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2020
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" . . . both timely and timeless in today's fraught social climate." —Necessary Fiction
"This lyric novel is a gorgeous mosaic." —John Dufresne
The award-winning author of True Stories at the Smoky View is back with another novel about an unusual friendship. In the 1940s, in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Gail (white) and Hanna (black) shared a crib in Gail's parents' house, where Hanna's mother, Sophie, was...
"This lyric novel is a gorgeous mosaic." —John Dufresne
The award-winning author of True Stories at the Smoky View is back with another novel about an unusual friendship. In the 1940s, in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Gail (white) and Hanna (black) shared a crib in Gail's parents' house, where Hanna's mother, Sophie, was...
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Emerald Hawks, an Appalachian mountain girl, has inherited the Healer's abilities passed down through her mother's generations. Emerald, loves her mountain home, and is, learning the Healer's ways, when her father, uproots their large family and moves, north to find work. Shy and reticent, Bolen and Thursta, Emerald's mother and father, her brothers West and Hank, sisters Lottie and Lucy, and Neil and Flint, a cousin and a nephew, share their tribulations...
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Change is in the air... It's the summer of 1935 and holidaymakers are flocking to St Darlstone's magnificent lido beside the sea! With little hope of finding a husband, no-nonsense Natalie lives for teaching, until she finds herself out of a job courtesy of her best friend Delphi. But if she can team up with Delphi to bring her rigorous physical fitness programme to the people of St Darlstone, maybe there's a chance she can start again and help her...
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"Lizabeth Gordon, a school counselor and master at facilitating conflict resolution in everyone's life but her own, returns hom to South Carolina after her husband's sudden death. Seeking solace at the ramshackle family cottage, she walks the winter beach, but the quiet life doesn't last. An elderly aunt has troubling family stories: a blockade runner hunted as a traitor after the fall of Charleston, and ancestors who disappeared during Civil War...
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Mountain Brook novels volume 1
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English
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A debut novelist casts a satirical eye at southern society while celebrating the power of great teachers in this award-winning comedy of manners.
As an English teacher at an elite private school in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Norman Laney is as unorthodox as he is morbidly obese. A natural wonder from the blue-collar South, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook with a mission to defeat "the barbarians," introduce true civilization...
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