121.
Series: Voice in the American West
On Becoming Apache
Paperback
Harry Mithlo
9781682830598
$40.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 05, 2020
This is the story of Watson Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, his family, and his life. Watson?s story embodies the life of the Chiricahua Apache people, who in 1886 were forced into exile to Fort Marion, Florida, by the US government and considered prisoners of war until 1914. This story tells Watson?s lived history as the Chiricahua were relocated from Arizona to Florida to Alabama and finally to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But this is also a story of Harry Mithlo, Watson?s son, and Conger Beasley, Harry?s friend. It is a story of telling a story. The thre...
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122.
Series: Judith Keeling Book
Finding Karen
An Ancestral Mystery
Paperback
Dorothy Allred Solomon
9781682830611
$37.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 10, 2020
Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father?s House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women and the dissonance many experience in connection to fundamentalist pasts. The more Solomon delved into issues of agency, the more she felt her own dissonance and began to look for answers in her ancestral past?those early women she knew only through family stories. Finding Karen: An Ancestral Mystery springs from a decade of research into Solomon?s pate...
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123.
Series:
Dark Eyes, Lady Blue
María of Ágreda
Paperback
Marilyn H. Fedewa
9781682830567
$26.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 30, 2020
Dark Eyes, Lady Blue tells the story of Sister María of Ágreda's remarkable life. María was born in Ágreda, Spain, in 1602, and vowed there as a nun at age seventeen. From birth to her death in 1665, she never left the small town. Yet her accomplishments had a lasting impact in Spain and as far away as the American Southwest, where she is celebrated to this day.Although cloistered in Ágreda's Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, María grew to be a renowned mystic, a widely read author, and an advisor to the King of Spain. She experienced rel...
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124.
Series:
Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You
A Novel
Hardcover
Estelle Glaser Laughlin
9781682830680
$40.95
FICTION
Oct 23, 2020
Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You is a historical novel written by Estelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor. Laughlin grew up in Warsaw before she was deported to multiple Nazi death camps, from which she was eventually liberated in January 1945. Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You is an imagining of what might have been. The book tells the story of Malka, a teenaged Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto who is smuggled to the Christian neighborhood and given a new identity. The novel highlights a historically accurate Holocaust narrative not frequently told: that ...
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