Tag: American authors
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Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller, 2013 Biography If you could see Ms Miller now in her beautifully tidy apartment with its sparkling countertops and clean floors, you would never guess that she grew up in a junk filled home. She new, growing up, that things were different in her home. She was embarrassed, always meeting friends at…
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Educated and Educating {Books by Daughter and Mother}
Educated: Tara Westover, 2018 (the daughter) Educating: LaRee Westover, 2020 (the mom) Autobiography One family. Two very different viewpoints. Educated Educated is a book about Tara’s troubled childhood on into how she deals with things as an adult. She describes her life near Clifton, Idaho as traumatic and unsettling. Her father distrusted the government and…
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The Life Giving Table
Sally Clarkson, 2017, 272 pages How important is it to gather around the table with your family? Sally Clarkson, the author of The Lifegiving Table, sees a table set with food as a place to nurture faith and connection along with satisfying physical hunger. In this book she explains why your table is your mission, along…
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House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…
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Why Everyone Needs a Book Club and a Review
And last but not least, you get to read books like Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (which is the whole point of this post). I have been reading the blog called Sean of the South for quite a few months. He has a blog post every single day and the more posts I read, the more I became interested…
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