Will Leitch

Front of dust jacket has a mild rumple on the top portion. Otherwise like new. BOTM edition. See photos. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Novel

Unable to speak or move without a wheelchair, Daniel, spending hours observing his neighborhood from his front porch, believes he has witnessed the kidnapping of a young college student and vows to solve this mystery.

How Lucky

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Peter C. Brown

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Joining a team of Nome-bound prospectors in order to escape a stormy marriage in 1900, Essie, a midwestern farm girl, supports herself by delivering mail and finds herself drawn to idealistic foreman Nate Deaton, a relationship that Essie fears will be challenged by her husband. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

The Fugitive Wife

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J. Courtney Sullivan

Moderate wear to cover and spine. Inner portion is pristine. See photos. 

As three generations of Kelleher women descend on their family's Maine beach property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, this novel unveils sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family.

Maine

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Cynthia Ruchti

Lucy and Charlie Tuttle agree on one thing: they're committed to each other for life. Trouble is, neither of them expected life to look like this. While Charlie retired early, Lucy is devoted to a long-term career . . . until the day she has no choice. Forced to retire from her position as music educator in a small Midwestern K-8 school, Lucy can only watch helplessly as the program her father started years ago disintegrates before her eyes. As the music fades and a chasm separates her from the passion of her heart, Lucy wonders if her faith's song has gone silent, too. The musical score of her life seems to be missing all the notes.When a simple misstep threatens to silence Lucy forever, a young boy and his soundless mother change the way she sees--and hears--everything.

Song of Silence

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Ken Follett

Tape on top edge of cover. See photos. Otherwise excellent. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Pillars of the Earth: Book 1

Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.

The Pillars of the Earth

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Rachel Brathen

Black mark on base, otherwise like new. See photos. 

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Gratitude

“Rachel beautifully illustrates that loving fiercely and grieving deeply are often two halves of the same whole. Her story will break you down and lift you up.” —Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising While on her way to teach a yoga retreat in March 2014, Rachel Brathen collapses at an airport, brought to her knees by excruciating stomach pains. She is rushed to the hospital on the tiny island of Bonaire, and hours later forced to undergo surgery. When she wakes up from anesthesia, her boyfriend is weeping at her bedside. While Rachel was struck down with seemingly mysterious pain, her best friend, Andrea, sustained fatal injuries as a result of a car accident. Rachel and Andrea had a magical friendship. Though they looked nothing alike—one girl tall, blond, and Swedish, the other short, brunette, and Colombian—everyone called them gemelas: twins. Over the three years following Andrea’s death, at what might appear from the outside to be the happiest time—with her engagement to the man she loves and a blossoming career that takes her all over the world—Rachel faces a series of trials that have the potential to define her life. Unresolved grief and trauma from her childhood make the weight of her sadness unbearable. At each turn, she is confronted again and again with a choice: Will she lose it all, succumb to grief, and grasp for control that’s beyond her reach? Or can she move through the loss and let go? When Rachel and her husband conceive a child, pregnancy becomes a time to heal and an opportunity to be reborn herself. As she recounts this transformative period, Rachel shares her hard-won wisdom about life and death, love and fear, what it means to be a mother and a daughter, and how to become someone who walks through the fire of adversity with the never-ending practice of loving hard and letting go.

To Love and Let Go ** First Edition 

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Frances Alatalo

First edition. In excellent condition. See photos. 

Tahquamenon Area Poems

North by Choice **First Edition 

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Martha Martin

1967 edition, 8th Printing, Macmillan Company. No dust jacket. Inscription inside front cover , black mark on inner cover and adjoining cover page. See photoy. Otherwise in excellent condition. 

1967 Edition 

O Rugged Land of Gold

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Bernard DeVoto

1997 edition. Yellowing due to age. Moderate wear on edges and mildly scuffed. See photos. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

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Maxwell

Yellowing due to age. 1997 edition. Otherwise pristine. See photos. 

Travel Tales from Inner Montana to Outer Mongolia

Recounts the author's adventurous travels around the globe, including braving whitewater rapids, trailing humpback whales, and pursuing the elusive Alaskan ice worm

Femme d'Adventure

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Helen Hoover

1999 reprint, mild wear to cover. Writing inside front page, snall stain inside cover and on front page. See photos. Otherwise excellent. 

Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.A Place in the Woods, first published in 1969, describes how the Hoovers gradually adapted to the rigors of wilderness survival, relating events that occurred prior to those Helen Hoover described in her bestselling The Girl of the Deer. This is a tale of starting out, of the pitfalls of beginning a new life -- one punctuated by near disasters but also by moments of rare beauty. A Place in the Woods is enlivened by warm, humorous anecdotes showing both the struggle and reward involved in joining this small community of rabbits, deer, and distant neighbors. This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, conveys the special joy of each small victory in the wilderness.

Place in the Woods

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Louise Dickinson Rich

Alice Arlen

Robert Kimber

Small crease on bottom of front cover. Pre-owned but unread. See photos. Reprint. Original published in 1942.

In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to write about their lives. We Took to the Woods is an adventure story, written with humor, but it also portrays a cherished dream awakened into full life. First published 1942.

We Took to the Woods

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Terry Silber

1989 reprint. Mild wear to cover, yellowing due to age. See photos. 

In the early '70s, Terry and Mark Silber were busy pursuing urban careers. On weekends, they retreated to a farm in Maine. Soon they were selling their produce at the farmer's market. One Monday, they didn't go back, and Hedgehog Hill farm was born. Here is how they were transformed from office dwellers to country folk living off the land.

A Small Farm in Maine

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Jeanine McMullen

Vintage 1985 edition. Wear to cover and edges. Inner portion is perfect, other than yellowing due to age. See photos. 

My Small Country Living

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Virginia Bell Dabnay

In pristine condition. 1990 edition. See photos. 

A Rural Childhood Remembered

Nearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm during the hardscrabble years of the 1920s and 1930s. Her determined, independent mother managed to make a life for her family, despite hardships such as the Depression and a fire that destroyed their home. Although raised in a spare environment where leaky ceilings and cold winter nights were the norm, Dabney finds much to love, and to rejoice over, in her country upbringing: the wonder of hens laying eggs, the sensations associated with milking a cow, her warm friendship with her mother's black maid. The remarkable clarity of her half-century-old memories and her simple, unaffected tone bring this country childhood unforgettably to life.

Once There Was a Farm

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Richard Proenneke

Sam Keith

An Alaskan Odyssey

Shares the experience of living alone in the Alaskan wilderness

One Man's Wilderness

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Ronald Jager

Donald Hall

Discoloration on back from upc sticker, evidence of sticker removal on spine. Otherwise excellent. See photos. 

Elegy for a Family Farm

In this richly detailed memoir, Ronald Jager evokes rural America of 50 years ago and a boy's life on a small family farm in Michigan. "Jager's memoir is full of life, an act of preservation tendered to us from an irresistible perspective of love".--The New York Times Book Review.

Eighty Acres

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Amanda Eyre Ward

The perfect lives of the affluent Winters family--father, mother, and three beautiful daughters--begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes, but fifteen years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, driven by the discovery of a photograph in People magazine, embarks for a search for her long-lost sister. By the author of Sleep Toward Heaven. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

How to Be Lost

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Betsy Lerner

Front cover creased otherwise like new. See photos. 

A Memoir

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.

After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast.

Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had.

By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter.

The Bridge Ladies

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Rick Bragg

Brand new. Pre-owned but unread. See photos. 

A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance

All over but the Shoutin'

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Laurie Graham

Top of front cover has fold snd crumple. See photos. Spine shows wear. 

From the author of the acclaimed The Future Homemakers of America comes a funny and moving novel about a high-spirited, unconventional woman whose life is a celebration of passion's triumph over prudence. What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair and big ears-and an unquenchable lust for fun. Her mother Dora despairs of ever finding her a husband, despite the lure ofthe Minkel family mustard fortune. Social mores, duty, and ear-correcting bandages are the weapons of Dora's husband hunt, but they only serve to torture a girl who has her own ideas about beauty, love, and marriage. Then, her father dies on the Titanic. And as WWI opens up new horizons, Poppy's tendency toward the unconventional finds room to blossom. Without a moment of self-doubt, Poppy reinvents herself in step with the unfolding modern century.

The Great Husband Hunt

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Eowyn Ivey

Speckling on top edge. Mild discoloration on outter edge. Otherwise pristine. See photos. This is a retelling of the Russian fairytale Snegurochka. 

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

The Snow Child

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Heidi Howkins

Mild wear on outer edges of cover. Stamp inside. Otherwise pristine. See photos. 

The tales of a single mother who has climbed K2, just a little lower than Everest, but "steeper, tougher, and deadlier."--Jacket.

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Paul Lussier

A Revolutionary Novel

From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin to those whom history has neglected, the human side of the American Revolution that was never taught in school is told from the perspective of two star-crossed lovers.

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