Choices |
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Author:
| Settle, Mary Lee |
Series title: | Large Print Bks. |
ISBN: | 978-1-56895-266-6 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1995 |
Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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Imprint: | Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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A narrative borne on the exhilarating currents of memory, CHOICES is not only the story of a courageous woman who puts compassion ahead of society's expectations, but also the story of this century, told with an unflinching eye and an unstinting heart. At 20, Melinda Kregg joins the Red Cross and becomes embroiled in a bloody Kentucky coal miners' strike. This marks the first of her many social and political battlefields. From the Spanish Civil War, to World War II London to the Civil...
More DescriptionA narrative borne on the exhilarating currents of memory, CHOICES is not only the story of a courageous woman who puts compassion ahead of society's expectations, but also the story of this century, told with an unflinching eye and an unstinting heart. At 20, Melinda Kregg joins the Red Cross and becomes embroiled in a bloody Kentucky coal miners' strike. This marks the first of her many social and political battlefields. From the Spanish Civil War, to World War II London to the Civil Rights Movement in her own American South, she continues to risk being misunderstood in order to do what she feels is right.