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From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
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From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
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From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Written by Mardi Jo Link
Read by Karen White
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $17.50
Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.
It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband...
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Written by Rob Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $19.00
An impassioned and inspiring story from the creator of the award-winning documentary Sharkwater.
Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snakes and chasing after alligators, Rob Stewart, the award-winning documentary filmmaker behind Sharkwater, charts his development into one of the world's leading environmental activists. Risking arrest and mafia reprisal in Costa...
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A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
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A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $25.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
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A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
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A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Written by Gretel Ehrlich
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.00
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent...
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A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Written by Gretel Ehrlich
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent...
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A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
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The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction
Written by Elizabeth Gehrman
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $26.95
The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction
Rare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption against incredible odds. It is the story of how Bermuda’s David Wingate changed the world—or at least a little... Read more >
The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction
Written by Elizabeth Gehrman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $26.95
The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction
Rare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption against incredible odds. It is the story of how Bermuda’s David Wingate changed the world—or at least a little... Read more >
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How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana
Written by Wendy J. Pabich
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $21.95
When Wendy Pabich received a monthly water bill for 30,000 gallons (for a household of two people and one dog), she was chagrined. After all, she is an expert on sustainable water use. So she set out to make a change. Taking on Water is the story of the author's personal... Read more >
How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana
Written by Wendy J. Pabich
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $21.95
When Wendy Pabich received a monthly water bill for 30,000 gallons (for a household of two people and one dog), she was chagrined. After all, she is an expert on sustainable water use. So she set out to make a change. Taking on Water is the story of the author's personal... Read more >
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The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Written by William Souder
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $30.00
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent...
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The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Written by William Souder
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.99
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent...
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Written by Rob Stewart
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.99
In Save the Humans, award-winning documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart tells his captivating life-story-so-far—from self-professed “animal nerd” to one of the world’s leading environmental activists, from a person whose sole focus was saving his beloved sharks to a mission to save us all.
Rob Stewart has always been in love with creatures, the...
The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Written by Rachel Carson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2011
Price: $23.00
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life... Read more >
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An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Written by Doug Fine
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $15.00
Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru
“Fine is Bryson Funny.” ——Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to find out how to raise your own livestock to feed... Read more >
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A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence
Written by Emily Herring Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2005
Price: $16.00
No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985). Like classic biographies of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this fascinating book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and gardening writers of the... Read more >
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Lessons From a Life in Nature
Written by David Gessner
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2005
Price: $19.95
David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature writing legend, Hay was a hero to the younger writer. But it wasn't until Gessner returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that he befriended the older man. At first, Gessner thought he might write Hay's biography. But that idea... Read more >
