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Author Coleman, Melissa.

Title This life is in your hands [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone / Melissa Coleman.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2011]
©2011
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Available on OverDrive/Libby.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1521601~S1
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, map
Contents Family -- Livelihood -- Seclusion -- Companions -- Water -- Paradise -- Tribe -- Bicentennial -- Atonement -- Aftermath -- Departure.
Summary With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
Subject Coleman, Melissa -- Childhood and youth.
Coleman, Melissa -- Family.
Coleman, Eliot, 1938-
Coleman, Sue, 1945-
Loss (Psychology)
Children -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay -- Death.
Drowning -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay.
Families -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay.
Farm life -- Maine -- Penobscot Bay.
Penobscot Bay (Me.) -- Biography.
Penobscot Bay (Me.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Coleman, Melissa. This life is in your hands. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011 0061958328 (DLC) 2010024942 (OCoLC)641532223
ISBN 9780062087355 (electronic bk.)
0062087355 (electronic bk.)
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