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Author Newman, Leigh.

Title Still points north : one Alaskan childhood, one grown-up world, one long journey home / Leigh Newman.

Publication Info. New York : Dial Press, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. NEWMAN, L.    Storage
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B NEWMAN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B NEWMAN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B NEWMAN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-NEWMAN, L.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Forget Me Not. The Great Alaskan -- Can't Lives on Won't Street -- Homeland -- Sweat and Pencils -- Snowslide or Glacier? -- Summon the Strength -- The Middle of the Woods. Dividing the World -- The Mystery of Beautiful Things -- Homemarks -- Street Wolves -- Back in the Water. Love and Altitude -- Riding Out the Updraft -- Boulder, Boulder, Paddle -- Cinq de Plus -- A Tablecloth in the Wilderness.
Summary A memoir from the travel writer and editor who spent her childhood moving between her "Great Alaskan" father on the tundra in the summer and her more urbane mother in Baltimore during the school year, a lifestyle that led to an adult who both feared and idolized human connection.
Subject Newman, Leigh.
Children of divorced parents -- Biography.
Alaska -- Biography.
ISBN 9781400069248 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
1400069246 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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