Carter, Erika
Summary: Ellie, Chloe and Rachel are friends (sort of); waitresses at the same tired bar in the Arkansas college town they've stuck around in too long. Each is becoming unmoored in her own way: Ellie obliterates all feeling with alcohol and self-destructive acts of sexual promiscuity; Chloe pulls out patches of her hair and struggles to keep incipient mental illness at bay; changeable Rachel has fallen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHoffman, Nancy
Summary: "Whether you're looking to lead a healthier life, protect the environment, or save money, The Self-Sufficient Home will show you how to transition from your current lifestyle to a self-sufficient one with hundreds of tips that you can start doing right now. You'll not only improve your day-to-day life with these basic living skills, but will also prepare yourself for any disaster that might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 HOFCarns, Ted.
Summary: Ted and Kathy Carns are living a 21st century success story of zero waste, total recycling and astonishing inventiveness. Their five-acre home in western Pennsylvania is a warm, inviting showcase of self-reliant living. They have all the comforts of modern life, from flat screen TV to morning smoothies from their solar powered blender.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynn's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CARRinner, Ben
Summary: "The Self-Sufficient Backyard is a detailed resource for new backyard farmers. No matter where you live, what size your yard is, or how much gardening experience you have, this book will guide you through the steps of creating your own mini-farm. The pages within will show you where and how to start, lead you through the most common challenges, and teach you how to create the perfect homestead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home RinnerThurow, Stephanie
Summary: "With over thirty-five years of combined experience, homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have taught thousands of people across the globe how to garden, preserve food, tend backyard chickens, cook from scratch, and care for their families with natural homemade alternatives. Now, their homesteading knowledge and instruction can be found in one place with Small-Scale Homesteading. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Whether you live deep in the woods or on the top floor of a high-rise apartment, we truly believe that you can enrich your life by becoming more self-reliant. This magazine contains articles on cooking, DIY information, gardening, livestock, foraging, building, and preparedness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Reliance Publications 2016
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Gehring, Abigail R.
Summary: Gehring’s books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, Gehring offers a guide to country living skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GEHWebb, Leah M.
Summary: "Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year. Step-by-step photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 WEBSaury, Alain.
Summary: This practical and poetic "survival manual" is the first English translation of the French masterpiece of living wild in the world and creating a permaculture. Back to the Wild is your source for everything from cartography to hunting and dressing wild game to cooking without a kitchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Process Media 2015
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Summary: "Make healthier life choices to heal yourself and the environment through self-sufficiency. Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern provides the tools for living slowly, intentionally, and better through permaculture, edible gardening, and organic farming"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Pear Press 2022
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Summary: When a crisis hits, we all wish we could be a little more self-sufficient. With Breaking the Grid , you can learn to live completely off the grid or just be a little more environmentally conscious. In this comprehensive guide, you can find step-by-step photographed instructions for everything from making your own paper products to microgardening, from building furniture to harnessing solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familius 2022
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Summary: "Based on the blog of the same name, Attainable Sustainable shows readers how to live a simpler, more self-reliant life. It includes instructions not only for growing and cooking food but also for creating artisanal items for the home as well as navigating the great outdoors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BORCandlin, Alison
Summary: Absolutely all you need to know to provide you and your family with homegrown food throughout the year. Offers easy to follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm, an allotment, or a backyard garden. Includes step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Books 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 333.7913 HOPStrawbridge, Dick.
Summary: Father and son co-hosts of the UK television show, "It's not easy being green," share their experiences from Newhouse Farm in Cornwall, England, in this practical guide that covers wide ranging projects related to energy conservation, vegetable gardening and animal husbandry, and traditional crafts. Step-by-step photographs accompany detailed sketches and instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2010
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Summary: In this tour de force of investigative reporting, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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Summary: The author adapts the procedures of his successful Virginia farm to the scale of small land owners and city dwellers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyface, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 SALHaspel, Tamar
Summary: "Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASPEL, TAMAR HASConover, Ted
Summary: In May 2017 Conover went to Colorado to explore a rural way of life cheaply, on his own land-- and keeping clear of the mainstream. But along with independence and stunning views can come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. This is his story of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. In their struggles to survive and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.2 CONEspiritu, Kevin
Summary: "Epic Homesteading is the ultimate guide to starting a modern, high-tech homestead with advice on growing and preserving food, raising chickens and bees, utilizing solar power, harvesting rainwater, and so much more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATAnderson, Rohan.
Summary: Counsels readers on how to live off the land and provide fresh, locally produced food for a family, sharing instructions for setting up a garden, hunting small game, catching fish, and identifying plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerHouse Books 2012
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Summary: Brett Markham explains how to ferment just about anything you can grow, and reminds us that gourmet cheeses, fancy vinegars, and store-bought wines can be expensive - making your own can not only be fun but will save money. Learn to make sourdough or experiment with making wine using a countertop juice machine. Inside you'll find recipes and instructions with checklists, extensive tables,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre MarkhamDeppe, Carol.
Summary: Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields--resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. Here, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2010