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Went to Kansas: a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition (Abridged, Annotated)

By: Miriam Davis Colt

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Went to Kansas: a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition (Abridged, Annotated)

By: Miriam Davis Colt

In 1856, Miriam Colt, her husband, and her two small children set out for Kansas territory to make a new life. They were part of The Vegetarian Settlement Company, an organization formed to create a like-minded community committed to not eating meat and opposed to slavery.This was the time of Bleeding Kansas and they more than once met with "Border Ruffians," nearly at the cost of their lives. On the trip out:"The steamer struck a "snag" last night; gave us a terrible jar; tore off a part of the kitchen; ladies much frightened."This was only the beginning of the troubles they would experience like thousands of other pioneers."Have ridden forty miles in a stage-coach, over very rough roads. In some places we found the snow four and five feet deep--we were obliged to get out and walk some distance. The men had to work hard to keep the stage right side up."Arriving at the site of the proposed settlement, they found no buildings had been constructed. They were close to Indian land, and Mrs. Colt writes in her diary frequently of premonitions of disaster.

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1519052715

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Long-ago Stories

Stories of Ellen White and Other SDA Pioneers for Parents to Read to Children

By: Miriam Hardinge

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Long-ago Stories

Stories of Ellen White and Other SDA Pioneers for Parents to Read to Children

By: Miriam Hardinge

Describes the childhood, youth, and religious life of the early Seventh-Day Adventist Ellen White, who traveled to share with others her visions of Jesus.

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0828003513

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9780828003513

Went to Kansas

Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to That Fairy Land and Its Sad Results : Together with a Sketch of the Life of the Author and How the World Goes with Her

By: Miriam Colt,Miriam Davis Colt

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Went to Kansas

Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to That Fairy Land and Its Sad Results : Together with a Sketch of the Life of the Author and How the World Goes with Her

By: Miriam Colt,Miriam Davis Colt

Traces the growing disappointment and the final defeat which one settler family suffered in the mid-19th century West.

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Applewood Books

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1429045612

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9781429045612

The Beloved Border

Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land

By: Miriam Davidson

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The Beloved Border

Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land

By: Miriam Davidson

The Beloved Border is a potent and timely report on the U.S.-Mexico border. Though this book tells of the unjust death and suffering that occurs in the borderlands, Davidson gives us hope that the U.S.-Mexico border could be, and in many ways already is, a model for peaceful coexistence worldwide.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816542163

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9780816542161

The Flying Troutmans

A Novel

By: Miriam Toews

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The Flying Troutmans

A Novel

By: Miriam Toews

This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we're at the end of our rope and there's no net below us." —ELLE When Hattie's moody boyfriend dumps her in Paris, she returns home to find that her sister Min is in the psych ward again. Freaked out by the prospect of becoming a surrogate mother to Min's kids, Logan and Thebes, Hattie decides to take them in the family van to find their father, last heard to be running an idiosyncratic art gallery in South Dakota. What ensues is a remarkable journey across America, as aunt and kids—through chaos as diverse as their personalities—discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them thought.

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Catapult

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1640091718

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9781640091719

Brothers of Cain

By: Miriam Monfredo

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Brothers of Cain

By: Miriam Monfredo

In 1862, while troops prepare to capture Richmond, undercover agent Bronwen Llyr begins her own battle: to free her brother from prison. But as time escapes her, so does hope.

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Penguin

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1101204281

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9781101204283

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard

Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature)

By: Miriam Kahn

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Tahiti Beyond the Postcard

Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature)

By: Miriam Kahn

Tahiti evokes visions of white beaches and beautiful women. This imagined paradise, created by Euro-American romanticism, endures today as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry, while quite a different place is inhabited and experienced by ta'ata ma'ohi, as Tahitians refer to themselves. This book brings into dialogue the perspectives on place of both Tahitians and Europeans. Miriam Kahn is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Always Hungry, Never Greedy.

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University of Washington Press

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029599102X

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Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West

By: Miriam Green Ellis

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Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis

Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West

By: Miriam Green Ellis

Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the modernist sphere for over four decades and who refused to be confined to the "women's pages." With written material from the University of Alberta's Miriam Green Ellis Collection, accompanied by an excellent selection of photographs, Ellis's inimitable voice and views on Albertans, westerners, and Canadians in the early decades of the twentieth century emerge clearly. Readers interested in Canadian women studies, journalism, or feminism will find Ellis's highly coloured perspective both entertaining and informative.

