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The Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability © 2009 David Owen 357 pages ...

Founding Brothers:  the Revolutionary Generation © 2000 288 pages Laboring always at the same oar, with some wave ever ahead th...

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate all the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better © 2011 Ty...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event where we share excerpts from our current reads. Play along at Should Be Reading ! How, then, did they do...

The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and the Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community © 1989 Ray Ol...

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America 306 pages © 2004 Laura Shaprio      The latter half of the 20th cent...

To some, the summertime may be a period of activity. In the deep south, however, being out and about from June to August will send you to t...