Today's Featured Books— General Nonfiction
Fertility Pastures By Newman Turner
Newman Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in tihs practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production. He developed a system of complex herbal ley mixtures, or blends of pasture grasses and herbs, with each ingredient chosen to perform an essential function in providing a specific nutrient to the animal or enhancing the fertility of the soil. He explains his methods of cultivation, seeding and management. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Farming Without Losing Your Hat By Paul Dorrance
If you’re looking for an honest, straightforward, no-holds-barred book about the challenges of building a successful farming business, then Farming Without Losing Your Hat is the book for you.
Author Paul Dorrance shares from his own real-world experiences, taking a practical-only approach, focusing on the less-glamorous but essential parts of farming and ranching successfully today FREE – SHOP NOW /
Four-Seasons Organic Cow Care By Hubert Karreman
Part of the joy and wonder of farming lies in the changing of the seasons: planting, calving, tilling, milking, harvest . . . As the seasons pass, any dairy or cattle operation will see its share of problems crop up as well, many with seasonal regularity. Acclaimed veterinarian Hubert Karreman calls on his nearly thirty years of experience in organic and holistic medicine to guide you on how to recognize, treat and prevent a year’s worth of problems with your herd. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Retirement Reinspired By Ruby Knight
What if retirement isn’t the end of your career—but the beginning of your most fulfilling chapter yet?
Retirement Reinspired invites you to rediscover purpose, creativity, and opportunity in life after 55. Today’s retirees aren’t content to fade quietly into the background—they’re building flexible income streams, exploring passions they once set aside, and shaping lives filled with both meaning and freedom. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Lead Boldly, Think Deeply By Katie Trowbridge
Lead Like a Teacher—and Build Teams That Think, Engage, and Solve Problems
Think back to the person who had the greatest influence on how you think and grow. Chances are, it was a teacher who asked the right questions, believed in your potential, and created space for you to problem-solve. Fast-forward to the professional workplace. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /
Musings on Medicine, Myth, and History: India's Legacy By VK Raju
Musings on Medicine, Myth, and History: India’s Legacy is a collection of fourteen short essays. It presents a holistic view of ancient medical history and Indian developments in ophthalmology, the authors’ medical specialty. Deep respect for their homeland is apparent, as is their concern for sighted and visually impaired patients at home in the United States or on service trips abroad. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Breaking Free Forever By Rodney Koop
You have read the books. You have made the promises. You have prayed the same prayers. And yet the pattern keeps returning.
Breaking Free Forever was written for the Christian who is done with cycling between remorse and relapse, and who wants a clear, workable plan for real freedom. Rodney Koop calls habitual sin what it is: slavery. Then he points to the way out that most of us missed, even after years in church. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Money and Liberty By Rick Lynch
Everything You Know About the Constitution Is Wrong
"A fascinating study that uncovers the shocking truth about the Constitution's original intent. Unique, iconoclastic, revelatory, and a masterpiece of detailed research, Money and Liberty is a deftly crafted, seminal, and groundbreaking study."
-Midwest Book Review
Uncover the shocking truth about the Constitution’s original intent—and how nearly everything Americans believe about it today is wrong. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /
Reclaiming Classical Design by Kristen Wagner
In Reclaiming Classical Design: Reflections on the Harmonious and Beautiful Building, Kristen Wagner critiques the soulless architecture of today, arguing it undermines our humanity and well-being. She advocates for a return to classical design principles, drawing inspiration from ancient Greece and the Italian Renaissance. By exploring historical frameworks and offering practical alternatives, Wagner envisions a future where architecture enriches our lives and nurtures our souls. From $17.99 – SHOP NOW /
The Ultimate Meal Prep Solution By Kristen Barrett
A simple, flexible meal prep system that makes eating well easier every week.
