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These witty, insightful, and readable writings on the various
aspects of alternative librarianship, edited by two outspoken
library professionals, is a sequel to Revolting Librarians,
published in 1972. The contributors, including such as Alison
Bechdel, Sanford Berman, Utne Reader librarian Chris Dodge, Rory
Litwin, Marilyn Gell Mason, Noel Peattie, Toni Samek, and Jana
Varlejs, cover topics that range from library education and
librarianship as a profession to the more political and spiritual
aspects. The contributions include critiques of library and
information science programs, firsthand accounts of work
experiences, and original fiction, poetry and art. Ten of the
original librarians who wrote essays for Revolting Librarians back
in 1972 reflect upon what they wrote thirty years ago and the turns
that their lives and careers have taken since.
A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful
blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it
comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community.
Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways
but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a
lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way
through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes with
candor, sometimes with violence-and tests the strength of their
beliefs. Whether it's a gift parcel arriving on their doorstep or
Confederate soldiers approaching their land, the Birdwells embrace
life with emotion, conviction, and a love for one another that
seems to conquer all.
The Friendly Persuasion has charmed generations of readers as one
of our classic tales of the American Midwest.
In thirty-six stories, West rings changes in time and presents a
startling sweep of personalities and moods. Her themes span the
breadth of experience, from the bite of misery to the balm of
delight. Her achievement, taken totally, is a spectrum of living-a
haunting, rewarding experience.
In a memoir filled with compassion and deep resolve, West
celebrates the lives of three women-her strong Quaker mother, her
beloved and courageous sister, and herself-and gives personal
insight into her own battle to survive tuberculosis.
Five white men stand accused of the murder of innocent, peaceful
Indians - among them women and children. It is 1824, and Indiana is
the Western frontier of a new nation where Seneca warriors stand
ready to fall on fledgling settlements should white men's justice
fail. In a powerful American saga fashioned from the sparse
historical record, Jessamyn West creates characters - an appealing
heroine, her lover, the attorney for the defense, an extraordinary
Indian seer - who stand at the center of a maelstrom of human
emotions: hate, devotion, revenge, compassion, and, above all,
love. As the narrative sweeps from the crimes to the tension-packed
trial and its strangely moving aftermath, the novel carries the
reader to an awareness of undeniably modern implications of our
historical past.
Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living
in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while
learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for
herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch
was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him.
"Ranch work seemed to require that we be married first and do our
sparking afterward," she wrote Juliet Coney, her former employer.
She maintained her independence by filing on a quarter section
adjacent to her husband's land and proving it up herself. Her
delightful letters, written from the time of her arrival until
1913, authentically depict an Old West that, as Jessamyn West notes
in her foreword, has been "progressively obscured by those who
portray it most often."
The critically acclaimed 1980 film Heartland was based on
Elinore Pruitt Stewart's letters and journals.
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