David Toht

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

A Hands-On, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide

A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance readers' sustainable living. Even if they are only moderately handy, they'll discover the tools and techniques for building their own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, they'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it themselves.

40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead

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Abigail Gehring

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers--even if you live in a city apartment you will find your imagination sparked, and there's no reason why you can't, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.

Back to Basics

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Carla Emery

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Original Manual for Living off the Land and Doing It Yourself

#1 — The Best Country and Rural Living Books* #1 — 15 Best Homesteading Books for Beginners in 2021** For more than 50 years, this homesteading classic is the essential book of basic skills and country wisdom for living off the land, being prepared, and doing it yourself. Keep your family healthy, safe, and independent--no matter what's going on in the world. From homesteaders to urban farmers, and everyone in between, there is a desire for a simpler way of life: a healthier, greener, more self-sustaining, and holistic approach that allows you to survive and thrive—even in uncertain times. With its origins in the back-to-the-land movement of the late 1960s, Carla Emery’s landmark book has grown into a comprehensive guide to living a self-sustaining lifestyle. Learn how to live independently in this comprehensive guide, including how to: * Can, dry, and preserve food * Plan your garden * Grow your own food * Make 20-minute cheese * Make your own natural skincare products * Bake bread * Cook on a wood stove * Learn beekeeping * Raise chickens, goats, and pigs * Create natural skincare products * Make organic bug spray * Treat your family with homemade remedies * Make fruit leather * Forage for wild food * Spin wool into yarn * Mill your own flour * Tap a maple tree And more! Basic, thorough, and reliable, this book deserves a place in urban and rural homes alike. This 50th anniversary edition includes updated resources. * Bookscrolling ** OutdoorHappens

The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition

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Edward C. Smith

Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-d System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil

A fully updated 10th-anniversary edition covers more vegetables, fruits and herbs than the first edition and includes full-color photos, extended-season growing advice, sections on organic gardening and solutions for small-space gardening. Original.

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition

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Suzanne Ashworth

Kent Whealy

David Cavagnaro

Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition

Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.

Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for the home garden.

This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West Coast, and Northwest.

Seed to Seed

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Martingale and Company Staff

The Ultimate Guide for the Beginner to the Advanced Crocheter

Whether you're a new crocheter or just want to try new techniques, this must-have resource offers all the know-how you'll ever need. And it's now in paperback!
 * Walk step-by-step from basic to advanced methods
 * Learn the easy way with more than 1000 close-up photographs featuring real hands holding real yarn
 * Fix mistakes, shape garments, and find the answers to almost any crochet question

A to Z of Crochet

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Betty Barnden

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

More Than 70 Designs with Easy-to-Follow Charts

Filet Crochet

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Edie Eckman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Creative Techniques for Joining Motifs of All Shapes; Includes 101 New Motif Designs

Connecting beautiful motifs can be just as enjoyable as crocheting them. Edie Eckman's creative joining techniques allow you to easily combine multiples to form a whole new pattern, from lacy links, swirls, radiants, and wheels to three-dimensional effects. Step-by-step instructions, detailed photography, and innovative stitching charts ensure success. With 100 brand-new motif designs at your fingertips, you'll be free to explore limitless variations and capture your own personal style. 

Connect the Shapes Crochet Motifs

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Sarah-Jane Hicks

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

20 Super-Cute Kawaii Crochet Projects for the Festive Season

20 fabulously cute amigurumi, kawaii-style crocheted Christmas projects to make. Do you love to decorate your home and make wonderful Christmas decorations for all your family and friends to enjoy? Then this is the book for you. Amigurumi Christmas will delight and surprise with its fantastically cute, kawaii-style crocheted Christmas cuties. There are 20 great projects to make, including a wonderful Father Christmas accompanied by a lovely Mrs Christmas; a cute penguin, polar bear and gingerbread man; a Brussels sprout, Christmas angel and even pigs in blankets! With a short techniques section at the beginning to explain the basics, these projects can be worked up quickly and easily using small amounts of yarn in your stash. You can even customize some of the projects if you wish and make Santa, the elf or the snowman's head into baubles with a short piece of yarn to hang them up. Whether you make these for your family or as gifts for friends, now is the time to pick up your hook and get crocheting amigurumi style!

Amigurumi Christmas

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Ilaria Caliri

15 Original Crochet Patterns

Presents 15 easy to make amigurumi with designs inspired by winter and the Christmas season.

Amigurumi Winter Wonderland

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Lauren Espy

Paige Tate & Co.

