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The Marsh Queen

By: Virginia Hartman

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For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past and the secrets held in the waters of Florida’s lush swamps and wetlands. Loni Murrow is an accomplished bird artist at the Smithsonian who loves her job. But when she receives a call from her younger brother summoning her back home to help their obstinate mother recover after an accident, Loni’s neat, contained life in Washington, DC, is thrown into chaos, and she finds herself exactly where she does not want to be. Going through her mother’s things, Loni uncovers scraps and snippets of a time in her life she would prefer to forget—a childhood marked by her father Boyd’s death by drowning. When Loni comes across a single, cryptic note from a stranger—“There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd’s death”—she begins a dangerous quest to discover the truth, all the while struggling to reconnect with her mother and reconcile with her brother and his wife. To make matters worse, she meets a man whose attractive simple charm threatens to pull her back towards everything she’s worked to escape. Torn between worlds—her professional accomplishments in Washington, and the small town of her childhood—Loni must decide whether to delve beneath the surface into murky half-truths and avenge the past or bury it, once and for all. “Fans of Delia Owens and Lauren Groff will find this a wonderful and absorbing read” (Suzanne Feldman, author of Sisters of the Great War).

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384

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1982171618

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9781982171612

Remember Mercy

By: Virginia Douglas

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Remember Mercy

By: Virginia Douglas

In the fall of 2010, the Turner kids ventured to follow Simmie Turner's trail through Alaska by sea, railroad, and highway. It was a great journey where the scenery remains unchanged since the days of the greatest generation who built the ALCAN highway. Simmie's story was added to the tales of adventure told along the goldrush trail. We hope everyone who reads the book can make the trip to Alaska. It is mythical country. Nothing like it anywhere else. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, the Sovereign Lord says. Coming of age through suffering in the Great Depression, a wild mountain boy meets a serious young widow. They start a new family only to be separated by World War II. Like a williwaw squall that sweeps the Aleutian islands, the war uproots young dreams, detours voyages, and hides enemy forces. Are Helens prayers a match for the call of the wild when Sim crosses paths with men who find adventure and fortune with international construction companies? Is psychology or theology a better explanatory frame for the question Robert Frost posed in The Road Not Taken?

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582

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1452091145

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9781452091143

Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

By: Virginia McConnell Simmons

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Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

By: Virginia McConnell Simmons

Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.

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343

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University Press of Colorado

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1457109891

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9781457109898

Pleas and Petitions

Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado

By: Virginia Sánchez

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Pleas and Petitions

Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado

By: Virginia Sánchez

In Pleas and Petitions Virginia Sánchez sheds new light on the political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of the legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado. The book reexamines the transformation of some 7,000 Hispano settlers from citizens of New Mexico territory to citizens of the newly formed Colorado territory, as well as the effects of territorial legislation on the lives of those residing in the region as a whole. Sánchez highlights the struggles experienced by Hispano territorial assemblymen trying to create opportunity and a better life in the face of cultural conflict and the institutional racism used to effectively shut them out of the process of establishing new laws and social order. For example, the federal and Colorado territorial governments did not provide an interpreter for the Hispano assemblymen or translations of the laws passed by the legislature, and they taxed Hispano constituents without representation and denied them due process in court. The first in-depth history of Hispano sociopolitical life during Colorado’s territorial period, Pleas and Petitions provides fundamental insight into Hispano settlers’ interactions with their Anglo neighbors, acknowledges the struggles and efforts of those Hispano assemblymen who represented southern Colorado during the territorial period, and augments the growing historical record of Hispanos who have influenced the course of Colorado’s history.

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398

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University Press of Colorado

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160732914X

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9781607329145

Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

at its fifth session, commencing January 16th, 1867

By: West Virginia Legislature

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Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

at its fifth session, commencing January 16th, 1867

By: West Virginia Legislature

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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286

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752566507

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9783752566505

Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Counties of Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, and Pittsylvania. City of Lynchburg

By: Virginia Genealogical Society

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Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Counties of Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, and Pittsylvania. City of Lynchburg

By: Virginia Genealogical Society

Index of all items recorded in will books created by a Virginia county or city during the period 1800-1865. Compiled from microfilm records in the Library of Virginia, and organized by geographic region.

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588

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1888192348

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9781888192346

Home Lands

How Women Made the West

By: Virginia Scharff,Carolyn Brucken

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Home Lands

How Women Made the West

By: Virginia Scharff,Carolyn Brucken

The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes—a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. Home Lands: How Women Made the West upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken consider history’s long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico, the Front Range of Colorado, and the Puget Sound waterscape. This beautiful book, companion volume to the Autry National Center’s pathbreaking exhibit, is a brilliant aggregate of women’s history, the history of the American West, and studies in material culture. While linking each of these places’ peoples to one another over hundreds, even thousands, of years, Home Lands vividly reimagines the West as a setting in which home has been created out of differing notions of dwelling and family and differing concepts of property, community, and history. Copub: Autry National Center of the American West

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206

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University of California Press

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0520262190

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9780520262195

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Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

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Pleas and Petitions

Pleas and Petitions

Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Counties of Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, and Pittsylvania. City of Lynchburg

Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Counties of Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, and Pittsylvania. City of Lynchburg

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