The Farm She Was: A Novel

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The Farm She Was

She was the farm

She was the farm

Great book

Life connected to the earth

The Farm She Was: A Novel
Ann Mohin
Manufacturer: Bridge Works
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Ninety-year-old Irene Leahy has devoted her entire life to one patch of land in upstate New York, and she's not about to leave it just because she's grown old. At the age of 17, after her father's early death, Irene was left to run her family's sheep farm in Carniff County. The young Irene took to farm life with a vengeance, chopping off her hair and learning to breed prize rams. Fierce, capable, and independent, as a farmer she was a force to be reckoned with. Now, in her old age, friends want her to sell her land and move into a nursing home--a suggestion she welcomes about as warmly as a case of the croup. In her journals, Irene responds by chronicling the particulars of her long and hard-working life, from the rigors of lambing to the rhythms of the changing seasons. In telling Irene's story, sheep farmer Ann Mohin has written a first novel that's by turns wise and wistful, elegiac and earthy. Long on imagery but short on plot, The Farm She Was succeeds admirably as an ode to the beauties and hardships of a vanishing way of life.

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A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life.

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The Farm She Was.......2007-08-23

A sensitive and beautifully written novel of an elderly person's memoirs. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.

She was the farm.......2003-01-30

Irene, age 90, lies essentially bedridden in the parlor where she can still feel part of the farm. Her bedroom upstairs lies vacant now, along with the rooms of her dead parents and brother. Insistant on maintaining imput on the goings-on, she tries to keep the upper hand in everything. Lying quietly, she has embarked on documenting her life on the farm she was born on. Her mind is as sharp as the pencil she scribes her memories. Her notebooks serve as her testimony to the past and the very present.

Among her reminisces are her present day quips targeted at those that seem to be circling her, poised to take advantage of this old woman's lurking day of death. She fears losing the farm in her death, the land cut up into suburbs, the old machinery auctioned and the house left to those who will never understand the sacrifices and joy that have walked in and out the kitchen door. As she gazes out the window, she can see the graves of her parents, her uncle and the many faithful collie that guarded over the flock of sheep. It is a fearful thought that in the modern day, she would not be allowed to be buried alongside her family.

While she fights to maintain the bare bones of the farm in her later years, she recalls the years she spent keeping the farm going after her father's death at an early age. Passive in grief, her mother steps aside and lets this young woman manage the intricacies of a sheep farm, a large garden and the general upkeep of the land in the mid 1900's. Praised in national magazines for the quality of her sheep's wool she gains the respect in the community for her work.

It is this woman's memories that are golden as she recalls ninety years on the farm. Particularly insightful are Irene's recollection of seeing the first automobiles driving along the road at night. Unfamiliar with headlights, Irene and her mother stand nearly terrified as they ponder what those lights coming across the valley floor are. It is her impression, once the car has passed by the dirt road in front of their farmhouse, that things will never again be the same.

Living over 90 years is a sure bet that things will never be the same at one time or another. It is the wonderous theme of this lovely novel that allows Irene to move on but look fondly back.

She was the farm.......2003-01-30

Living over 90 years is a sure bet that things will never be the same at one time or another. It is the wonderous theme of this lovely novel that allows Irene to move on but look fondly back.

Great book.......2002-01-03

This was a really good book to read - I definitely recommend it.

Life connected to the earth.......2000-11-05

I cannot express have wonderful I found this novel to be! I could not read it in public, because I was so filled with emotion at so many places throughout the story. The story of Irene's life itself was rather straightforward but the rich punctuations of reflections on nature, life on a farm, the essence of what a farm life means,and insight into the process of aging and dying ,raised the novel to great heights. For any reader who does not understand the attraction of life connected with nature, this book will provide refreshing insights. For those of us who were bitten by the bug to farm (certainly it was not in my NYC bred genes for generations!) it helps us to explain why we feel the way we do about the farm life, surrounded by animals. It actually awakens an awareness so that I found myself exclaiming why had I never thought that out loud but already knew in some deep place of the soul! For the farmer, it provides a possibility for keeping the working farm long after hehas moved on. For the person simply living a life, this book offers a perspective into the process of dying and into the exhilaration of the soul that dying a meaningful death can hold.

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Alien Menace in the Oort Cloud

Teens use logic and creativity to combat disaster

David Brin's Out of Time Tiger in Sky (David Brin's Out of Time!)
Sheila Finch
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Release Date: 1999-07-06

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In the year 2345, young heroes have been yanked from 1999 to battle an alien menace. Soon they must seek help from the more distant past.

