While the factories track days without lost time and efficiency, the human wreckage accumulates everywhere in Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022) by Kate Beaton.ĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a powerful graphic memoir. It’s dangerous for everyone but in different ways for the women. Life in the oil sands is boring and tedious. Moving from camp to camp, she chases higher pay and better jobs starting in a machine shed before moving to more and more isolated camps chasing an office job and–once her student loans are paid–a chance to leave. Unlike most of the others who migrate there for work Kate is a woman–one of the only ones among thousands of men. Which brings Kate, like so many others, to Fort McMurray–a camp in the oil sands. She knows she’ll return.īut Kate also knows that if she ever wants a future without crippling debt, she has to leave because everyone in Cape Breton knows there is no work there. She knows nowhere else will ever feel like home the way Mabou does. “It felt like I had a second to decide, and an eternity to live with it.”īefore she ever appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for her comics, Kate Beaton was Katie: A university graduate drowning in debt like a lot of the young people in Canada’s Cape Breton.
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In this book Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown, founders and publishers of the popular quarterly Atomic Ranch magazine, extol the virtues of the tract, split-level, rambler home and its many unique qualities: private front facades, open floor plans, secluded bedroom wings, walls of glass, and an easy-living style. Post-World War II ranches (1946–1970) range from the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs, Florida, to the unassuming brick or stucco L-shaped ranches and split-levels so common throughout the United States. An in-depth exploration of midcentury residential architecture in America, with extensive photos and design tips included. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you’ve ever thought about the afterlife - and the meaning of our lives here on earth. 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