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Aligning The Glacier'S Ghost - Essays On Solitude And Landscape

de Sarah Capdeville

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 Rooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacierâ€™s Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude.
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So Far, So Good

de Ralph Salisbury

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 A sometimes strange, sometimes lyrical, and often humorous attempt by an inveterate storyteller to recount "just things as they were"
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World Before Mirrors

de Joan Connor

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 Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, the author writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; and of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating.
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Inside Passage

de Kurt Caswell

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 Chronicles the author's travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park, on a vision quest in Death Valley, and to the sacred waters of the Ganges. This book also features the landscape of his marriage, both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure.
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Mountains Of Light - Seasons Of Reflection In Yosemite

de R. Mark Liebenow

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 The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what's inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, Liebenow takes us deep into the heart of this wilderness, introducing us to its grand and subtle marvels.
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Double Life - Discovering Motherhood

de Lisa Catherine Harper

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 There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humour, a will to understand the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and a narrative gift that any reader will enjoy.
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Young Widower - A Memoir

de John W. Evans

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 The author was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. This book tells his life story.
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Test Ride On The Sunnyland Bus - A Daughter'S Civil Rights Journey

de Ana Maria Spagna

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 In 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other men waited to board a bus called the Sunnyland. Their plan was: ride the bus together - three blacks and three whites - get arrested and take their case to the US Supreme Court. This book chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories.
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Love And Other Fish - Essays On Wonder, Loss, And Transformation

de Hannah Hindley

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Off Izaak Walton Road - The Grace That Comes Through Loss

de Laura Julier

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Disequilibria - Meditations On Missingness

de Robert Lunday

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 A hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the authorâ€™s stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his familyâ€™s experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness.
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Crazy Fourth - How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title And Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, On The Map

de Toby Smith

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 Tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson - the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion - met Jim Flynn on the fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
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Riding Shotgun With Norman Wallace - Rephotographing The Arizona Landscape

de William Wyckoff

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 Award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to survey every corner of the Grand Canyon State.
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River Teeth - Twenty Years Of Creative Nonfiction

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 To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection.
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Try To Get Lost - Essays On Travel And Place

de Joan Frank

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 Through the author's travels, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the reverberations of the word â€œhotelâ€, and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground.
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I Am A Stranger Here Myself

de Debra Gwartney

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 Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.
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What Cannot Be Undone - True Stories Of A Life In Medicine

de Walter M. Robinson

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 In his debut essay collection, Walter Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer.
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Fortunate Son - Selected Essays From The Lone Star State

de Rick Bass

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 Offers a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today.
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The Rock Cycle - Essays

de Kevin Honold

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 The past is a living thing, palpable as the weather. In this collection of essays, Kevin Honold explores themes of history and its fading significance in modern American life. With contemplations on religions, philosophies, works of literature, and the land, Honold examines what it means to be oneself within the world.
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The Untouched Minutes

de Donald Morrill

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 What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved? Set against the unfolding drama of post-9/11 America, this book explores how violence and the threat of violence color and recast one's assumptions and can plot the course of people facing the unknown, the unknowable, and the irredeemable.
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Cultural Nationalism And Ethnic Music In Latin America

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 Offers a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
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Playing At Monarchy - Sport As Metaphor In Nineteenth-Century France

de Corry Cropper

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 Looks at the ways sports and games are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. This book examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature, newspapers, historical studies, and game manuals.
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Mine - Essays

de Sarah Viren

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 A book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.
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Volver - A Persistence Of Memory

de Antonio C. Márquez

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 Born on the eve of World War II into a family of Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Antonio C. MÃ¡rquez remains a child of the border, his life partaking of multiple cultures, countries, and classes. Here he recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball and friendship with his Chinese Mexican American neighbor, Manuel Wong, to the turbulent events of his manhood.
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