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Alien Menace in the Oort Cloud.......2005-01-04

In the twenty-fourth century, the Earth is a happy and healthy place. War and disease have been wiped out. It is a utopia. Humanity has become peaceful and calm. So when mysterious aliens nicknamed Givers came and gave humanity the ability to reach the stars with transporters, humans were no longer prepared to face the dangers of a new frontier. As special problems arise, they search in time for special individuals with "grit" and bring them forward to help out. Because teleporters don't seem to work with adults, teenagers are the ones yanked to the future.

This second volume has two teens yanked from 1999 although only one was targeted. The other got caught up in the ride. They are joined by a young hand from Sir Francis Drake's ship and a future teen. A research station in the Oort Cloud, the place where comets come from, is slowly being overrun by aliens. They are small, round, furry, enticing and, when in groups, can disrupt electrical systems. The teens must find a way to eliminate the aliens before their interfering disrupts a critical system like life support.

The resemblance of the aliens to the popular Star Trek Tribbles (and Heinlein's originals) is unmistakable. The teens try to stop the aliens as well as learn about them. Stopping them is not so easy when the locals can't seem to bring themselves to harm them. Many schemes are tried until a resolution is reached at the end.

This was a good second volume but some of the framework contradicted the framework of the first book which leads me to believe that the outline for the series was not as rigid or as well-defined as I though. Still, it made for a very entertaining story.

Teens use logic and creativity to combat disaster.......1999-10-18

In the world of comets far out on the Oort Cloud, impossible for adults to teleport to in the year 2345, children can become heroes. An entire space station run by teens and children, tracking and deflecting wayward comments, is beseiged by a strange alien life form called Thogs. Though these cute little one-celled furry balls are harmless singly, they reproduce rapidly and combine to be deadly to electronics and humans. Readers will side with Jerry, 15, and Nan, 14, abducted from our time to help in this emergency unrecognized as dangerous by the children running the space station. Jerry with his scientific mind and Nan with her practical leadership must use their wits and their reasoning to draw logical conclusions, make quick decisions, judge character and think up creative solutions to combat the Thogs, with the help of a saber-tooth tiger imported from extinction, and their vast, talking computer library. I like best the line: "Thanks, Library. You've given me a lot to think about." Indeed. True in all times.

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My favorite cookbook

I love Wolfie

Easily impress yourself with your cooking

Wonderful, mouthwatering recipes

IT IS EASY!

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy: Delicious Recipes for Your Home Kitchen
Wolfgang Puck
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Binding: Hardcover

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He is creator of some of the world's greatest restaurants such as Spago and Postrio. He is known for the fast-growing Wolfgang Puck Express, a line of cooking accessories, television appearances on the Food Network, and a line of soups and pizzas. He is author of five previous cookbooks. Wolfgang Puck is one of the most visible names and faces in the food business.

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy is a groundbreaking cookbook in which Wolfgang Puck shares his creativity and genius so that anyone can prepare these wonderful recipes. Every element of the book aims to make it incredibly easy to create great food of the highest quality and creativity, as only Wolfgang Puck can do.

In addition to more than 100 recipes, the book features numerous cooking tips as well as advice on how to select the freshest ingredients, how to adapt recipes to the season, using the right cookware, and menu and wine selections.

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My favorite cookbook.......2007-04-28

This book will not disappoint any one who enjoys good food. The recipes are easy. The ingredient are easy to find and the dishes tastes great and look like the pictures in the book! I carry this book everywhere I go and the recipes are so easy that I can just pull the book out of my bookbag and take it in the grocery store with me. I give it to friends who enjoy cooking as gifts. Not one recipe has turned out bad. Every time I use a recipe from Chef Puck's book, people comment on how I should open a restaurant! The recipes are also fun.

I figure if I purchase a recipe book and there is one recipe I adopt, I consider it a good cookbook. This book has paid for itself over and over. It's great.

I love Wolfie.......2007-01-04

Every Wolfgang recipe I have ever fixed has turned out wonderfully. I love his recipes. It also helps that I use his cookware too!

Easily impress yourself with your cooking .......2006-08-04

I had this book on my shelf for about a year and finally decided to make some homemade pizza. I had always been intimidated by making dough of any kind but this book made it easy. The pizza crust came out great, so much so that my kids said that they never wanted me to order out anymore for pizza. So, with that success I decided to try other recipes and as of yet I have had nothing but great success with every one of them. Chef Puck has created a great book with easy to follow instructions and with great tips in the margins. This is a great cookbook from beginning to end. Thank you Chef!

Wonderful, mouthwatering recipes.......2006-07-05

Wolfgang, truly does make it easy and swoonfully delicious. Even dishes that are simple in preparation, like the panko crusted scallops, are stunning. I'm anxiously awaiting his next cookbook.

