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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America.
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900-a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world-Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the...
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Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason offers an unforgettable novel about an American pilot shot down in occupied Europe in World War II. Returning to his crash site decades later, Marshall Stone is drawn back to the brave people who helped him escape from the Nazis. Marshall's search becomes a wrenching odyssey that threatens to break his heart - and sets him on a new course for the rest of his life.
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Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history-from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others.
This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts-written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women-documents women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge...
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In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to come to life. But Dwayne had died...
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
From acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason, her Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir chronicling three generations of her Kentucky lineage, spanning a century in the life of an American family.
People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir has the same power. In it, Mason tells the story of her own family—a multilayered saga of three generations, their aspirations, their...
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"Ann Workman is a naive student. A misfit of sorts, she's traveled all the way from rural Kentucky to graduate school in literature in 1967. But Anne wants more than a good education-she wants a boyfriend. Ann wants the 'Real Thing', to be in love with someone who loves her. Jimmy appears as if by magic, and is everything Ann's been looking for. Although he is from a very different place, a privileged background in suburban Chicago, he is a misfit...
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Reed is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant. Despite his father's tragic death at the plant, Reed stays on, proud of his work. As for radioactive incidents he's endured, Reed prefers to think about other things. His casual attitude toward danger infuriates his girlfriend, Julia, a biologist. So when news reports evidence of radioactive pollution at the plant, Reed and Julia face an unprecedented challenge.
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Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include:
• " For Whom the Beep Tolls" by Carol Higgins Clark
• " Definitely, a Crime for Passion" by Mary Higgins Clark
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