title: Dearest Sparrow: & Other Stories of Altered Lives
author: Joanne Johnston Francis
description: Joanne Johnston Francis rarely thinks of herself as a writer, rather as a person in search of the meaning of home. Unlike her character Sparrow, whose constant uprooting leaves her uncertain as to where home is, regular uprooting over a lifetime has left this author believing almost anywhere is home. In finding her way into very different lives, she sees the challenge as a matter of growing accustomed to the local rhythm of a days work, whether hanging burley leaves to cure in a Blue Ridge Mountain tobacco barn, carving a Salish journey canoe from western red cedar using adze and crooked knife, or learning how to rhyme couplets from her eighth-grade students in Harlem, before rap. On display here in this memorable collection are lives lived off the beaten track. The author begins with the premise that no one person is average and no single culture wholly unique. Her stories celebrate our small individual moments of courage and the fact that those moments of courage are more common than we think.
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  A Duke To Elude
  
  Wendy May Andrews
  
  Sparrow Ink
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 Wendy May Andrews
  
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  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced,
  transmitted, or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written
  permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a
  product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  
    
    
  ISBN: 978-1-989634-21-9  
    
  Cover design by: German Creative  
    
  Printed in the United States of America  
    
  www.wendymayandrews.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > > Dedication  
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  > In this book, Rosabel has to discover that isolating herself is not the
  > solution she hopes it would be. I have been blessed with a team of friends
  > and family members who help me with my books and support my writing
  > adventures. I recently lost a member of my 