IT IS EASY!.......2006-02-19

Wolfgang puck's cookbook is out of this world! The recipes are easy and most do not take a long time. The ingredients are easy to find and are not expensive. All of the recipes are absolutely delicious! You will not be disappointed in this book.

WOLFGANG PUCK MAKES IT EASY: DELICIOUS RECIPES FOR YOUR HOME KITCHEN.

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WOLFGANG PUCK MAKES IT EASY: DELICIOUS RECIPES FOR YOUR HOME KITCHEN.
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In his best-selling The Faraway Horses, Buck Brannaman, extraordinary trainer and acknowledged inspiration for The Horse Whisperer, described how he found his calling and honed his art and craft. In the year since the book's publication and following its widespread acclaim, the universal application of Brannaman's approach to interpersonal relationships has struck a responsive chord in the equestrian community and with the public at large.

Believe continues to chronicle the man's efforts as a catalyst and a mentor as we meet thirteen people with whom he has worked. Through their own words and through Brannaman's perceptive introductions to each essay, we experience first-hand the hope and confidence that he has instilled in these individuals and in their horses. Among them are:
- Sherry, who learned to replace fear of the unknown with knowledge of reality;
- Theresa, who, through teaching her horse to accept the saddle and bridle, acquired patience and a sense of timing;
- Sissy, who credits her ability to cope with a life-threatening illness to Brannaman's inspiring words and deeds;
- Nicole, who developed confidence and a sense of teamwork while her horse learned not to fear independence;
- Diane, who discovered the value of releasing life's past traumas;
- Shane, who saw horses forge a bond between himself and the son he thought he had lost forever.

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A Horseman's Journey.......2007-04-12

Well written with feeling. A fast read. Enjoyable but nothing deep or of substantial substance.

Buck - great at everything he does.......2006-12-02

I have seen Buck in person and after seeing many self proclaimed "horse whisperers" knew he was something special. His writing is no different and both his books are not only a must read for people with horses, but anyone who wants a good story.

Buck's way has changed my life........2006-07-06

Please read my review for Buck's book "The Faraway Horses," and read that book before you read "Believe." I can't say enough good things about Buck-- his way has truly changed my life. This book has the added dimension of having every other chapter be a true account from individuals whose lives have been changed and affected for the better by learning about Buck's way. Highly recommend.

horses heal people.......2005-01-23

Buck has co-written a wonderful dedication to the healing power in the connection between horses and people. Having attended quite a few of his clinics and visited with him several times, I have seen how dedicated he is to the horse and to helping those people who are truly looking for a better way, not only in their horsemanship, but in their lives as well.

Well worth the read.

I gave it four stars instead of 5, because Far away horses was better....sorry Buck.

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Important Compilation From One Who Spurred Tiffany's Revival

Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch (Schiffer Classic Reference Book)
Robert Koch
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Three classic books on Louis C. Tiffanys brilliant Art Nouveau works are combined here in one volume. Louis C. Tiffany Rebel in Glass, Louis C. Tiffanys Glass- Bronzes-Lamps, and Louis C. Tiffanys Art Glass by Robert Koch, the foremost scholar in the field, informed and delighted a generation of art lovers before they went out of print and became hard to find. This combined edition brings the innovative career of one of Americas most original artists to a new generation of collectors. It retains all of the original text and photographs of the former editions and has many additional color photographs of Tiffanys most treasured designs from some of finest museum collections in America. Here are the glass windows, lamps, and vases from the flamboyant 1880s to 1920s era that made Louis C. Tiffany famous. Tiffanys bronze desk sets, paintings, ceramics, mosaic tiles, room interiors, lighting devices, decorative glass, and jewelry are all prominently featured. Every art student, museum professional, historian, antique dealer, and art collector will be dazzled by the variety and exquisite craftsmanship displayed here. The book is a treasure itself.

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Important Compilation From One Who Spurred Tiffany's Revival.......2002-04-13

By the time Louis Comfort Tiffany died in 1933, the once world renouned artist was well on his way to obscurity. In 1954, Robert Koch, then a graduate student studying architecture at Yale University came across Tiffany's work. This introduction spawned a life long immersion in the artistry of Louis C. Tiffany. As a university professor of art history, Robert Koch's influence can be found in the revival of interest in the turn of the 20th century movements known as Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau. His most important contribution, however, has been in repopularizing Tiffany for later generations. Today, many volumes of uneven quality on Tiffany have been published. Most are simply picture books that dazzle the eye. All, however, owe much to the 1964 publication of Robert Koch's original "Rebel in Glass" that stirred the renewal of interest in Louis Tiffany by presenting not only important photographs but original scholarship that still is unsurpassed. The new "Collected Works of Robert Koch" brings together in one volume his three previously published books on Tiffany. As an added bonus, the reader will find new, luscious photographs that further cement Tiffany's place as one of America's most important artists. This book is a must, not only for Tiffany collectors but for anyone interested in the history of American art, Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts.

