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Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

Author : Susan McCorkindale

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 33,82 MB

Release : 2008-10-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780451224934

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A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don?t mix. At her husband?s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm, and never looked back. Well, he didn?t look back. She did. A lot. From playing ?spot the religious billboard? on the drive to rural Virginia, to adapting to a world without Starbucks, to planning bright-orange hunter-resistant wardrobes for the kids (?We moved here to get away from the madness of Manhattan only to risk getting popped on our own property?), this is her hilarious account of how a city girl came to love?or at least tolerate?country life.



500 Acres and No Place to Hide

Author : Susan McCorkindale

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 26,88 MB

Release : 2011-08-02

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0451233360

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The hilarious follow-up to the memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl. It's been four years since Susan's husband dragged her kicking and screaming from their comfortable, big city East Coast life to a farm in Virginia cattle country. Susan's adjusting as best she can, which isn't easy considering she's been known to wear Manolos in manure. She'll never be a real farm girl, but as readers will see from her side- splitting confessions, she's faking it just fine.



Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

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Publisher :

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 46,88 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Career changes

ISBN : 9781436281270

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A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix.



500 Acres and No Place to Hide

Author : Susan McCorkindale

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 263 pages

File Size : 25,17 MB

Release : 2011-08-02

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1101517115

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The hilarious follow-up to the memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl. It's been four years since Susan's husband dragged her kicking and screaming from their comfortable, big city East Coast life to a farm in Virginia cattle country. Susan's adjusting as best she can, which isn't easy considering she's been known to wear Manolos in manure. She'll never be a real farm girl, but as readers will see from her side- splitting confessions, she's faking it just fine.



How to be Lovely

Author : Melissa Hellstern

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 38,79 MB

Release : 2004-06-03

Category : Reference

ISBN : 0525948236

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A rare glimpse into the woman behind the mystique and the definitive guide to living genuinely with glamour and grace. “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering—because you can’t take it all in at once.”—Audrey Hepburn On many occasions, Audrey Hepburn was approached to pen her autobiography, the definitive book of Audrey, yet she never agreed. A beloved icon who found success as an actress, a mother, and a humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn perfected the art of gracious living. More philosophy than biography, How to Be Lovely revisits the many interviews Audrey gave over the years, allowing us to hear her voice directly on universal topics of concern to women the world over: careers, love lives, motherhood and relationships. Enhanced by rarely seen photographs, behind-the-scenes stories, and insights from the friends who knew her well, How to Be Lovely uncovers the real Audrey, in her own words.



Chickens in the Road

Author : Suzanne McMinn

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 40,81 MB

Release : 2013-10-08

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0062223720

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Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in Chickens in the Road, her inspiring and funny memoir. Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep—and no pizza delivery. With her new life comes an unexpected new love—"52," a man as beguiling and enigmatic as his nickname—a turbulent romance that reminds her that peace and fulfillment can be found in the wake of heartbreak. Coping with formidable challenges, including raising a trio of teenagers, milking stubborn cows, being snowed in with no heat, and making her own butter, McMinn realizes that she’s living a forty-something’s coming-of-age story. As she dares to become self-reliant and embrace her independence, she reminds us that life is a bold adventure—if we’re willing to live it. Chickens in the Road includes more than 20 recipes, craft projects, and McMinn’s photography, and features a special two-color design.



Food Lit

Author : Melissa Brackney Stoeger

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 373 pages

File Size : 22,40 MB

Release : 2013-01-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1610693760

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Book Description

An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.



The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy

Author : Fiona Neill

Publisher : Random House

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 43,76 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Domestic fiction

ISBN : 0099502887

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For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. Lucy is living in a state of permanent emergency and the white lies to cover up the trail of chaos and illicit desire are about to be exposed. This novel is about the dilemmas of motherhood and modern marriage for those who never discovered their domestic goddess within.



Labor and the Locavore

Author : Margaret Gray

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 31,10 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0520276698

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Labor and the Locavore focuses on one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley that supplies New York restaurants and farmers markets. Based on more than a decade's in-depth interviews with workers, farmers, and others, Gray clearly documents how the romance of small family farms serves to mask the predicament of their migrant workforce. She also explores the historical roots of farmworkers' substandard conditions and examines the region's shift from black to Latino workers.--Publisher description.



Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On!

Author : Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 18,23 MB

Release : 2008-05-06

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1440635439

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The host of All Things Southern shares the sass and strength of Southern mamas in this spunky guide to life. In this humorous handbook, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, host of All Things Southern, reveals the all-important lessons Southern Mamas teach their daughters. Readers will discover why blue eye shadow is trashy and learn to interpret regional dialect like the Southern Mama APB, a bulletin translated on Southern streets as: “Give your heart to Jesus, girl, because your butt is all mine!” Shellie carefully breaks down the teachings behind those famous manners and social graces through her firsthand observations and dry wit. Here’s everything you need to know from how to cope with the unexpected, compete in the Mr. Right Game Show, raise children, and how to keep that marriage knot tied tight over time. Woven with quotes from real Southern Mamas and sprinkled with recipes and other Southern secrets, this book’s a bona-fide celebration of all things south of the Mason-Dixon Line.