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A True-Life Novel
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by Elizabeth Letts
Published Dec 2019
Read ReviewsThis richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsInspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere―even back home.
by Laura Bell
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsBy turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
by Philip Caputo
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsWhen Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family's sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest, where violence is a constant presence.... Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is Philip Caputo's most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.
by Carolyn Wall
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsDestined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.
by Hillary Jordan
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsIt is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its ...
by Stephanie Kallos
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsFunny, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families, and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world’s wrongs.
by Rick Bragg
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
by Terry Ryan
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsIntroduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay, and her 10 children fed and clothed, with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s.
by Kent Haruf
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.
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