Linda Crew
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Seventeen-year-old Lovisa King leaves Missouri for the Oregon Territory in 1845. A Heart for Any Fate, based on the history of a company of real pioneers, tells the story of the King family, whose careful plans are challenged by the harsh, unforeseen realities of overland travel. The family makes the unfortunate decision to follow guide Stephen Meek, who leads them into blistering weather, drought, and treacherous river crossings along a shortcut...
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How could such a thing happen in Corvallis, of all places? As if nine Christian churches must certainly be enough to save a mere two thousand souls from such doings. As if tidy picked fences alone could keep the female population contentedly at home. As if lacing us tightly enough in our corsets must surely guarantee protection from all evil….In our defense, I can say only that nothing seemed so terribly strange in the beginning. There were no...
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A historical guidebook of social dissent, Michael Munk's The Portland Red Guide describes local radicals, their organizations, and their activities in relation to physical sites in the Rose City. With the aid of maps and historical photos, Munk's stories are those that history books often exclude. The historical listings expand readers' perspectives of the unique city and its radical past. The Portland Red Guide is a testament to Portland's rich history...
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I am well. Completely well. Wonderful. Except, I'm lying. Or was the first time I wrote this, anyway. Month after month, on days when I felt optimistic enough to imagine that surely I was nearly healed, I watched myself nail this story down on faith alone that by the time you'd read these words, they'd be true. And now, thank God, they are. I am completely, confidently well. It feels like a miracle. It almost feels like I've been dead, and now I've...
5) Wedding in Yangshuo: A Memoir of Love, Language, And the Journey of a Lifetime to the Heart of China
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Once upon a time at Wake Robin Farm in Oregon, I was miraculously pregnant with our first child. That same summer, on the Li River in Southern China, a pretty woman exactly my age was also expecting. She and her husband were both artists. Our child, born in August, was a son. Theirs, born in October, a daughter. Twenty-two years later, these children, now grown, would meet in Beijing. The girl from Yangshuo had been studying English. Our son,...
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HarperCollins Publishers
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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In this story based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and her female friends become obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1904, claiming to be a Christian prophet.