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Days and Nights in Calcutta (A Ruminator Find)

MUKHERJEE, Bharati

BLAISE, Clark

Travel

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The Ark, officially known as the Avian Care and Research Foundation, is the culmination of Kit Chubb's lifelong fascination with birds and her tireless enthusiasm for helping injured birds. Chubb's black-and-white illustrations of many of these feathered creatures add charm to her funny, sad, incredible but true tales.

The Avian Ark

Science & Math

Chubb, Kit

Nature & Ecology

Presents real-life adventure stories by such noted women writers as Margaret Atwood, Clare Boylan, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Janice Kulyk Keefer

Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.

Passage to Ararat (A Ruminator Find)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arlen, Michael

Arts & Literature

The Tree Farm: Replanting a Life (A Ruminator Find)

Treuer, Robert

Reconciliation Road

Marshall, John Douglas

Leaders & Notable People

Crossing the Moon

"So how was it, I wondered, that I had arrived at this point in my life: almost thirty-nine years old, no child? When I looked back, I could see why, and even when, I took a sharp turn away from motherhood. I could also see why motherhood would catch up with me." So asks Paulette Bates Alden in Crossing the Moon, a memoir - at once witty and wistful - in which the author recounts her initial ambivalence about motherhood, the pain and frustration of following a course of treatment for infertility, and ultimately the birth of a new self: a writer, comfortable at last with her family of two. Inevitably, the book also touches a wide array of other issues: aging parents; being raised Southern and female in the fifties; the trade-offs between a life of work and one devoted to nurture; coping with grief and loss. This is a fine companion for anyone struggling with infertility and a treasure for any woman coming to terms with who she is.

Crossing The Moon

Alden, Paulette Bates

Health, Fitness & Dieting

In 1973 Paulette Jiles arrived in Northern Ontario to run a community radio station for the CBC. Romantic notions of primitive life quickly faded in the harsh setting. The first night, her axe bounced off frozen logs, and she would have frozen without a willing husky pup who shared her bed. She relied on helpful neighbors and quickly became a respected member of the community. The reader is treated to warm, humorous vignettes that convey Jiles's reverence for native tradition, myth and storytelling and her affection for unforgettable colleagues and companions.

North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway

History

Jiles, Paulette

Americas

Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo Nights is an extraordinary document of life deep inside one of the world's most war-ravaged regions. Until the spring of 1992, when she was thirty, Elma Softic led a relatively ordinary, happy, middle-class life. She lived with her parents and sister, taught philosophy at a business college, and enjoyed the typical cafe life of a cosmopolitan city. When the Serbs began bombing that spring, Elma began a diary, her attempt to bear what seemed increasingly unbearable, to stay focused while living in a state of siege. Eventually, she "got sick of it. The war was no longer something to put oneself out for." Rather, what she needed was a listener, someone to talk to about day to day life in Sarajevo. Through ham radio correspondence, she made new friends in Zagreb, who asked her to put her observations on paper in the form of open letters. It was these letters, first passed hand to hand, then reaching an ever-larger public in Croatia and throughout Europe, that created a sensation with their eloquent, sometimes stunning descriptions of modern life - a life not unlike our own - rendered primitive by war. Published in Canada for the first time in English and now available to readers in the United States, Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo Nights is a collection of Elma's diaries and letters, dated April 1992 to June 1995. With a novelist's eye for detail and a natural storyteller's gift for narrative, she gives clear and compelling voice to a place, a conflict and a life that are, for the most part, unthinkable, unspeakable and unimaginable.

Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo Nights

Softic, Elma

Politics & Government

Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into âa pilgrimage in quest of the soul of the night.â Chet Raymoâs elegant essays link the mysterious phenomena of the night sky with the human mind and spirit, as he ranges through the realms of mythology, literature, religion, history, and anthropology. Originally published two decades ago, The Soul of the Night is a classic work that is a must for those interested in the relationship between science and faith.

The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage (A Ruminator Find)

Literature & Fiction

Raymo, Chet

Essays & Correspondence

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