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(Some of the books below may still be available. Most are free for 1 or 2 days but sometimes
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EDITOR'S PICKS:
NONFICTION
General Self-Sufficiency and Survival
Half a Gallon per Person per Day: The Definitive Guide to Water Purification, Storage, and Acquisition
”Learn how to clean water using the sun, filters and pills, and a fire….Preppers know the various ups and downs of different water purification and acquisition to a degree, but a desire for a complete working knowledge of different ways to maintain water and ensure it's quality is rare to all but the most dedicated. Here is some of what you'll learn: -What temperature water must reach to become clean (hint: it's not boiling). -What water is okay to drink when traveling. -How to filter water. -How to store water.”
After a Disaster: What to Expect
“As a Hurricane Betsy and Katrina survivor the author shares many perspectives on the aftermath of a major disaster. When almost every "system" in a city is destroyed almost overnight, emergency preparedness teams can be completely overwhelmed and inadequate…Here is some of what you'll learn: - Why no one expects a disaster to happen to them. - What you need to know in advance to stay in touch with family even when communications are down. - How to return and have housing before most people. - What to expect immediately after a man made or natural disaster and for short and long-term recovery.“
PERSONAL EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES: Sylmar 1971, Santa Cruz 1989, Northridge 1994
Prepper's Essential Guide To Surviving a Flu Pandemic and other Doomsday Events
Half a Gallon per Person per Day: The Definitive Guide to Water Purification, Storage, and Acquisition
”Learn how to clean water using the sun, filters and pills, and a fire….Preppers know the various ups and downs of different water purification and acquisition to a degree, but a desire for a complete working knowledge of different ways to maintain water and ensure it's quality is rare to all but the most dedicated. Here is some of what you'll learn: -What temperature water must reach to become clean (hint: it's not boiling). -What water is okay to drink when traveling. -How to filter water. -How to store water.”
After a Disaster: What to Expect
“As a Hurricane Betsy and Katrina survivor the author shares many perspectives on the aftermath of a major disaster. When almost every "system" in a city is destroyed almost overnight, emergency preparedness teams can be completely overwhelmed and inadequate…Here is some of what you'll learn: - Why no one expects a disaster to happen to them. - What you need to know in advance to stay in touch with family even when communications are down. - How to return and have housing before most people. - What to expect immediately after a man made or natural disaster and for short and long-term recovery.“
PERSONAL EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES: Sylmar 1971, Santa Cruz 1989, Northridge 1994
Prepper's Essential Guide To Surviving a Flu Pandemic and other Doomsday Events
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
A Beginners Guide To Urban Gardening
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
” the author’s successes and failures growing vegetables, semi-tropical fruits and other exotic plants in a free-standing hobby greenhouse located in Ottawa, Canada, where winters are cold and long. The author shares the many lessons learned through his experiences in building and operating a hobby greenhouse as well as a more recently built sunroom attached to his house.”
Blueberries in Your Backyard: How to Grow America's Hottest Antioxidant Fruit for Food, Health, and Extra Money (25-page Booklet)
Top 15 Tips for New Homesteaders
”A short but sweet collection of tips for people who are new homesteaders or considering homesteading. These tips are intended to fill in the gaps on some often overlooked aspects of this way of life.”
Renewable Energy
Kvass: History, Health Benefits, & Recipes for the Russian Bread Drink
The most recent high review seems to be the most credible—2 low reviews were for formatting, don’t seem to be an issue.
100 Year Old Recipes You Can Still Make Today: BREADS AND DESSERTS
A Beginners Guide To Urban Gardening
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
” the author’s successes and failures growing vegetables, semi-tropical fruits and other exotic plants in a free-standing hobby greenhouse located in Ottawa, Canada, where winters are cold and long. The author shares the many lessons learned through his experiences in building and operating a hobby greenhouse as well as a more recently built sunroom attached to his house.”
Blueberries in Your Backyard: How to Grow America's Hottest Antioxidant Fruit for Food, Health, and Extra Money (25-page Booklet)
Top 15 Tips for New Homesteaders
”A short but sweet collection of tips for people who are new homesteaders or considering homesteading. These tips are intended to fill in the gaps on some often overlooked aspects of this way of life.”
Renewable Energy
Kvass: History, Health Benefits, & Recipes for the Russian Bread Drink
The most recent high review seems to be the most credible—2 low reviews were for formatting, don’t seem to be an issue.
100 Year Old Recipes You Can Still Make Today: BREADS AND DESSERTS
Health
WALK! Walk your way to great health & long life (Boomer Health Book Series)
”"Exercise Walking" will get us “old timers” back into shape and help us maintain it better than any other form of exercise. Furthermore, exercise walking is perhaps the safest and least traumatic workout to aging joints, muscles, bones, hearts and bodies. Exercise walking is sustainable well into our 70s, 80s, 90s, and even into our 100s, longevity that is being reached by far greater numbers of us than we ever imagined. In recent years, research has shown that walking exercise is an ideal stress reducer, mental stimulant, and helps ward off many of the psychological and mental ailments of aging.”