The Ultimate Meal Prep Solution: The 6-Week Meal Prep Program Volume 1 turns meal prep into a practical routine you can confidently follow. Designed for real life, this program provides a clear structure that helps you plan, prep, and enjoy balanced meals without daily guesswork. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Out Of The System By Matthew Gillogly
Out of the System is a battle tested escape plan for doctors who are done being squeezed by insurance, buried in admin, and treated like a replaceable cog.
You did not spend years training to become a paperwork machine. You became a doctor to heal. This book shows you how to reclaim your power, purpose, and passion by stepping outside the broken incentives of the system and building a practice that actually works for you and your patients.
Inside, Matthew James Gillogly lays out a clear path to go from trapped and exhausted to sovereign and in demand, using the same principles he has helped real physicians apply in the real world. FREE – SHOP NOW /
How You Think and Feel Changes Your Body By Douglas Peterson
The psychology of the body provides profound insight into behavior, yet most people greatly overlook it.
Your life will change when you realize that how you think and feel transforms your body tissue. Body Psychology brings to life, through descriptions and illustrations, the psychological and physical issues written on our bodies and how our thinking/feeling can change the body both immediately (such as with depression) and over time (such as when one develops a hunched back from long-held feelings and thoughts that the world is overwhelming). FREE – SHOP NOW /
Agriculture in Transition By Donald L Schriefer
Ideas such as "crop and soil weatherproofing," the "row support system," and the "tillage commandments," exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s highly-successful "systems approach" farming. Schriefer was a pioneer in developing an awareness of the relation of tillage to soil fertility, focusing on three major soil basics — soil aeration, soil water, and soil decay. This book covers such topics as soil chemistry, plant and soil dynamics, above- and below-ground plant management, row support fertilization, zone-tillage, disc-chiseling, and more. He focuses on reducing "yield-limiting factors" such as seed selection, excessive tillage and a dependence on technology. FREE – SHOP NOW /The Healing of Horses By Carrie Eastman
The Healing of Horses – Carrie Eastman’s latest book – is a guide for unique ways to determine the health of your horse, and holistic ways to prevent disease, treat minor injuries and ensure the highest quality of health for your horses.
Eastman shares the techniques, methods and philosophies she has found most useful. In this introspective work she introduces readers to:
Diagnosing maladies and nutritional and medicinal needs through surrogate reflex analysis FREE – SHOP NOW /
Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day By Cody Holmes
No amount of the hard, sweating work you do on the ranch - if you continue to make poor decisions - can bring you to the reality of successful ranching. Holmes has found that to be really successful, the critical factors are your decision making and planning abilities. Learn how to plan and make good decisions from Holmes, a cattleman who had struggled for decades to find this golden nugget. You too can feed more people than other ranchers, have grasslands that are more productive and useful than they previously were, and enjoy raising a family without spending all your time working. Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day can show you how to have a life and be successful at ranching too. FREE – SHOP NOW /The Enlivened Rock Powders By Harvey Lisle
The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers, and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book from Acres U.S.A. Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual, cosmic side of rocks and drawing from his extensive knowledge of biodynamic techniques and dowsing, Lisle explains how to utilize these materials in agriculture. Peppered with in-depth quotations from other writings on the forces within rocks, this is destined to be the definitive work on the subject.
Life's tenuous connections to the cosmos is a concept almost all literate people think they understand. And yet the principles that enliven the engine of photosynthesis remain as elusive as our perceived comprehension of nature's tap into the Sun. FREE – SHOP NOW /
A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line By Charles Walters
This book is the culmination of Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters’ lifetime of experience, written in his honest, straight-ahead style, outlining how the small farmer-entrepreneur can find his way to a profitable bottom line. A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line provides how-to information on each step from planning to implementation of business practices for the eco-friendly farm and includes examples of people who are making a living, and a profit, by demanding a fair price for their labor. Whether you are considering taking up farming as an occupation or just interested in the economics and history of farming, this book is a must-read. FREE – SHOP NOW /
The Salatin Semester By Joel Salatin
What happens when trailblazing urban agro-ecologists Rob and Michelle Avis of Verge Permaculture host superstar “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin for a three-day, three-workshop weekend…then expand and enhance that recorded wisdom in a three-month online intensive?
