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House of Earth: A Novel

by Woody Guthrie

Published: 2013-10-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meanin...

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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

by David Roberts

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 416 pages

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The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations—and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. • Dramatic re-telling of a terrible but little-known tragedy: In 1856, 220 Mormons traveling west to Utah, p...

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The Color of Water by James McBride | Summary & Study Guide

by BookRags

Published: 2011-01-21

Kindle Edition: 45 pages

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The Color of Water Study Guide consists of approx. 45 pages of summaries and analysis on The Color of Water by James McBride.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discu...

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My Life in Middlemarch

by Rebecca Mead

Published: 2014-01-28

Hardcover: 293 pages

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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal to...

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Wishing on Buttercups: A Novel (Love Blossoms in Oregon Series)

by Miralee Ferrell

Published: 2014-02-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Can Love Survive When Secrets Collide? She’d kept her secrets safely hidden—those from her past, and those in the present. Some things, Beth Roberts knows, a lady simply doesn’t share, even in the 1880’s West. The townspeople would never understand. No one ever has. Jeffery Tucke...

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Becoming Josephine: A Novel

by Heather Webb

Published: 2013-12-31

Paperback: 320 pages

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A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress   Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjo...

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The Third Hill North of Town

by Noah Bly

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 388 pages

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly's evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship. When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, it's wit...

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Woman on Top

by Deborah Schwartz

Published: 2013-05-30

Paperback: 358 pages

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What happens when you love everything about a man except for who he is?After the heartbreaking death of her physician husband, Kate begins a new career as an attorney to support her two young children. When she finally finds the courage to reenter the dating world, she falls prey to Len, a...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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Tempting Fate

by Jane Green

Published: 2014-03-25

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From Jane Green, the New York Times bestselling author of such beloved novels as Jemima J, The Beach House, Another Piece of My Heart, comes an enthralling and emotional story about how much we really understand the temptations that can threaten even the most idyllic of relationships….Ga...

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Relatively Dead

by Sheila Connolly

Published: 2013-05-16

Kindle Edition: 211 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly!Abby Kimball has just moved to New England with her boyfriend and is trying to settle in, but the experience is proving to be quite unsettling, to say the least. While on a tour of local historic homes, Abby witnesses a family scene th...