Circle the Wagons!

Circle the Wagons!
Author: Gregory F. Michno
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2008-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786439971

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It’s a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne’s face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.

No More Goodbyes

No More Goodbyes
Author: Carol Lynn Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780963885241

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A collection of anecdotes and letters from current and former gay and lesbian Mormons and their families explores the effects of their ostracization from Mormon faith communities, discusses Mormon attitudes about homosexuality, and argues for increased acceptance and sensitivity for gay members.

Circle Your Wagons

Circle Your Wagons
Author: Abbi K. Harrington
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737455332

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Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree
Author: Robin Benway
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062330640

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National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller! Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it. Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including— Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs. And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him. Don't miss this moving novel that addresses such important topics as adoption, teen pregnancy, and foster care.

A Fate Worse Than Death

A Fate Worse Than Death
Author: Gregory Michno
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0870044869

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Captivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Indians of the East for several centuries.a Until now, the West has been almost entirely neglected.a Now Gregory and Susan Michno have rectified that with this painstakenly researched collection of vivid and often brutal accounts of what happened to those men and women and children that were captured by marauding Indians during the settlement of the West."

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1966-01-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 081122080X

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The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman (The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children (This Property is Condemned), his insight into human nature is that of the poet. He can compress the basic meaning of life—its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love—into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue. Mr. Williams's views on the role of the little theater in American culture are contained in a stimulating essay, "Something wild...," which serves as an introduction to this collection.

Breakout

Breakout
Author: Kate Messner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1681195372

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Told in letters, poems, text messages, news stories, and comics--a series of documents Nora collects for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project--Breakout is a thrilling story that will leave readers thinking about who's really welcome in the places we call home. Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life. Even if the inmates are caught, she worries that home might never feel the same. A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year

Rights for a Season

Rights for a Season
Author: Lewis A. Randolph
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572332249

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Based on a historical analysis of the roots of Richmond's political evolution as well as on interviews and quantitative data, "Rights for a Season" places events in Richmond in a broader regional and national context of urban political development.

HealthSouth

HealthSouth
Author: Aaron Beam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009
Genre: Hospitals
ISBN: 9780979628481

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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
Author: Bill McKibben
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1250823595

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One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing—knowing—that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang “Kumbaya” at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth—The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon—could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.