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Life in a mining community / by Hyde, Natalie,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Miners; Mineral industries;
© c2010., Crabtree Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Educated : a memoir / by Westover, Tara,author.;
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Westover, Tara; Women; Survivalism; Home schooling; Women college students; Victims of family violence; Subculture; Christian biography.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 5
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Educated [sound recording] : a memoir / by Westover, Tara,author.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Julia Whelan."Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Westover, Tara; Women; Survivalism; Home schooling; Women college students; Victims of family violence; Subculture; Christian biography.;
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Winter's bone [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Breznahan, Kevin.; Dillahunt, Garret.; Granik, Debra.; Hawkes, John,1959-; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-; Woodrell, Daniel.Winter's boneVideorecording.; Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.; Roadside Attractions (Firm);
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe ; Edited by Affonso Gonçalves.Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt.Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Bluray
Subjects: Woodrell, Daniel.; Drug dealers; Dysfunctional families; Father and child; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Fugitives from justice; Mountain life; Rural families; Teenage girls; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., Roadside Attractions LLC : Maple Pictures,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My vanishing country : a memoir / by Sellers, Bakari,1984-author.;
"The CNN analyst and youngest state representative in South Carolina's history illuminates the lives of America's forgotten rural, Black working-class men and women"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Sellers, Bakari, 1984-; South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives; African American legislators; Legislators; Rural African Americans; Racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In Kiltumper : a year in an Irish garden / by Williams, Niall,1958-author.; Breen, Christine,1954-author.;
'In Kiltumper' is a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world.
Subjects: Williams, Niall, 1958-; Breen, Christine, 1954-; Country life; Gardens; Natural history;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All creatures great and small Series 1 [videorecording]. by Hardy, Robert;
Robert Hardy.DVD.BBC production seen on PBS based on James Herriot's best selling novels. A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.
Subjects: Drama.; Television Series.;
© 2010., British Broadcasting Corporation,
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At home on an unruly planet : finding refuge on a changed Earth / by Ostrander, Madeline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis"--
Subjects: Americans; Ecological disturbances.; Human beings; Climatic changes; Environmental degradation; Environmental disasters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Incan empire / by Sayer, Chloë.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 63), Internet addresses and index.Describes the different aspects of the Incan empire, including its history, government, religion, art, architecture, rural life, and the legacy the Incan empire left behind.LSC
Subjects: Incas; Indians of South America;
© 2011., Gareth Stevens Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Battery. by Gardner, Jeremy,film director.; Cronheim, Adam,actor.; O'Brien, Alana,actor.; Gardner, Jeremy,actor.; Fessenden, Larry,actor.; Bolle, Niels,actor.; Filmhub, Inc. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Adam Cronheim, Alana O'Brien, Jeremy Gardner, Larry Fessenden, Niels BolleOriginally produced by Filmhub, Inc. in 2012.The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Comedy films.; Horror films.; Independent films.; Zombies.; Monsters in motion pictures.;
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