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Old Friends
Much-loved miscellania, usually out of print ...
These are some of my most favored. All are in my personal library. Reading & rereading them has brought me much enjoyment over the years. Rebecca
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Native American Cooking: Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations
Lois Ellen Frank
The real American cooking - the food of the Native Americans - is easy to prepare, rich in natural flavors & perfectly in tune with today's healthy eating. Authentic dishes with a contemporary flair using squash, corn, venison, chiles & fruit. (05/13/01)
The Bread Book: All About Bread and How to Make it
Carolyn Meyer - Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
The humorous story of a most basic need in our existence. Ever since we first discovered that grain was good to eat, our attempts to get it have influenced history & deeply changed our lives. (05/28/00)
The Way of An Eagle
Ethel M. Dell
Muriel Roscoe & Nicholas Ratcliffe, surviving a massacre on a far-flung British fort in the Himalayan foothills at the apex of the British Empire, do not so well amid the quicksands & treacheries of English society. (04/18/99)
The Orange Tree
Carlos Fuentes
In this rich and vivid collection of 5 novellas, our world weaves with the myths of the ancient world, brilliantly illuminating both them and ourselves. This is a highly creative and wonderfully imaginative book, fun to read which keeps you thinking long after you have turned the last page. (04/16/00)
White Clam: A Pacific Northwest Adventure
Gary K. Cowart
In 1851 young Chet Palmer joins the Schooner Exact from a frontier town in Oregon Territory for a routine trading voyage to the west coast of Vancouver Island. (04/02/00)
The Frank Tenney Johnson Book
Harold McCracken
The only artist of the American West to be recognised as a full National Academician, Frank Tenney Johnson brings all the beauty of that wild, colorful land to canvas. While FTJ's opus is moderate it is renowned for its lack of violence & lack of portrayals of the "red man" as a wistful savage. (03/12/00)
Road To Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
Bill Porter
In China there have always been people who prefer to live in frugal solitude, trading flatland dust for mountain mist. They have been the most respected men & women in this oldest of societies. Bill Porter trekked into the Chugnan Mountains to find them, experience their rarified lives & bring back their simple, serene & momentous stories. (10/10/99)
Undiscovered Country - A Spiritual Adventure
Kathryn Hulme
"In the Paris of the thirties the great adventure of my life began." As a resourceful companion & guide, she visited Paris where her empty life changed under the guidance of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff. Sustained by his teachings she began to find herself, write & publish her first books. (06/12/99)
Nothing Sacred
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
In the middle of the 21st century people like Viveka Jeng Vanachek - over educated & unemployable - have few options but to join the military. On her first mission she is shot down in the Himalayas & force-marched to a secret camp where she notices strange & inexplicable things. (06/06/99)
The Laugh's On Me
Bennett Cerf
Nobody is "born" a storyteller. The art of squeezing the ultimate drop of laughter from a droll tale must - and can - be learned. Dreary, pompous stuffed-shirts aspiring to high political offices have been transformed into charming, accomplished raconteurs by knowing tutors. (05/30/99)
The Content of Our Character
Shelby Steele
A New Vision of Race in America. An honest, personal & courageous look at America's most enduring & wrenching social dilemma. Why, after 25 years of legal change & waning prejudice, are blacks worse off today? (05/30/99)
Wisdomkeepers
Steve Wall and Harvey Arden
Wisdomkeepers takes you on an extraordinary spirit-journey into the lives, minds & natural-world philosophy of Native American spiritual Elders. You share their thoughts, dreams & jokes; their visions & their prophecies. (05/30/99)
A Species of Eternity
Joseph Kastner
Columbus had reported the trees & plants in the New World were as unlike Europe's as night was to day. Here are the stories & proofs from adventurous travelers & settlers who wandered purposefully through the fresh American wilderness with pen & ink in hand to sketch & write about the wonders before them. (05/09/99)
Last of the Breed
Louis L'Amour
USAF Major Joe Mack's experimental plane crashes into the Bering Sea & he is captured. When he escapes from a Soviet gulag he must recall the training of his Idaho childhood to flee home across the Siberian wilderness. (04/12/99)
The Canal Builders
Robert Payne
The Story of Canal Engineers Through the Ages. Out of those first trenches arose the great civilizations of the fertile crescent and Egypt. Follow from the Labyrinth to the English craze to Suez and to Panama. (04/12/99)
The Wolf and The Dove
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
As mighty Norman warriors claim England, for his valor the Wolf is gifted the bountiful Darkenwald lands and its lovely Saxon heir who must negotiate for life, peace and honor. (04/12/99)
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