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This book is about a woman named Elsie Banks and her long life, her family, and her hats. Elsie and her husband Marty Banks had sixteen children. She was the amazing old lady who struck up a conversation with anyone she met.Elsie wore hats to church as if it was mandatory and frowned upon her daughters as they grew older and refused to don hats for church. She was a Black Southern Baptist lady and somehow felt God paid attention to the hat on ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Note: This version was dictated by Sojourner Truth, and edited by Olive Gilbert.

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Nell, a washed-out executive, falls into an impossible affair and a battle over sacred Native American lands in Twentynine Palms.

The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time, known as "Freedom Summer." From September 1964 until her departure from the state in 1969, Sojourner collected an incredibl...

Are you struggling to restore a life that has been devastated by the effects of Lyme disease or other mysterious syndromes such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and many autoimmune disorders? Do you feel that nobody can help you anymore? The good news is that we are not powerless. Living Well is dedicated to those people whose determination to live well, no matter what it takes, comes from deep within the self. Perhaps if more information and...

Amid the harsh beauty of the contemporary Southwest, these stories explore lives of the down-and-out with uncanny grit and grace.

NPR commentator Sojourner delivers a powerful memoir about the joys of rejecting the pace, addictions, and false values of society and learning to live without compromise.

Truth's narrative is a powerful rendering of bondage, denial, and loss transcended by genius, family, and a spiritual base. It juxtaposes spirituality with moral turpitude. Truth was a freethinker who lived within a family of wretched circumstances in New York's Ulster County, she was a wife whose runaway husband had been beated into submission, a mother who reclaimed her only son from a brutal Georgia slaver, a person of principles who was du...

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, her life begins to change.

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 addictions (and their loved ones) toward help a...

Mary Sojourner is a fiery activist, and her passion is contagious." -- Maxine Kumin, The Women's Review of Books"Sojourner is a pithy yet sensuous, spiritual yet ferocious writer who tackles love, aging, loneliness, our relationship with nature, and death with a tangy wit, hard-earned acumen, and generous affection for her fellow human beings." -- Booklist"The collection relates how a brave human faces aging with honesty and determination to t...

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, most of them over forty, include single moms,...