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Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A wooded property - even just a small one - is full of possibilities for sustainable use. Whether your goal is to grow food, harvest wood, or support livestock, forester and homesteader Brett McLeod has the knowledge, tools, and techniques you need to get the most out of your land. You'll learn how to take stock of the forest makeup, use different axes and saws, prune and coppice trees, grow fruit and berries, build living fences, and much more. Along...
6) Gut shot
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at 2.00 dollars an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour. So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
Author
Publisher
Five Star publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young couple leaves Ohio for the promise of a new life on the Kansas plains. They settle a prime tract of farm land near Lawrence, Kansas. A second young couple slips the bonds of slavery in Missouri. Circumstance brings them together. Set against the backdrop of a nation divided over the issue of slavery, the young settlers fight to hold their land and realize the future that unites them. Opposed by powerful forces they face human treachery, hostile...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a fascinating portrait of a group of Americans living off-grid"--
In May 2017 Conover went to Colorado to explore a rural way of life cheaply, on his own land -- and keeping clear of the mainstream. But along with independence and stunning views can come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. This is...
13) Harper's Bluff
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A woman fights to keep the land she inherited from her mother from being taken over for a local casino development while the architect brought in by the developers tries to fight his feelings for her.
19) Wish you well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.
