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  The Hour of Land - A Personal...

  Terry Tempest Williams

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  For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.Through twelve carefully chosen parks, from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Tempest Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America. Our national parks stand at the intersection of humanity and wildness, and there's no one better than Tempest Williams to guide us there.

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  Short Nonfiction Collection Vol 027

  Various Various

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  A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain.  The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers and  include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature, travel, psychology and love. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

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  Confederate Women

  Mauriel Phillips Joslyn

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  True stories of Southern women in the Civil War for “any reader with an interest in women’s history . . . An eye-opening experience.” —ForeWord The women featured in this anthology refute the common belief that Southern women were delicate and fragile. These Confederate women started relief organizations and militia companies, learned how to fire a musket, and even worked as spies. One courageous woman disguised herself as a male officer and recruited troops from around the South. Confederate Women includes ten essays about the crucial role Southern women played during and after the Civil War, believing that the war was “certainly ours as well as that of the men.” Excerpts from correspondence with their sons, fathers, husbands, and other women shed light on their unique position in America’s past. Often women are left out of history books, only to fade into the shadows of time. Thanks to Mauriel Phillips Joslyn and her contributing authors, these women will remain a part of history, never to be forgotten.  “An affecting reminder that Southern women faced the challenges of the wartime era with courage and determination.” —Civil War NewsPreviously published as Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women 1861–1865

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  Katharine Hepburn: A Life In...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Katherine Hepburn is not only a beloved movie icon, but one of the early progenitors of the American woman’s movement. 
  Coming from a life of wealth and privilege, she continued her family‘s tradition of zealously guarding the rights of others while becoming one of the the world's most beloved and original actresses we have known.  
  This is her story in her own words and the words of the people who knew her and loved her. This is a one of a kind audio celebration of an unforgettable American original.

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  Letters from a Farmer in...

  John Dickinson

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  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under the name "A Farmer" from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted throughout the thirteen colonies and were important in uniting the colonists against the Townshend Acts. (Wikipedia)

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  Lipstick Eyebrows

  Rebecca Parfitt, Mari Ellis Dunning

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  Chosen for their contemporary edge in both setting and story, the collection hosts an all-female cast covering themes of travel, arrival, change, reconciliation, departures, estrangement, death, survival and the intricacies of women's lives.
  ""A brilliant showcase of the next wave of talent from Welsh Women writers."" Rebecca Parfitt, Commissioning Editor, Honno
  ""And death, like sex, isn't like it is in the movies. For one thing, there has been much more foreplay."" Lipstick Eyebrows by Naomi Paulus
  ""The future is Welsh, baby.""To Buy an Expensive Dream, Chinyere Chukwudi-Okeh
  ""The projector clicked again. On the wall was a photo of Mair holding a placard defiantly, her shoulders squared to the police officer who attempted to wrench it out of her hands. In careful writing she'd printed the words: 'Coal Not Dole'.""Scab by Ellen Davies
  ""She was aware of the swing of her skirt as she went. Old woman crosses gangplank, she thought. Her reflection threw back someone she wasn't expecting. She was recently ancient, she decided. She recalled the same feeling in reverse when she was twenty and surprised at being a young woman."" Pearls Before Swine by Tracey Rhys
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