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Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the...
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the...
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[2011]
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English
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"These eleven stories blend gravity and humor to depict late 20th century rural North Carolina life, including African American women protagonists who encounter love and relationships, mental illness, racism, and, especially among Jehovah's Witnesses' faith"--Provided by publisher.
4) Betty
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2020.
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English
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"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
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c2009
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English
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Out of prison, Theo Mykolayenkos tirelessly clears his untamed land on the 1938 Canadian prairie and begins to heal himself; his wife, Maria; his children; and his sister, Anna; but soon Anna's rogue husband, the scheming Stefan, returns, stirring up rancor that will end in tragedy.
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[2022]
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English
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
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Chisholm Trail volume 2
Pub. Date
1984.
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English
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The earth lay dying. Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. Ranchers did everything within their power, and federal forces were called in fruitlessly. Only Charlie Flagg, old-time Texas cattleman, saw it as a fight worth continuing--and refused to give up his battle against Nature.
9) Vodka lemon
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2005, 2003.
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Armenian
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A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Siviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
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2020.
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English
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"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
11) The Golden State
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2018.
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English
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In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet...
12) Bonney's Place
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[2003]
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English
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When Johnny Lancaster comes into Bonney's Place, he is seeking answers. Somebody stole a sum of money from his father and he wants the money back. It's his inheritance. And it surely looks as though the person doing the stealing was Bonney himself, except he's not the type of person to steal from an old man, is he? What Johnny discovers, along with the limits of his personal endurance, is that passing judgement is a perilous endeavor. This Texas tavern...
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[1996]
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English
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Ranging in mood from the warmly nostalgic and ruefully funny to the hard-edged and gritty, these stories by a Flannery O'Connor Award winner for Short Fiction capture the lives of women of various classes and backgrounds, living in Wisconsin, united by their desire for love and fulfillment in a land dominated by glacial winds and stormy, irresponsible men.
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2020
Language
English
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A collection of essential 1980s movies in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Ghostbusters (Rated PG), Ghostbusters 2 (Rated PG), Rain Man (Rated R), Dirty Dancing (Rated PG-13), Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG), The Princess Bride (Rated PG), Back to the Future (Rated PG), Back to the Future Part II (Rated PG), Back to the Future Part III (Rated PG), Top Gun (Rated PG), Scarface (Rated R), Heathers (Rated R),...
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