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A Habit of Landscape
Shelley Armitage is an award-winning author, professor, and scholar of varied and wide-ranging talents, interests, and insights. Her books, essays, and articles run the gamut of genres and topics from poetry to biography, geography, cultural anthropology, memoir, history, chronicles of our changing landscape and climate, and more. The […]
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Author Interviews
Interview With Masha Rumer
Categories: Author Interviews, Nonfiction
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner
Biography
Gold Rush
Flora Delargy’s publication entitled Gold Rush is subtitled: The untold story of the First Nations woman who started the Klondike Gold Rush. Her beautifully illustrated work provides a gold mine of information. Don’t let the title confuse you; it’s not just about Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack), who is believed […]
Categories: Biography, Children's, Nonfiction
Tags: Cultures, environment, Good Books, History, Strong girls, Women's issues
Tags: Cultures, environment, Good Books, History, Strong girls, Women's issues
Nonfiction
Desert Haven
I often choose books based on what they can teach me. Desert Haven, by Penelope Starr, introduced me to the womyn’s land movement, coinciding with the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s. Though I was a young woman during this period, I was unaware of the women-only […]
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs falls in the growing genre of books that aim to reintroduce us to nature. But this is no dry field guide! What Walks This Way is packed with personal stories about each species’ life […]
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Now You Are a Missing Person
Susan Hayden’s award-winning, lyrical memoir Now You Are a Missing Person weaves together memories of her rich and varied life since the 1970s, anchored by three devastating losses—her father, a childhood best friend, and her husband. A combination of poetry and prose, with some segments a few scant […]
Our Favorite Authors
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Interview With Masha Rumer
Categories: Author Interviews, Nonfiction
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner
