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Best Part of Us, The

A Novel

by Sally Cole-Misch ...

Narrated by Jane Weatherstone ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

Beth Llyndee cherishes her family's summers on a pristine Canadian lake, where she revels in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, and an unshakable bond with family, friends, and nature on their island of granite and pines.When that bond is threatened and then torn apart, first as her family's rights to the island are questioned and ... Read more

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Beth Llyndee cherishes her family's summers on a pristine Canadian lake, where she revels in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, and an unshakable bond with family, friends, and nature on their island of granite and pines.When that bond is threatened and then torn apart, first as her family's rights to the island are questioned and
... Read more

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The Best Part of Us

A Novel

by Sally Cole-Misch ...

**2021 15th Annual Indie Excellence Juror's Choice Award Winner“The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch is a lush debut novel which explores nature, family, and land with nuance and patience.” —Affinity Magazine**Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons’ evening trills across the lake’s ... Read more

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**2021 15th Annual Indie Excellence Juror's Choice Award Winner“The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch is a lush debut novel which explores nature, family, and land with nuance and patience.” —Affinity Magazine**Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons’ evening trills across the lake’s
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Women of the Praia

Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community

by Sally Cooper Cole ...

In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that ... Read more

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In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that
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What Does It Mean to Grow Old?

Reflections from the Humanities

Edited by Thomas R. Cole, Sally Gadow ...

In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline—gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law—and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard. ... Read more

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In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline—gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law—and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.
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Contesting Publics

Feminism, Activism, Ethnography

by Lynne Phillips, Sally Cole ...

Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship ... Read more

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Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship
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Dirty Work

Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily

by Jeffrey E. Cole, Sally S. Booth ...

Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service, prostitution, and agriculture. Investigation of these key sectors affords a revealing vantage point onto the place of Sicily in the increasingly ... Read more

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Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service, prostitution, and agriculture. Investigation of these key sectors affords a revealing vantage point onto the place of Sicily in the increasingly
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The White Flag (Unabridged)

by John Hay ...

Narrated by Phylis Cole, Sally Longe, Michael Hibbs ...

Unabridged

21 min

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, a young woman named Clara Barton embarks on a perilous journey to the battlefields of Virginia. Driven by an unyielding compassion, she witnesses firsthand the horrors of war and the desperate need for medical aid. As she tends to the wounded and dying, Clara's resolve to alleviate suffering intensifies, leading her to establish the American Red Cross, ... Read more

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In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, a young woman named Clara Barton embarks on a perilous journey to the battlefields of Virginia. Driven by an unyielding compassion, she witnesses firsthand the horrors of war and the desperate need for medical aid. As she tends to the wounded and dying, Clara's resolve to alleviate suffering intensifies, leading her to establish the American Red Cross,
... Read more

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Chasing North Star

A Novel

by Heidi McCrary ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

7 hours 35 min

Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty or lead her down an even darker path.Fast-forward to 1970. With help from a worn leather journal, another young girl learns the story of Didi, who escaped war-torn Germany for a better life in America—except her life ... Read more

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Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty or lead her down an even darker path.Fast-forward to 1970. With help from a worn leather journal, another young girl learns the story of Didi, who escaped war-torn Germany for a better life in America—except her life
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Takeaway Men, The

A Novel

by Meryl Ain ...

Narrated by Senn Annis ...

Unabridged

8 hours 41 min

With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War.Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust ... Read more

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With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War.Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust
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Competitive Grieving

A Novel

by Nora Zelevansky ...

Narrated by Katie Schorr ...

Unabridged

11 hours 8 min

An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Summer’s Best New BooksWren’s closest friend, her anchor since childhood, is dead. Stewart Beasley. Gone. She can’t quite believe it and she definitely can’t bring herself to google what causes an aneurysm. Instead of weeping or facing reality, Wren has been dreaming up the perfect funeral plans, memorial buffets, and processional songs for everyone from the corner ... Read more

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An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Summer’s Best New BooksWren’s closest friend, her anchor since childhood, is dead. Stewart Beasley. Gone. She can’t quite believe it and she definitely can’t bring herself to google what causes an aneurysm. Instead of weeping or facing reality, Wren has been dreaming up the perfect funeral plans, memorial buffets, and processional songs for everyone from the corner
... Read more

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Toward That Which is Beautiful

A Novel

by Marian O’Shea Wernicke ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Klett ...

Unabridged

8 hours 55 min

On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination.Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run, encountering a variety of ... Read more

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On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination.Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run, encountering a variety of
... Read more

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All That Was

by Tanya E Williams ...

Narrated by Hannah Schooner, Giancarlo Herrera ...

Unabridged

20 hours 19 min

Separated by a century. Bonded by loss. Will examining all that was invoke comfort or calamity?Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a ... Read more

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Separated by a century. Bonded by loss. Will examining all that was invoke comfort or calamity?Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a
... Read more

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