Bobbie Ann Mason
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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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Returning to his crash site of World War II, Marshall Stone remembers among others who helped him escape from the Nazis, a girl guide who risked her life for him. His 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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730L
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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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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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Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, marry a Yankee, and raise her son in the Northeast. Yet no matter where she travels, her rural southern heritage is never far from her thoughts, her habits, and her heart. Returning home to the family farm, she brings with her strange ideas and an assertiveness she learned up north. The narrative sweep of Nancy's life traverses the turbulent sixties, the Vietnam War,...
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Shiloh -- The rookers -- Detroit skyline, 1949 -- Offerings -- Still life with watermelon -- Old things -- Drawing names -- The climber -- Residents and transients -- The retreat -- The ocean -- Graveyard Day -- Nancy Culpepper -- Lying doggo -- A new-wave format -- Third Monday.
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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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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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[2018]
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English
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"Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a 'literary phenomenon.' Anne Tyler hailed Mason as 'a full-fledged master of the short story.' Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim. This reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her writing career and provides a unique look at...
16) In country
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2006.
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English
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Dramatic portrayal of a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece as they struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam.
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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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Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Hemingway's A farewell to arms, a novel about the tenuous nature of love in time of war told through the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who meet during World War I.