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“lorraine johnson”

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  • City Farmer

    Adventures in Urban Food Growing

    by Lorraine Johnson ...
    City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production. From homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food growing. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators

    by Lorraine Johnson, Sheila Colla ...
    Few sights are as charming as a hummingbird hovering over cardinal flowers in your backyard or a butterfly lighting on the black-eyed Susans potted on your balcony. Yet pollinators do more than beguile us: they are key to a healthy environment. With many pollinators threatened and their habitats disappearing, gardeners can make a real difference by planting native species that support these ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Larissa's Breadbook

    Ten Incredible Southern Women and Their Stories of Courage, Adventure, and Discovery

    by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman ...
    Do you ever wonder what makes the South one of the most incredible places on Earth? As Larissa discovers, it's the awe-inspiring women. In this engaging story, ten remarkable women from rich and varied cultures share their words, their wit, their wisdom, and their lives.The language of these women "is colorful and nuanced and often poetic, and the folks whose lives the storyteller enters and exits ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Just Plain Folks

    by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman ...
    By returning to the cotton fields, tobacco barns, and humble dwellings of her ancestral home in the rural South, this author learned firsthand what is missing from the history books between the pages on slavery and present-day African-American culture. It is the experience of ordinary people who, on second glance, have led truly extraordinary lives. She developed an appreciation for their words, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology

    by Ira E. Harrison, George Clement Bond, Johnnetta B Cole, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., Vera Mae Green, John Langston Gwaltney, Delmos Jones, Diane K Lewis0, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan1, Oliver Osborne2, Anselme Remy3, William Alfred Shack4, Audrey Smedley5, Niara Sudarkasa6, Charles Preston Warren ll7 ...
    After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume collects ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Unabridged)

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    by Amy Lowell ...
    Narrated by Wilson Silva, John Johnson, Dennis Steck, Lorraine Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 48 min

    A collection of three translated diaries written during the latter part of the Heian Period (11th century A.D.). The original authors, Sugawara no Takasue no musume, Murasaki Shikibu, and Izumi Shikibu, were all women of the Japanese court; the latter two known also for their novels and poetry, respectively. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Sickroom

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