Lucy Jane Bledsoe
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"A timeless and triumphant story of courage in the face of opposition." -Foreword Reviews (starred review)
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It's 1974. Title IX has passed two years ago, but Louisa's high school still refuses to fund an all girls' basketball team. After hearing Gloria Steinem speak, Louisa learns an important lesson: "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." Now what can she do...
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Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.
Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp counselors, they escaped in the...
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True adventure stories from the Mojave to the Antarctic, revealing one woman's wild affair with the Earth.
For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra, she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. Recounting Bledsoe's wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace.
These...
