DePaulo, Bella M.
Summary: "A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--the way we live and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books/Beyond Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 DEPThomas, Lauren
Summary: Simple + Nostalgic + Sophisticated + Casual = Modern Hippie The Modern Hippie Table invites you to slow down and create a sanctuary at home, using food and conversation to bring people together, strengthen family bonds, and forge lifelong friendships. The more than 70 recipes are elevated, yet simplified, with a mix of fresh fruits and vegetables plus quality prepared ingredients, ensuring the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook ThomasMcGrath, Tom
Summary: "The first history fo the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph, and (seeming) fall of the "young urban professionals" who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.242 MCGDychtwald, Maddy
Summary: Life expectancy has soared to age seventy-seven and promises to rise further, and we are starting to make decisions based less on age and more on lifestyle and life stage. Maddy Dychtwald, a leading expert on generational marketing, offers a radical new view of how Americans live, work, and buy according to the new freedoms and responsibilities of our shifting age demographics, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 DYCSundeen, Mark
Summary: A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SUNWann, David.
Contents: Preface: a generation's journey back to health -- Introduction -- Taking stock: how foresight can cut our losses -- Evolutionary income: an instinct for happiness -- Personal assets -- Personal growth: creating a rich life story -- Mindful money: more value from better stuff -- The bonds of social capital: the more we spend, the more we have -- Time affluence: how to save it and savor it --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 WANSundeen, Mark
Summary: Traces the path and philosophy of Daniel Suelo, who left his entire life savings of thirty dollars in a phone booth in 2000 and has lived a happy, fulfilled life in the caves of Utah without earning or spending money since that time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUELO, DANIEL SUNQuinn, Carrot
Summary: "After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunchof straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUINN, CARROT QUIWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILWilliams, Dee
Summary: "A personal memoir about downsizing and the author's experience building her own home and living the minimalist lifestyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, DEE WILMcEntire, Reba
Summary: In Not That Fancy, GRAMMY-award winning singer and actress Reba McEntire shares life lessons, behind-the-scenes stories and photos, and her favorite comfort food recipes to inspire you to enjoy the simple things in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Celebrate 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCENTIRE, REBA MCEThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOUrbatsch, Kevin
Summary: Presents advice on setting up and managing a special needs trust, covering trust benefits, funding, duties of trustees, pooled trusts, taxes, wills, and death of beneficiaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2023