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Louis C. Tiffany : The Collected Works of Robert Koch (A Schiffer Classic Reference Book Ser.)
Robert Koch
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Woodworkers will be delighted by this celebration of elegant wood boxes—23 ingenious projects, complete with detailed plans for construction. Lydgate has raised craft to high art....Build exquisite projects without using much material at all....I can’t give a higher recommendation.” —Popular Woodworking.

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Missing directions.......2006-08-26

If you're looking for directions on how to make the beautiful boxes shown here, beware. In several places there are whole missing sections. For example, the list of pieces to make for one box contains 19 items, but only ten of them are shown in the lone diagram. You're on your own to figure out how the others go together.

Also, the writing is often muddy. Some explanations are clumsily written.

But the pictures are pretty.

Check the dimensions - 'cause he didn't.......2003-03-24

The boxes in this book are quite attractive. Construction technique is a little iffy (ie squareness is not assured through joinery, just by clamping it together and fiddling with it), but acceptable. However, the box that I built from it had incorrect dimensions in the cutting list, so the carefully grainmatched drawer pieces were too small for the hole. Not cool. There were other examples where it's clear that no-one made the boxes from the descriptions to confirm the instructions.
I would recommend the book more for the concepts than the details.

The Art of Making Elegant Wooden Boxes.......2000-04-08

I found this book to very good on explaning how to make different kinds of joints, hinges, and box desings. It gives you many good desings to work off of and shows you how to use your tools properly. One thing that I did not like about the book was that it just shows you how make these boxes by just using power tools, but never tells you how to make them by just using hand tools, even though they do encourage it.

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In this warm and heartfelt memoir reminiscent of Having Our Say by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney and All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg, Yolanda Young unfolds stories of innocence and experience, wisdom and redemption, tragedy and deliverance: the strong lessons on which her life and her faith are based.

Yolanda Young grew up in the rambunctious but God-fearing town of Shreveport, Louisiana, where people prayed as hard as they gambled and loved as hard as they fought. It is a little city that wobbles between extremes, where juke joints squat next to churches, and betting slips compete with offering envelopes. The unpaved streets of Yolanda’s neighborhood were lined with shotgun shacks, but lack of money didn’t stop her family and community from teaching bedrock values.

In stories laced with Southern humor and spiritual enlightenment, Yolanda introduces us to a host of unforgettable characters, such as her great-grandmother Big Momma, whose favorite words, “Now let’s wend,” signal the beginning of an adventure, and her grandmother Honey-moon, famous for bone-crushing hugs. And then there is her next-door neighbor Mrs. Leviston, who tells young Yolanda that she gave up being surprised at things for her eightieth birthday: “I figured I was getting too old to be shocked. I might give myself a heart attack.” But even tales of great distress turn into an opportunity for grace: Though Yolanda sees her father shoot her mother, mother and daughter survive and grow stronger, rejoicing together.

Bracing, funny, and always uplifting, On Our Way to Beautiful shows us that hope can burst forth from despair and trials can be turned into triumph.

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In this warm and heartfelt memoir, Yolanda Young unfolds stories of innocence and experience, wisdom and redemption, tragedy and deliverance: the strong lessons on which her life and her faith are based.

Yolanda Young grew up in the rambunctious but God-fearing town of Shreveport, Louisiana, where people prayed as hard as they gambled and loved as hard as they fought. It is a little city that wobbles between extremes, where juke joints squat next to churches, and betting slips compete with offering envelopes. The unpaved streets of Yolanda's neighborhood were lined with shotgun shacks, but lack of money didn't stop her family and community from teaching bedrock values.

In stories laced with Southern humor and spiritual enlightenment, Yolanda introduces us to a host of unforgettable characters, such as her great-grandmother Big Momma, whose favorite words, "Now let's wend," signal the beginning of an adventure, and her grandmother Honey-moon, famous for bone-crushing hugs. And then there is her next-door neighbor Mrs. Leviston, who tells young Yolanda that she gave up being surprised at things for her eightieth birthday: "I figured I was getting too old to be shocked. I might give myself a heart attack." But even tales of great distress turn into an opportunity for grace: Though Yolanda sees her father shoot her mother, mother and daughter survive and grow stronger, rejoicing together.

