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When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits: The Economy

  • When you spend $100 at a local business and $68 of that stays in Macomb. If you spend the same $100 at a national chain, your community only sees $43.
  • Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for you and your neighbors.
  • More of your taxes are reinvested in our community--where they belong.

The Environment

  • Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint!!

The Community

  • We are your friends and neighbors—if you support us, we'll support you.
  • We donate to charities at more than twice the rate of national chains.
  • More independent stores mean more choice, more diversity, and a truly unique community.

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The Train of Small Mercies (Hardcover)

By David Rowell
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157288
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Published: Putnam Adult, 10/2011
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Estella The Story is about 6 different families who lived in different towns but how they lived their lives during the time that Robert Kennedy's funeral train passed through their town. Well Written, characters well developed as was the story.  It's a story that could have happed during the extrodinary pain our countryfelt with the killings, not only Robert Kennedy, previous killings of John & Martin Luther King. People's lives went on but when the train passed through their town, they went to honor & to to see.

Good Book!

 

Misfit (Hardcover)

By Jon Skovron
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781419700217
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Published: Amulet Books, 8/2011

The Cozy Mystery Book Club

It's a good story, about a librarian who moves from Boston to a small town in Minnesota to take charge of the renovation of an old Carnegie library. When she finds the body of a lecherous old conductor who is in town for a summer music festival the police naturally focus on her, suggesting that she was having an affair with him. She was not. Her only meeting with the man was when he complained the new computers weren't hooked up in the library, during which discussion her cat jumped onto his head from a bookshelf. He was not amused.

Lots of cat stuff, food, tai chi, and charm. Not much about books, though, which was a disappointment. If you like the Donna Andrews' bird mysteries, the Laura Childs' tea shop mysteries, or Aunt Dimity, you might want to take a look at this.

The Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget (Paperback)

By Leda Meredith, Sandor Ellix Katz
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780762755486
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Published: Lyons Press, 4/2010
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Linda

These days, more people than ever want to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make this seem like an unattainable goal. With practical, down-to-earth advice Leda Meredith guides you through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into your meals. In a concise book designed for mainstream readers, she discusses budgeting; sourcing, growing, and preserving food; shopping efficiently; and supporting local merchants and planet Earth. Everyone, including time-pressed, cash-strapped urbanites with mini-refrigerators and zero storage space, will find inspiration and a host of helpful, surprising ideas.

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The Most Dangerous Thing (Hardcover)

By Laura Lippman
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061706516
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Published: William Morrow, 8/2011
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Estella Pledge

Good end of summer reading. It's a story of childhood friends who were adventurous. One day their adventure tok them to a situation that would impact the rest of their lives but also their parents. As they got older they went their own ways but again a situation brought them back to the initial incident.

I liked the story & the flow of the story. I thought the characters were well developed.

The Family Fang (Hardcover)

By Kevin Wilson
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780061579035
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Published: Ecco, 8/2011
The story was well written but the strangeness of the fangs was very different. Hard toimagine a family could be so odd & I would even say they were lunitics. I relly did not think I would finish the book but I just had to read to the end. Funny! Goofy! Quirky!~

Scared Stiff (Mass Market Paperback)

By Annelise Ryan
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780758234551
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Published: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 8/2011
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Mattie Winston continues her adventures in this Halloween-themed follow-up to"Working Stiff"--where she is out to solve the murder of a waitress/model andclear the name of a friend.

What Are We Reading May 20,2011

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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (Paperback)

By Carol Deppe
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9781603580311
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 10/2010

Scotland Township M.M. Group

This is a comprehensive detailed book about gardening. Carol Deppe is a scientist and expert gardener who draws from emerging science in many fields to develop general principles of gardening for resilience.  Gardeners will learn  her detailed instructions on growing, storing, and using the five crops central to self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash and eggs.Each of us found that we kept mining this book as we planned our gardens for 2011. 

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians (Paperback)

By Gilbert L. Wilson, Jeffery R. Hanson, Waheenee
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780873512190
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Published: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 10/1990
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Scotland Township M.M. Group

The Resilient Gardener referred to Buffalo Bird Woman so many times, we went to the original.

This is classic account of Hidatsa American Indian gardening and food storage techniques. Buffalo Bird Woman describes a year of activities, from preparing and planting fields through cultivating, harvesting, and storing foods during her childhood and young adulthood during the1840’s and 50’s.

What we are reading April 21, 2011

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Death Cloud (Hardcover)

By Andrew Lane, Dan Weyman
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780374387679
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Published: Macmillan Young Listeners, 2/2011
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Linda

This is the first teen series endorsed by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate. If you ever wondered how the adult sleuth came to be, this series is for you. It starts with a nobleman's son spending the summer with strange relatives. Weird murders, creepy villains, fiendish puzzels, no-stop action. Great read!

Cold Wind (Hardcover)

By C. J. Box
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157356
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Published: Putnam Adult, 3/2011
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Scotland Township M.M. Book Group

This is the latest saga of Wyoming game warden Joe Picket. Two killings rock the Picket family. One is a wind-energy entrepreneur whose body is found dangling from the giant spinning blade of one of his giant windmills. A wind farm is being built in McDonough county. C.J. Box just keeps getting better!

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story (Hardcover)

By Ree Drummond
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061997167
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Published: William Morrow, 2/2011
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Estela

This is a nice love story about a woman who identified herself as"city." But of course she falls in love with a cowboy. The story describes how she matures into a "pioneer woman." Well written. Easy & quick to read. I liked it for its simplicity.

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie (Hardcover)

By Julie Sternberg, Matthew Cordell
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780810984240
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Published: Harry N. Abrams, 3/2011

Sky

I liked this book a lot! I liked it because in the beginning Eleanor said"I had a bad August. A very bad August. As bad as pickle juice on a cookie. I thought that was funny. I really loved this book.

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