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Now back to today's books:
NONFICTION
General Self-Sufficiency and Survival
Weekend Homesteader: July
” Twelve months to self-sufficiency! This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise. The July volume includes the following projects: • Planting a fall garden • Freezing food • Hanging your clothes out to dry • Making a budget The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.”
Prep School: Cooking Without Electricity
Hurricane Preparation and Survival
” … how to determine what needs to be done and how to properly prepare in the easiest and less stressfaul way possible. It takes you step by step showing you what you need to do to make sure you and your family are safe and secure and your home well protected… With over 115 pages of vital information...a section on Blizzards as well”
47 Things An Identity Thief Doesn't Want You To Know
Weekend Homesteader: July
” Twelve months to self-sufficiency! This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise. The July volume includes the following projects: • Planting a fall garden • Freezing food • Hanging your clothes out to dry • Making a budget The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.”
Prep School: Cooking Without Electricity
Hurricane Preparation and Survival
” … how to determine what needs to be done and how to properly prepare in the easiest and less stressfaul way possible. It takes you step by step showing you what you need to do to make sure you and your family are safe and secure and your home well protected… With over 115 pages of vital information...a section on Blizzards as well”
47 Things An Identity Thief Doesn't Want You To Know
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Cooking Breakfast With Will and Dan
Teaching children the important life and self-reliance skill of cooking for themselves and their families. This one’s about breakfast.
Raised Bed Gardening - Ten Good Reasons For Growing Plants In A Raised Bed Garden
Weeds, Water & Mulch (Gardening Briefs for Beginners)
The Art of Perfect Bread Baking (Delicious Recipes)
Cooking Breakfast With Will and DanTeaching children the important life and self-reliance skill of cooking for themselves and their families. This one’s about breakfast.
Raised Bed Gardening - Ten Good Reasons For Growing Plants In A Raised Bed Garden
Weeds, Water & Mulch (Gardening Briefs for Beginners)
The Art of Perfect Bread Baking (Delicious Recipes)
Health
Seasons of Pain
Physical pain related to trauma
Secret Life of the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale
Done in fiction form but educational. Part One of a longer novel called "Cystic Fibrosis & the Brewer's Yeast"
Seasons of Pain
Physical pain related to trauma
Secret Life of the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale
Done in fiction form but educational. Part One of a longer novel called "Cystic Fibrosis & the Brewer's Yeast"
Ideas/Theory
Money, Budgeting, and Consumer Math: with Examples, Problems, and Explained Solutions
” a crash course in all things money. Real life scenarios and problem sets teach the broad financial concepts of saving, budgeting, investing, managing credit, recognizing risk, and understanding how businesses work. Recommended for Grades 5 and up. “ By a teacher/educational writer
Confident Kids: How Parents Can Raise Positive, Confident, Resilient and Focused Kids (The Parenting Trap)
The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth: A Neural Network Approach
” Factors required to achieve sustainable economic growth have eluded economists and policy makers for generations. In this work, written in residence at Harvard University, former Microsoft Program Manager Sven Simon presents a quantitative analysis of a combination of thousands of macroeconomic and geopolitical data points spanning over fifty years using state of the art neural network data mining analytics. “
The Parmenides Prophecy (The Einstein Metaphysics)
” This short non-fiction book is a brief hypothesis describing the basis of Albert Einstein’s unified field theory, and a theory of everything that attempts to explain the cause and meaning of the autistic spectrum of behaviors.
The book also represents a viable alternative perception of the origins of autistic patterned behaviors that suggests and provokes inclusive methods of treatment which would examine – and make paramount – how the self interest of the medical professionals and caregivers distorts with creative illusion the very being of the autistic person or patient whereby belief and reliance on physical mechanical - micro and macro - theoretical causes of autism guarantees continued alienation between and among the health professional community and the observed autistic.”
Money, Budgeting, and Consumer Math: with Examples, Problems, and Explained Solutions
” a crash course in all things money. Real life scenarios and problem sets teach the broad financial concepts of saving, budgeting, investing, managing credit, recognizing risk, and understanding how businesses work. Recommended for Grades 5 and up. “ By a teacher/educational writer
Confident Kids: How Parents Can Raise Positive, Confident, Resilient and Focused Kids (The Parenting Trap)
The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth: A Neural Network Approach
” Factors required to achieve sustainable economic growth have eluded economists and policy makers for generations. In this work, written in residence at Harvard University, former Microsoft Program Manager Sven Simon presents a quantitative analysis of a combination of thousands of macroeconomic and geopolitical data points spanning over fifty years using state of the art neural network data mining analytics. “
The Parmenides Prophecy (The Einstein Metaphysics)
” This short non-fiction book is a brief hypothesis describing the basis of Albert Einstein’s unified field theory, and a theory of everything that attempts to explain the cause and meaning of the autistic spectrum of behaviors.
