Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

by Abigail R. Gehring

If you or someone you know is interested in learning basic living skills and discovering the pleasures and challenges of being self-sufficient, you or they will love this book. Starting with how to buy property in the country and then building your own home, making your home energy efficient, growing your own fruit and vegetables as well as raising your own livestock. There are so many interesting ideas in this book of which one or more could inspires you to be more self-sustainable.

Unlikely Friendships

by Jennifer S. Holland

I have always loved animals, and the more I learn about them, the more I am in awe of them. Unlikely Friendships is very special. Read one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. If you are an animal lover like I am, you may be familiar with one of the stories but there are so many more I hadn't heard about that are just wonderful. I wish this book existed when my children were younger, because I would have sat them down on either side of me and read them one story after another.

When we open our eyes and hearts to the amazing beings with whom we share our planet, we discover how compassion and empathy smoothly cross species borders - Marc Bekoff