The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine
Also see 3 health-related personal accounts below under True Accounts.
WALK! Walk your way to great health & long life (Boomer Health Book Series)
”"Exercise Walking" will get us “old timers” back into shape and help us maintain it better than any other form of exercise. Furthermore, exercise walking is perhaps the safest and least traumatic workout to aging joints, muscles, bones, hearts and bodies. Exercise walking is sustainable well into our 70s, 80s, 90s, and even into our 100s, longevity that is being reached by far greater numbers of us than we ever imagined. In recent years, research has shown that walking exercise is an ideal stress reducer, mental stimulant, and helps ward off many of the psychological and mental ailments of aging.”
The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine
Also see 3 health-related personal accounts below under True Accounts.
Ideas/Theory
Fighting Fear: Winning the War at Home When Your Soldier Leaves for Battle | A devotional book for military families.
Fighting Fear: Winning the War at Home When Your Soldier Leaves for Battle | A devotional book for military families.
Finance
Making Ends Meet: 7 Ways Your Can Find More Money at the End of the Month (Personal Finance)
Making Ends Meet: 7 Ways Your Can Find More Money at the End of the Month (Personal Finance)
Education (Self, Home, School)
HOMESCHOOLING 101
”about some of the fundamental facts and useful tips on homeschooling. It will help you to decide if you want to do homeschooling and lead you to more information and help.”
Teaching Diamonds in the TOUGH: Mining the Potential in Every Student | Addressing Urban Education Issues With Love (Dealing With Urban Education Problems With Love)
Beating the School Bullying Epidemic: A Parent's Guide to Preventative Measures and Remedies (Beating the Bullies)
Cakes and Butterflies - A Story about Learning Five Times Tables (The Numberland Tales - Help with Times Tables and Multiplication for Children)
Baby Genius and How
HOMESCHOOLING 101
”about some of the fundamental facts and useful tips on homeschooling. It will help you to decide if you want to do homeschooling and lead you to more information and help.”
Teaching Diamonds in the TOUGH: Mining the Potential in Every Student | Addressing Urban Education Issues With Love (Dealing With Urban Education Problems With Love)
Beating the School Bullying Epidemic: A Parent's Guide to Preventative Measures and Remedies (Beating the Bullies)
Cakes and Butterflies - A Story about Learning Five Times Tables (The Numberland Tales - Help with Times Tables and Multiplication for Children)
Baby Genius and How
True Accounts
Alaska Tracks; footprints in the Big Country from Ambler to Attu
”Imagine following your bliss in a place that intrigues you, learning its geography by sleeping on its lumps and drinking from its rivers and creeks. Ned Rozell lives that experience. Here, he shares it with you.” Author “has written more than 80 adventure and natural history columns for Alaska Magazine and is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has written more than 600 weekly newspaper columns.”
Sliding on the Snow Stone
"It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin’s Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine...the true story of Stefan's extraordinary journey across a landscape of hunger, fear and devastating loss. With Europe on the brink of World War Two, Stefan and his family pray they'll survive in their uncertain world. “
Love Company: L Company, 399th Infantry Regiment, of the 100th Infantry Division during World War II and Beyond
Goodbye Junie Moon
Vietnam wartime (not combat memoirs, but true story)
Metfield Parish and Poor in the 18th Century
From Grief to Celebration, How One Family Learned to Embrace the Gift of Down Syndrome
Giving Him Back To God
Story of a chronically ill child, how his family dealt.
The Birds and the Bees, Bullies and Other Things Life with Autism Has Taught Me.
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FICTION
Alaska Tracks; footprints in the Big Country from Ambler to Attu
”Imagine following your bliss in a place that intrigues you, learning its geography by sleeping on its lumps and drinking from its rivers and creeks. Ned Rozell lives that experience. Here, he shares it with you.” Author “has written more than 80 adventure and natural history columns for Alaska Magazine and is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has written more than 600 weekly newspaper columns.”
Sliding on the Snow Stone
"It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin’s Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine...the true story of Stefan's extraordinary journey across a landscape of hunger, fear and devastating loss. With Europe on the brink of World War Two, Stefan and his family pray they'll survive in their uncertain world. “
Love Company: L Company, 399th Infantry Regiment, of the 100th Infantry Division during World War II and Beyond
Goodbye Junie Moon
Vietnam wartime (not combat memoirs, but true story)
Metfield Parish and Poor in the 18th Century
From Grief to Celebration, How One Family Learned to Embrace the Gift of Down Syndrome
Giving Him Back To God
Story of a chronically ill child, how his family dealt.
