![]() ![]() ![]() This 1941work, which continuesto be assigned reading in western and women’shistory courses, drew high praise from no less keen anobserver of the western literary scene than J. 176 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, bibliography,index, $24.95, hardcover.Agnes Morley Cleaveland is best known as theauthor of her memoir of growing up on a cattle ranchin west-central New Mexico, the somewhat inappropriatelytitled No Life for a Lady. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Click for Table of ContentsOpen Range: The Life of Agnes Morle圜leaveland by Darlis A. ![]()
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![]() In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. ![]() And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. ![]() makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook ![]() ![]() Now, I understand that teenage girls are like that in real life. But a good chunk of the book is her obsessing over him. ![]() ![]() That is the impetus for the entire freaking story in this book. 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This book is really stupid, for lack for a more sophisticated term. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She understands what it's like to look back on four generations of women and a beloved quilt that her great-great-grandmother made from an uncle's shirt, an aunt's nightdress, another aunt's apron, and her daughter's dress and babushka. ![]() They don't realize that the baby blanket they've so callously dropped in the donation box is one that they're going think about later, when they have their first kid. Does no object in this house hold sentimental value for them? They toss book after book in the "giveaway" piles, and they do not turn back to retrieve them.īut that's how kids are though, aren't they? They're young, they're always in motion, and they don't cry because they aren't producing enough estrogen. I'm proud of my kids they've been incredibly diligent, packing for our big move. We've purged approximately 400 books in the past week, and this one, The Keeping Quilt, was at the bottom of a last pile of books that my kids had declared “giveaways.” I picked it up and almost broke out in a rash at the thought of giving it to anyone but me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. There is a voice of longing inside each woman. It is phenomenal."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine - The Washington Post - Cosmopolitan - Marie Claire - Bloomberg - Parade - " Untamed will liberate women-emotionally, spiritually, and physically. 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He called the experience “daunting,” explaining that the book’s 400-plus pages were more than he had remembered, and a pleasure on many levels. ![]() Released this week by, the new edition of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 prize winner about the early years of the space program is Quaid’s first time as an audio reader. “Who’s the best narrator you ever saw? You’re looking at him,” the actor said with a laugh during a recent telephone interview, invoking a signature line as the grinning astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1983 film production. NEW YORK – Asked how it felt to narrate the audiobook of “The Right Stuff,” Dennis Quaid slipped right into character. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed - a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. ![]() The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect - not a fun place to spend the summer. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip - the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces. ![]() |