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Make your own decision whether a particular book is useful to you. Everybody's circumstances and attitudes are different. The list is too long to read the whole thing. You might want to read the titles, and when you find a title that is particularly of interest, read that description.
Books available through ebooks.com
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How to Catch a Pig
By: Boyles, Denis
Published by: Harper Collins
Essential skills from a previous era: how to build a log cabin, grow food, and other tasks of day to day living when we were more connected to nature and outdoor life.
Skills include:
Tracking a bobcat
Splicing a rope
Rescuing someone from drowning
Sending a smoke signal
Building a log cabin
And how to catch a pig!
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Make It!
By: Bull, Jane
Using household discardable materials such as plastic water bottles,
junk mail paper, and food containers to make such projects as collages, shadow boxes, and decorative suncatchers. Not extensive, but has some unique easy to do projects. Suitable for 9 to 12 year olds with some help from an older person.
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Not Your Mama'sTM Knitting
Title: Not Your Mama'sTM Knitting:
The Cool and Creative Way to Pick Up Sticks
By: Dixon, Heather
Published By: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Adobe Price: $14.99
Available to read online in eb20
Dozens of knitting projects including scarves, sweaters, vests, tanks, purses, home décor items, baby things, and knitwear for pets.
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Reconstructing Clothes For Dummies

Or
Reconstructing Clothes For Dummies®
Author: Burns, Miranda Caroligne
Published By: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Adobe
Price: $19.99
Available to read online in eb20
How to remake unused clothes and cloth to create one-of-a-kind wardrobe items and home decor. Includes reviving, repairing, and embellishing of existing pieces.
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The Backpacker's Handbook
Author: Townsend, Chris
Published By: McGraw-Hill
Edition: 3
Format: Adobe
Price: $19.95
Comprehensive and practical guide to equipment and technique. Includes map and compass work, fording rivers safely, and how to choose a route through untracked terrain.
How to choose packs, footwear and clothing,
tents, tarps, stoves, water purifiers and
GPS. Covers desert hiking, ultralight backpacking, and adventure trekking worldwide.
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Walking
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Published By: The Floating Press
Adobe, Mobipocket Reader, Microsoft Reader
Price: $4.95
Available to read online in eb20
"Walking" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau born in 1817, an American author and naturalist. Profound and humorous comments on walking to experience the freedom and wildness of nature.
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Trailside Botany: 101 Favorite Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of the Upper Midwest
Title: Trailside Botany: 101 Favorite Trees,
Shrubs, and Wildflowers of the Upper Midwest
Author: Bates, John; Lehman, April
Published By: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Adobe
Price: $45.00<
Available to read online in eb20
Informative and entertaining. Well done line drawings.
Books available through other websites
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Date Ideas: Fun Things To Do For Couples
Describes 100 or so fun things to do when you are on a date. Most fun things are described with one or two short paragraphs giving you the basic idea so you can plan an enjoyable date.
A few ideas are obvious things like seeing a movie and dinner at a restuarant, but most of the date ideas are interesting and enjoyable things most people would not think on their own.
Short sections on how to ask someone out, how to make dates more fun, things to talk about, and how to improve relationships. Applicable to both new and established relationships.
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction
A walk in the park
Drive in a remote area
Cook something
Look at photo albums
Play frisbee
Watch a video
Have a pizza party
Check out a book store
Go to a movie
Neighborhood walk
Take a one-day class
Try a new food
Rollerblade
Explore a habitat
Go fishing
Play a sport
Eat at a restaurant
Go to a flea market
Fair or amusement park
Orienteering
Make twenty wishes
Bake cookies
Browse a fave store
Small boat cruise
Tour a park
Watch the sun set or rise
Listen to music
Lookout tower
Canoeing
Raft ride down a creek
Check a greenhouse
Conversation in kitchen
Have a picnic
Walk and follow a creek
Sightseeing nearby town
Check visitor bureau
Write candidate policy
Ping pong
Pitch and catch
Simulated power failure
Go hiking
Make snow sculpture
See a planetarium show
Launch model rocket
Watch lightning storm
Visit a museum/gallery
Giant slide ride
Play bocce
Pose in scene
Shoot pool
Snowshoeing
Drive-in movie
Take on a corn maze
Go to a county fair
Tell likes/dislikes
Star gazing
Childhood memories
Sand sculpture
Ask questions
Tell life stories
Learn to dance
Your job nitty-gritty
Play with gadgets
Relationship fears
Paper airplanes
Hike a mountain
Simulate tropics
Play air hockey
Take factory tour
Go on a bike ride
Cookout home/away
Walk in the rain
Invent something
Nature center
Living history event
Make a pie
Walk your city
Plant a garden
Candlelight dinner
Unusual dinner
Overlook your city
Know what you like
Learn a card game
Together times scrapbook
Tour a grand house
Pick your own fruit
Sidewalk chalk doodles
Teach each other
Make something
Join a club
See an aquarium
Skyscraper lookout
Moonlight picnic
Volunteer
Walk in the woods
See local attraction
Coffee and talk
Arts festival
Walk in moonlight
Found/natural gift
Gardening together
Playground
Go birdwatching
Browse charity store
Make candles
Walk the beach
Travel video
Play poker/solitaire
Explore a park
Deals at yardsales
Shapes with clay
Do doodle art
Personal questions
Tour a ship
Tie-dye t-shirts
Explore your town
Bizarre dress up
Window shop
Christmas lights
At the zoo
Childhood play
Photograph nature
Meeting people
Pick up lines
Ask out a stranger
Ask someone out
Reducing date anxiety
First date etiquette
Ice breaking questions
Make dates better
Topics for conversation
Making dates romantic
Improving relationships
Relationship turn-offs
A quotation
Can be purchased at
eBookMall.com in Adobe PDF format. Also available at
KnowBetter.com in Microsoft Reader format.
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2Do Before I Die
Title: 2DO Before I Die :
The Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Pub. Date: June 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: eBook
File Size: 9.13 MB
ISBN-13: 9780316076661
ISBN: 031607666X
Encourages readers to think what to do with the time they've got left. In one- or two-page essays, 30-some writers tell their own experiences pursuing such dreams as saving an endangered animal or building something that lasts. The 100 experiences are grouped in chapters titled: Roots, Explore, Experiment, Challenge, Give, Learn, Express, Love, Work and Legacy. Inspiring in their simplicity and forthrightness. One aspiration is to 'Perform Stand-up comedy', another is to 'Open a restaurant', some are serious such as 'Come out of the closet' and some are less consequencial such as 'Grow a beard' and 'Plant a tree'.
There are no grand revelations of the secrets to success or happiness or fulfillment. But there is some insights into finding all three in the circumstances that make up our lives. The shared stories are explorations of how to make meaning of our lives and why it is important to do so.
Also presents thought provoking questions about what is important. Has other ideas of things to do in one's lifetime that are not full essays. The authors have a web site with more essays by people who have done the things you may be dreaming about. And you can submit your own account of something you have done that is important to you.
$11.96
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