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2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
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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. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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"Parks and Recreation star Retta takes us on her not-so-meteoric rise from roaches to riches (well, rich enough that she can buy $15,000 designer handbags yet scared enough to know she's always a heartbeat away from ramen with American cheese). Throwing her hard-working Liberian parents for a loop, Retta abandons her plan to attend med school after graduating Duke University to move to Hollywood to star in her own sitcom--like her comedy heroes Lucille...
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Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
"An epic, hilarious, and heartfelt adventure into the idea of family--where it begins and how far it goes--and what it has to tell us about our biology and our genetics, our tribes and our traditions, and our history...
4) Roughing it
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Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Roughing It" tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved American writers of all time. The story follows many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to...
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"Using the common thread of the voyage across the country, Mary Ann weaves together the two stories--Charles and Fannie Crosby's leisurely Victorian tourist trip described in both their diaries--and her own trip, laced with her reflections on her birth country and her own life story. Both journeys start in Brattleboro, Vermont, the author's and her great grandparents' hometown. In October 1871, Chicago just a few days earlier had suffered its catastrophic...
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