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  Exploring the Big Bend Country

  Peter Koch, June Cooper Price

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  This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty.   Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park.   In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.

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  The Sun Still Shines - How a...

  Jodi Orgill Brown

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  In her award-winning candid and witty memoir, Jodi Orgill Brown recounts how her life was transformed when, as a thirty-three-year-old wife and mother, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unwilling to accept her fate, Jodi's family searches for help to fight against the odds. But the very surgery that could save her life thrusts her into a new battle, leaving her own children fearing their mother's changed appearance and physical failings. Can she persevere, even with an injured body and spirit? Interweaving the inspiring, provoking, and sometimes disturbing, Jodi reveals the hells and highs of her journey as she fights for hope and purpose—and life. 
  2019 Amazon Prime Reading Pick * 2017-18 Amazon Bestseller * 2016 Gold Quill Award *2014 National Storymakers Winner, Nonfiction

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  I Will Not Die an Unlived Life -...

  Dawna Markova

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  The author and psychotherapist shares her journey of illness and recovery in this inspiring guide to living your life to the fullest.  In I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, Dawna Markova recounts her incredible journey from being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness to finding deeper meaning in her life. Along the way, she guides readers toward discovering their own sense of value and purpose. When we feel lost, Markova points out, we can either continue to live habitual lives and resign our strength—or we can choose to follow our passions.   Many of us have times of feeling stagnant and sapped of energy. Rather than judging these moments negatively, Dr. Markova reframes them as periods of rest for our passions. In doing so, she challenges us to slow down and stay in touch with ourselves. Poetic and inspiring, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life is a powerful reminder that it is never too late to live your life.

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  In the Kitchen - Writing on Home...

  Laura Freeman, Yemisi Aribisala,...

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  An original collection of personal essays blending food writing and memoir, and exploring subjects ranging from Cher's canapes in the film Mermaids, to the way in which food can become a language we use to communicate things that are too difficult to say, via a history of cookbooks that have their foundations in grieving and loss, and one writer's experience of the six kitchens she's made her own over the years.
  
  Funny, astute and thought provoking, In the Kitchen explores the importance of food in life through a wide range of experiences both in and out of the kitchen.

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  Maybe You Never Cry Again

  Bernie Mac

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  The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is today 
  By the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie star in Head of State and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Now this amazing comedian delves deep down inside to retell the poignant and hilarious story of his childhood and the people who helped shape him into the comedian—and the strong and self-reliant man—he is today. 
  When young Bernie Mac lost his beloved mother to breast cancer, and faced an astounding number of other hardships, he remembered the “Mac-isms” she taught him: You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish. If you want a helping hand, look at the end of your arm. These tough-love lessons gave him an inner strength that led him to choose hope over despair, and to follow his dreams. Maybe You Never Cry Again is a powerful testament to how a mother’s love made everything possible for Bernie Mac by teaching him to believe in himself.

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  Richard Ford: Independence Day

  PBS NewsHour

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  Independence Day is the long awaited sequel to The Sportswriter released in 1986. In this interview, Richard Ford discusses winning the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Awards, the context of Independence Day, writing a sequel, and more; hear a portion of the novel.

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