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| Kenneth Carley - The Dakota War of 1862 |
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The memoirist recalls her childhood in Minnesota, where a meatpacking plant dominated the lives of her family and friends. A 1959 strike at the plant, where her father was a striking employee, defines the narrative. Although a memoir of her own childhood, this book meditates on the larger issues of ...
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$10.00 - $15.00
from 4 stores
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| Marianna De Marco Torgovnick - Crossing Ocean Parkway |
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The acclaimed author of Gone Primitive interweaves autobiographical moments with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons, from Dr. Doolittle to Lionel Trilling, from The Godfather to Camille Paglia, to create this unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries--of what it means to ...
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$2.00 - $25.00
from 3 stores
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| Janet Campbell Hale - Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter |
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A collection of essays--on writing, American Indian reservation life, being a woman, and family--by a distinguished writer and member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. In haunting prose, Hale interweaves her own experiences with striking portraits of relatives into a rich tapestry of history, storytelling ...
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$1.99 - $17.95
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| Janisse Ray - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
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A naturalist describes growing up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, explaining how a childhood spent in rural isolation amidst the religious fundamentalism of the South led to her determination to help preserve the nearly vanished longleaf pine ecosystem of the southern United States.
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$2.88 - $14.95
from 8 stores
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