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Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth. Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features...

Experience the American Revolution through the eyes of Abigail Adams, the wife of one of the key players, John Adams. Her intimate letters, paired with a memoir by her grandson Charles Francis Adams, offer a vivid and eloquent glimpse into an era of tumult and transformation. Abigail’s letters reveal what it meant to live in the midst of battle, to grapple with food shortages, disease, and economic instability, all while raising four children singlehandedly and managing a household when her husband was engaged in political affairs miles away. These private letters, intended to be burned ...

Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published along with a memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams, brings that era into eloquent focus. What was it like to hear the cannon's roar from your window? to face pestilence? food shortages? rampant inflation? devalued coinage? to raise four children alone--and earn the money to keep your household afloat, while your husband was engaged in politics and diplomacy miles and oceans away . . . for years at a time? It's all there in her private letters, letters ...