Category: Non-fiction
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen, 2014 The Yorkshire Shepherdess is a one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is a simple story about family and farm. It reminded me that the mundane every day things we encounter can be made interesting if we keep the right perspective. Life doesn’t need to be…
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A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle, 1991 In this nonfiction book, Peter Mayle and his wife realize their dream of moving to the south of France. They move into a 200 year old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, and it needs a lot of fixing and changing. This book goes through the entire year from January to December and…
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You Are My Sunshine
Sean Dietrich (Sean of the South), 2022 “My wife forced me into workout clothes, and I found myself donning a pair of out-dated nylon shorts. And we went for a vigorous walk through the morning sunlight. We walked for three miles, until my hamstrings tightened and my heels became blishered and I was begging to…
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Welcome Home
Myquillyn Smith, 2020, 193 pages “On any given day, chances are good that you and I could walk outside and immediately know what season it is. No matter where you live, natural rhythms are showing off outside, and if you pay attention, you’ll notice them. Without knowing the date, we can know the season because…
So She Reads 