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 | Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska
His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from fami...
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
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 | Struggle and Survival in Colonial America
Here are the fascinating stories of twenty-three little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies of the New World between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Women and men of all the races and classes of colonial so...
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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 | The Reaper's Line: Life and Death on the Mexican Border
A true story of violence, drugs, human smuggling and dirty politicians along the Mexican/American border.
When he was 14, Lee Morgan learned to shoot a rifle from a young Marine who later became the "Texas Tower Sniper." Four years later, ...
Manufacturer: Rio Nuevo
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 | Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story
Alexandra Morton is an internationally known whale researcher familiar to everyone interested in the west coast.Billy Proctor was born in the Broughton Archipelago, and has spent his life doing the time-honored work of upcoast men-fishing, hand-logging,...
Manufacturer: Touchwood Editions
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 | Autism in History: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue
This engaging story of an eighteenth century Scottish laird whose brief arranged marriage was annulled on the grounds of his mental capacity - which seen through modern eyes can be identified as autism. It is a story of villainy and innocence, and provi...
Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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 | Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan
"When I close my eyes, all I see is clear, bright water." So remarks one of the people whose memories, told in their own words, make up this record of a vanishing way of life in small-town, lakeside Japan. Memories of Wind and Waves gathers the richly d...
Manufacturer: Kodansha International (JPN)
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 | Tender Bar, The
"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-h...
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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