Thomas Fox: 15 books

When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud," he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history--a tale from "along about eighteen and twenty-five" of the legendary exploits of the...

It doesn’t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don’t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm...

Comprehensive Guide to the Urban Farm Movement It doesn’t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Thanks to the burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don’t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Urban Farming 2nd Edition walks every city and suburban dweller...

Raised in the traditional kitchen from which his mother runs her Buen AppeTito catering service, Weston Tito Hingler’s childhood is shaped by the foods he eats, especially those he must try before he is allowed to enter the Tsil Café where his father invites—and at times challenges—diners to...

A short story collection that takes on the Great Plains of Kansas as it's setting and inspiration.

It’s Christmas, and Carol Dickens’s life is in major transition. Her son Finn, a talented trumpet player, is about to leave for college. Her ex-husband, a real-estate wheeler-dealer, wants to sell their properties in Kansas and move to Arizona. Her wheelchair-bound friend, Laurence, has fallen...

Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889. Although Nell seems so real you can reach out and touch her, she is a fictional character. The...

American Romance brings you four new all-American romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin American Romance bundle includes A Cowboy of Her Own by Marin Thomas, The New Cowboy by Rebecca Winters, Texas Mom by Roz Denny Fox and Montana Vet by Ann Roth. If you love small towns...

This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural...

The new revolutionary scientific paradigm of Testohistorodynamics describes a new theory of human brain evolution that factors into human evolution Lynn Margulis's discovery of Viral and Microbia Symbiogenesis along with Epigenetic inheritance.  The new paradigm of the Testohistorodynamic Theory...

Unternehmen Sie eine Reise durch die Geschichte der Technik - von der Frühzeit bis in das zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Dirk Fox und Thomas Püttmann stellen Ihnen 16 Meilensteine herausragender technischer Innovationen der Menschheit, ihre Geschichte und ihre Erfinder vor - vom Flaschenzug über die Uhr,...

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...

Today's educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising expectations and diminishing resources—the political pressures are enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a high-stakes political environment. The Politically...

"There was never a town with a truer name, though it didn't really discover it till tragedy created an opportunity that residents seized with head and heart!" — Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey:The Education of an Unlikely Activist Hope for a greener America . . . from the extraordinary...