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University of Alberta

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0888648014

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9780888648013

Encountering the Sovereign Other

Indigenous Science Fiction

By: Miriam C. Brown Spiers

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Encountering the Sovereign Other

Indigenous Science Fiction

By: Miriam C. Brown Spiers

Science fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters and tames the unknown. Despite this logic, Native American writers have claimed the genre as a productive space in which they can critique historical colonialism and reassert the value of Indigenous worldviews. Encountering the Sovereign Other proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous science fiction, placing Native theorists like Vine Deloria Jr. and Gregory Cajete in conversation with science fiction theorists like Darko Suvin, David Higgins, and Michael Pinsky. In response to older colonial discourses, many contemporary Indigenous authors insist that readers acknowledge their humanity while recognizing them as distinct peoples who maintain their own cultures, beliefs, and nationhood. Here author Miriam C. Brown Spiers analyzes four novels: William Sanders’s The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, Stephen Graham Jones’s It Came from Del Rio, D. L. Birchfield’s Field of Honor, and Blake M. Hausman’s Riding the Trail of Tears. Demonstrating how Indigenous science fiction expands the boundaries of the genre while reinforcing the relevance of Indigenous knowledge, Brown Spiers illustrates the use of science fiction as a critical compass for navigating and surviving the distinct challenges of the twenty-first century.

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MSU Press

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1628954477

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9781628954470

Branding New York

How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World

By: Miriam Greenberg

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Branding New York

How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World

By: Miriam Greenberg

Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book! Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; rather it was a political strategy meant to legitimatize market-based solutions over social objectives.

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Routledge

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1135919119

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9781135919115

Dirty Harriet

By: Miriam Auerbach

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Dirty Harriet

By: Miriam Auerbach

SOMETIMES, A WOMAN'S GOT TO GET DIRTY TO GET THINGS CLEAN… Leaving the glamorous Boca Raton lifestyle behind wasn't easy for Boca-born Harriet Horowitz. But when she'd asked her physically abusive husband to make her day— he'd agreed (in front of 500 people)— and Harriet became single (a widow). Though it had been a clear-cut case of self-defense, she lost everything…yet wound up finding more. Her crash from the heights of society led her to a home in the desolate, haunting Everglades, a job as a private investigator and a new identity as tough cookie Dirty Harriet. It was a new world for Harriet. Until a murder case involving vulnerable migrant women brought her back to Boca Raton and forced her to face a past she'd thought she'd left in the dust.…

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Harlequin

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1552544389

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The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles Times Notable Book

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608190994

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9781608190997

Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England

Growing up in the Village

By: Miriam Müller

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Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England

Growing up in the Village

By: Miriam Müller

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.

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Springer

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3030036022

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The Axeman of New Orleans

The True Story

By: Miriam C. Davis

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The Axeman of New Orleans

The True Story

By: Miriam C. Davis

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.

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Chicago Review Press

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161374871X

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Come What May, I Want to Run

A Memoir of the Saving Grace of Ultrarunning in Overwhelming Times

By: Miriam Diaz-Gilbert

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Come What May, I Want to Run

A Memoir of the Saving Grace of Ultrarunning in Overwhelming Times

By: Miriam Diaz-Gilbert

Growing up, Miriam is an average athlete who doesn’t get much playing time. She never imagines becoming a runner. But a college breakup propels her to run to mend her broken heart. She begins running 5K races. These races morph into half-marathons and marathons. Years later, running helps her to cope with the workplace mistreatment she is enduring as an academic and the depression she suffers. After watching Dean Karnazes and Pam Reed on 60 Minutes talk about ultrarunning, Miriam signs up for the JFK 50 ultra. With the love and support of her family, she runs an ultramarathon every year. A few years later, Miriam is unable to run normally until she is diagnosed with neurological B12 deficiency and gets her running legs back. Three days after placing third female in a twenty-four-hour ultramarathon, Miriam’s scheduled laparoscopic hysterectomy is only the beginning of her medical and surgical nightmare. When her husband Jon is diagnosed with stage four cancer, Miriam runs ultramarathons for his healing. In Come What May, I Want to Run, the reader keeps pace with Miriam as she overcomes adversity, and her unrelenting faith, perseverance, resiliency, and running ultramarathons never waiver.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666768057

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9781666768053

My Highland Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers Historical Romance Novel

By: Miriam Minger

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My Highland Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers Historical Romance Novel

By: Miriam Minger

My Highland Enemy in the exciting Warriors of the Highlands series by award-winning author Miriam Minger brings you an enemies-to-lovers tale filled with adventure, treachery, and romance! A strapping warrior from the far north Highlands, Alec Mackay is forced home by his clansmen, fierce descendants of Vikings, to marry an enemy’s flame-haired daughter, Rowen Sutherland. Though both warlike clans are loyal to King Robert the Bruce, they have battled each other for years in a blood feud until finally, the king demands a wedding to foster peace between the Sutherlands and Mackays. He needs his Highlanders to fight the English, and not each other. Yet what peace can there be when treachery looms on all sides for two enemies thrown together in marriage? My Highland Enemy is the seventh novel in the acclaimed Warriors of the Highlands series by bestselling author Miriam Minger. For fans of handsome Highlanders and spirited lasses, you don't want to miss this breathtaking Highland romance set during the tumultuous time of Braveheart and Robert the Bruce!

