Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard. Their stories t…
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Night of the Living Rez
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Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
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Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.
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Mercury
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town―from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel Shiner
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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
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Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.
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“The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.”
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