Yearning for a simpler life is common among city dwellers. The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre shows you how to do it, at least how to get started.
Carleen Madigan has put together a useful book that covers everything from growing your own grains, fruits, and vegetable [...]
A small boy, born mute, who can communicate only in his own self-developed sign language, ventures into the world. Accompanied by his faithful dog, he embarks on an epic journey of life, love, trial, and tribulations.
Such is the premise of David Wroblewski’s novel. Edgar Sawtelle’s grandfather, an avid breeder of dogs, has created the Sawtelles, [...]
Some novels open spiritual doors. Hesse’s Steppenwolf is one. When I read it in my late teens, while in the army in Germany, it made me sane. I knew that there was someone in the world who thought like I did — that I wasn’t entirely loopy. Google loop garoo some [...]
When Abraham Lincoln received the party nomination to run as President in 1860, more than a few eyebrows were raised. Who was this unheard of lawyer from the backwoods of Illinois? In her esteemed book, Doris Kearns Goodwin examines not just Lincoln and his meteoric rise to power, but also the lives of the people [...]
