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  • Solace

    Rituals of Loss and Desire

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    NPR commentator Mary Sojourner, "a pithy yet sensuous, spiritual yet ferocious writer" (Booklist), delivers a powerful memoir about the joys of rejecting the pace, addictions, and false values of society...and learning to live without compromise.Twenty years ago, Mary Sojourner was a mental health consultant and counselor in Rochester, New York, a divorced mother of three, longing for her real ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • She Bets Her Life

    A True Story of Gambling Addiction

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    What sets She Bets Her Life apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women with gambling ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves

    by Thomas Clarkson, Daniel Drayton, Louis Hughes, Lydia Maria Child, Austin Steward, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Moses Grandy, William Wells Brown, William Still, Nat Turner, Henry Bibb, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Kate Drumgoold, Frederick Douglass, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles Ball, Solomon Northup, Josiah Henson, Stephen Smith, Ellen Craft, William Craft, John Gabriel Stedman, Sarah H. Bradford, Lucy A. Delaney, L. S. Thompson, F. G. De Fontaine, Henry Box Brown, John Dixon Long, Harriet Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, Thomas S. Gaines, Willie Lynch, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Joseph Mountain ...
    The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves offers a profound exploration into the lives and experiences of those who bore the cruelty of slavery and emerged with voices that have transcended time. This anthology brings together a vast array of literary styles, including personal narratives, reflective essays, and poignant speeches, highlighting the resilience and resistance of former slaves. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 29

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    **"Ever–ascending Sojourner cooks up wrenching sorrow and hilarious banter, environmental and moral conundrums, magnetizing characters, and a place of transcendent beauty in this intoxicating, provocative, and gloriously told desert tale of wildness and community, unexpected bonds and deep legacies, trauma and healing.”—BOOKLIST (starred review)Nell Walker, an LA executive who believed she had ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delicate

    Stories

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest.Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Talker

    Stories

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    **"If you ever wondered what life is like for the down and out, the remarkable Sojourner lays it out in precise and unsparing prose in her latest collection of short stories."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewFrom security guards and jack rabbits to bartenders and blue herons**, the desert–dwellers in The Talker surface with grit and grace from dust–blown trailers, ancient Joshua trees, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...
    Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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  • Going Through Ghosts

    by Mary Sojourner ...
    Series series Western Literature and Fiction Series
    Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines and her nights trying to escape her bitter past. When she befriends Sarah, a young Native American woman who is hired to cook in the casino coffee shop, her life begins to change. Maggie finds herself ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Breaking the Chains

    Collection of the Most Influential Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louis Hughes, William Still, Nat Turner, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, Josiah Henson, Ellen Craft, William Craft, Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, Willie Lynch ...
    Breaking the Chains presents an evocative tapestry of narratives that encapsulate the multifaceted experiences of those who lived through and resisted slavery, offering a profound insight into its brutal reality and the indomitable spirit it forged. The anthology showcases a range of literary styles ranging from harrowing autobiographical accounts to impassioned speeches and eloquent narratives. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Will to Be Free, Vol. II

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Narrative of Sojourner Truth; The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

    by Sojourner Truth, Linda Brent, Mary Prince ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent women whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, and The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living to Tell the Horrid Tales: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Historical Documents & Novels

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet E. Wilson, William Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Albion Winegar Tourgée, Sutton E. Griggs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Keckley, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, L. S. Thompson, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, Brantz Mayer, Aphra Behn, Theodore Canot, Daniel Drayton, Thomas Clarkson, F. G. De Fontaine, John Dixon Long, Stephen Smith, Joseph Mountain, Ida B. Wells-Barnett ...
    'Living to Tell the Horrid Tales: True Life Stories of Former Slaves, Historical Documents & Novels' is a profound anthology that embodies a spectrum of narratives ranging from heart-wrenching slave narratives to poignant memoirs and reflective novels. This collection encapsulates the horrific experiences and the resilient spirit of those bound by chains, alongside the connected literary pursuits ... Read more

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  • BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume)

    Seventeen Voices of Enslavement and Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Keckley, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Josiah Henson, Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    BREAKING THE CHAINS gathers slave narratives, testimonies, autobiographical writings, and abolitionist texts into a resonant archive of resistance. Ranging from searing accounts of bondage and escape to speeches, recollections, and reformist argument, the volume illuminates slavery's violence alongside the intellectual, spiritual, and practical means by which enslaved people contested it. Standout ... Read more

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