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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
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2016
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The Opera Sisters
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Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator
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2020
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
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2018
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The Water is Wide
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2010
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Pioneer Puzzle (Enchanted Tunnel, #1)
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2010
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Escape from Egypt (Enchanted Tunnel, #2)
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2010
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The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 3: Journey to Jerusalem
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2011
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The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 4: Wandering in the Wilderness
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2011
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Nearer to Thee
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2011
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Marianne Monson said:
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I am loving this book! It is English and although it was written in the 1940s, it has all the romance of a Victorian-era novel. The narrator is charming and I find myself jotting down many of the witty things she says. Next time I have a bad day I am
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Marianne Monson said:
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I'm loving this collection of essays about reading. They are delicious and stirring. Fadiman writes "There is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reali ...more "
“Louise and Ida’s story is one of many from the era that have been overlooked and forgotten until quite recently, and it’s been an honor to revisit and retell it. Their legacy—a dedication to love in the face of violence, art in the face of destruction, and goodness when faced with sheer evil—is a remarkable inspiration.”
― The Opera Sisters
― The Opera Sisters
“Prices rose by the hour. Restaurants didn’t bother printing menus. By the time the bill arrived, the price had changed. American visitors couldn’t spend their money because no German had marks enough to exchange them. People carted money through the streets in wheelbarrows. The cost of one loaf of bread rose to 4.6 million marks.”
― The Opera Sisters
― The Opera Sisters
“Martin Heidegger [a German philosopher] said that Germany’s soul needs to ‘breathe fresh air,’ and National Socialism will provide it. That freedom of inquiry and expression are selfish ideas and we should dedicate ourselves and our work to something larger than ourselves—the Nazi state.”
Mitia closed her eyes. “And those who will not?”
“Sent to Dachau. A work camp they have just opened near Munich.”
― The Opera Sisters
Mitia closed her eyes. “And those who will not?”
“Sent to Dachau. A work camp they have just opened near Munich.”
― The Opera Sisters
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