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Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Management Methods on Your Farm
Now available! New from bestselling author Mark Shepard!
Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion … just to name a few.
What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans’ Keyline Plan. From the back yard suburbs to 10,000-acre ranches and everywhere in between, from permafrost mountainsides just shy of the Arctic Circle, to equatorial boulder fields of East Africa, areas with 300 inches of rain per year to those with less than 3 inches, I have personally installed systems based on the Keyline design methodology and its modified forms.
What you will read in this book is tried and true. It is intended to give a sufficient background to any landowner so that they can optimize their water resource for higher site productivity, have greater drought resistance and just as importantly, to know deep in their heart that they have made even one little piece of earth a little more life-filled, livable and green.
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The Farm as Ecosystem: Tapping Nature’s Reservoir ─ Biology, Geology, Diversity
Nature is complex, elegant, and infinite in its wisdom. Farmers who are truly successful learn nature’s many facets and her intricate dance; they crack the code of how to honor and feed this boundless natural system while coaxing the production needed for the survival of a modern farm. Natural product formulator and farm consultant Jerry Brunetti wraps together a lifetime of learning and his uncanny observations in this fascinating volume on the interconnected dynamics in place on a farm — the farm’s geology, biology, and diversity of life forms. Learn to look at — and manage — your farm very differently through gaining a deeper understanding of the complementary roles of all facets of your farm. With his unique perspective the author takes readers on a journey through a farming ecosystem describing it with principles, stories, facts and science . . . and dotted throughout with real-world advice. This is a book which will be enjoyable to browse while rich enough to want to have a highlighter in hand.
Topics covered include:
• The physical, chemical and biological aspects of soil
• Understanding compost and compost tea
• Working with foliar nutrition
• The roles of trace elements in farming
• Water and your farm
• Cover cropping systems . . . and more.
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Natural Goat Care
Goats thrive on fully organic natural care. As natural browsers, they have higher mineral requirements than other domestic animals, so diet is a critical element to maintaining optimal livestock health. In Natural Goat Care, consultant Pat Coleby shows how to solve health problems both with natural herbs and medicines and the ultimate cure, bringing the soil into healthy balance. Topics include: correct housing and farming methods; choosing the right livestock; diagnosing health problems; nutritional requirements and feeding practices; vitamins and herbal, homeopathic and natural remedies; psychological needs of goats; breeds & breeding techniques. An invaluable resource for anyone with goats.
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Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 1)
When Teagan Ward claims seven babies, conceived artificially after she donated her eggs to a medical experiment aboard a rotating space habitat, are her children, she triggers a fight that consumes her life in a race against time to free her from the clutches of an unscrupulous doctor and a power-mad general.
Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny chronicles a gripping tale of sacrifice and redemption in which desire and ambition collide. As a ruthless mining consortium tightens its grip on the lucrative interstellar asteroid mining business, Teagan finds herself at the epicenter of a battle for control that spans the planets. Her seven children, born in a lab as part of a daring experiment to populate future space colonies, become pawns in a larger game of power and ambition.
Only the fragment of a distant solar system discovered in a captured asteroid has the lure to win her freedom and unlock the children’s destiny. When a greedy businessman, an unethical scientist, and an unhinged general all covet its remarkable energy, one of the children spies an opportunity to orchestrate the reunion they’ve long desired.
Born in Space is the first book in the Sci-fi Galaxy series of speculative science fiction novels. If you like strong female characters, moral dilemmas, and stories of alien encounters, then you’ll love Jeremy Clift’s rocket-fueled tale of romance and resistance.
In the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and William Gibson, “Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny” is an enthralling journey into the depths of space and the human spirit. For fans of “Interstellar” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” this sci-fi gem promises an unmatched immersive experience.
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Darkening the World
It’s 1957. A journalist vanishes from her West Village apartment. An aging NYPD detective tells himself it is routine, another quiet disappearance the city will absorb without comment. Then he notices the same details appearing in other files, the same omissions, the same silences, pointing to a pattern no one has acknowledged.Across the river in Brooklyn, Frank Draco, an operative for a covert agency known as Sector, is assigned a missing person case that appears equally ordinary. A grieving mother. A brownstone. A son who worked the docks. As Draco follows the threads, he becomes aware of a presence shadowing his movements, distant but deliberate, watching without intervening. This is not street surveillance or organized crime. It is something colder. Something planned.New York becomes a study in controlled tension. Every shadow carries intention. Every discovery reveals another buried layer. At the center is Méchant, a strategist who operates without emotion or hesitation, removing people with surgical precision and erasing their traces through institutional inertia. Méchant’s influence moves through forgotten tunnels, diverted shipments, corrupted budgets, and bureaucratic silence. Méchant is not outside the system but embedded within it, building something no authority is prepared to recognize.As the investigation deepens, the conflict expands into a psychological struggle involving radioactive isotopes and an experimental, primitive artificial intelligence known as Project Genesis. What begins as a missing person inquiry becomes a confrontation with a weaponized idea, one designed to function without conscience or visibility.Darkening the World is a Cold War inflected noir novel that explores the erosion of identity, the fragility of institutions, and the danger of intelligence unbound by morality.This is 1950’s Cold War noir reimagined for a contemporary age. It explores the architecture of manipulated truth and the quiet terror of intelligence work at the dawn of technological influence. Reminiscent of the atmospheric tension in The Conversation, the relentless pace of The Bourne Identity, and the unsettling foresight of Black Mirror, this story examines what happens when our decisions are no longer entirely our own.