The book also represents a viable alternative perception of the origins of autistic patterned behaviors that suggests and provokes inclusive methods of treatment which would examine – and make paramount – how the self interest of the medical professionals and caregivers distorts with creative illusion the very being of the autistic person or patient whereby belief and reliance on physical mechanical - micro and macro - theoretical causes of autism guarantees continued alienation between and among the health professional community and the observed autistic.”
True Accounts
Moving Forward: Stories of Hometown Heroes
“These are the inspiring people you’ll meet in this book – people who have suffered great tragedies and have fought back to become extraordinary people. You'll see how they deal with spinal-cord injury, depression, disability and all the other obstacles in their way. Their message is simple: You always can move forward, if you don’t give up.”
Long Road, Hard Lessons
“Aged 50, Mark Swain left his slippers by the fire and set off with his 18yr old son on a cycle expedition from Ireland to Japan. “We’ll train on the way,” he said. Physical challenges, border bureaucracy, health scares and traffic hazards were all anticipated. What they underestimated was the conflict they faced, spending 24hrs a day together under such arduous conditions.”
Letters to Bryce
“In August 2009, Shaun Thistlethwaite discovers he had Stage four colon cancer just months after he and his wife, Melissa welcomed their first child into the world. Realizing he doesn't have much time to live, Shaun begins writing letters to Bryce so that his son can get to know him better. Along with discussing his views on life, Shaun demonstrates the incredible daily bond he shares with Bryce. The letters represent an emotional journey as Shaun struggles and adapts to his deteriorating condition, while always keeping Bryce at the forefront of his life. Shaun Thistlethwaite passed away on October 5, 2011, shortly after completing Letters to Bryce.”
A Sea Story: The Untold Story of the U.S. Navy Response to 9/11.
Escaping the Arroyo
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FICTION
Moving Forward: Stories of Hometown Heroes
“These are the inspiring people you’ll meet in this book – people who have suffered great tragedies and have fought back to become extraordinary people. You'll see how they deal with spinal-cord injury, depression, disability and all the other obstacles in their way. Their message is simple: You always can move forward, if you don’t give up.”
Long Road, Hard Lessons
“Aged 50, Mark Swain left his slippers by the fire and set off with his 18yr old son on a cycle expedition from Ireland to Japan. “We’ll train on the way,” he said. Physical challenges, border bureaucracy, health scares and traffic hazards were all anticipated. What they underestimated was the conflict they faced, spending 24hrs a day together under such arduous conditions.”
Letters to Bryce
“In August 2009, Shaun Thistlethwaite discovers he had Stage four colon cancer just months after he and his wife, Melissa welcomed their first child into the world. Realizing he doesn't have much time to live, Shaun begins writing letters to Bryce so that his son can get to know him better. Along with discussing his views on life, Shaun demonstrates the incredible daily bond he shares with Bryce. The letters represent an emotional journey as Shaun struggles and adapts to his deteriorating condition, while always keeping Bryce at the forefront of his life. Shaun Thistlethwaite passed away on October 5, 2011, shortly after completing Letters to Bryce.”
A Sea Story: The Untold Story of the U.S. Navy Response to 9/11.
Escaping the Arroyo
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FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
Maclay: A Novel
“In the autumn of 1870, Nikolai Miklouho Maclay, a young marine biologist, left his home in St Petersburg to travel to the remote territory of New Guinea. It was the start of an adventure that was to test his courage and determination and force hime to examine the ideals that had inspired his quest for a people not yet spoiled by European civilization. This is a real adventure story and a fascinating reconstruction of Maclay's own account of his efforts to survive. The book follows him from his home in Russia into the jungles of New Guinea and the sophisticated Vice-Regal circles of the Dutch East Indies - a journey that would see him mistaken for a god and enshrined as a legend.”
Empire Found
“Book Three in the Empire Series of … historical dramas. Life is hard and brutal on the convict ships, as through all weathers, the First Fleet battles its way to Terra Australis Incognita, the unknown land of the South. In chains onboard the convict transport Alexander are Jack Woolf and Henry Howe who have been sentenced to transportation for life to New South Wales. Escape is impossible... or is it?”
The Point Of No Return (Le Point De Non Retour) (Beyond the Horizon)
”…the first family to settle in settle and successfully farm the land in the New World.. The bravery shown by Louis is epic as he learns new ways to survive in the vast wilderness and deep snows of Port Royale (modern day Nova Scotia) surrounded by other incredible people famed in history.…. Marie not only stayed home and kept up the apothecary shop while Louis was overseas-but she learned all of the skills necessary for survival in the New World. ..” Separate webpage for this book is here:
Maclay: A Novel
“In the autumn of 1870, Nikolai Miklouho Maclay, a young marine biologist, left his home in St Petersburg to travel to the remote territory of New Guinea. It was the start of an adventure that was to test his courage and determination and force hime to examine the ideals that had inspired his quest for a people not yet spoiled by European civilization. This is a real adventure story and a fascinating reconstruction of Maclay's own account of his efforts to survive. The book follows him from his home in Russia into the jungles of New Guinea and the sophisticated Vice-Regal circles of the Dutch East Indies - a journey that would see him mistaken for a god and enshrined as a legend.”
