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What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? How do we create community? When can we say that we truly belong? The issues of place and belonging are the subject of this book. Moving from past to present, the author charts a journey in which she moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began in her native place, Kentucky. She explores a geography of the heart,...
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Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Karen Pence served as the Second Lady of the United States during one of the country's most tumultuous political seasons. In this inspiring memoir, she tells how, through it all, God gave her peace and purpose"-- Provided by publisher.
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Carmichael understood true discipleship and lived it out. Called to the mission field, she followed God's guidance, and eventually went to India, where she would spend fifty-three years without furlough. While there, she founded the Donhavur Fellowship, a refuge for children in moral danger: children who were orphaned or unwanted and sold to the temple.
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Penguin
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1996.
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English
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Gore Vidal refers to this memoir of his first 39 years as a "palimpsest", pointing out how remembrances are shaped and reshaped with time. From the vantage point of his villa on the Italian coast, Vidal tells of his life as a novelist and dramatist, politician and critic, and discusses the figures he has known, including the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack Kerouac, Amelia Earhart, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Woven throughout...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Tom Weso describes his food culture upbringing in Wisconsin as a member of Menominee Nation and also a member of the Wisconsin citizenry. He lives in cabins, tepees, Madison hippie apartments, a refurbished jailhouse, and across the street from taverns. He hitchhikes across the state, motorcycles, bikes, and is driven in his uncle's fancy sports cars. His warm voice adds color commentary and humor as he samples traditional Indigenous foods, German-influenced...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Gene Stratton-Porter was a farm girl who fell in love with birds, from the chickens whose eggs she collected to the hawks that preyed on them. When she grew up, Gene wanted nothing more than to share her love of birds with the world. She wrote stories about birds, but when a magazine wanted to publish them next to awkward photos of stuffed birds, she knew she had to take matters into her own hands. Teaching herself photography, Gene began to take...
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"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success--and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Gadsby, there's more to her success than meets the eye. In her first book, the queer Australian comedian, writer, and actress takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy....
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University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
©1994
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English
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One of many pioneer entrepreneurs whose ambitions and enterprises reverberated throughout the West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jay P. Graves (1860-1948) began modestly enough in hardware in Illinois and promoted himself into mining, transportation, and urban development in the Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest. Lack of capital and relative obscurity slowed him only temporarily. He parlayed acquaintance into support,...
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2023.
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English
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"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"-- Provided by publisher.
"A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the...
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Kootenays in retrospect volume 2
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[A. Nicolls Press]
Pub. Date
[©1976]
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English
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2022.
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English
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"Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to capture television audiences as Odafin "Fin" Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But it could have gone much differently. In this gripping and candid memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner--collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century--relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts, and how just a handful...
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"The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths...
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English
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Emily Carr' s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills. These revealing entries convey her passionate connection with nature, her struggle to find her voice as a writer, and her vision and philosophy as a painter.
18) In other words
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2016.
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English
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"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"--
19) The Beatles
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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This Little Golden Book about The Beatles--four friends from Liverpool who became the best-selling music act of all time--is an inspiring read-aloud for young children, as well as their parents and grandparents who are fans of the Fab Four. Experience Beatlemania all over again when reading about the band--from their humble beginnings to their unforgettable arrival in the U.S."--Amazon.
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Kathy Harding
Pub. Date
©2011
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English
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A historic and true account of nineteen year old Minnie Coffey's move west from North Carolina with her family in 1911. The story chronicles over fifty years in the life of an early Okanogan County, Washington pioneer and her family. Through all the difficult times and hardships, the family always manages to find a way to survive and move on, with many interesting stories and anecdotes to share about growing up on a farm in the 30's, 40's and 50's....
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