Field Work

Tom Rivers, a reporter for The Daily News in Batavia, wrote a first-person series about farm work in 2008 that won state and national awards. Now the series, with more background and other information, has been compiled in a newly released audiobook, Farm Hands: Hard Work and Hard Lessons from Western New York Fields. Rivers worked at a dozen farms in Orleans and Genesee counties, trying to find out why so few local residents are willing to work on farms. He discovered the work requires many skills, enormous willpower and physical strength.

Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt - a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment - a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you might have to let go of some stuff that's in the way.

Four years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Mark Reynolds is in his final year of a Pathology residency, $175,000 in debt, and suffering from burnout after the nonstop years of study. Mark has an idea for a promising new test with good commercial potential that could help pay off the debt. He meets and falls in love with a brilliant law student, Sarah, but the promising research results for his new test hit an unanticipated hurdle, and his best friend and fellow resident, Jan, has her final year complicated by an unexpected pregnancy. Follow Mark and his fellow residents training ...

Discover a spiritual road map to a sacred place and ageless moment in time where man can be himself, in peace with God, his woman, and his work.

Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war’s absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war.

How does a sheet of plastic become a soccer ball? Follow each step in the process - from strengthening the plastic to boxing up a brand new ball - in this fascinating book!

How does a piece of wood become a brand-new baseball bat? Follow each step in the process - from cutting the wood to shipping the bat to a store - in this fascinating book!