100 Ways for a Chicken to Train its Human


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From Fowl Play to Hen-tertainment, in this hilarious collection by Diane Parker the chickens show us who are really in charge, and what they're really plotting inside their coops! Don't worry about the morning after the night before. Unmade nests, broken eggs and scattered food -your human will not even notice the difference and they always have spare time to clean up after you. Free range means you have the right to roam. However you choose to do it, escape on a regular basis and refuse to return until you are ready. Try to tip your food hopper up so all the corn spills. That way your human will have to refill it on a more regular basis.




The Positively Productive Writer


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Can’t find time to write? Daunted by the sheer size of your writing project? Lost your motivation? Scared of being rejected? It doesn’t matter whether you want to write a page-turning novel, a life-changing non- fiction book, produce fascinating features or sizzling short stories, there comes a point when you have to sit down and write. That’s when negativity and despondency show up. To achieve your writing dreams, you need a positively productive mindset. Inside The Positively Productive Writer (Second Edition), you will learn how to: - embrace rejection, tame Imposter Syndrome, and avoid comparisonitis, - find more time to write, and turbo-boost your productivity by designating it ‘maker’ time or ‘manager’ time, - banish Writers’ Block, embrace sloppy copy, and celebrate your writing success, - and so much more! With an extra 40% positivity, this fully revised and updated second edition of The Positively Productive Writer will help you turn your creative dreams into writing reality. Simon Whaley is a bestselling author, magazine columnist, and feature writer. This second edition of The Positively Productive Writer draws upon his thirty years of published writing experience, and over two decades of creative writing tutoring.




The Chicken Lover's Cartoon Book


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Since his first published cartoon in Punch magazine in the 1940s Arnold Wiles has been entertaining generations of country lovers with his witty and clever cartoons. He has published several cartoon books including Motorist at Large, Away from it All, Wiles on the Water and a Pretty Kettle of Fish as well as being a stock cartoonist for Punch Magazine and numerous other rural titles. In this book comprising of sixty new cartoons specially commissioned by The Good Life Press, Arnold has lost none of his sharpness and wit and he brings together captions and cartoons that will make the reader, chicken keeper or not, chuckle.




Let's Take the Long Way Home


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.




Home to Roost


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Each day, Bob Sheasley leaves Lilyfield Farm and heads into the city. And each day, he brings along a basket of eggs for his coworkers at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Depending on the breed of hen, these eggs may be white, green, rose, blue, or as brown as chocolate. And they are all deliciously fresh, a taste of the rural way of life that people have enjoyed for millennia, one in which chickens have played a supporting role for nearly as long. In Home to Roost, Sheasley tells of the intertwined relationship between humans and chickens. He delves into where chickens came from, what their DNA tells us about our kinship, how we’ve treated our feathered fellow travelers, and the roads we’re crossing together. This is a story of agriculture and human migration, of folk medicine and technology, of how we dreamed of the good life, threw it away, and want it back. Modern farming has changed the lives of both bird and man over the past century. But backyard farmers like Sheasley offer hope for a return to the pleasures of locally grown food, as diverse as the chickens he’s raised on Lilyfield Farm. With wit and personal insight, Home to Roost examines of how our lives can be changed for the better, with something as simple as a backyard coop.




A Cat's Guide to Humans


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'Do you need a human in the first place? If you do, do not adopt a human on impulse. You may not get the right one for your lifestyle.' George the Cat is the feline world's favourite agony aunt. Now he brings us his irresistible, hilarious A-Z guide for fellow felines to help them navigate the human world, understand their sometimes weird and idiotic behaviour, and help turn human failings to feline advantages. Includes advice on how to move a sleeping human to the very edge of their bed, enjoy the use of their empty boxes before they're thrown out, and to get doors opened for you whether or not you have a private catflap. George also has a word of advice for humans: 'Don't let your cat get his paws on this book!' For fans of Secret Thoughts Cats Have About Humans and 100 Ways for A Cat to Train Its Human by Celia Haddon.




The Luminaries


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The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.




100 Ways to Enhance Self-concept in the Classroom


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Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, k, p, e, i, s, t.




The Original Fluffybutt Love


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Whilst Horses and dogs are the saviour of the known world, chickens are the secret savioursInspirational heart-warming stories. This book is crammed with true touching stories about those fabulously feathery Fluffybutts otherwise known as chickens. Author and known chicken-lover Jessie Shedden has gathered stories from all over the world that are certain to evoke every emotion possible from the first hen to ever be given an implant and the first hen to ever have a congenital heart condition repaired to legless roosters in both senses of the word, and hens that helped their owners through cult escapes and to recover from coma's. Think Chicken Soup for the Soul, only a lot less soup and a lot more chickens!Proof that there is much more to the chicken than simply being the pet that poops breakfast. Anyone who has kept chickens knows there is much more to them than is commonly perceived. From the way the love to snuggle up in our laps, to the way they learn vocal instructions when they lose their sight or can be housetrained in only a few hours. Chickens are intelligent and affectionate beings and this book highlights just a few of the many examples they provide. The touching relationship between chicken parents and their birds. Not only does Jessie Shedden showcase inspirational chickens in this book, but she also includes instances of human compassion for their feathered fowl. For example, making wheelchairs for them when their legs gave out, or streaking across the garden in next to nothing to save them from Bald Eagle attacks and breaking their wrists and hands to save them from foxes. Stories like these emphasize the unique bond between chicken parents and their birds demonstrate just how much they mean to each other.Read Jessie Shedden's Fluffybutt Love and discover...*Inspiring true stories that will surprise you and warm your heart*Acts of genuine, selfless compassion performed by chicken parents the world over*The healing power of the pet that poops breakfastReaders of other chicken books such as How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say and 100 Ways for a Chicken to Train its Human and The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens: How to Raise a Happy Backyard Flock will love Fluffybutt Love.




The Chicken Chronicles


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A “life-affirmative and eccentrically inspirational” collection from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Kirkus Reviews). In these glorious, offbeat, and compassionate tales, one of America’s preeminent authors shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of affectionately named chickens. Walker addresses her “girls” directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, during her travels to Bali and Dharamsala as an activist for peace and justice. On the way, she invites readers along on a surprising journey of spiritual discovery. Both heartbreaking and uplifting, The Chicken Chronicles lets us see a new and deeply personal side of one of the most captivating writers of our time. In turn, Walker has created a powerful touchstone for anyone seeking a deeper connection with the natural world. “Heartfelt, thought-provoking ruminations on sustenance from perspectives of both giver and receiver.” —Library Journal “Walker’s sage, compassionate memoir is meant to be savored and contemplated.” —Kirkus Reviews