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Written by Beckey Burgoyne

As an avid fan of Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty, Beckey Burgoyne, an elementary school teacher from Illinois, felt it was her destiny to write the life story of actress Amanda Blake, who portrayed Miss Kitty on television for nearly 20 years. A farmer's daughter, Burgoyne appreciates the value of hard work and self-reliance. As a child, she saw all of these characteristics and more in Amanda Blake's portrayal of Miss Kitty on TV's Gunsmoke. In Perfectly Amanda, Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty: To Dodge and Beyond, Burgoyne celebrates everything the character of Kitty Russell stood for: strength, grace, intelligence, independence and so much more. The biography provides readers with a chronological look into Amanda Blake's life both on- and off-screen, even telling of her ancestry tracing back to 1600 England, Scotland and Ireland.

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by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach

Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River-The Journey of an Ordinary Man by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach received the prestigious Carter G. Woodson Book Award (secondary education) by The National Council for Social Studies in 2007. A life story spanning eight decades, the book begins in Jamaica in 1924 and, with rich detail, fast-moving short chapters and a peppering of photos, engages the readers in the life of one man. Reviewed by thirteen judges from around the nation, the book fulfilled the many requirements established to increase understanding of ethnicity in a positive light in the United States.