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Pub. Date
1996
Description
A tale of farm life featuring Beth, 15, as she milks the cows, shovels manure and fights off advances by boys and her father. But she welcomes the advances of an Indian girl from a reservation and an affair develops, opening her eyes to a world rich in lore and spirits. The setting is Canada, the time the 1940s. A first novel.
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Series
Jazz Age volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Since her mother's death, lovely Julie Jones has cared for her farmer father and five siblings. She dotes on her family, but she also dreams of the day a worthy love will come and whisk her away. When Evan Johnson, the son of the Joneses' despised neighbor, Walter, comes home to take over his father's farm, he proves a pleasant surprise. The handsome young WWI vet has a college education, and is nothing like his drunken, abusive father. Julie worries...
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Series
Blue Ridge legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
In this suspenseful sequel to "Highland Hopes", Abigail Porter Waterbury faces the challenges of motherhood in the midst of the depression while reeling from the economic adversity that has brought her husband's law practice to collapse. Abby's brother, Daniel Porter must confront his own demons or risk drowning in drink and regret. And the fued between the Porters and Clacks heats up.
47) Reason & riots
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Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When a boy is killed by a breakaway rail car, Jolie Bowers' compulsion to control is stretched to the limit. In the midst of teaching school, preparing for her wedding, and dealing with the violent reaction to the railroad accident, Jolie finds herself facing trouble from all sides. Her family's homestead and the first house they've ever owned are threatened. The love lives of two of the younger members of the family arouse high emotions and crazy...
48) Perish: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"LaToya Watkins's PERISH follows four members of the Turner clan: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, mother of two, who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem and all of its trauma behind for good; And Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant; as they're called home to say...
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2002.
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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