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- When the world didn't end : a memoir / by Turner, Guinevere,author.;
- "In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult--and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she'd ever known. On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions from the Family leader, seven-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation--a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came. Guinevere did not understand her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence: When selected girls in her community turned twelve or thirteen, they were "given" to older men on the compound as wives in training. Turner was part of the Lyman Family, a cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed world savior, committed to isolation from a world he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the queen, her status was elevated and suddenly she was traveling in the inner-circle caravan between communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha's Vineyard. Before long, Guinevere's world as she had known it ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with a disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to go with her. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange world with homemade clothes, clueless about social codes. Now, in the World she'd been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn't have imagined. Drawing from the diaries that she kept throughout her youth, Guinevere Turner's memoir is an intimate and heart-wrenching chronicle of a childhood touched with extraordinary beauty and unfathomable ugliness, the ache of yearning to return to a lost home--and the slow realization of how harmful that place really was"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Turner, Guinevere.; Fort Hill Community (Organization); Ex-cultists;
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- Hooray for helpers! : first responders and more heroes in action / by Austin, Mike,1963-;
- How first responders help in our community.LSC
- Subjects: Rescue work; Search and rescue operations;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Local is our future : steps to an economics of happiness / by Norberg-Hodge, Helena,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."Globalization has no future. Political stability is a thing of the past; climate chaos is intensifying; anxiety disorders are of epidemic proportions; extremism and fundamentalism are becoming the norm. And yet we cling to the wreckage. Politicians of every hue continue to be in thrall to the global market. To challenge 'free trade,' which is the very essence of globalization, is all but unthinkable. But challenge it we must. And replace it. The future will be local. And the good news is that it is already happening. Under the radar of the mainstream media, a worldwide localization movement is emerging. On every continent, people are coming together to claw back control over their own economies, and in doing so are rebuilding connections to one another, while repairing fractured communities and damaged environments."--Back cover.
- Subjects: Globalization; Community development.; Sustainable development.; Local foods.; International economic relations.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Hello! hometown heroes / by Armier, Toni.; Jones, Anna,1977-;
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- Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Neighborhoods; Community life; Occupations; Heroes; City and town life;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Our little kitchen / by Tamaki, Jillian,1980-;
- A group of neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community.LSC
- Subjects: Community kitchens; Cooking; Food; Neighborliness; Voluntarism;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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- Great small towns of Ontario / by Peddie, Richard,1947-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references.Focuses on the unique small towns of Ontario, discussing their historical challenges and the role of the Arts, climate change adaptation, and urban influences in shaping vibrant, sustainable communities.
- Subjects: City planning; Community development; Small cities; Sustainable development;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Love is powerful / by Brewer, Heather Dean.; Pham, LeUyen.;
- Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the world," Mama says. "How will the whole world hear?" Mari wonders. "They'll hear," says Mama, "because love is powerful." Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women's March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer's simple and uplifting story, delightfully illustrated by LeUyen Pham, is a reminder of what young people can do to promote change and equality at a time when our country is divided by politics, race, gender, and religion.LSC
- Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Love; Demonstrations; Community activists; Social movements;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Harvesting friends / by Contreras, Kathleen.; Undercuffler, Gary.; Ventura, Gabriela Baeza.;
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- Subjects: Gardening; Community gardens; Neighborhoods; Hispanic Americans; Spanish language materials;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- DreadfulWater : a mystery / by King, Thomas,1943-author.; revision of:GoodWeather, Hartley.DreadfulWater shows up.;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ex-police officers; Cherokee Indians; Photographers; Murder; Community activists;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A match made in Texas / by Lane, Katie.;
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- Subjects: Love stories.; Bramble (Tex. : Imaginary place); Community service (Punishment); Divorced men; Sheriffs;
- © 2014., Forever,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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