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Petals and Blossoms, by Louise Butts Hendrix

:or Now, Now Brown Cow- A book of poetry

Paperback
Publisher: Normart Press (1983)

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Soft Curve, by Ethel Dunlop

Paperback: 122 pages
Publisher: Inkwell (1993)
ISBN: 092074836

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Five, seven, then five

syllables mark a Haiku

Passionate beauty.

 

Fragile strong words write
direct the path, the Soft Curve
floating syllables

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Images of America: Yuba Feather Hills, by Rosemarie Mossinger
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (May 24, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0738531022

 

Images of America: Yuba Feather Hills, by Rosemarie MossingerYuba Feather Hills, part of the Images of America series published by Arcadia Press, is an absolutely wonderful historical outline of the Yuba County communities between Marysville and the Sierra Nevadas. The Yuba and Feather Rivers flank a rugged portion of the Sierra Nevada as they rush south. Gold in creeks and streams here attracted thousands of treasure hunters who panned, dug, or scoured the hills with hydraulic jets of water.

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Kiti on Ice, by Phyl Maning

Paperback: 242 pages
Publisher: Publish America (2003)
ISBN: 1413706851

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Kiti is nineteen when her mother dies giving birth to a son and leaves Kiti responsible for the infant's safety. By placing the baby outdoors to die, the shaman father consigns his only daughter to rescuing her brother and transporting him to the frozen high islands of her mother's people.

In this quest adventure we enter the world of traditional Inupiat and the little-known High Arctic filled with danger, darkness, stark beauty--and harsh demands that permit no second chance.

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Muffy the Dragon, by Sandra Banta

With Vera Hecker Illustrator

Paperback: 19 pages
Publisher: Lifevest Publishing, Inc. (November 2005)
ISBN-10: 1598790609

Muffy the Dragon by Sandra BantaCreated by Sandra Banta a grandmother of five, "MUFFY" is a fantastic twelve page soft bound children's short story about one little dragons desires to be just like the other dragons.

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