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Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts: Or, Early Times In The Massachusetts (American Women Writers Ser.)
Par Catharine Maria Sedgwick. 1987
Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in history. At…
the heart of the story is a cross-cultural friendship between Hope-Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society and Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief. It challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and claims for women their rightful place in history. Adult. UnratedOld-fashioned on purpose: Cultivating a slower, more joyful life
Par Jill Winger. 2023
"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purpose gives…
you the roadmap to rediscovering what really matters." —Hal Elrod, bestselling author of The Miracle Morning With a foreword from singer, songwriter, and New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek Creator of The Prairie Homestead blog and the Old-Fashioned On Purpose podcast Jill Winger reveals that the secrets to finding happiness today is by turning to the lost arts of the past When the pandemic hit in 2020, flour and vegetable seeds flew off the shelves. But homesteader and entrepreneur Jill Winger believes these longings for sourdough bread and fresh veggies are more than a trend. As our society races toward progress, we've left something important behind. We are more connected than ever before, yet we're still feeling unfulfilled. In Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Winger shows how simplifying our lives and adopting retro skills such as gardening and handiwork can be the key to creating the happy and healthy life we're yearning for. Inside these pages, readers will learn: How to find joy in the kitchen (even if you hate to cook) Proven strategies for growing your own groceries The surprising stress-relievers that can be found in your backyard How to craft a more grounded routine and save money in the process Clever tips and creative DIYs to help you embark on your old-fashioned journey You don't have to live on a farm to cultivate a simpler life. This inspiring and practical book offers a powerful new sense of purpose, with plenty of tomatoes, chickens, and bread making along the wayEnchantment: Awakening wonder in an anxious age
Par Katherine May. 2023
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest…
truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning." – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin "Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to who they were born to be and not who the world tamed them to be." – New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle on We Can Do Hard Things "I love Katherine May’s new book, Enchantment .…It’s a beautiful offering of light, truth and charm in these strange, dark times." – New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott "Katherine May gave so many of us language and vision for the long communal ‘wintering’ of the last years. Welcome this beautiful meditation for the time we've now entered. I cannot imagine a more gracious companion. This book is a gift." – New York Times bestselling author Krista Tippett "Gentle inspiration for those who feel exhausted or helpless… May shows how paying deliberate attention to what’s around us can surprise us with insights and reveal new connections that deepen our appreciation for the world." – Washington Post From the New York Times –bestselling author of Wintering , an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful and tired, on edge in our bodies, not quite knowing what has us perpetually depleted. For Katherine May, this low hum of fatigue and anxiety made her wonder what she was missing. Could there be a different way to relate to the world, one that would allow her to feel more rested and at ease, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet? Might there be a way for all of us to move through life with curiosity and tenderness, sensitized to the subtle magic all around? In Enchantment , May invites the reader to come with her on a journey to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe. With humor, candor, and warmth, she shares stories of her own struggles with work, family, and the aftereffects of pandemic, particularly feelings of overwhelm as the world rushes to reopen. Craving a different way to live, May begins to explore the restorative properties of the natural world, moving through the elements of earth, water, fire, and air and identifying the quiet traces of magic that can be found only when we look for them. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she unearths the potency and nourishment that come from quiet reconnection with our immediate environment. Blending lyricism and storytelling, sensitivity and empathy, Enchantment invites each of us to open the door to human experience in all its sensual complexity, and to find the beauty waiting for us thereWhile idaho slept: The hunt for answers in the murders of four college students
Par J. Reuben Appelman. 2023
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the "University of Idaho Murders,"…
offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media's seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike. Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The killings would shake the small blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and platforms from Reddit and YouTube to Facebook and TikTok. For more than a month, the clash of armchair investigators and law enforcement professionals raged, until a suspect — a 28-year-old Ph.D. candidate studying criminology—was arrested at his family home 2,500 miles away in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania on the day before New Year's Eve. While Idaho Slept is a thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation blistering beneath the unceasing light of international interest, as traditional investigators, citizen sleuths, and the true-crime media acted—sometimes together, often in conflict—to uncover the truth. As J. Reuben Appelman brings this terrible crime into focus, he humanizes the four victims, examining the richness of their lives, dissects the mind and motivations of their presumed killer, and explores the world of northern Idaho, a rugged, deeply conservative stronghold steeped in Christian values and American patriotism. Going deep inside the case, Appelman addresses a crucial question: With so many millions of citizens armed by access and hungry to take part in a true crime hunt of their own, has the nature of homicide investigations permanently changed? Rising above the sensational, While Idaho Slept illuminates the intrinsic connection between today's media, citizen sleuths, our societal mania for murder tales, and an impatient public's insatiable appetite for spectacle as never before. Running beneath, the pulse of the story is a heartbreaking narrative of the people we love, the dreams we all share, and the uncertain time left for sharing themThis place of promise: a historian's perspective on 200 years of Missouri history
