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Located along the southernmost border of the theocratic nation of Cemaria, Mercy Wells lived in the farming village of New Vernon. Centuries prior, there had been erected a towering barricade along the border simply called “The Wall” as protection from the dangers that lay beyond. One day, a chance encounter with a boy named David who lived on the southern side leaves Mercy questioning everything she had ever been taught about the history of her people, the wall, and why it was built in the first place.

In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman, who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham Young, the woman spent the next thirty years as a servant to Young’s family. Sally, as they called her, lived in the shadows, largely unseen. She was later remembered as a “wild” woman made “tame”, who happily shed her past to enter a new and better life in civilization.

In this inspiring and pragmatic new audiobook, Aldrich shows that the first step toward a sustainable library is sustainable thinking: a determined yet realistic attitude that will help your library spot opportunities for institutional advancement, advocate for and safeguard operating funds, and generate intense loyalty from the communities you serve.