Andrew Mefferd

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture

The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook shares best practices for both large- and small-scale production of the eight most profitable crops - tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, peppers, leafy greens, lettuce, herbs, and microgreens. Every year, more growers are turning to protected culture to deal with unpredictable weather and to meet out-of-season demand for local food, but many end up spinning their wheels, wasting time and money on unprofitable crops grown in ways that don't make the most of their precious greenhouse space. This book levels the playing field with decision-making framework that goes beyond a list of simple dos and don'ts. With comprehensive chapters on temperature control and crop steering, pruning and trellising, grafting, and more, Andrew Meffer's book is full of techniques and strategies that can help farms stay profitable, satisfy customers, and become an integral part of relocalizing our food system. From seed to sale, this book is the indispensable resource for protected growing.--COVER.

The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook

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Lee Bermejo

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

Inspired by Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol, BATMAN: NOEL features different interpretations of The Dark Knight, along with his enemies and allies, in different eras.

Along the way, Batman must come to terms with his past, present and future as he battles villains from the campy 1960s to dark and brooding menaces of today, while exploring what it means to be the hero that he is. Members of Batman's supporting cast enact roles analogous to those from A Christmas Carol, with Robin, Catwoman, Superman, The Joker and more playing roles that will be familiar to anyone who knows Dickens' original holiday tale.

Batman: Noel

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Bill Willingham

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber. AWARDS: YALSA: 2004 annual recommended list of Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ·Willingham, Bill. Animal Farm (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo. ·Willingham, Bill. Legends in Exile (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo. YALSA: 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens ·Willingham, Bill, Todd Klein, and others. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. 2006. DC Comics/ Vertigo As of 2008, Fables has won twelve Eisner Awards. ·Best New Series in 2003 ·Best Serialized Story in 2003, 2005 and 2006 (Legends In Exile, March of the Wooden Soldiers and Homelands) ·Best Anthology in 2007 (Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall) ·Best Short Story in 2007 (A Frog's Eye View, by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall) Hugo Award Nomination 2009: ·Fables: War and Pieces was nominated for the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

Legends in Exile

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Tom Peyer

Night and Day

The Wrong Earth

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Paul Constant

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Volume One

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Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola has deservedly become one of the biggest names in comics for his creation of Hellboy. But when Mignola needs a short break from the Hellboy universe, he turns to diversions such as The Amazing Screw-On Head, winner of the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication! When Emperor Zombie threatens the safety of all life on earth, President Lincoln enlists the aid of a mechanical head. With the help of associates Mr. Groin (a faithful manservant) and Mr. Dog (a dog), Screw-On Head must brave ancient tombs, a Victorian flying apparatus, and demons from a dimension inside a turnip. This new collection of oddball Mignola creations also includes "The Magician and the Snake" from Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings and nearly fifty pages of brand-new material, all as weird and hilarious as the beloved Screw-On Head. • The Amazing Screw-On Head won an Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication. • "The Magician and the Snake" won an Eisner Award for Best Short Story. • The Amazing Screw-On Head was the source for the cult animated short starring Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, and Patton Oswalt.

The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects

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Seduction of the Gun

Batman 

Elf Quest #14

Gail Duff

Raymond Buckland

Celebrating the 8 Wiccan Festivals of the Year

Seasons of the Witch

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Patricia P. Leimbach

Harvest of Bittersweet

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Ellen Phillips

C. Colston Burrell

Guide to growing perennials and designing the perennial garden.

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials

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Safia Elhillo

Kwame Dawes

The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani--an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

The January Children

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Christopher Hitchens

Well loved for sure but no writing inside - cover worn 

A Memoir

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.

In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political.

This is the story of his life, lived large.

Hitch-22

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Eliot Coleman

Barbara Damrosch

Well loved but still great reference book!

Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition

"Eliot is the reason I'm cooking. . . . I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."--Dan Barber, chef

"There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."--Civil Eats

Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food--garden fresh and chemical free--all year long, with little effort or expense.

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.

Inside, you'll also learn:

 * Composting techniques
 * Simple Mineral Amendments
 * Planning and preparing your garden site
 * Seeds for four seasons
 * How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses
 * How to cope with snow
 * How to create a root cellar and other storage techniques
 * And much, much more!

 

Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.

This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

"The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman."--The Atlantic

To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com [http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/].

Four-Season Harvest

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Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

"Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution."--Michael Pollan

"Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener."--Martha Stewart

With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Elliot Coleman's hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from Coleman's The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.

Inside, you'll find Coleman's clear, concise, and meticulous details [including many accompanying illustrations] on:

 * Greenhouse construction and maintenance
 * Planting schedules
 * Crop management
 * Harvesting practices
 * Marketing methods

Coleman's painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons.

A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it "just can't be done."

"The incomparable Eliot Coleman is back."--The New York Times

"A Renaissance man for a new generation."--Dan Barber

The Winter Harvest Handbook

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“And Don’t Call Me a Racist!”

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Time Machine

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Kent

The Wisdom of Native Americans

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Herbs,Remedies and Practices that Restore the Body, Mind and Spirit 

Healing Secrets of the Native Americans 

Leonard S. Mercia

Raising Your Own Turkeys

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The Shape of a Year

Auth

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

For Community and Technical College level courses in soil sciences, this text emphasizes the human interaction with and affect on soils, rather than treating the soil as an independent element. Comprehensive, yet not intimidating, this text has been revised to encompass more ecological themes within the established topics of soil science and use. Non-technical, and easy-to-understand, Soil Science and Management, fourth edition teaches the essentials of soils from the perspective of farmers, horticulturists, environmentalists, and others who are concerned about how soils work and how they are used most effectively. An emphasis on management and the sustainable use of soils and water resources make it especially relevant to these audiences. Nutrient management, best practices and relevant legal issues and government programs make this text a practical application for agricultural and horticultural students.

Soil Science and Management

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Sheri Amsel

Paul Hawken

Binding is broken but otherwise in great shape!

A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

With more than 45,000 sold since 1989, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as:

 * Farm-Generated Fertility--how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available.
 * The Moveable Feast--how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up.
 * The Winter Garden--how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses.
 * Pests--how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants.
 * The Information Resource--how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live.

Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.

The New Organic Grower

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Kim Flottum

A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Baking with Natural Honeys

In The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook, seasoned expert, Kim Flottum explains the process of moving honey from beehive to honey house and how to reveal and extract it so none of the finer aromas, tastes, or colors are bruised, burned, or broken. You’ll learn which crops produce the best tasting honey and which to avoid. It also provides instructions for careful, considerate storing, and focuses on the best ways to produce, harvest, and use the honey. Unlike the harsh industrial methods used by beekeepers who harvest a season's blend just once a year, The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook is idea for those who want to follow a simpler path to create an unforgettable product. You'll be introduced to the amazing varieties of honey and be provided with a detailed illustrated guide to honey plants along with their bloom dates and honey flows. The full-color, stunning photographs illustrate and exalt the process. This book will hel you create an amazing honey crop. You'll find dozens of delicious, healthy recipes featuring artisan and varietal honey for both sweet and savory dishes. The recipes range from dips to dressings to salads and vegetables to entrees and desserts featuring your own honey.

The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook

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