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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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Brian's Return (Hatchet, #4)

by Gary Paulsen

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Liberation Day

by George Saunders

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Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail by Ellen Waterston

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As my Dad used to say, “sometimes it’s best to just leave it where Jesus flang it.”

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“I can also find out from the Seeds Blum catalog how to start seeds, save my own seeds next fall, and even how to go about trading them with other gardeners. For among other things, Seeds Blum functions as a kind of seed-saver’s co-op, encouraging gardeners to share the fruits of their labor”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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“I swam by myself”
― Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel

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“As you might expect, Gurney’s prose style leans toward the hyperbolic; the key literary influence here would appear to be Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and exclamation points sprout from the page like weeds after a rain.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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“Some might call our farm a backwater, but the vast world is present here.”
― Arwen Donahue, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

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“To plant trees,” Russell Page wrote in his memoir, “is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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