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Epic Solitude

A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North

by Katherine Keith ...

All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear—at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many ... Read more

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All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear—at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many
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Bend but Do Not Break

Shaping the Future of the All-Volunteer Force

Edited by Jaron S. Wharton, Keith L. Carter, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Max Z. Margulies, Jason Dempsey, Carrie A. Lee ...

The American military's All-Volunteer Force (AVF) recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. At the time of the post-Vietnam War move to end American military conscription, it was unclear whether a force comprised solely of volunteers could effectively meet the nation's security needs. Yet over the past twenty years, the AVF has grown larger, more generously resourced, and more capable than it had ... Read more

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The American military's All-Volunteer Force (AVF) recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. At the time of the post-Vietnam War move to end American military conscription, it was unclear whether a force comprised solely of volunteers could effectively meet the nation's security needs. Yet over the past twenty years, the AVF has grown larger, more generously resourced, and more capable than it had
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Prayers and Blessings for Healthcare Workers

by Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, Virgil Fry, Kevin M. Roberts, Andrew Phillips, Mishca R. Russell-Smith, Martha Spong, Leenah Safi, Kelly Gregory, Elizabeth Felicetti, Jessica Covil, James R. Adams, Paul Roberts Abernathy, Sarah Griffith Lund, Ruth McMeekin Skjerseth, Ginny Wilder, Paula Wells, Katherine Willis Pershey, Laura Martin, Randy Lewis, Laura Johnson, Hayden Dawes, Molly Bolton, Hadley H. Kifner, Allyson S. Vertigan, Gayle Fisher-Stewart, David Finnegan-Hosey, Molly Brummett Wudel, Traci Smith, Katherine K. Henderson, Arianne Braithwaite Lehn, Keith A. Menhinik, Sonya Gravlee, Jennifer Grant, Heather Bachelder, Ineda Pearl Adesanya, Mark Wingfield, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Danielle Buhuro, Catherine McNiel, Brian Nelson, Malcolm Marler, Nathan Brown, Leslie Deslauriers, Catherine Meeks, Karl Pellegrino, Jamie R. Rivera, Deborah Jill Schloss, Shiela P. Spencer, Ellen M. Swinford, Michael B. Curry ...

An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much.The COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers through prayers and blessings.This curated collection of interfaith ... Read more

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An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much.The COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers through prayers and blessings.This curated collection of interfaith
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Epic Solitude

A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North

by Katherine Keith ...

Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen ...

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9 hours 14 min

All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear—at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many ... Read more

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All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear—at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many
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Record, Document, Archive

Constructing the South out of Region

by Scott Romine, Katherine Adams, Keith Cartwright, Layla Amar, Kerrigan Casey, Julie R. Enszer, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, Sarah Gaby, Bryan Giemza, Allison Harris, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Hannah L. Jacobs, Qurat Khan, Bridget M. Marshall, Brianna McGruder, Rose Norman, Katie Owens-Murphy, Chaitra M. Powell, Rafael R. Solórzano, Drew Swanson, Dolores Flores-Silva ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes ... Read more

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Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes
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The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Angela Esco Elder, Anne J. Bailey, Anthony Gene Carey, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood, Brian Brown, Bruce E. Stewart, Bruce Smith, Caroline Dillman, Chris Wilkinson, Clarence L. Mohr, Dan Childs, Dan Du, David McGee, David Wiggins, David S. Williams, David Williams, Debra van Tuyll, Denise Wright, Diane Trap, Edwin Jackson, Franklin Sammons Jr., Garrett W. Silliman, George Justice, Glenna Schroeder-Lein, Gordon L. Jones, Heather Whittaker, Hubert H. McAlexander, Hugh Ruppersburg, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James Turner, James Welborn III, Jarrod Atchison, Jason Manthorne, Jeffrey Young, John D. Fowler, Jun Hyun, Katherine Brackett, Katherine Rohrer, Keith S. Bohannon, Kevin Young, Kyle Osborn, Laura McCarty, Laverne Hill, Leah Richier, Levi Collins, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Melvin Hill Jr., Robert Wilson III, Robert Scott Davis Jr., Stephen Davis, Stephen Huggins, Steve Longcrier, Susan Eva O'Donovan, William Harris Bragg, Richard Houston, Cindy Schmid, Samuel B. McGuire, Sean H. Vanatta, Vanessa P. Tome ...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and ... Read more

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Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and
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The Complaint; or Night Thoughts (Unabridged)

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by Edward Young ...

Narrated by Keith Manion, Rolland Magelssen, Katherine Reasoner, Jason Goodale ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

Dive into the haunting meditations of Edward Young's "The Complaint; or Night Thoughts." In the quietude of night, a grieving soul wrestles with mortality, the brevity of life, and the allure of the unknown beyond. Prepare to confront profound questions on death, faith, and the human condition. Will we find solace in the face of our inevitable demise? Is there purpose beyond our fleeting years? ... Read more

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Dive into the haunting meditations of Edward Young's "The Complaint; or Night Thoughts." In the quietude of night, a grieving soul wrestles with mortality, the brevity of life, and the allure of the unknown beyond. Prepare to confront profound questions on death, faith, and the human condition. Will we find solace in the face of our inevitable demise? Is there purpose beyond our fleeting years?
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Drinking from the Trough

A Veterinarian's Memoir

by Mary Carlson, DVM ...

Narrated by Sara Morsey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

Mary Carlson didn't plan to become a veterinarian, let alone the caretaker of many cats, two huskies, and horses (some with manners, some without). A suburban Chicago girl, she only knew about the American West from her uncle's stories. But thanks to him, she moved to Colorado for college—and, after falling in love with a veterinary student, settled there for good. Her husband's work inspired her ... Read more

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Mary Carlson didn't plan to become a veterinarian, let alone the caretaker of many cats, two huskies, and horses (some with manners, some without). A suburban Chicago girl, she only knew about the American West from her uncle's stories. But thanks to him, she moved to Colorado for college—and, after falling in love with a veterinary student, settled there for good. Her husband's work inspired her
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Uncovered

How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

by Leah Lax ...

Narrated by Donna Postel ...

Unabridged

13 hours 41 min

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story—beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her ... Read more

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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story—beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her
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Fixing the Fates

An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies

by Diane Dewey ...

Narrated by Rachel Pater ...

Abridged

9 hours 40 min

The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from ... Read more

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The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from
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Parrot’s Perch, The

A Memoir

by Karen Keilt ...

Narrated by Teri Clark Linden ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but ... Read more

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The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but
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In Some Lost Place

The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge

by Sandy Allan ...

Narrated by Saethon Williams ...

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6 hours 24 min

Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain LiteratureIn the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten expeditions had ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain LiteratureIn the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten expeditions had
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