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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Ben Montgomery ...

Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times and she did it all after the age of 65. This is the first and only biography of Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, who became a hiking celebrity in the 1950s and '60s. She appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter, and on the ... Read more

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Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times and she did it all after the age of 65. This is the first and only biography of Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, who became a hiking celebrity in the 1950s and '60s. She appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter, and on the
... Read more

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The Leper Spy

The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II

by Ben Montgomery ...

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was ... Read more

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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was
... Read more

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A Shot in the Moonlight

How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

by Ben Montgomery ...

The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah MagazineNamed a "must-read" by the Chicago ... Read more

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The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah MagazineNamed a "must-read" by the Chicago
... Read more

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The Man Who Walked Backward

An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression

by Ben Montgomery ...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed ... Read more

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed
... Read more

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Stories Can Save Us

America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How

by Matt Tullis, Ben Montgomery, Audra D.S Burch, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Pamela Colloff, John Woodrow Cox, Kim Cross, Bronwen Dickey, Mirin Fader, Latria Graham, David Grann, Elon Green, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Eva Holland, Mitchell S. Jackson, Chris Jones, Tom Junod, Abbott Kahler, Michael Kruse, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Rachel Monroe, Vann R. Newkirk II, Bradford Pearson, Andrea Pitzer, Eli Saslow, Leah Sottile, Wright Thompson, Sarah Weinman ...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show ... Read more

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Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show
... Read more
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Ben Montgomery ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the ... Read more

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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the
... Read more

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A Shot in the Moonlight

How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

by Ben Montgomery ...

Narrated by Ben Montgomery, Zeno Robinson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a
... Read more

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The Leper Spy

The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II

by Ben Montgomery ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

7 hours 14 min

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was
... Read more

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The Man Who Walked Backward

An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression

by Ben Montgomery ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed
... Read more

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The Common Wind

Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

by Julius S. Scott ...

Narrated by Earl McLean ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind
... Read more

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Like a Wave We Break

A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself

by Jane Marie Chen ...

Narrated by Jane Marie Chen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The courageous memoir of one woman’s globe-spanning journey of unraveling and awakening—breaking free of the narratives that once defined her and confronting the long-buried truths of a traumatic past—by the former CEO and co-founder of Embrace.“A brilliant and gripping book about how resilience, keen intelligence, and sheer grit can transform cultural legacy and family ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The courageous memoir of one woman’s globe-spanning journey of unraveling and awakening—breaking free of the narratives that once defined her and confronting the long-buried truths of a traumatic past—by the former CEO and co-founder of Embrace.“A brilliant and gripping book about how resilience, keen intelligence, and sheer grit can transform cultural legacy and family
... Read more

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Resurface

A Guide to Navigating Life's Biggest Transitions

by Cassidy Krug ...

Narrated by Cassidy Krug ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

**“An illuminating and inspiring read for anyone navigating change.” —Adam Grant“Resurface goes beyond the simple answers and, instead, offers honest space to navigate life’s transitions.” —Morgan Harper NicholsA toolkit for navigating all of life’s transitions, from a former Olympic diver**Life is nothing other than a series of transitions. Whether you’re graduating from college and trying to ... Read more

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**“An illuminating and inspiring read for anyone navigating change.” —Adam Grant“Resurface goes beyond the simple answers and, instead, offers honest space to navigate life’s transitions.” —Morgan Harper NicholsA toolkit for navigating all of life’s transitions, from a former Olympic diver**Life is nothing other than a series of transitions. Whether you’re graduating from college and trying to
... Read more

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