Empire Found
“Book Three in the Empire Series of … historical dramas. Life is hard and brutal on the convict ships, as through all weathers, the First Fleet battles its way to Terra Australis Incognita, the unknown land of the South. In chains onboard the convict transport Alexander are Jack Woolf and Henry Howe who have been sentenced to transportation for life to New South Wales. Escape is impossible... or is it?”
The Point Of No Return (Le Point De Non Retour) (Beyond the Horizon)
”…the first family to settle in settle and successfully farm the land in the New World.. The bravery shown by Louis is epic as he learns new ways to survive in the vast wilderness and deep snows of Port Royale (modern day Nova Scotia) surrounded by other incredible people famed in history.…. Marie not only stayed home and kept up the apothecary shop while Louis was overseas-but she learned all of the skills necessary for survival in the New World. ..” Separate webpage for this book is here:
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
A Box of Rocks
“…a mild-mannered scientist is way out of his league. His attempts to locate some old and mysteriously disappearing friends from college place him at the center of the inexplicable, global-scale machinations of their most successful classmate, a reclusive genius obsessed with the uncertainty of humanity’s future. “
A Box of Rocks
“…a mild-mannered scientist is way out of his league. His attempts to locate some old and mysteriously disappearing friends from college place him at the center of the inexplicable, global-scale machinations of their most successful classmate, a reclusive genius obsessed with the uncertainty of humanity’s future. “
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
Sub-Zero
” The world has struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer storms has taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2020, it is in the grip of a new Ice Age, all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleashed...”
Seasons of Change
“The U.S. economy, and most everything else, has collapsed when a trade war shuts off all U.S. imports. Everything east of the Mississippi River has fallen under the control of ruthless leaders who plans to start their own country. Money has no value but cash crops can be traded for guns. People are forced into labor camps and those at risk scramble to find a pace to hide..All Michael wanted to do when he moved into the north Georgia woods was to hide until he could rejoin his family when it was safe.” Others join his camp, which is discovered and they have to journey out west.
Sub-Zero
” The world has struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer storms has taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2020, it is in the grip of a new Ice Age, all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleashed...”
Seasons of Change
“The U.S. economy, and most everything else, has collapsed when a trade war shuts off all U.S. imports. Everything east of the Mississippi River has fallen under the control of ruthless leaders who plans to start their own country. Money has no value but cash crops can be traded for guns. People are forced into labor camps and those at risk scramble to find a pace to hide..All Michael wanted to do when he moved into the north Georgia woods was to hide until he could rejoin his family when it was safe.” Others join his camp, which is discovered and they have to journey out west.
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
Love in the Time of Technology (A Sci Fi Suspense Thriller)
” set in Globia, a dystopian, futuristic genetically engineered US city administered by the “Corporation” and its insidious artificial intelligence…”
The Kingdom of Four Rivers
” In the distant future, climate change has wrought havoc on the world, leaving isolated communities living beneath great shields. Ji Tao is a young peasant woman struggling to make sense of her place in the world of the Kingdom of Four Rivers. On a family expedition, she makes a startling discovery in an ancient crypt, sending Ji Tao on a breathtaking journey of danger and intrigue.”
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Just Reading
Kerouac's Scroll
By an accomplished writer. ‘Two old men, best friends for over half a century, take a road trip across the country to see the original scroll of Kerouac's masterpiece at the Smithsonian. To pass the time, they "rap" with hilarious "geezer" results about everything from sports to sex to wives. But each brings a dark secret that, when revealed, changes the trip and their lives. KEROUAC'S SCROLL is a dark comedy about aging, friendship, and end of life issues.”
Majestic Madness
” Joshua Norton may have lost his mind, but that didn't stop him from successfully declaring himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859. After growing and then losing his inheritance during the California Gold Rush, Norton commiserates in total isolation with a locket containing the visages of his parents. Once delusions of grandeur fully pervade his twisted mind, he rises from bankruptcy and emerges from exile to proclaim his majestic authority over an obliging San Francisco population. On his final brisk and rainy eve, Norton gifts the locket to a young boy. Years later, Emma, the boy's daughter, comes to possess the item and quickly discovers a cryptic clue alluding to treasure. Her adventurous nature allows her obsession with the locket to grow rampantly as more clues are revealed, leading her - and her reluctant fiancée - to South Africa and Norton's footprints.