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Legacy – Emergence: Book One of the Legacy Space Opera Sci-Fi Adventure Series
Lieutenant William Jackson isn’t like any other officer in the GCH. He lives a guarded life, unable to share the truth about who he really is, where he comes from, and what he can do.
Ripped from Earth in the year 2023, he arrives in the distant future, brought there by an enigmatic alien race with their own hidden agenda. Soon he discovers the reason for his abduction – an incredibly rare genetic gift allowing him to activate alien technology left behind by a powerful Ancient race that once ruled the galaxy. Technology so advanced it has the potential to alter the balance of galactic power if it falls into the wrong hands and could mean the difference between keeping humanity safe or being hunted into extinction.
Aided by his trusty AI, Bits, he’s forced to adapt to his new life as he’s conscripted into military service and struggles to survive in a galaxy teeming with danger and enemies’ intent on the downfall of humanity.
This is the story of William Jackson. Soldier. Covert operative. Man out of time. The savior of humanity… or the destroyer of worlds.
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Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 2)
Space was supposed to be humanity’s salvation. But now, it may become our doom.
When competing forces vie to control human evolution, Teagan Ward is thrust into the heart of the conflict. Once a captive on the Moon, she was subjected to genetic experiments—but the true prize wasn’t her. It was her daughter, Diana, created to survive in deep space and lead a new breed of humanity.
Now the ruthless Consortium wants her back.
As Earth reels from climate collapse and food shortages, powerful forces converge to control ecosystems, genetic patents, and access to survival itself. Their prize: the Seed Vault, a lunar repository containing the last viable genetic codes for Earth’s crops, food supplies—and maybe humanity’s future.
But it’s not just humans who covet the Vault’s valuable contents.
Protests erupt. Alliances fracture. And Teagan, seeking refuge among the Tritans—an endangered alien species—must protect Diana at all costs.
Meanwhile, Professor Olga Polyakov, the scientist who made Diana possible, is under orders to recover the child before rival factions strike. But as conflict brews between ideologies, worlds, and species, one truth becomes clear: the war for tomorrow has already begun. And only one thing might shape the outcome—a mother’s love.
The vault is the code.
The eclipse is the signal.
The child is the key.
In a battle for survival, what remains of humanity may not be who we were—but who we choose to become.
From a dying Earth to the vastness of space, the fight to protect humanity’s future has begun and one question drives them all: how to protect what remains of human freedom..
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Legacy
The first strike was meant to cripple Utopia.
Instead, it awakened a wolf.
Dark Angelus Everlast has always been an outsider: respected for his skill, admired for his strength, but still not trusted. When a brutal force from beyond the stars strikes his world, he is thrust into command, forced to rally allies who doubt him even as the enemy tightens its grip.
At his side stand Cory Ryker, a strategist haunted by self-doubt, and Cogeta Fairway, a warrior whose humor masks old scars. Together, they must face an enemy convinced that domination is its right and victory already theirs—and fight to prove that Utopia’s spirit, and their loyalty to one another, cannot be broken.
Legacy is a bold fusion of epic fantasy and science fiction. More than a story of war, it’s about the bonds that outlast it and the choices that shape a world’s future.
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The 7 Pillars of Successful Caregiving: Things No One Tells You
The 7 Pillars of Successful Caregiving: Things No One Tells You is an emotional lifeline and ultimate blueprint tailored for anyone at the forefront of caregiving. Authored by the distinguished Dr. Eboni Ivory Green, a respected expert in family caregiving and patient advocacy, this incredible book grapples with the rarely disclosed aspects of caregiving that can make all the difference between a frustrating and an empowering experience.
With her characteristic warmth, empathy, and clarity, Dr. Green eloquently navigates through the multifaceted responsibilities and realities caregivers face. This book offers practical guidance on maintaining one’s health and well-being whilst also catering to the needs of a loved one.
Dr. Green encapsulates the needs and challenges of caregivers into seven solid pillars: Self-care, Emotion Regulation, Boundary Setting, Time Management, Built-in Resilience, Positive Connection, and Continuous Learning & Growth.
The book offers a gamut of actionable strategies that unveil the true potential of caregiving. Through realistic anecdotes, the importance of self-care is stressed – fading the guilt associated with caring for oneself when another is in need. The book teaches the reader how to regulate not only their own emotions but also those of the patient, leading to a healthier relationship.
The narrative touches on the critical aspect of setting boundaries and learning to say ‘no.’ It also covers time management tips that will ensure a balanced lifestyle and highlights how cultivating resilience can help caregivers withstand the test of times.
Unveiling the secret of a positive connection and relentless learning, the book also enlightens the readers about the joy and personal growth that caregiving can offer, besides its challenges.
McKnight’s Long Term Care News rightly calls this book “a GPS for caregivers, mapping out a route through the territory of caregiving that they’re traversing for the first time.”
So, if you are on this journey of caregiving-whether you are a seasoned pro or stepping into the land unknown-this insightful and heart-touching book will light your way.
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In the Serpent’s Shadow: Where Power Breeds Poison (The Rouke Correlation Book 1)
He was hired to find the leak. He didn’t know he was the bait.Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a heist he was supposed to have buried forever. And a name he never expected to see again.When Caleb’s ruthless aunt Vivienne — Washington’s most formidable power broker, days from confirmation as Secretary of State — summons him back into her orbit, she doesn’t ask for loyalty. She assumes it. But Caleb is about to discover that the audit was never about the company. It was about him. And the man he once loved, who vanished ten years ago, is walking through the lobby.In the Serpent’s Shadow is a razor-sharp political thriller about power, betrayal, and the dangerous moment when the past stops being history and starts being a weapon.The serpent is in the light now. And Caleb Rourke is finally the one holding the pen.
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