You get an encyclopedic compendium of small-farming entrepreneurial know-how! FREE – SHOP NOW /
Fertility Farming By Newman Turner
Fertility Farming explores an approach to farming that makes minimal use of plowing, eschews chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and encourages cover cropping and manure application. Newman Turner holds that the foundation of the effectiveness of a fertile soil - and the measure of a fertile soil - is its content of organic matter, ultimately, its humus. Upon a basis of humus, nature builds a complete structure of healthy life - without need for disease control of any kind. In fact, disease treatment is unnecessary in nature, as disease is the outcome of the unbalancing or perversion of the natural order - and serves as a warning that something is wrong. The avoidance of disease is therefore the simple practice of natural law. Much more than theory, this book was written to serve as a practical guide for farmers. Newman Turner's advice for building a productive, profitable organic farming system rings as true today as it did sixty years ago when it was written. FREE – SHOP NOW /The Myths of Safe Pesticides By Andre Leu
The chemical-based conventional agriculture industry claims that the synthesized concoctions they sell as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are safe when used as directed, but does the scientific evidence truly support their assertions? Organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into a wealth of respected scientific journals to present the peer-reviewed evidence that proves the claims of chemical companies and pesticide regulators are not all they seem. Leu translates technical jargon into layman's terms to break down the five most repeated myths about pesticide use: independent scientific analysis shows that pesticides are not at all as safe as industry leaders and regulatory agencies claim. The pesticide industry argues that human agriculture, and thereby the global population itself, cannot survive without using pesticides and herbicides, but Leu warns that human health is at great risk unless we break free of their toxic hold and turn to more natural methods of pest and weed regulation. FREE – SHOP NOW /Food, Farming & Health By Vandana Shiva
In these times of ecological peril, looming agricultural production problems, and creeping human health disaster it behooves all farmers and eaters to turn attention systems which are time-tested. And “time-tested” means millennia, not mere decades. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Homeopathy for the Herd By C. Edgar Sheaffer
Over the past 50 years, a dangerous set of technologies has crept into beef and dairy farms and ranches. Technologists have succeeded in pushing the pounds of milk that can be extracted from a cow higher and higher and throwing pounds of weight on beef cattle faster. But these advances came with a price.
The average age of dairy cow "burnout" has dropped for almost a decade. Infections are rampant. New diseases and health maladies have appeared. Drug use and vet bills have skyrocketed. The healthfulness of milk and beef has been questioned. FREE – SHOP NOW /
The Energetic Goat By Carrie Eastman
Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman, applying these methods to her goat herd was just common sense. All living things are made up of electrical energy. Learn how to harness this energy to work with your goats in a way that is convenient, inexpensive, and safe for your herd. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Holding The Lines: Horses, Hard Work, Love, and Potatoes By Maureen Ash
Farmer's daughter Maureen agreed completely with her mother's admonition: Never marry a farmer. Her marriage to a science geek with a good job meant a house on a lake and clean hands-until the farmer hidden inside him started scrabbling to escape. What began as a willingness to put up with his buying a tractor and renting a field becomes an all- encompassing endeavor to learn how to drive, raise, train, and work draft horses, grow and sell their crops, care for the land they had learned to love, maintain a sense of humor, and keep themselves and their children safe in the face of runaway teams, straight-line winds, and sub-zero temperatures. Holding the Lines is the story of a very ordinary woman's decision to find meaning in horses, hard work, love, and potatoes. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Everyday Leadership By Kristen Barrett
Everyday Leadership: How to Influence, Inspire, and Make a Difference Without a Title
Leadership isn’t a job title—it’s a way of being. Everyday Leadership is your guide to discovering the leader within, empowering you to influence, inspire, and create lasting impact—whether or not you hold a formal position of authority. FREE – SHOP NOW /