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This engaging introduction to Dorothy Day will show you how one person can accomplish big things.
This colorful book introduces you to the world of Dorothy Day, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will be inspired as you learn about Day's life-from her efforts to further peace and equality as a young woman to her work helping the hungry and homeless with food, shelter, and unconditional love-and her belief that we all have...
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This engaging introduction to Thich Nhat Hanh will show you how one person can accomplish big things.
This colorful book introduces you to the world of Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century, and today. You will be inspired as you learn about Thich Nhat Hanh's life, from his work to end the war in Vietnam, to his eventual founding of the Plum Village community in France, and his teachings about peace and "mindfulness"...
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A juvenile biography of father and son, John and William Bartram, naturalists who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in America.
The Bartrams were America's first native botanists, father and son travelers, plant hunters, and master gardeners. They traveled the east coast and observed and wrote about the nature they found. Their story is full of adventure and curiosity. Their interests took them on wide travels, including through Florida...
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Florida is lucky to have had three women - three Marjories - speaking out about saving Florida's natural environment.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the "Mother of the Everglades." She wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, the seminal and now classic book on this unique region of south Florida. She was a tireless campaigner for the environment and helped make the Everglades a national park.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her books...
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