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  Days on the Road: Crossing the...

  Sarah Raymond Herndon

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  “We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road.  It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money . . . There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.  . . . It would not do to be sentimental under existing circumstances.”  This is the practical pioneer woman Sarah Raymond Herndon writing in her journal about selling her horse to finance the final days of her family’s trek across the plains to Montana.   However, when her brother, Hillhouse, actually sells her beloved pony, Sarah is distraught.  “I sobbed out loud.  I could not help crying.  I let the purse (with the money) roll out of my lap into the bottom of the wagon.”  But then, she stiffens her resolve and displays a quiet sense of humor: “Of course, I knew the wagon bed was tight, and there was no danger of (the purse) being lost.” Sarah became the first school teacher in Virginia City, Montana.  Her account of crossing the plains in 1865 is rich in emotion and incident.  Summary by Sue Anderson

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  Joseph - 21 Chapters in...

  Philomena Scully

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  Joseph is a book that tells the real-life story of a single mother coping with the pressures of life and bringing up a child with autism. The author, Philomena Scully, captures a world that is relatable to other parents – the main audience that the book has been written for. 
  It shares a variety of honest and funny stories, covering common topics that she has struggled with over the years while supporting and loving her son despite the extreme differences that her new life entailed. It also illustrates simple techniques and tips to help ordinary parents who are finding themselves in same situation. 
  Its written from the heart with a simple structure that people can learn from. It lays bare the trials and tribulations she encountered and how she accepted that autism is a different way of life through the love of her son.  

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  This I Believe II - More...

  Jay Allison, Dan Gediman,...

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  A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people. This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers 75 essayists — ranging from famous to previously unknown — completing the thought that begins the book's title.With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II—like the first New York Times best-selling collection—showcases moving and irresistible essays.Included are Sister Helen Prejean writing about learning what she truly believes through watching her own actions, singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore writing about a hard-won wisdom based on being generous to others, and Robert Fulghum writing about dancing all the dances for as long as he can. Listeners will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change.Here is a welcome, stirring, and provocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of people — whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Flyfishing the High Country

  John Gierach

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  ● Tactics for fishing high country lakes, the conflicting currents of high mountain streams, and the ever-changing waters of beaver ponds● Cutthroats, brook trout, goldens, rainbows, grayling● The best weather and seasons to fish and the tackle and flies to take into the high country"The mountains—any mountains—can make you pay for your fishing with time, shoe leather, exertion, and even disappointment. But they usually give back more than they take in terms of solitude and a sense of adventure that you just won't find on more civilized waters." —John GierachFly-fishing in scenic and remote mountain waters is a special kind of fishing, explored in depth by veteran fly fisher John Gierach. Along with Fly Fishing Small Streams, this guide, Gierach's first book, explains how to find the best waters and how to fish them to the best advantage.

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  Artful

  Ali Smith

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  In 2012, Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Those lectures, presented here, took the shape of discursive stories that refused to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form. Thus, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds between storytelling and a meditation on art that encompasses love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that art and life are never separate. 
  Artful is a celebration of and meaningful contribution to literature’s enduring worth in the world. There has never been a book quite like it.

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  Online Killers - Portraits of...

  Christopher Berry-Dee, STEVEN...

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  A collection of true crime tales featuring killers who found their prey online, from the author of Cannibal Serial Killers. 
   
  Take a cyber journey where the flicker of LCD screens illuminates unimaginable evil. It starts as a harmless online-date, but can quickly turn to kidnapping, torture and death. More than just tales of sinister criminals, this collection of true horror stories destroys commonly held myths, like “it’s safe to meet someone after knowing them online for many months.” Predators actually gain additional satisfaction from stalking their victims over long periods of time! 
   
  Online Killers chronicles the stories of men, women and children whose internet adventures led them into disastrous circumstances, including: 
   
  •Naïve fifteen-year-old Christina Long, whose meeting with a much older man from a chat room led to her rape and murder 
   
  •Schoolteacher Jane Longhurst, the victim of an obsessive necrophiliac who abused her decomposing body for weeks 
   
  •Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, who was not only killed and eaten by a cannibal, but had the whole process immortalized on video 
   
  •Young and beautiful Anastasia Solovyonva, the would-be bride who was brutally murdered at the hands of her supposed fiancé

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