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• Bay Country

  Horton, Tom, 1945-

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  "...another example of how I can see a place through the author’s eye."

• Betty Crocker Kids Cook!

  Crocker, Betty

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  "...an easy version of my mother’s go-to cookbook from her youth. It was the first of many cookbooks in my life. I think of cookbooks as easy-going chapter books. Cookbooks ground me to my family and all of the wonderful meals we shared while I was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Collected Poems

  Berry, Wendell, 1934-

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  "Wendell Berry is another author who can stop the world around me and transport me to a fictional community of his creation or, through his poetry and essays, can help me focus on the real world around me. He can fire me up with outrage at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prodigal Summer

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  "Several of my favorite authors bring that sense of place to their fiction and non-fiction. Barbara Kingsolver is one who always gives me that satisfaction from the deserts of the Southwest to the mountains of Virginia. The first that I read was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

  Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948

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  "...the book that introduced me to authors who convey a sense of wonder and respect for a particular place across the seasons."

• The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

  a Tale of Travel and Darkness With Pictures of All Kinds

  Gaiman, Neil

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  "And then there are books set in places that are at once familiar but also offer a twist on reality and give you the sense of an unexpected place. One of my favorite authors in that genre is Neil Gaiman. You may be familiar with his novels, but I’ll…Read moreRead more of this annotation