For Time and Eternity (Sister Wife)
Not free in Canada (I don’t know where else.) ”All Camilla Deardon knows of the Mormons camping nearby is the songs she hears floating on the breeze. Then she meets one of them—a young man named Nathan Fox. Never did she imagine he would be so handsome, so charming, especially after Mama and Papa’s warnings to stay away. Though she knows she should obey her parents, Camilla can’t refuse her heart. But even Nathan’s promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.”
Sherlock Holmes & The Mystery of the Last Line (New Sherlock Holmes Adventures)
Shorter. “When Holmes rousts Watson and Mrs Hudson from their beds early one morning, they follow him without question, only to land at the estate of Holmesweald, Holmes's childhood home. Holmes has brought them there to see him through the process of ending his cocaine habit. Meanwhile, Watson discovers a diary that he is sure can help him solve the greatest mystery yet--that of Sherlock Holmes himself. “
The Senior Moment (Degrees of Separation series, Book 2)
”What do you need to pull off the perfect bank heist? An expert safecracker? A hoard of guns and explosives? Months of care planning? Unfortunately, English grandmother Jean Henderson has none of the above. But she has just discovered she possesses a secret weapon all professional criminals would kill for: turning sixty-five appears to have made her invisible. She arrives in New York to stay with her son, but finds his apartment empty. When she realises he has gone on the run to avoid a vicious loan shark, Jean decides to raise the money to save him. Using her secret weapon she embarks on a one-woman crime spree across Manhattan. But will she get the cash before her son is found floating face-down in the East River? (The author’s previous book) won the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction in 2011.”
Love in the Time of Technology (A Sci Fi Suspense Thriller)
” set in Globia, a dystopian, futuristic genetically engineered US city administered by the “Corporation” and its insidious artificial intelligence…”
The Kingdom of Four Rivers
” In the distant future, climate change has wrought havoc on the world, leaving isolated communities living beneath great shields. Ji Tao is a young peasant woman struggling to make sense of her place in the world of the Kingdom of Four Rivers. On a family expedition, she makes a startling discovery in an ancient crypt, sending Ji Tao on a breathtaking journey of danger and intrigue.”
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Just Reading
Kerouac's Scroll
By an accomplished writer. ‘Two old men, best friends for over half a century, take a road trip across the country to see the original scroll of Kerouac's masterpiece at the Smithsonian. To pass the time, they "rap" with hilarious "geezer" results about everything from sports to sex to wives. But each brings a dark secret that, when revealed, changes the trip and their lives. KEROUAC'S SCROLL is a dark comedy about aging, friendship, and end of life issues.”
Majestic Madness
” Joshua Norton may have lost his mind, but that didn't stop him from successfully declaring himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859. After growing and then losing his inheritance during the California Gold Rush, Norton commiserates in total isolation with a locket containing the visages of his parents. Once delusions of grandeur fully pervade his twisted mind, he rises from bankruptcy and emerges from exile to proclaim his majestic authority over an obliging San Francisco population. On his final brisk and rainy eve, Norton gifts the locket to a young boy. Years later, Emma, the boy's daughter, comes to possess the item and quickly discovers a cryptic clue alluding to treasure. Her adventurous nature allows her obsession with the locket to grow rampantly as more clues are revealed, leading her - and her reluctant fiancée - to South Africa and Norton's footprints.
For Time and Eternity (Sister Wife)
Not free in Canada (I don’t know where else.) ”All Camilla Deardon knows of the Mormons camping nearby is the songs she hears floating on the breeze. Then she meets one of them—a young man named Nathan Fox. Never did she imagine he would be so handsome, so charming, especially after Mama and Papa’s warnings to stay away. Though she knows she should obey her parents, Camilla can’t refuse her heart. But even Nathan’s promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.”
Sherlock Holmes & The Mystery of the Last Line (New Sherlock Holmes Adventures)
Shorter. “When Holmes rousts Watson and Mrs Hudson from their beds early one morning, they follow him without question, only to land at the estate of Holmesweald, Holmes's childhood home. Holmes has brought them there to see him through the process of ending his cocaine habit. Meanwhile, Watson discovers a diary that he is sure can help him solve the greatest mystery yet--that of Sherlock Holmes himself. “
The Senior Moment (Degrees of Separation series, Book 2)
”What do you need to pull off the perfect bank heist? An expert safecracker? A hoard of guns and explosives? Months of care planning? Unfortunately, English grandmother Jean Henderson has none of the above. But she has just discovered she possesses a secret weapon all professional criminals would kill for: turning sixty-five appears to have made her invisible. She arrives in New York to stay with her son, but finds his apartment empty. When she realises he has gone on the run to avoid a vicious loan shark, Jean decides to raise the money to save him. Using her secret weapon she embarks on a one-woman crime spree across Manhattan. But will she get the cash before her son is found floating face-down in the East River? (The author’s previous book) won the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction in 2011.”
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