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Walker Publishing

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1943644527

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9781943644520

Standards-Based Comprehension Strategies and Skills Guide

Level 3

By: Miriam Myers

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Standards-Based Comprehension Strategies and Skills Guide

Level 3

By: Miriam Myers

This series ensures that students learn necessary reading skills by offering a variety of texts combined with targeted lessons to practice and reinforce comprehension and fluency. The fiction and nonfiction passages prepare students for the type of reading found on most standardized tests.

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0743902637

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9780743902632

Lively Legends--Jewish Values

An Early Childhood Teaching Guide

By: Miriam P. Feinberg

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Lively Legends--Jewish Values

An Early Childhood Teaching Guide

By: Miriam P. Feinberg

Age-appropriate, read-aloud stories about rabbis and sages, kings and common folk explore Jewish values and themes and expand your students' Jewish world. Activities for role play, arts and crafts, music, science, and more, plus evocative discussion questions help teachers use literature fully and creatively in the classroom.

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Behrman House, Inc

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0867050306

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9780867050301

Ruthie's Dream

By: Miriam E. Cariveau

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Ruthie's Dream

By: Miriam E. Cariveau

Through the eyes of a cheerful nine-year-old girl, we see a bit of life along the dusty roads of Judea. Imagine Ruthie watching other children who are walking, running, jumping, and chasing each other. She could not join them. But she knew that her physical limitations would never limit her expressions of hope and joy. Always expect a miracle, even from a dreamfrom your very own dream, her mother had often said. Ruthie knew that Gods love was real, and her hope was in trusting Him. One of her special delights was caring for their donkey, Samuel. Even to this old creature, her kindness and compassion radiated. Ruthies story of what happened one day on the way to Jerusalem is intended to touch the heart. A vividly colorful story with many lovely layers depicting Gods love and grace, [Ruthies Dream] truly shows the faith of a child and the blessings that follow. It is as pure and delightful as its author. Lisa Binzoni, owner of The English Rose Tea Room and Gifts in Pleasanton, California As a father and grandfather, Im pleased to endorse Miriams story about a little girl whose faith in Jesus is rewarded in a miraculous way. As a pastor, Im always looking for ways to make the story of Jesus personal. Miriam has done that with Ruthies dream. Earl Heverly, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Sacramento, California

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WestBow Press

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1512723770

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9781512723779

The Brigand Bride: An Enemies to Lovers Highlander Historical Romance Novel

By: Miriam Minger

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The Brigand Bride: An Enemies to Lovers Highlander Historical Romance Novel

By: Miriam Minger

When Maddie Fraser’s father was killed fighting for Bonnie Prince Charles, the spirited Scottish lass swore to avenge his death. Hooded and disguised, she led a series of daring raids against the forces of the Crown—vowing to love no man until the English invaders were driven from her native soil. Captain Garrett Marshall was entrusted with the capture of the mysterious brigand called “Black Jack.” But the sensuous, azure-eyed beauty hidden beneath the bandit’s manly garb tested Garrett’s loyalty to his King. Inflamed by a desire he could not ignore, the handsome officer would wed his bewitching enemy to save her from the gallows. But first he’d have to quell her hatred…and conquer her heart. **Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist for Best Historical Romance** "Miriam Minger captures the heart and splendor of historical Scotland in a beautifully moving story of love and betrayal that should not be missed." - Affaire de Coeur “Miriam Minger is a master storyteller who illustrates the full gamut of emotions felt by her characters. Emotions so strong that you are pulled into the pages and into their lives.” – Inside Romance “With Miriam Minger, you’re assured of a good read!” - Heartland Critiques Enjoy all three books in Miriam Minger’s bestselling Dangerous Masquerade Collection: Book 1: THE BRIGAND BRIDE (Garrett and Maddie) Book 2: THE SCANDALOUS BRIDE (Stefan and Kassandra) Book 3: THE IMPOSTOR BRIDE (Adam and Susanna)

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Walker Publishing

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0982883587

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