Category Archives: Books

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads This allegedly has some musical notation information as well, but I don’t know how it works on the actual Kindle. The lyrics alone are pretty fun. I could see this being used for poetry and copywork for some boys (along with the poems of Robert Service), and if you [...]

  These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first before you download, although nearly all, if not absolutely all, of these books should be free indefinitely as they are public domain texts without chapter by chapter formatting. (I love to hear from our [...]

I am often asked this question, and I’ve answered it in bits and pieces hither and thither around the blog.  But I’ve recently begun reading some of the family favorites to the grandbabies, so i am thinking more and more about which picture books have stood the test of time and remained popular with my [...]

The Father of Us All 3.99 This anthology brings together 13 of Hanson’s essays and reviews, revised and re-edited. They have appeared over the past decade in periodicals from the American Spectator to the New York Times. Hanson’s introductory generalization that war is a human enterprise that seems inseparable from the human condition structures such [...]

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements currently available for 2.99 at Amazon Pip read this book, I have not.  But she recommends it, although does also share that it’s been a while since she read it so she’s [...]

These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first before you download.  I love to hear from our readers, but I do not love to hear that a book listed here is not free because this tells me you did not read the first [...]

These books are free at the time of listing. This can change, so be sure to check the cost first, before you download. You do not need a Kindle to take advantage of these offers. You can read them on various free reading apps If you’re curious, this is the Kindle I have, and I [...]

Saving Money This Summer: How to Be Frugal and Still Enjoy Family Fun (More for Less Guides) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: BUDGETING TO SAVE MONEY IN THE SUMMER CHAPTER 2: FINANCIAL LESSONS FOR YOUR CHILDREN THIS SUMMER CHAPTER 3: HOW TO SAVE MONEY ON GROCERIES THIS SUMMER CHAPTER 4: GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD [...]