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My Life in Dog Years

Another wonderful book

by Gary Paulson

If you haven't read any of Gary Paulson's books yet, what are you waiting for? If you love dogs, than this is the book for you. Paulson's writing is so detailed that it takes you with him on all of his journeys, some of which are so incredibly funny, I laugh out loud. In his book, "My Life In Dog Years," he writes about a few of the hundreds of dogs that he has had throughout his life. Paulson is no longer with us, but he has left behind a legacy of stories that are amazing. He is definitely one of my favorites.

Merle's Door

Lessons from a

Free-Thinking Dog

BY TED KERASOTE

Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert. Merle was about ten months old, surviving on his own, and looking for someone to hang his heart on. Ted was forty one, liked to wwrite about animals, and had been searching for a pup whom he could shape into a companion. The training went both ways. Ted showed Merle how to live around wildlife and Merle reshaped Ted's idea about the complexity of a dog's mind by showing him how a dog's intelligence could be expanded.

THE OREGON TRAIL

A New American Journey

BY RINKER BUCK

A true story by Rinker Buck and his journey back in time along the original Oregon Trail. Buck built his own covered wagon and purchased mules for a true reenactment to understand the trials and tribulations the early pioneers endured to get to Willamette Valley in Oregon from Kansas and Iowa. This was his dream — a historic adventure. His facts about the "Western migration" fill the book and make this a very interesting read.

Horizon

BY BARRY LOPEZ

From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.
Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration and discovery.

Silent Witness

BY TOM JERNIGAN

Deep in a small patch of forest, hidden among white pine, Ponderosa, spruce and aspen, in a clearing of a respectful circumference of several feet, is an ancient Douglas Fir — and it’s not your every-day, ordinary fir — it is a patriarchal fir. If you were to hike past it you might not know that it took 16 people standing shoulder to shoulder to wrap around its trunk or that, if you look closely, the bark is incredibly thick with detailed scrolling texture like something out of the Dark Crystal or the Hobbit.

INSIDE OF A DOG

What dogs see, smell and know

My friend Bailey would refer to his dog as "Ole Fur Lips.” He was an old grey Schnauzer that had a bushy mustache and, if I didn’t know any better, I would have believed that dog could walk and talk just like a human. Bailey would go on and on about his wife, Fran and Shag and most folks thought he was talking about his son — not his dog.

WITH ESSAYS ON CONSERVATION FROM ROUND RIVER

ALDO LEOPOLD

A series of astonishing portraits of the natural world, A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC explores the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape at the peak of its beauty and majesty.

Aldo Leopold worked in Arizona as one its first forest rangers. Chapters "On Top," "Think Like A Mountain" and "Escudilla" tell a part of his life and times in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona.

WINTERDANCE:

The fine madness of running the Iditarod

If you’ve ever thought about running the Iditarod, you better read this book first. Gary Paulsen always thought that one day he would run the biggest sled dog race in the world, too — and he did. He started out in Northern Minnesota running beaver trap lines with his dogs until an old cowboy told him about how range cows got what he called “grass smart.” How they took turns watching the calves to keep them safe from coyotes while the others went and got water. What was astonishing was that they kept a roster. Each time, a different cow stayed with the calves and they knew who stayed and who didn’t. He stopped trapping and killing after that and he started just running his dogs for the beauty of it.

EDITORS CHOICE BOOK REVIEW

By-Carol Hardin

THE COMPLETE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET FOR BEGINNERS

A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes

to Heal the Immune System

By- Dorothy Calimeris and Lulu Cook, RDN

(Available through Amazon.com)

So many diseases and sicknesses start with inflammations these days that, when I saw this book, I thought there might be interest in seeing what is being done to cut down on anti-inflammations, not with meds but with our diets. So, join me as I see what these experts have to say to advise us on beating inflammations through our foods.

1. We will learn about diet: which foods can soothe inflammation and which ones can worsen it, including appropriate food lists.

2. How to plan and prepare meals, including menus, recipes, shopping lists and time-saving suggestions to start eating well now.

3. Eat, store and reheat. This plan helps you cook recipes in bulk so you have leftovers or extras to freeze.

Lulu says her commitment to this kind of eating started when she was a new mother with a family to feed every night and a commitment to eating with good nutrition. She said by eating these foods, she felt better every day and it had a very positive impact on her energy levels. She said she became a registered dietician nutritionist to help others gain the healing power of whole foods and balanced diets.

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