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Tentative release date: November Book Description What happens when you don't plan to travel the world—but the world keeps asking you to come? From a barefoot childhood on a farm in rural Maine to unexpected assignments across the globe, Betty Lou Leaver has spent five decades answering one recurring question: Can you come help us? And so she went. She trained astronauts and cosmonauts, taught teachers in Brazil, rescued a dying child in Siberia, worked with diplomats in Central Asia, and built educational bridges across Cold War divides. Along the way, she encountered remarkable people, navigated unfamiliar cultures, collected unlikely souvenirs, and discovered that the most memorable journeys are rarely the ones we plan. In In with the East Wind: Unexpected Journeys , Volume 1: ABC Lands , the first volume of a five-volume international memoir, Leaver takes readers from her childhood roots in Acton, Maine, to Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, Cana...