Amy Taylor
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The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America.
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The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom...
3) Scars
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Scars is a unique narrative-in-verse from an accomplished fiction and essay writer. It is the story of a year in the life of a fictional family in the 1960's told through a series of poems 'written' by the 15-year-old poet-daughter, Hope. Madden's themes of loss, betrayal, and family role reversals are engrained in the text; we begin to recognize the voice of each of the family members, as the narrator relates the events of a dark year in their lives....
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When it comes to falling in love with our house to make it a home we have 2 options: change what we do, or change how we look at what we do.
The 9 steps explored in the pages of Create a Home You Love are designed to help you do both.
There's no one-size-fits-all strategy for success-if you want to discover and leverage your own preferences to create habits from the heart and make plans that will move you closer to your ideal life, one step at a...
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This hopeful and inspirational poetry collection contains the story of Amy Melissa Taylor's life written in poetic form. The poems span close to three decades of life, love, loss, and Amy's questioning all those aspects, which ultimately led her to experiencing a dark night of the soul. They chronicle her awakening into a higher consciousness, learning how to accept the darkness, and coming out the other side to find love, joy, and compassion, grateful...
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"After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind, and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type; Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare. As much as she tries to let their burgeoning relationship unfold...
7) Milked
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Young activist, Chris Huriwai, takes on the giants of New Zealand’s multi-billion-dollar dairy industry. His journey uncovers alarming information about the industry's impact on the environment and our health, showing that we're on the edge of the biggest global disruption of food and agriculture in history. An international story told with a local eye, the film also points to what we can all do to change our fate.