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River of the Broken-Hearted

by David Adams Richards

Published: 2005-03-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, "River of the Broken-Hearted" explores the life of this formidable...

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

by Norman Maclean

Published: 2001-10-01

Paperback: 239 pages

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Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American ...

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A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

by MACLEAN NORMAN

Published: 1976

Paperback: 217 pages

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1979 - Univ of Chicago Press - Paperback - A River Runs Through It & Other Stories - By Norman MacLean - Cover is Excellent - Inside is bright, white, & tight - Spine Solid - No tears - No Folds - Rare - Collectible - OOP

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A River Runs Through It: Library Edition

by Norman MacLean

Published: 2006-06

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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)

by Peter Hessler

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 402 pages

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A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Kiriyama Book PrizeIn the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of chan...

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The River Why

by David James Duncan

Published: 1984-12-01

Paperback: 293 pages

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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as our era's most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irrevere...

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The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

by David James Duncan

Published: 2002-08-05

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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It as our era’s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irre...

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The River Wife: A Novel

by Jonis Agee

Published: 2007-07-17

Hardcover: 416 pages

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From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape,” The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to...

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River Woman: A Novel

by Donna Hemans

Published: 2002-12-24

Paperback: 256 pages

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As she washes her laundry in the Rio Minho, Kelithe is startled from her daydreams by women's screams. It is not until she sees a small body in the shallow water that she realizes what has happened. Her young son has drowned. The Women of Standfast, Jamaica, whisper that she let Timothy d...

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River, Cross My Heart : A Novel

by Breena Clarke

Published: 2000-10

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. River, Cross My Heart, which marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller, weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left...