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In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes of their makers. Indeed, as Weaving New Worlds reveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable. Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherokee basketry signal important transformations in Cherokee culture.

Over the course of three centuries, Cherokees developed four major basketry traditions, each based on a different material—rivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and maple. Hill explores how the addition of each new material occurred in the context of lived experience, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical eras. Incorporating insights from written sources, interviews with contemporary Cherokee weavers, and a close examination of the baskets themselves, she presents Cherokee women as shapers and subjects of change. Even in the face of cultural assault and environmental loss, she argues, Cherokee women have continued to take what they have to make what they need, literally and metaphorically weaving new worlds from old..
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Proposing a short-term marriage of convenience to cattle driver Jesse Travers in order to claim an inheritance, Laura Cannon joins her new husband on the trail from Texas to Kansas and soon realizes that she wants to stay married .
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Alienation, longing, prejudice, and cultural difference is touched on in this immigrant story told in the voices of two ten-year-old girls. Sarah and Tina are fourth graders The most important thing in the world to Sarah - American-born Chinese - is the recent departure of her best friend, Victoria. She misses her terribly. Tina has just recently moved to Cincinnati from Shanghai, and is trying to make sense of a whole new world - pretty much clueless to all the things Sarah is hip to. The two girls are paired together in school, as if Asian appearance were proof of parallel lives and experience. ("I don't speak Chinese," Sarah keeps having to explain.) It's the daily, common stuff of childhood intrigue that finally manages to connect their stories and forge a friendship. A whole constellation of adult concerns swirl around them - green card worries, assimilation, absent fathers, family tensions - but Andrea Cheng remains true to the heart and voice and vision of two ten-year-old girls, in a story which blends tears and games, drama and play..
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Romantic Suspense: For Pennsylvania career woman Rose DeAngelo, a Monday morning from hell is the better part of her day. By nightfall she's broken her engagement to a man she doesn't love, wrecked her car and been fired from her job. Now she's in the front seat of a diesel truck headed for California with a man she suspects is behind the series of violent hijackings plaguing Rose's clients. If only he weren't so attractive....
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In 1932, the world was still a simple place for Annie Reed. She and her best friend, Cath Herrick promised to stay friends forever and spent their days dreaming of their future lives and loves. And in the sheltering arms of Annie's beautiful rose colored, gabled house on Honeysuckle lane, dreaming was easy. But Annie and Cath couldn't have imagined how the trouble brewing around the world would reach into their lives-changing their families, their dreams, and their friendship.

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Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae.

Waiting for them is their sibling Irene (“Baby Sister”); Olive, their feisty, ninety-five-year-old grandmother; and a hometown that’s troubled by a string of mysterious crimes, and invaded by Horace Castle, a slick-talking real estate developer.

Rebecca, Irene, and Olive join forces with their zany friends and relatives to save Blue Lick Springs while each sister grapples to rescue her own heart..
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