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With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles

By: Albert, Susan Wittig; Finet, Dayna; Carpenter, Liz

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, University of Texas Press: 2003

Seller ID: 604198

ISBN: 0292701888

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed by several of the women. 222 pages. "Much of the time our society stereotypes and dismisses old women as ridiculous, troublesome, irrelevant, and (worst of all) boring. These memoirs contradict the assumptions. The women who wrote them have experienced solid, hearty lives, with a characteristic vitality enduring into old age." --from the Foreword by Liz Carpenter Women who were sixty or older at the turn of the twenty-first century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous moments--and yet these women often believe that their personal lives and stories are i...
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The Astor Orphan: A Memoir

By: Aldrich, Alexandra

Price: $7.49

Publisher: New York, Ecco / HarperCollins Publishersn: 2014

Seller ID: 608351

ISBN: 0062207954

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Debut novel. Genealogical table . 257 pages
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Rightful Place

By: Auker, Amy Hale

Price: $12.45

Publisher: Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press: 2011

Seller ID: 607491

ISBN: 0896726797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

122 pages
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The Orla Flash

By: Beckham, Patti

Price: $13.26

Publisher: New York, Blooming Twig Books: 2009

Seller ID: 606660

ISBN: 1933918543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

159 pages. Signed by Author. RAISED IN the West Texas town of Orla, Texas, single mother Patti Beckham's career moved her to the busy streets of highly populated cities to make a living for herself and her young son. But work eventually brought her back to the countryside of Texas, driving from one rural town to another, touching again the deep roots of the American people's dreams. We all have a story to tell, and one of Patti's dreams has been fulfilled. "The Orla Flash" is now in print. Her folksy charm and honest story-telling highlight the life, love, business, family and Christia...
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Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family

By: Cheney, Lynne

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Threshold Editions: 2007

Seller ID: 603034

ISBN: 1416532889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

$26.00 original publisher's price on inside front flap of dust jacket. Medium blue boards with darker blue spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Stated First Edition with full number line. Genealogical tables on endpapers. . 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.7 Inches. 320 pages
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The Way It Was

By: Coe, Edith C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation: 2001

Seller ID: 602743

ISBN: 1401015638

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0.34 x 8.6 x 5.56 Inches. 136 pages. Signed by Author
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She Did What She Could: History of a Pioneer Woman

By: Daugherty, Wilma Morton

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Waco, TX, Texian Press: 1977

Seller ID: 606583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Two small closed tears to dust jacket; Previous owner's name and address plus purchase data inked on front paste-down endpaper under dust jacket flap . Inscribed "Best Wishes" and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the free front endpage. 107 pages. Signed by Author
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From Iowa Roots

By: Deen, Miriam

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mansfield, OH, self-published: 2001

Seller ID: 608207

ISBN: 0967274230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Inscribed, dated, and SIGNED by the AUTHOR . 172 pages. Signed by Author
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Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'

By: Deen, Paula; Cohen, Sherry Suib

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2007

Seller ID: 604429

ISBN: 0743292855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

304 pages. Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The Lady & Sons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her famous and even heard some version of her Cinderella story (a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant, a fairy-tale second marriage, and wildly popular television shows), but you have never heard the intimate details of her often bumpy road to fame and for...
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True Love Lasts Forever

By: Dudley, Ruth Marion

Price: $36.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 2002

Seller ID: 602017

ISBN: 0533137500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Some color missing from d j (production error) at head and tail of spine and lower front corner . 393 pages. Genealogical table
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From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents: Rough Times on the Frio

By: Farris, Frances Bramlette; Sonnichsen, edited with an introduction by C. L.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 607395

ISBN: 0875650058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

137 pages. Chisholm Trail Series, Number Three
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Tough Choices: A Memoir

By: Fiorina, Carly

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Portfolio: 2006

Seller ID: 604445

ISBN: 159184133X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

336 pages. Behind the headlines—one of the most talked-about business leaders in the world tells her own story. By accepting the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard, an iconic company that had lost its way, Carly Fiorina confirmed her status as the most powerful businesswoman in America. But she also made herself a target for everyone who disliked her bold leadership style and resented her rapid rise. For six years, as she led HP through drastic changes and a controversial merger, Fiorina was the subject of endless analysis, debate, and speculation. She appeared on the cover of every major magazin...
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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

By: Flynn, Laura M.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Counterpoint: 2009

Seller ID: 604625

ISBN: 1582434611

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

288 pages. When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn’t long, however, before Sally’s fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura’s parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest while Laura and her sisters united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother taught them so that they might deflect the danger threatening their fragile family. Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is redolent with place. In luminous prose...
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Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson

By: Frey, Amber

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, Regan Books: 2005

Seller ID: 602053

ISBN: 0060799250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

. 224 pages. Witness is the chilling story of how a young woman became ensnared in Scott Peterson's web of lies, then risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conner. It is also a story of forgiveness and faith, and of one woman's struggle to live with an open and honest heart.
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The Film Club: A Memoir

By: Gilmour, David

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Publishers: 2009

Seller ID: 604809

ISBN: 0887623492

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Previous owner's name on free front end page . 280 pages. The Canadian film critic and host of Gilmour on the Arts outlines the unconventional approach he used to educate and influence his fifteen-year-old high-school dropout son, who was allowed to remain at home if he agreed to watch three landmark films of his father's choosing every week.
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The Badgertots

By: Greene, Neil

Price: $17.25

Publisher: Bloomington, IN, Authorhouse: 2004

Seller ID: 607651

ISBN: 1418490547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Dated, inscribed, and SIGNED bythe AUTHOR . 309 pages. Signed by Author
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir

By: Hillerman, Tony

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2001

Seller ID: 608204

ISBN: 0060194456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

341 pages. One of America's best-loved authors pens a stunning memoir that is a loving tribute to family, a country at war and in depression, and the writing profession. 16 pages of photographs.
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage

By: Kirkby, Mary-Ann

Price: $9.25

Publisher: Nashville, Thomas Nelson: 2010

Seller ID: 608700

ISBN: 084994810X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Appears unread. 245 pages. In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada with seven children, and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little of their unique culture. The transition was overwhelming. Desperate to be accepted, ten-year-old Ann-Marie was forced to deny her heritage in order to fit in with her peers. Winner of the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-fiction.“Your mother and father are running away," said a voice piercing the warm air. I froze and...
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Tales from an Old Finn

By: Lundeen, Walt

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Knoxville, TN, Emeritus Books: 2004

Seller ID: 606902

ISBN: 0971249318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Genealogical table . 137 pages. Signed by Author
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847

By: Magoffin, Susan Shelby; Drumm, Stella M.; Lamar, Howard R.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Lincoln, NE, Bison Books: 1982

Seller ID: 604381

ISBN: 0803281161

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

304 pages. Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house an...
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