Bracing, funny, and always uplifting, On Our Way to Beautiful shows us that hope can burst forth from despair and trials can be turned into triumph.

"Yolanda Young has written an eloquent, soul-searching account of her coming-of-age. Follow her as she moves inside what is 'beautiful' for a closer look, and read this book for its poetry and promise, its humor and haunts, its spirit and song, its spiritual journey from Genesis to Yolanda."
   DOLORES KENDRICK, POET LAUREATE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

"Every flat-chested, straight-legged, awkward young girl knows the pains and hardships encountered in On Our Way to Beautiful. Thank you, Yolanda Young, for putting into words what most girls feel in their hearts."
   IYANLA VANZANT

"On Our Way to Beautiful offers a view of life that is broad and deep, a splendid mixture of sorrow and joy. Yolanda Young is a gifted writer who shares, with a great power and pathos, the experiences that have made her the gift from God that she is."
   DR. H. BEECHER HICKS, JR., SENIOR MINISTER, METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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A book that cuts to the heart!.......2006-07-21

I actually stumbled across this book in a local Wal-mart Store. It was the only one on the shelf and after reading just a few paragraphs was captivated. This book was the absolute best book purchase that I have made in years. It's a book that is so well written by an author that is so real and spiritually wise that it can allow you to escape in its pages whether you are in the office break room or laying on the beach. Each chapter begins with scripture and ends with such impactful truth. It was a book that I truly hated to reach the end of, and when I did was brought to tears. I purchased a copy as a gift for each of my 10 Jr. Women Mission State officers and gave my own personal copy as a gift to a family member. I'm now looking forward to purchasing another (hopefully autographed) copy for myself.

What message was the author trying to convey in the book?.......2006-06-06

As a whole the group struggled with the discussion of the book because the group struggled with the book, itself. The group discussed what they thought the meaning behind the title. The author went through a phase in her life as a child where she did not feel beautiful. But as the author evolved along the way she began to feel beautiful on the inside. The group also discussed how important it is to have dreams and how one has to believe in themselves to make those dreams come true. But at the same time, there `are not enough chairs in life for all of us.' Therefore, we have to understand that not everyone will get their dreams fulfilled because there is not enough room for all of us.

Experiencing Life, Learning Lessons.......2002-07-23

Reading this book was like taking a trip down Memory Lane. Ms Young tells her story of growing up in Louisiana. She learns life lessons at the feet of her great grandmother, Big Momma, at the table with her grandmother, Honeymoon, and through encounters with her own mother. The author takes each lesson learned and tells a related story that pertains to her childhood. We watch as Yolanda grows up and makes some mistakes such as buying $500 worth of designer clothes to fit in with her classmates. She learns about following her dreams and not letting dreams die. She learns the value of family as she sees her family stick together through all kinds of adversities.

Often times when a not so famous person write their memoirs, I wonder why they think their story needs to be told. In this memoir, I think the author gives just enough information to make a person look back and reflect on their life and see how life lessons help shape who they are as adults. This book brought a lot of memories as I can relate to many of the same experiences in one way or another. I can remember Sunday evenings in Bible Training Union, going skating after church on Sundays, singing in the youth choir. The difficulty of trying to fit in with the other children at school, and still trying to maintain your strong Christian values and upbringing. Most of all I can remember conversations with my grandmothers and mother that I credit for shaping my life.

This is a wonderful quick enjoyable read and highly recommended!

Jeanette Wallington
APOOO BookClub

On Our Way to Beautiful: A Family Memoir.......2002-07-21

I just happened to pick this book up in the local library recently. Yolanda Young grew up in a completely different environment than I did, however, her stories cut to my soul. The chapters tell stories of her life and at the end of each there is a 'punch' that almost caught me off guard - quite profound. Though our stories may vary widely, there is common ground in our lives that crosses racial barriers. I just kept thinking, "Wow, this woman can write!" I love this book!

This is Beautiful.......2002-07-15

Yolanda Young has written a memoir that will make you laugh and cry and think. It took courage to write this book because it's not all sweetness and light. Her father nearly killed her mother. Her uncle was killed and another uncle committed an apalling crime. She's frank about these things and her family's experiences with racism and snobbery. On the lighter side, she's not ashamed to admit some of the foolish things she did as a girl. This book is filled with light and love. The words of her great-grandmother, Big Momma will stay with you for a long time.

Kimberley Lindsay Wilson, author of 11 Things Mama Should Have Told You About Men

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On Our Way To Beautiful a Family Memoir
Yolanda Young
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE @ TRADE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SF6EES

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