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Weary Traveller Come Home

By: Gloria Jean Hansen

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Mariah, a widow struggling to raise her three children on a small farm in Midwestern Canada in the ‘30s, is determined to succeed alone. She works hard, along with her two young sons, Jonathan and Seth. Nellie Lynn, her little girl, also helps out when she’s not busy dressing the family hound dog in doll clothes. Each night, Mariah talks to her dead husband’s picture, and tells him no one can ever take his place. No one, that is, until a weary traveller shows up at her gate for a cool drink, and makes the devastating mistake of letting his shirt fall open...

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119

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FriesenPress

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1460270614

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9781460270615

A MILLION MILES AND COUNTING: A Story Behind Every Mile

By: Gloria Jean Hansen

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A MILLION MILES AND COUNTING: A Story Behind Every Mile

By: Gloria Jean Hansen

I love driving. I have driven since I was six, and learned on the old Farmall tractor from childhood days in rural Northern Ontario. We never had a car growing up; I swore when I grew up, I would drive somewhere every day. My happiest place is behind the wheel. Home nursing gave me that perk, and every patient I visited turned out another story, names never used and situations slightly changed to assure privacy for participants. My mother lived a thousand miles across the province from us, so in order to ensure my little ones knew their grandmother well, we often dropped everything and headed for 'Grandma's'. Each of those road trips was a story in itself. Something of note would happen every time we set out on such a journey. For instance, my daughter and I were at one time both nursing new babies (and THAT is yet another book). Between the uprooted schedule we both maintained for our babies, we did not take into consideration that our nerves would get the best of us. I recall my daughter saying she was headed for the river bank halfway to our destination and don’t bother coming to get her. I could keep both babes since it was obvious she knew nothing about mothering. I swear I don’t recall questioning her parenting, but to this day she claims I did. Loudly. Could have been something to do with the fact my last baby was born when I was 45, not much left in the patience locker. I am an obsessive fisherman. My fishing rod is always in the trunk. I would travel out of my way for one little cast to see if fish are biting at a nearby lakeshore, or I would jump into my boat and be gone for hours, sometimes days after the big catch. Those lake trips added many miles to my log of distance and stories. I also play music in a bluegrass band with my daughter. We log many, many miles gong to festivals, practices and local and regional musical events. I have always had a rather large vehicle to contain in the early years kids and all their quilts and cuddle toys and sippy cups and anything else they snuck on board. Later years I had to carry medical supplies, briefcases, office supplies, and the like for work, then instruments and sound equipment for the festival circuit, and a front seat filled with coffee maker and a sizeable cooler for the many meals I had to consume while driving. At all times I carried a clipboard and attached pen to record the noteworthy things that happened on my various trips. Those clipboards filled quickly. In later years it was a laptop and/or tablet and cell phone gracing my passenger seat. Since my nursing career began in the early seventies, and motherhood as well, and musician matters all my life, plus the fishing and the snowmachine miles, you can imagine I had ample grist for this ‘Million Miles’ mill. The book is filled with my life on the road, a memoir.

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157

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Abuzz Press

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ISBN 13

9798885313728

Shattered Sense of Innocence

The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children

By: Richard C Lindberg,Gloria Jean Sykes

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Shattered Sense of Innocence

The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children

By: Richard C Lindberg,Gloria Jean Sykes

This book tells the gripping story of the three murdered Chicago boys and the quest to find and bring to justice their killer. The authors recount the bungled police investigation and a questionable conviction, and present new information concerning two suspects overlooked by police for five decades.

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440

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SIU Press

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0809335131

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9780809335138

Manet and Modern Beauty

The Artist's Last Years

By: Gloria Groom

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Manet and Modern Beauty

The Artist's Last Years

By: Gloria Groom

This stunning examination of the last years of Édouard Manet's life and career is the first book to explore the transformation of his style and subject matter in the 1870s and early 1880s. The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafés. Often dismissed as too pretty and superficial by critics, these later works reflect Manet’s elegant social world, propose a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity, and record the artist’s unapologetic embrace of beauty and visual pleasure in the face of death. Featuring nearly three hundred illustrations and nine fascinating essays by established and emerging Manet specialists, a technical analysis of the late Salon painting Jeanne (Spring), a selection of the artist’s correspondence, a chronology, and more, Manet and Modern Beauty brings a diverse range of approaches to bear on a little-studied area of this major artist’s oeuvre.

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404

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Getty Publications

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1606066048

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9781606066041

Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

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Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

Instead of spending hours surfing the Internet, families can use this quick guide to find the Web's hundreds of free offerings for kid-friendly projects, such as organic, coloring books, paper airplanes and kites, needlecrafts, soap making, cartooning, wood and soap carving, and other craft projects for the whole family. 75 illustrations.

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180

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Watson-Guptill Publications

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1571200800

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9781571200808

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Weary Traveller Come Home

Weary Traveller Come Home

A MILLION MILES AND COUNTING: A Story Behind Every Mile

A MILLION MILES AND COUNTING: A Story Behind Every Mile

Shattered Sense of Innocence

Shattered Sense of Innocence

Manet and Modern Beauty

Manet and Modern Beauty

Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet

Free Stuff for Crafty Kids on the Internet

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