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Presents a collection of 45 building plans for chicken coops. This title features designs that include basic easy-to-assemble hoop houses, A-frames, and multi-storied wooden structures, as well as larger models for small commercial farms. It shows photos of many of the featured coop plans, as well as some kits and coops built from recyclables.

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Originally published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in hardcover.

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When 14-year-old Robey Child is sent by his mother to search for his father, a doomed soldier, he witnesses the horrors of war both on and off the battlefield. Riding a talismanic coal black horse, he embarks upon a life-altering journey that will challenge him physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

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The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin disappears during an early morning run with her brother, Sean, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.

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Award-winning author Lee Smith's fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. Now she has written her own story in fifteen essays that are both a moving personal portrait and a testament to embracing one's heritage.

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Family traditions, fond reminiscences, and over 60 heirloom recipes blend together in a fond memoir that recaptures a bygone era of Southern life.

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lf life is a journey, then Otto Ringling is on the journey of a lifetime. Looking for answers, he calls Volya Rinpoche, a wise man and spiritual leader. A man who accepts the world as it comes to him. Someone who is experiencing his own time of doubt. So, in hopes of finding answers, the two embark on a journey through America.

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These 11 arresting, comic, and moving stories by Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which people will go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions they will float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it, and despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it.

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Friendly, dependable, intelligent, and easy to care for, donkeys are increasingly prized by small-scale farmers, horse lovers, and animal enthusiasts. This title offers a comprehensive overview of this hardy creature. It offers what donkey enthusiasts need to know about the animal's history, physiology, behaviour, and breed characteristics.

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Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

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Tarte has penned this laugh-out-loud chronicle of what it means to bring animals of all shapes and sizes into one's heart and home.

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Ann Larkin Hansen shows you how to identify and refine your specific land needs using checklists and questionnaires.

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Mandelbaum persuaded a number of popular American authors--including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Amy Tan, Norman Mailer, and Stephen King--to share their childhood writings and treasured photographs in this entertaining anthology. Photos throughout.

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A former golf pro's afterlife takes an unexpected turn when he is summoned to help a player whose game is in a slump. To his dismay, his new pupil is God Himself--or Herself.

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In this taut suspense novel written by a legal insider, Jack Stanton is an attorney whose specialty is preparing his clients for cross examination. But soon, the line between "truth" and manipulated fact has thinned to almost nothing and he is charged with lying under oath. On the lam, he meets a mysterious woman who may, or may not, be his savior.

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Talks about how to raise, manage, and market grass-fed cattle. This book covers various aspects of raising and care, including herd selection, breeding, yearly cycles, cultivating and maintaining healthy soil and grass, fencing and pasture rotation, winter grazing, pests and diseases, and necessary equipment.

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Instructs the reader in how to choose the best sire, prepare the soil, select the best tree species, plant seedlings, maintain the trees to market size, control weeds, deal with disease and pests, market the trees, and generate additional income through wreaths and greens.

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From sourcing the straw, planning what crops to grow, setting up and planting the bales, dealing with weeds and pests, and assessing the harvest, this Storey BASICS book gives readers just what they need to know to share in the excitement, fun, and rewards of this innovative growing technique.

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With her own special brand of delicate, elliptical humor, Thomas offers another extraordinary visit inside the heads of four New York City apartment dwellers, all of whom live on single short block on the Upper West Side where, unbeknownst to them, they "pass like ships in the night".

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Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.

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Gardening during the winter is often reduced to tending house-plants and browsing seed catalogues. Here, master gardener and builder, Roger Marshall, presents his case for home greenhouses with an examination of everything the potential builder needs to know. He also helps the reader in examining every option and making an informed choice.

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Offers instructions that lead you step by step through the basics of knitting, from choosing the right needles and yarn to reading a knitting pattern, casting on, executing knit and purl stitches, binding off, seaming, and blocking finished projects. This title also helps you learn techniques for increasing, decreasing, and repairing mistakes.

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Describes the language of video. This title shows how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, and pros think about communication). It explains the rules developed over a century of movie-making - which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old's birthday party.