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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
Because of a pricing dispute between Amazon and our distributor, IPG, Amazon will no longer be carrying the Kindle version of any IPG books (The New York Times wrote about the dispute here). Kindle owners need not despair, however: you can still download the Kindle versions of our current books directly from our website. Visit the page for the book you’re interested in, and hit “Buy an ebook version.”
Amazon is still carrying the printed books, and the ebook is available from many other vendors (see the ebook version pages for details).
Katie Fallon, author of Cerulean Blues, will be making several personal appearances in February and March. These are all open to the public.
- February 25, 4:00 pm—Taylor Books, 226 Capitol Street, Charleston, WV
- March 2, 7:30 pm—Toad Suck Review reading, Chicago Hilton
- March 13—Mountaineer Audubon meeting, Morgantown, WV
- March 19—Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon meeting, Dallas, PA
We are pleased to announce that Cerulean Blues by Katie Fallon has been selected as a finalist in the book category of the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. This prestigious award is sponsored by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Winners will be formally announced at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 24.
Fallon will be speaking and signing books at Chatham University in Pittsburgh on January 30 and at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, PA, on February 7. For details on these events, and on others as they are added to the schedule, please visit the calendar page. We hope to see you there.
Katie Fallon will be speaking at two Audubon Society chapters in the DC area in December:
- December 11, 3:00 pm—Audubon Society of Northern Virginia, Potomac Overlook Regional Park, 2845 North Marcey Rd., Arlington, VA (Note: This event is sold out!)
- December 15, 7:00 pm—Audubon Naturalist Society, Chevy Chase, MD (RSVP requested)
If you’re in the area, please come join us.
For a limited time, you can save when you buy our first two Ruka Press books together. For only $24 (plus shipping), you get printed copies of Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests by Joan Maloof and Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird by Katie Fallon. Buying them separately would cost $35.90, so you save more than $10. Order now!
Update: This offer is no longer available. Join our mailing list (and watch Twitter and Facebook) for new offers