Whimsical stitches a modern makers book of amigurumi crochet patterns

A Modern Makers Book of Amigurumi Crochet Patterns

2018 and 2019’s No. 1 Best-selling Amigurumi Book in the U.S.! Explore Amigurumi, the Japanese art of crochet design, with 30 unique and darling patterns. Whether a novice or an experienced crocheter, anyone can pick up a needle and complete these cuddly creations. Author and amigurumi guru Lauren Espy inspires crocheters with her easy-to-follow patterns, pictures, and helpful instructions. Lauren always takes the patterns one step at a time to ensure that your finished product is as cute as the creation on the page! In Whimsical Stitches: A Modern Makers Book of Amigurumi Crochet Patterns, amigurumi is explored through 30 simple, fanciful patterns in a variety of themes, including: • In the Garden • At the Aquarium • Down on the Farm • At the Bakery Brighten a room with flowers that won’t wilt, bring cheer to your table with colorful fruits that won’t attract flies, and add cuddly friends to a baby’s collection of favorite toys.

Whimsical Stitches

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Bring 14 Magical Characters to Life!

Whip out your crochet hook and summon your coziest chair: the crochet spells in this brand-new collection will work their magic to bring 14 fantastical amigurumi to life! The cute creatures in this magical world will charm you all. Go for a swim with the mermaids and nymphs, go Nessie-spotting and dragon hunting and follow the fairies and unicorns on a walk through the forest. And there's much more waiting for you at the end of the rainbow! Beginners as well as advanced crocheters can conjure up these adorable fantasy creatures with a flick of their hooks. All patterns are accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions as well as explanations of all stitches used, and are easily customizable, so it's a small step to imagine your very own fantasy amigurumi!

Unicorns, Dragons and More Fantasy Amigurumi

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Richard M. Hannula

Stories from Church History

"Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls"(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God took on human flesh and dwelt among us. The Spirit carried that divine work over the centuries, providing courage and maturity even amid our imperfections. Christians find their true family line not through tribes and ethnic blood but in the bond of faithfulness and shed blood that has united our family for millennia. We too often view Church history as the story of obscure aliens instead of the lives of brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. In this collection of forty-six brief biographies for children, Hannula sketches the stirring trials and triumphs of many famous and some lesser known figures in our family of faithincluding Augustine, Charlemagne, Luther, Bunyan, and C.S. Lewis. Through them we can begin to enjoy the old paths and find rest for our souls.

Trial and Triumph

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Esther Hoskins Forbes

A vivid history of one of America's best-loved patriots.

America's Paul Revere

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Ingri d'Aulaire

Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

An introduction to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece.

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

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Holling C. Holling

A toy Indian and his canoe travel from Lake Nipigon to the Atlantic Ocean.

Paddle-To-the-Sea

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A 1949 Newbery Honor Book



The history of America at sea is presented through the travels of Seabird, a carved ivory gull.

Seabird

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Ingri D'Aulaire

Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

Leif the Lucky

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Early American History

The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on a cottonwood tree and the events that happen around it.

Tree in the Trail

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Karen Andreola

Charlotte M. Mason

Nature Study with the Gentle Art of Learning: A Story for Mother Culture

Pocketful of Pinecones

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Gladys Hunt

Gladys M. Hunt

The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

Discusses the role of books in a child's development, providing parents and educators with a guide to outstanding works of prose and poetry.

Honey for a Child's Heart

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Tristan Gooley

Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals--And Other Forgotten Skills

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing wind; the scent of cinnamon suggests altitude; a budding flower points south. To help you understand nature as he does, Gooley shares more than 850 tips for forecasting, tracking, and more, gathered from decades spent walking the landscape around his home and around the world. Whether you’re walking in the country or city, along a coastline, or by night, this is the ultimate resource on what the land, sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and clouds can reveal—if you only know how to look!

The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

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Martingale and Company Staff

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Betty Barnden

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Edie Eckman

Connect the Shapes Crochet Motifs

Sarah-Jane Hicks

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Richard M. Hannula

Trial and Triumph

Esther Hoskins Forbes

America's Paul Revere

Ingri d'Aulaire; Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Holling C. Holling

Paddle-To-the-Sea

Holling C. Holling

Seabird

Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

Leif the Lucky

Rea Berg and Joshua Berg

Early American History

Holling C. Holling

Tree in the Trail

Karen Andreola; Charlotte M. Mason

Pocketful of Pinecones

Gladys Hunt; Gladys M. Hunt

Honey for a Child's Heart

Tristan Gooley

The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

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