting Deer
By the inventor of vertical camouflage.
Deer Hunting Basics and Safety
Home, Food and Farming/Gardening
How to Sprout Raw Food: Grow an Indoor Organic Garden with Wheatgrass, Bean Sprouts, Grain Sprouts, Microgreens, and More
Short.
Simple Home Brewing Recipes (John Anderson's)
Saving with Menu Planning
Same author as yesterday’s Beyond the Chore Chart, by long-time blogging mom of 5.
A Beginners Guide To Urban Gardening
Well-reviewed.
Make Your Own Soap the Easy Way: Your Complete Guide to the Art of Soap Making, Including the supplies, lye, process, homemade tips and soapmaking recipes
Health
ALZHEIMER'S PREVENTION Protect Your Brain for Life - What Our Parents Didn't Know
Posh Push: Modern Girls Reveal Secrets for a More Natural Birth
Well-reviewed.
Stress, Belly Fat and Adrenal Fatigue
Ideas/Theory
Twelve and a Half Steps to Avoid Identity Theft
Semiconductors: Enabling the Information Age, an MIT Faculty-Licensed Publication
This caught my eye due to a book I’m reading where the theory is that the disabling of semi-conductors caused the collapse of all electrical objects and then "civilized" society.
Liz Weston on Personal Finance (Collection)
From FT Press, a respect traditional technical publisher. Two books in one. “Top financial columnist Liz Weston helps you build your credit score -- and your entire financial future.”
An Exegesis of Money
”What the world's governments, the world's bankers and their elite don't want you to know. An Exegesis of Money is an exposition, an explanation, a critical interpretation of the World's Monetary System. In reading this book one may cry out Foul! - Conspiracy! Know that the content of this book will not relate to conspiracy based in paranoia but in fact based in research and personal experiences of the Author. A must read for the survivor.”
21st Century Essays on Homelessness (Essays by Kirsten Anderberg)
The U.S. Economy Exposed - DEBT CRISIS
Beyond The Founding Fathers' Vision
“Make no mistake, there is an agenda to bring down this country and to abolish our revered United States Constitution and erode our civil liberties guaranteed by our Constitution…in this book are things you will not hear from our mainstream media. “
The Faithful Majority: Common Sense Re-Revisited
True Accounts
I See By My Get-Up (That I Am A Cowboy)
Farming/ranching story.
Sharon's Wicked Awesome Blog Book (Blogs, Blogs, Blogs....)
“her whimsical adventures of moving from busy Southeastern Massachusetts to the wilderness of Maine with her daughters…how a suburban Mom learned how to be a farmer in the mountains and how she began to make her dream of becoming a novelist a reality...”
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Nature Survival and Hardship
GOLD RUSH DREAM
“the story of a young girl…overcoming personal tragedy as she makes a long, turbulent journey across the American territories. East Texas in 1849 is no place for the weak, as Rose finds out when marauding Indians destroy her family’s homestead. Rescued by Travis, a man who makes his living by trapping in the wild, together they will set out to find her only remaining family in California. …Rose and Travis will find that it takes all of their endurance and obsession to achieve their dreams…the love that grows between two people whose shared values of freedom, independence and honor are worth more than any nuggets of gold they might find when faced with the difficulties and dangers of life in the American West.”
Le Point de non Retour (The Point of no Return) (New Beginnings)
Historical novel; a family moves from Paris to the wilderness of Canada. He goes ahead, she stays behind and learns skills necessary to survive in the wilds, etc…. By the same person who wrote her story above in Sharon's Wicked Awesome Blog Book.
The Devil's Elbow
“The knowledge Jack's father gave him, that the measure of a man is how he deals with the worst life can throw at him, the support of the powerful man who becomes his friend, and deep, unshakeable love for the childhood girlfriend who becomes his wife, fuel Jack's determination and will to survive. All Jack has learned on his eight year journey meets its greatest test when he and ninety-eight others are trapped in a four- room tavern for three hot, humid August days, fighting for survival against 400 once-friendly Indians, who are determined to wipe them out and reclaim their land and way of life.” Description isn’t clear on where the author is coming from regarding the aboriginal peoples.
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
Rebels & Lies
“America has fallen. In its place: The United Society of Reason. After his mother is gunned down by USR Agents, prize fighter Ryan Kaspar … joins a small rebel squad to exact revenge. …as his unit fights back in the hopes of inspiring the populace … Filled with explosive action, political satire, and a hint of romance”
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
Annie Higgins
“It is the year 2028. The survivors of the plague and the limited nuclear exchange of 2017 are few and scattered. This is the story of a group of these survivors who embark on a cross-country journey from Spokane, Washington to a civilized refuge in the state of Georgia. Their caravan is attacked, the men and boys are killed and the women and horses are taken. The task of rescuing the women falls on the shoulders of thirteen-year-old Annie Higgins. Annie is determined to reclaim her mother from the highwaymen no matter what the odds. Annie is an amazing young girl. Her careful planning, her words of wisdom and her acts of heroism will have you cheering for her…Adult situations, violence, language.”
The Last Love Story (The Reversal of Time Series)
“After a horrible storm creates havoc in the United States and the neighboring countries, people are forced to live without electricity. The lack of electricity produces horrible ramifications for the everyday people. Rayne finds herself in a scary situation after her parents are taken. Slave traders are combing the area looking for fresh young girls. Rayne sets out on a journey with her friends that will either shield them from harm, or cast them into harm's way.”
The Prepared Girls Booklist for Surviving the End of the World as we know it
Humour
Tranquility
“Time is a precious commodity that becomes ever more valuable when it appears the world is about to end. This story is about seven strangers and their families who must confront not only their own mortality, but also how best to use the time left to them. No matter the end result, their choices ultimately change their lives and illustrate how one can live without the hesitations.”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
This World After
“These days everyone has a plan for the Zombie Apocalypse. Admit it, you do. Everyone knows where they will go and what they need to do to survive.
What happens when it turns out the bigger danger may not be from the undead but the other living. Would you be able to do what is needed to survive? Jack and the group he has gathered together find themselves facing this very issue. The undead are dangerous but aren't hard to kill but killing other living beings is a completely different story. How much of today's standards of behavior need to survive for the world to come back?”
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Blindness (Harvest Book)
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Very extensively and highly reviewed.
“A city is hit by an epidemic of ‘white blindness’ which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit…stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds.”
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