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Shepherd’s Sight

A Farming Life

by Barbara McLean ...

“A small masterpiece of the rural life.” — The Times Literary SupplementA Globe 100 best book of 2024“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the LarkA restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario fa... ... Read more

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“A small masterpiece of the rural life.” — The Times Literary SupplementA Globe 100 best book of 2024“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the LarkA restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario fa...
... Read more

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Lambsquarters

Scenes from a Handmade Life

by Barbara McLean ...

At the age of twenty-four, Barbara McLean and her husband, Thomas, decided to make their home in the country, near a village called Alderney in Grey County, Ontario. Together they became homeowners, farmers and, eventually, parents. They called their farm Lambsquarters, and they remain there today, twenty-six years later.Life on a farm is a cycle of neverending work and discovery. Barbara and her ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

At the age of twenty-four, Barbara McLean and her husband, Thomas, decided to make their home in the country, near a village called Alderney in Grey County, Ontario. Together they became homeowners, farmers and, eventually, parents. They called their farm Lambsquarters, and they remain there today, twenty-six years later.Life on a farm is a cycle of neverending work and discovery. Barbara and her
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Shepherd's Sight

A Farming Life

by Barbara McLean ...

Narrated by Robin Siegerman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the ... Read more

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A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherdFor fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the
... Read more

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Did I Ever Tell You?

A Memoir

by Genevieve Kingston ...

Narrated by Genevieve Kingston ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

A true story of a mother’s love, kept alive through gifts, letters, and time.When Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston lost her mother at age eleven, she was left with more than memories. Her mother had prepared a chest filled with handwritten letters and carefully chosen gifts—for the birthdays and major life milestones they wouldn’t get to share.As Did I Ever Tell You? begins, only three packages remain: ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

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A true story of a mother’s love, kept alive through gifts, letters, and time.When Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston lost her mother at age eleven, she was left with more than memories. Her mother had prepared a chest filled with handwritten letters and carefully chosen gifts—for the birthdays and major life milestones they wouldn’t get to share.As Did I Ever Tell You? begins, only three packages remain:
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The Mango Tree

A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

by Annabelle Tometich ...

Narrated by Annabelle Tometich ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now

Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

by Christopher Ingraham ...

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet
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Unsettled

Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada's West, 1813-1816

by Robert Lower ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 34 min

The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and lettersUnsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and lettersUnsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal.
... Read more
Trauma Farm

A Rebel History of Rural Life

by Brian Brett ...

The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a "gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world" and our place in it ( Vancouver Sun).The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on ... Read more

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The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a "gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world" and our place in it ( Vancouver Sun).The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on
... Read more
Tales from Titchmarsh

by Alan Titchmarsh ...

Britain's favourite gardener Alan Titchmarsh has also been the most popular contributor to Gardeners' World magazine for the last twenty years.This collection of his very best columns, demonstrates just why he is regularly voted the readers' favourite. His brilliant writings are, in turn, practical - just how far back should we prune our roses? - opinionated - I always rail at people who go out on ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

Britain's favourite gardener Alan Titchmarsh has also been the most popular contributor to Gardeners' World magazine for the last twenty years.This collection of his very best columns, demonstrates just why he is regularly voted the readers' favourite. His brilliant writings are, in turn, practical - just how far back should we prune our roses? - opinionated - I always rail at people who go out on
... Read more
A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail

by Jenna Butler ...

**Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award****Gold Medal for the Green Living category in the Living Now Book Awards****Finalist for the High Plains Book Award for creative nonfiction**Early in the winter of 2006, Jenna Butler found herself standing on a cold country road, looking over an unpromising quarter section of northern bush. With the glow of her car's headlights, ... Read more

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**Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award****Gold Medal for the Green Living category in the Living Now Book Awards****Finalist for the High Plains Book Award for creative nonfiction**Early in the winter of 2006, Jenna Butler found herself standing on a cold country road, looking over an unpromising quarter section of northern bush. With the glow of her car's headlights,
... Read more
Pelting on the Fur Farm - With Information on Skinning, Fleshing, Drying the Skins and Other Aspects of Pelting

by Frank G. Ashbrook ...

This early work on pelting is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the best methods of skinning, fleshing, skin drying and other aspects of pelting. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the techniques of fur farming. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This early work on pelting is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the best methods of skinning, fleshing, skin drying and other aspects of pelting. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the techniques of fur farming. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
... Read more
Common Ground

by Janice Marriott, Virginia Pawsey ...

Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey, who went to Gisborne Girls' High together, met again after thirty years at a school reunion. they rekindled their friendship and began writing, discovering in the process a shared passion for gardening - despite their having created two very different gardens. Janice lives in central Wellington where her riotously colourful mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey, who went to Gisborne Girls' High together, met again after thirty years at a school reunion. they rekindled their friendship and began writing, discovering in the process a shared passion for gardening - despite their having created two very different gardens. Janice lives in central Wellington where her riotously colourful mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables
... Read more

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