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A world exists on the night-time streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales from his thirty of driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Toronto, Canada's largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities... he's experienced them all. McSherry serves up his stories with forthrightness, humour, and the occasional dash of cynicism. In this well-written and street-smart book, the author tells the rest of us about a world we can only imagine - if we dare. ... Read more

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Good Stuff
A street smart book that educated me and amused me. Good Stuff. This guy knows a lot and can write ... Read more

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Second Age
So nice to enjoy an easy-to-read book that's about real life -- no pretensions. You're taken away into a simpler place and time as the author relates experiences he had when he was a young man, for instance traveling with a friend part way down the Mississippi, adventures they had, having to make do, and more. Felt like I was there with them. ... Read more

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The fourth in Jerry Harju's "Northern" series. A collection of humorous and nostalgic short stories about the trials and tribulations of growing up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1930's and '40's. ... Read more

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Humorous autiobiographical memories about life
Northern Memories: More High-Spirited Tales Of "Growing Up North" by Jerry Harju is the latest in a series of nostalgic and humorous autiobiographical memories about life, family and community in the snow country of Upper Michigan. Set in the 1930s and 40s, among a family that was short on money but didn't let that get in the way of having fun, Northern Memories is a wondrous look at daily life over half a century ago, with wry humor, enduring sentiment and a deep reverence for snow-covered homeland. Also very highly recommended are Jerry Harju's three previous volumes of personal memoirs: Northern Reflections (North Harbor Publishing, 0967020514), Northern D'Lights (North Harbor Publishing, 0932212816), and Northern Passages (Avery Color Studios, 0932212867). ... Read more

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Great read
This is an awesome book. I enjoyed reading about the history of the Rougeux family.

Vastly Interesting
Extremely interesting story of a family who survived centuries of travail. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history. ... Read more

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Amazing!!
This is A Great Book about mordern day homesteading....Its about a Couple and a Brother traveling to Alaska in The 50's because of the homesteading act...It Tells the trails and tribulations the couple and brother had will suriviving in wildness like people experianced in the 1800s....I DEFINATLY WOULD GET THIS BOOK!!!!... ... Read more

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Fire, Blood and Forty Below is the true story of the evolution of an Alaskan firefighter/medic from Rookie to competent emergency responder.Fires rage and blood flows, and quite often its the responders who are the victims. ... Read more

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Reality of Firefighting
Alan tells a compelling tale of his experiences as a Firefighter in Alaska.
This is a great book. ... Read more

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"Once upon a time not so very long ago there lived a good witch and her name was Mabel Dodge...She was beautiful and intelligent and sensitive and vulgar and wise and generous and kind." So begins Jane Wodening's The Book of Legends, a charming antidote to the monster biographies we have come to expect in recent days. Her stories are brief lives of some of the people, animal friends and spirits she has known. Some of the tales are not much larger than Aubrey's, but each reveals the essence of its subject. Wodening's is a concoction of Beatrix Potter and Warhol's Factory with healthy dashes of feminism, eco-poetics, projective verse and Haitian voodoo thrown in for good measure. Her subjects are often the artists, writers and characters like Maya Deren, Charles Olson and Joseph Cornell, whom she knew during the time she and Stan Brakhage lived and worked together in New York and while raising a family in Colorado; or, at the other end of the spectrum, the animals and people who have populated her solitary life in the Rockies. By Jane Wodening. Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in./232 pgs / 0 color 15 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20291 ... Read more

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Weaving centers led the Appalachian Craft Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Soon after settlement workers came to the mountains to start schools, they expanded their focus by promoting weaving as a way for women to help their family’s financial situation. Women wove thousands of guest towels, baby blankets, and place mats that found a ready market in the women’s network of religious denominations, arts organizations, and civic clubs. Although the sales appeal often emphasized helping women with very few resources, the centers frugally covered their own expenses without charity, paying the weavers a prevailing wage.

In Weavers of the Southern Highlands, Philis Alvic details how the Fireside Industries of Berea College in Kentucky began with women weaving to supply their children’s school expenses and later developed student labor programs, where hundreds of students covered their tuition by weaving. Arrowcraft, associated with Pi Beta Phi School at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the Penland Weavers and Potters, begun at the Appalachian School at Penland, North Carolina, followed the Berea model. Women wove at home with patterns and materials supplied by the center, returning their finished products to the coordinating organization to be marketed. Dozens of similar weaving centers dotted mountain ridges.

Philis Alvic, a weaver for over thirty-five years, brings a special insider’s perspective to the history of Appalachian handweaving and the people, agencies, and programs that made it all work. ... Read more

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There are some eras that are just too special to forget.Growing up in the 30s on her parents' farm was such an era for Helen Merrell.She remembers the good times as well as the hard ones, but she especially feels that it was truly a life full of interesting and cherished moments, so much so that it was worth writing a book about. ... Read more

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We all have a longing to return to the safe, loved places of our childhood. Author Mary Pat Miller does just that in her wistful new memoir.While growing up in a small Civil War town of Lexington, Missouri in the '40s, Mary Pat and her siblings were raised in a hardworking, fun-loving devout French-Irish family. ... Read more