Judy Collins: The Wander Years (Expanded)
Judy Collins: The Wander Years (Expanded)

Author: Rachel Redhead

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-02-07

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1326178555

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Judy Collins is bored with her life, she's going nowhere fast. Remembering how exciting and dangerous her life used to be when she travelled the galaxy with the notorious criminal Yardley James she decides to try and revisit some of those places and relive her past. Of course things don't go the way she intended them too and soon she's having lots of new adventures, many of them dangerous and not so exciting... This 'expanded edition' features three new stories and an extended version of 'Judy Visits Rome'.

The Wandering Years
The Wandering Years

Author: Jaynne Jansen

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 152554828X

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Based on a true story, this touching novel explores the life of a young Indigenous woman caught up in the challenges and growing pains of the tumultuous teen years. With the help of the medicine wheel and the transformative power of a butterfly, she experiences the guidance she needs while healing ancestral lessons that gives her a sense of place and belonging. This is a story of being lost, of being caught in the grips of addiction, and of learning to rise and find power. An important and timely story for any young person transitioning into adulthood, The Wandering Years, Seasons of Change explores what it means to find yourself, your path, and your culture and to rise above any difficult situation.

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Jessica Bruder

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0393249328

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The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Our Wandering Years
Our Wandering Years

Author: F. M. Ridgway

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2006-10-24

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1425719325

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This book is an unusual true-life story as seen mostly through the Diary of a teenage girl. The book portrays the adventurous and sometimes hilarious mis-adventurous life of a young widow and her three children, which takes place in four countries--South Africa, America, Canada and England. It is also the experience of a mother's courage and determination to keep her family together in the face of adversity. -- from publisher description.

The Wander Society
The Wander Society

Author: Keri Smith

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0143108360

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From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal... wan·der verb \ˈwän-dər\ to walk/explore/amble in an unplanned or aimless way with a complete openness to the unknown Several years ago when Keri Smith, bestselling author of Wreck This Journal, discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, her interest was piqued. Little did she know at the time that those simple markings would become the basis of a years-long, life-changing exploration into a mysterious group known only as The Wander Society, as well as the subject of this book. Within these pages, you’ll find the results of Smith’s research: A guide to the Wander Society, a secretive group that holds up the act of wandering, or unplanned exploring, as a way of life. You’ll learn about the group’s mysterious origins, meet fellow wanderers through time, discover how wandering feeds the creative mind, and learn how to best practice the art of wandering, should you choose to accept the mission.

Virgil Wander
Virgil Wander

Author: Leif Enger

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0802146686

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A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.