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Process self-reliance seriesPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: The author takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals, scenes of ghostly hauntings, and strange local customs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2003
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Summary: Do you ever feel gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don't fit in? You might be a goblin! That means that your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more harmonious life by accepting and honoring them. Coyle shows you how to take inspiration from the frogs, fungi, moss, rocks and dirt that goblins love. She includes life advice for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 645 COYWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILRudd, Paul
Summary: After losing his job in New York, George and his wife Linda decide to try living an alternative lifestyle at the Elysium commune where nudism and free love abound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WANSundeen, Mark
Summary: A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SUNCalhoun, Ada.
Summary: St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 CALEmerzian, Matthew
Summary: Takes readers on a 52-week journey of reconnecting with what really matters, finding happiness and joy, and making a difference in the world. Each Monday offers readers a mindful moment to read and process, and provides several opportunities for them to engage. The back of the book also includes a journal-entry prompt and a conversation starter for each week.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simple Truths 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 EMEQuinn, Carrot
Summary: "After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunchof straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUINN, CARROT QUISundeen, Mark
Summary: Traces the path and philosophy of Daniel Suelo, who left his entire life savings of thirty dollars in a phone booth in 2000 and has lived a happy, fulfilled life in the caves of Utah without earning or spending money since that time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUELO, DANIEL SUNWoldoff, Rachael
Summary: "Digital nomads are knowledge workers who actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their work remotely, travelling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. They have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly posttheir "office of the day" photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like? This book takes readers into an expatriate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.7 WOLSaury, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SAUWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014