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The Granny

by Brendan O'Carroll

Published: 2000-08-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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The New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending." With the forthcoming second book in the trilogy, The Chisellers, and a movie about The Mammy (en...

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Grant: A Novel

by Max Byrd

Published: 2001-05-29

Paperback: 384 pages

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Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America's Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era?and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center.   Ulysses S. Grant pursued a tragic war to i...

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Grape Expectations: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery (Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries with Recipes)

by Tamar Myers

Published: 2007-01-02

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Alcohol is a no-no in the Mennonite community of Hernia, Pennsylvania, but the events bubbling up in town are enough to make everyone feel a little tipsy. A couple of unprincipled outsiders have a plan to start a vineyard and open a winery. So everyone's a suspect when the manager of the vineyard is...

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Grape Thief

by Kristine L. Franklin

Published: 2003-04-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from different ethnic backgrounds, twelve-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school as he watches those around him struggle with various financial difficulties.

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Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

Published: 1991-12-31

Paperback: 170 pages

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2002

Paperback: 455 pages

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Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

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The Grass Dancer

by Susan Power

Published: 1995-08-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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On a Sioux reservation in North Dakota potent forces converge today, as they have for centuries. Ancestral ghosts make their presence known among the living. Dreams inspire journeys, both literal and physical. The dying are summoned to a council fire "five steps beyond the edge of th...

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The Grass Harp

by Truman Capote

Published: 1993-09-28

Paperback: 216 pages

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Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey ...

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* * Pointless,
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

by Erma Bombeck

Published: 1995-03-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."VOGUEIt's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they ...

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The Grass Is Singing

by Doris Lessing

Published: 2000

Paperback: 256 pages

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Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuc...