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Guns and Gods in My Genes

A 15,000-mile North American search through four centuries of history, to the Mayflower

by Neill McKee ...

Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir **Finding Myself in Borneo,**takes the reader through 400 years and 15,000 miles of an on-the-road adventure, discovering stories of his Scots-Irish ancestors in Canada, while uncovering their attitudes towards religion and guns. His adventure turns south and west as he follows the trail of his maternal grandfather, a Canadian preacher who ... Read more

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Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir **Finding Myself in Borneo,**takes the reader through 400 years and 15,000 miles of an on-the-road adventure, discovering stories of his Scots-Irish ancestors in Canada, while uncovering their attitudes towards religion and guns. His adventure turns south and west as he follows the trail of his maternal grandfather, a Canadian preacher who
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Finding Myself in Borneo

Sojourns in Sabah

by Neill McKee ...

Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Autobiography (non-regional); Winner of the Readers Favorite Award in the Travel Book Category; and Bronze Medal Winner Independent Press Awards for Best Regional Non-Fiction. In 1968 a young Canadian man said yes to the world. As a CUSO volunteer teacher in Sabah, Malaysia -- North Borneo -- Neill McKee spent two extraordinary years learning the ... Read more

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Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Autobiography (non-regional); Winner of the Readers Favorite Award in the Travel Book Category; and Bronze Medal Winner Independent Press Awards for Best Regional Non-Fiction. In 1968 a young Canadian man said yes to the world. As a CUSO volunteer teacher in Sabah, Malaysia -- North Borneo -- Neill McKee spent two extraordinary years learning the
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Kid on the Go!

Memoir of My Childhood and Youth

by Neill McKee ...

Finalist in the 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Autobiography (non-regional) -- Growing up in Elmira, Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s was not ordinary. It was total freedom -- fishing, hunting, building things, navigating bullies, first loves, and quiet rebellion -- in a small industrially-polluted Canadian town that shaped a generation of boys who had to figure out the world almost ... Read more

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Finalist in the 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Autobiography (non-regional) -- Growing up in Elmira, Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s was not ordinary. It was total freedom -- fishing, hunting, building things, navigating bullies, first loves, and quiet rebellion -- in a small industrially-polluted Canadian town that shaped a generation of boys who had to figure out the world almost
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My University of the World

Adventures of an International Film & Media Maker

by Neill McKee ...

2024 Winner in four contest: Gold Medal for Autobiography, National Indie Excellence Awards; New Mexico - Arizona Book Awards for Autobiography & Memoir; Distinguished Favorite in the Career Category, Independent Press Awards; and Finalist in Autobiography, Book Excellence Awards -- For forty years Neill McKee traveled the world making documentary films and leading communication programs for ... Read more

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2024 Winner in four contest: Gold Medal for Autobiography, National Indie Excellence Awards; New Mexico - Arizona Book Awards for Autobiography & Memoir; Distinguished Favorite in the Career Category, Independent Press Awards; and Finalist in Autobiography, Book Excellence Awards -- For forty years Neill McKee traveled the world making documentary films and leading communication programs for
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Kid on the Go!

Memoir of My Childhood and Youth

by Neill McKee ...

Narrated by Wesley Scott ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange ... Read more

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Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange
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Finding Myself in Borneo

Sojourns in Sabah

by Neill McKee ...

Narrated by Chris Kayser ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man's adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local customs, and gains many friends in his ... Read more

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Finding Myself in Borneo: Sojourns in Sabah is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man's adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local customs, and gains many friends in his
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Forbidden Fruit

Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

by Betty DeRamus ...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... Read more

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Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and
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Waste Wars

Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish

by Alexander Clapp ...

A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists.The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's ability to create garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to create ... Read more

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A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists.The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's ability to create garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to create
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A People's History of the American Revolution

How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

by Ray Raphael ...

"The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." —Howard ZinnUpon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has ... Read more

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"The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." —Howard ZinnUpon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has
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Countdown

Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman ...

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add ... Read more

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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add
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Scugog Carrying Place

A Frontier Pathway

by Grant Karcich ...

The story of Scugog Carrying Place, the ancient aboriginal trails connecting Lake Ontario with Lakes Scugog and Simcoe and the Kawartha lakes is a multifaceted one. In tracing its documented history from the 1790s to the 1850s, author Grant Karcich unravels mysteries; explores the lifestyles of early First Nations; provides background on local archaeological sites; and introduces the intrepid ... Read more

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The story of Scugog Carrying Place, the ancient aboriginal trails connecting Lake Ontario with Lakes Scugog and Simcoe and the Kawartha lakes is a multifaceted one. In tracing its documented history from the 1790s to the 1850s, author Grant Karcich unravels mysteries; explores the lifestyles of early First Nations; provides background on local archaeological sites; and introduces the intrepid
... Read more
The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America

1763 and the Transformation of North America

by Colin G. Calloway ...

Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new boundaries new alignments and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

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In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new boundaries new alignments and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire
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