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Eat Local for Less
The Ultimate Guide to Opting Out of Our Broken Industrial Food System
Practical advice (with recipes) on how to enjoy fresh, local foods that support family farms and healthy communities. “Mesmerizing.” —Booklist
$19.95
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Among the Ancients
Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests
A natural-history primer, an adventure story, and an impassioned plea to preserve and support our remaining old-growth forests. “This guide will change the way you look at America.”
$17.95
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Cerulean Blues
A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird
Reed Writing Award Finalist. Cerulean Blues describes the plight of the cerulean warbler, a tiny migratory songbird, and its struggle to survive in ever-shrinking bands of suitable habitat. "A pleasure to read"—David Gessner
$17.95
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Horseshoe Crab
Biography of a Survivor
Horseshoe crabs have ten eyes, five pairs of walking legs, a heart half the length of their bodies, and have been on this planet for 445 million years. "Fascinating, relevant, revealing, and endlessly enjoyable."—Richard Ellis
$17.95
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The Pipeline and the Paradigm
Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb
“Environmental activist Avery travels the route of TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline, engaging in frank and respectful dialogue with proponents and opponents. His finely researched book blazes with hope.” —Publishers Weekly
$17.95
News from Ruka Press
Joan Maloof, author of Among the Ancients, will be reading and signing books May 7 at 1:00 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in Salisbury, MD. Click here for details and directions.
Update, April 29: Dr. Maloof was profiled in the Salisbury Daily Times.
The new, second-generation version of our website is now live. We have added more information about our books (and much more will be added soon). And we’ve added e-commerce features so that you can preorder our first book, Among the Ancients. (It’s also available for preorder from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, by the way.) We’ve conpletely refigured the page structure and navigation to make all this new content shine.
We’ve tested as best we can, and things seem to be working well, but if you see problems, errors, broken links, etc., please let us know!
- We’re proud to say that our books are now being distributed to the trade exclusively by Small Press United.
- Anthony D. Fredericks, author of our Spring 2012 book Horseshoe Crab, is now blogging at The Horseshoe Crab Report.
- Katie Fallon, author of our Fall 2011 release Cerulean Blues, was profiled in the West Virginia Newspaper The Citizen’s Voice. Read it here.
Nature writer Katie Fallon has signed a contract with Ruka Press® to publish her first full-length book, Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird. She is the third author signed by Ruka Press®, and publication is planned for Fall 2011.
Award-winning science author Anthony D. Fredericks has signed a contract with Ruka Press® to publish his new work, Horseshoe Crab: A Biography of the Creature Older than Time. Fredericks is currently writing the book, with publication tentatively planned for Spring 2012.