The Birds and the Bees, Bullies and Other Things Life with Autism Has Taught Me.------------------------------------
FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
GRAVE DANGERS--A Green Mountain Mystery
”After his mother is murdered in his presence, thirteen year old David is deeply traumatized and sees no hope or help but to hide out in the woods near their home in Vermont. That he escapes notice of the locals may have more to do with the fact that this is a community that specializes in minding its own business. David manages to stay hidden for the next five years, living on his wits and sheer determination. But when the Bradley's and their children move into the neighborhood near his old home, life forever changes for David.” (from review)
GRAVE DANGERS--A Green Mountain Mystery
”After his mother is murdered in his presence, thirteen year old David is deeply traumatized and sees no hope or help but to hide out in the woods near their home in Vermont. That he escapes notice of the locals may have more to do with the fact that this is a community that specializes in minding its own business. David manages to stay hidden for the next five years, living on his wits and sheer determination. But when the Bradley's and their children move into the neighborhood near his old home, life forever changes for David.” (from review)
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
Critical Incident
”A wave of inexplicable vandalism from the city's homeless sweeps the town - but the more the local police force tug on the thread of what might be behind this strangely coordinated effort, the more their understanding of events unravels. Soon, a group of officers are swept into a dark and deadly underground world of murder and medical supplies, chemicals and corruption, confusion and confectioner's gel. A head-scratching mystery quickly becomes a heart-pounding action thrill ride filled with twists, turns, and maybe even a Pez dispenser supercomputer or two. With lives in the balance, what will be the outcome of the city's most 'CRITICAL INCIDENT' to date?”
Preserve Protect & Defend
”While investigating corruption and evil alliances within the American government, an assassination attempt on Vice President Aaron Banner leaves him in a coma. Only a week earlier, Aaron gave his chief of staff, Paula Brackett, an envelope with instructions to, “Open only if something happens to me.” Paula soon finds herself fighting not only for her country, but for her life. While Aaron is in a coma, he is transported in time to personally experience key moments in history. Aaron is taught unforgettable lessons from some of the wisest men who have ever lived—George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and others. This book beautifully blends remarkable research and details of the founding of America with an inspiring and engaging story.”
Critical Incident
”A wave of inexplicable vandalism from the city's homeless sweeps the town - but the more the local police force tug on the thread of what might be behind this strangely coordinated effort, the more their understanding of events unravels. Soon, a group of officers are swept into a dark and deadly underground world of murder and medical supplies, chemicals and corruption, confusion and confectioner's gel. A head-scratching mystery quickly becomes a heart-pounding action thrill ride filled with twists, turns, and maybe even a Pez dispenser supercomputer or two. With lives in the balance, what will be the outcome of the city's most 'CRITICAL INCIDENT' to date?”
Preserve Protect & Defend
”While investigating corruption and evil alliances within the American government, an assassination attempt on Vice President Aaron Banner leaves him in a coma. Only a week earlier, Aaron gave his chief of staff, Paula Brackett, an envelope with instructions to, “Open only if something happens to me.” Paula soon finds herself fighting not only for her country, but for her life. While Aaron is in a coma, he is transported in time to personally experience key moments in history. Aaron is taught unforgettable lessons from some of the wisest men who have ever lived—George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and others. This book beautifully blends remarkable research and details of the founding of America with an inspiring and engaging story.”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
Cyberdrome
“Mathew Grey is a brilliant scientist who accidentally unleashed a man-made plague that ravaged America’s heartland, and now threatens the rest of the planet. Riddled with guilt and running out of time, he decides to use a dangerous technology to enter a computer-generated reality called Cyberdrome, hoping to unravel a mystery that could be the key to Earth’s survival.”
Just Reading
The Happy Harold Stories
”Ten year old Harold Spencer lives in the Wiltshire village of Plumley, in post-war austerity-hit Britain. Although never with malice aforethought as our legal eagles say, Harold regularly brings confusion and chaos to the otherwise docile backwater of Plumley. No matter what he does, or says, if Happy Harold Spencer is around, something is bound to go wrong, and when it does, a queue of angry villagers form a queue at Harold's abode, waiting to demand immediate reparation for damage to mind, body and even soul, from the weary Mr Bernard Spencer.” 7 stories included; see link for descriptions.
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Cyberdrome
“Mathew Grey is a brilliant scientist who accidentally unleashed a man-made plague that ravaged America’s heartland, and now threatens the rest of the planet. Riddled with guilt and running out of time, he decides to use a dangerous technology to enter a computer-generated reality called Cyberdrome, hoping to unravel a mystery that could be the key to Earth’s survival.”
Just Reading
The Happy Harold Stories
”Ten year old Harold Spencer lives in the Wiltshire village of Plumley, in post-war austerity-hit Britain. Although never with malice aforethought as our legal eagles say, Harold regularly brings confusion and chaos to the otherwise docile backwater of Plumley. No matter what he does, or says, if Happy Harold Spencer is around, something is bound to go wrong, and when it does, a queue of angry villagers form a queue at Harold's abode, waiting to demand immediate reparation for damage to mind, body and even soul, from the weary Mr Bernard Spencer.” 7 stories included; see link for descriptions.
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This post shared at:
Living Green Tuesdays Link-Up #33
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