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Title:
Take good care of the garden and the dogs : family, friendships & faith in small-town Alaska
Author:
Lende, Heather, 1959-
ISBN:
9781565125681
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
Physical Description:
x, 287 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage -- Be still my praying feet -- You do not know -- Namaste -- Take good care of the garden and the dogs -- All good gifts around us -- You are going to get well -- Good neighbors -- The comfort of eagles -- Snowshoeing with God : a playlist -- Passing the peace -- Muerte beach -- Amazing grace -- Preying together -- The music of what happens.
Abstract:
After the success of her first book and a near-fatal bicycle collision, the author contemplates both her spiritual and temporal recovery and reflects on how the community of Haines, Alaska, helped her through the ordeal.