Most Popular Books by Ruth White

In "A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days," Ruth Burns celebrates the life and character of the pioneers who dared to challenge the vast prairie of the Llano Estacado of Eastern New Mexico. In the 1880s along the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers, the cities of Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Ft. Sumner were bustling centers of commerce, but on the High Plains, due to the lack of dependable water, the prairie was inhabited only by occasional outlaws, Indian hunting parties, Hispanic mustangers and buffalo hunters. After the Civil War, cowmen began to bring their herds to the plains; and in 1898 when the railroad came, homesteaders poured in, lured by promises of free land. Barbed-wire fences were put up, and the day of the open range was at an end. Using interviews and letters collected by her mother in the 1930s and 1940s, Burns reveals the courage, determination, and good humor of these first settlers by using their own words, recorded while they were still living.

This book gives a voice to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors who have chosen to restore their German citizenship. Dena, a New Hampshire retiree, feels at home in Germany the moment the vineyards across the Rhine come into her view. Maya, a journalist for Deutsche Welle, pursued German citizenship to boost her career in Berlin. And Yermi, an Israeli writer, has a response for people who question his decision to live in the country that murdered his relatives. They each have different reasons for doing so, but they all reclaimed something that was taken from their families.

A mystical soft sci-fi for older teens and adults. At an unspecified time in the future a spiritual group of Earthlings establish their utopian society on a small Goldilocks planet at the edge of the known universe. It is here on Aquarius that Lily Reynolds spends a carefree childhood among the hills, streams and meadows of this new Eden. When the colonists have completed the building of homes and a school, tragedy strikes in the form of a deadly virus. Only twelve people survive, all of them children. Lily at the age of eleven, is the oldest. With no communication to other worlds, the youngsters wait for a promised starship for rescue. But it does not come. The children turn into teenagers with a limited knowledge of adult relationships. They have only each other and a few books to guide them. In time the teens become attuned to the mystical vibrations of the planet, as the Mansions of Karma appear periodically in the sky to remind them they are not alone, but forever a part of the great universal life force. And then one day the starship actually does come, but it is not there on a rescue mission

A little 7 years old''s Bible devotional drawing.

In a time and place where women have few choices in life, Lorelei Starr, a dreamy blue-eyed descendant of the first English and Scotch-Irish settlers in the Virginia hills, looks at the distant horizon from her isolated mountaintop home, and wonders if there is something out there that will fill the hollow place in her chest.Throughout childhood she wavers between two fantastic realms of imagination. One is a patch of tangled woods where the hopeless Old Thing hides and cries away the years. The other is the enchanted ice palace where the sleeping beauty waits for the kiss of the prince. Lorelei learns about love from her older siblings, who nurture her as their abusive father and distant mother cannot do. Daily she walks down the mountain to the school in the hollow. The rest of her time is filled with "woman''s work".Memories of certain incidents come to haunt Lorelei - a sister being whipped by Dad, another being taken away to a sanitorium. Then there''s the smell of strawberries, which are forever associated with a harsh blow from Mommie.But there are also moments of joy, such as the visit from the traveling peddler who touches her heart by showing her a bit of kindness, and her first visit to town when she rides in an automobile and sees a moving picture show.When Lorelei is ten, her mother dies needlessly. This death is followed by another one that carves a deeper wound, and she plans her escape from this bitter home. When the opportunity comes, Lorelei leaves behind everything familiar - family, kin, and the teacher who declares his love for her. As a teenager in the roaring twenties, Lorelei is swept into the carefree world of flappers, bobbed hair, the Charleston, the IT girl, and the notorious speakeasy. Most important she becomes a bit player in the high society world of old money. Here she meets a different kind of creature - men who are rich and handsome, well-bred and well-educated. One of them steals her heart away, but how can a simple wildflower ever compete with that exotic orchid by his side?On a trip back to Starr Mountain for yet another funeral, Lorelei comes to the realization that a girl must create her own choices in life, and she finally comes face to face with the promise of happiness.

Five elements of the socio-cultural structure are studied: (1) ethnic origin of the members; (2) religious beliefs of the founders; (3) political structure of the communities; (4) economic organization; and (5) attitude toward the linkages and functions of the traditional nuclear family.

A introduction to a complex subject, this guide explains the importance of Karma in different religions and cultures, revealing how understanding of karmic and reincarnation principles can bring greater meaning and purpose to life.

Ruth''s scrapbook

A young girl is so traumatized by family tragedy, she escapes into the mystical depths of her psyche, where she finds safety and comfort. In this still place, she hears whispers from the universe, revealing secrets of the ages, which sustain her throughout her long life, and in touching ways, affect all those who love her.

My studio practice undertaken during the period of my PhD candidature is given historical, conceptual and practical context through an exploration of the work of selected painters who have practised over the past century: Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Raoul De Keyser, Mary Heilmann, Tomma Abts and Emily Kngwarreye. I share with these artists an interest in the use colour, pattern, movement, the natural world and abstraction. The study of these artists provides a framework to investigate five key themes that arise when considering their practice: the poetic, doubt, the provisional, the performative and gestural. In this study I also refer to the critical and theoretical ideas related to these themes, in particular the writings of Clement Greenberg. I consider his emphasis on the flatness of the canvas, whether the work is abstract or representational, and his views on medium specificity. From this study I have found that abstract painting does not exhaust the possibilities of these themes but generates new prospects.

This book is the result of interviews conducted with Nancy and Ruth from July 2002 to October 2003, and with Nancy through June 2004.

Typescript genealogy on the descenants of Johannes and Barbara (Tannerin) Tribelhorn of Switzerland.