Par Gary R Kremer. 2021
This book highlights the ways in which the forces of history have shaped the lives of Missouri's residents, for good…
and bad, over the course of 200 years of statehood. Among the key elements of the book is the centrality of race to the Missouri experience, the continuing struggle over the role of government in individual lives, the causes and consequences of the decline in agrarianism and the rise in urbanization in the 20th century, and the ways in which Missourians have dealt with challenges such as war, pandemics, economic depression, and political discord throughout the history of the state. AdultHotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism
Par Joanna Scutts. 2022
"On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a…
group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce. They were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries; artists, writers, and scientists. Their club, at the heart of America's bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. But it was the women's extraordinary friendships that made their unconventional lives possible, as they supported each other in pushing for a better world. |Hotbed| is the never-before-told story of the bold women whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed a feminist agenda into a modern way of life." -- Provided by publisherThe Nixon effect: how his presidency has changed American politics
Par Douglas E Schoen. 2016
Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics. His legacy includes a generational shift in ideological orientations of…
both Republican and Democratic parties, pushing them both further out to their ideological poles. Adult. UnratedWild women of Maryland: grit & gumption in the Free State
Par Lauren R Silberman. 2015
Maryland's history is punctuated by women who refused to be forgotten. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating…
the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck into Russia to report conditions there after World War I. From famous figures like Harriet Tubman to unsung heroines like "Lady Law" Violet Hill Whyte, author Lauren R. Silberman introduces Maryland's most tenacious and adventurous women. AdultDear Delia: the Civil War letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
Par Henry Falls Young. 2019
Union soldier Henry F. Young candidly documented his experiences on the front lines of the Civil War through extensive letters…
sent home to his family in Wisconsin. Dear Delia presents his writings faithfully, along with comprehensive notes providing historical context throughout. Adult. UnratedIsland home: a landscape memoir
Par Tim Winton. 2017
A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton…
and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him--rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp--has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape--and its influence on the island nation's identity and art--vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted--in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes--Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers. Provided by publisher Adult. UnratedSoon: an overdue history of procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to you and me
Par Andrew Santella. 2018
Draws on the stories of history's most notable habitual postponers and on the insights of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists…
to explain why procrastination happens and how it can help promote healthy priorities Adult. UnratedLoaded: a disarming history of the Second Amendment (City Lights Open Media Ser.)
Par Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2018
American dreams: the United States since 1945
Par H. W Brands. 2010
The Cadottes: a fur trade family on Lake Superior
Par Robert Silbernagel. 2020
Robert Silbernagel tells the story of an early fur trading family from the upper Midwest region in the context of…
early French-Ojibwe relations. Full of historical anecdotes, it provides a narrative that spans generations and how the changing economic, political and social landscape affected their lives and the part they played in it. Adult. UnratedWest of the West: imagining California : an anthology
Par Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr. 1995
An anthology of short stories, poems, essays, quotes, and excerpts that explore popular California themes and the romantic image of…
the West. Includes selections by well-known authors such as: Rudyard Kipling, Jack Kerouac, Simone de Beauvoir, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Soto, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Maya Angelou, and Amy TanJesse James and the Civil War in Missouri (Missouri heritage readers)
Par Bob Dyer. 1994
The river that made Seattle: a human and natural history of the Duwamish
Par B. J Cummings. 2020
The Duwamish River was a source of food for the Duwamish tribe and part of its identity. Its lower reaches…
became an industrial river, straightened and polluted, after the settlers arrived. Cleaning it up involves conservationists, Native Americans, industries, and government agencies. Adult. UnratedThe enemy never came: the Civil War in the Pacific Northwest
Par Scott McArthur. 2012
Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless…
profoundly affected by the war. The Enemy Never Came examines the everyday lives of the volunteer soldiers who battled Native American renegades of the region and of the settlers who were deeply affected by the war yet unable to do much about it. Pacific Northwest pioneers soon chose sides, most allying with the North, others supporting the southern states' right to withdraw from the union. Still others attempted to ignore the entire issue of the War between the States, leaving "that problem" to the folks back east. Because communication with the rest of the nation was slow and tenuous during the early years of the war, the early settlers of what are now Oregon, Washington, and Idaho concentrated on controlling the restive Native Americans whose land and society had been overwhelmed by white settlers. These same settlers, however, nonetheless vigorously argued politics and worried about invaders from the south, from the British colonies to the north, and from the sea-none of whom ever materialized. AdultSuncoast empire: Bertha Honoré Palmer, her family, and the rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982
Par Frank A Cassell. 2017
In 1910, Bertha Honore? Parker ventured to the gulf coast of Florida to investigate real estate opportunities, launching her family's…
decades-long development of the Sarasota area. Parker, a businesswoman, women's rights activist, and Queen of Chicago Society, initiated infrastructure, expanded agriculture, and navigated political hiccups to lay the foundation for Sarasota's growth and legacy. Adult. Some strong language