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At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh The year is 2002. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because their ramshackle cottage in Burnham, Pennsylvania, is filled with so much history and because, in the last ten years or so, even birdsong has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. These are the things that Scarlet needs to understand. Cora and Lou (the third woman in Addie's circle) will help Scarlet to see her mother in full. In addition, Scarlet carries her own secret into these foggy days-a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel is rich in so many ways beyond the taut mother-daughter dynamic and the competition among even the closest of women. The natural world, an artist's vision, the intensity of long-lasting love, the flight of a bird's song and the sighting of an extinct-or perhaps illusory-samll creature all work to shape the plot of the novel. Even the prose seems filled with birdsong-at once raucous and transporting. In its structure and style, In Hovering Flight follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld's own..
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Hard Cover. Barney Adams with John Steinbreder. How I Turned One Idea and My Unbridled Enthusiasm Into a Golf Revolution.
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Hugh and Serena Hallam have made the decision to leave everything they knew in Charleston behind, hoping to create a stable, productive home for themselves and their three children in the near-wilderness of West Tennessee. Though now war may loom on the horizon, life at Palmyra is good, for both themselves and -they believe-their slaves. Hugh is convinced that reasonable men with a tolerant respect for their countrymen might yet prevail against the increasingly tense atmosphere that is dividing the two American cultures. Capable and practical, he is nevertheless considered by his neighbors to be an idealist, with progressive notions regarding Southern commerce and the science of agriculture, an ambivalant attitude toward slavery, and a confidence about the way things should be done. But then events move their entire world toward destruction, Hugh's values are put ot the test, with only his surpassing love for Serena and his belief in himself to possibly sustain him. HALLAM'S WAR is the saga of one man's struggle to defend his family, his neighbors and his honor, and of the moral compromise forced upon an otherwise good man caught in a maelstrom that leaves him no acceptable choices. A man of remarkable resilience, resourcefulness and contradictions, Hugh must learn to face his own conscience with as much courage as he displays at Shiloh. Ultimately, Hugh and Serena confront the reality surrounding their relationships with their neighbors and with their slaves. If neither of them is completely transformed, each takes a step toward a new understanding. Elisabeth Payne Rosen's near-epic debut is thoughtful, authentic and carefully researched. From Nashville and Memphis to Richmond, Charleston and Washington D.C., across the bloody battlefields of Shiloh and Manassas, Rosen brings vividly to life a heart-rending tale that resonates with deep personal grief shot through with moments of beauty and joy. In the end, there is hope for reconciliation among us all, even in the face of all the struggles that lie ahead..
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Imogene Marshall has everything a girl could want--and she's miserable To her, the perfect life is made of horses and cowboys and round-ups. When she's sent east to finishing school, Imogene disembarks on the way and ends up convincing Buffalo Bill himself to give her a chance in his Wild West Show. Imogene Marshall becomes "Liberty Belle," trick rider, and the object of attention from two cowboys who have very different ways of trying to win her heart. Determined to live her own dream, Liberty Belle travels across the country with one of them--but ends up in a place she couldn't have imagined even in her wildest dreams..
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A keen-eyed, 13-year-old girl

leaves both her bare-handed past

and her dark likely future behind,

takes to the road, and carves a

new dream out of her boundless

will, her fearlessness, and her

newborn desires..
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Until the dot-com bubble burst, George Bailey never gave much thought to why his grandfather seemed so happy, but then George's wealth vanished, rocking his self-confidence, threatening his family's security and making his adolescent son's difficult life even more painful. Returning to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, flattened during the Depression, Feorge seeks out the details of this remarkable man's rise, fall and spiritual rebirth, hoping he might find a way to recover himself. Abbeville sweeps through the history of late-19th through early 21st century America-among loggers stripping the North Woods bare, at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun, into the abyss of the Depression, and finally toward the new millennium's own nightmares. At the same time it examines life at its most intimate. How can one hold onto meaning amidst the brutally indifferent cycles of war and peace, flood and drought, boom and bust, life and death? In clean, evocative prose that reveals the compexity of people's moral and spiritual lives, Fuller tells the simple story of a man riding the crests and chasms of the 20th century, struggling through personal grief, war, and material failure to find a place where the spirit may repose. An American story about rediscovering where we've been and how we've come to be who we are today, Abbeville tells the tale of the world in small, of one man's pilgrimage to come to terms with himself while learning to embrace the world around him..
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The woman or the country?

And which love is finally the greatest?

In this elegant account of his falling in love with the Spanish woman he married

30 years ago, Lamar Herrin opens his heart, his natural skepticism, and an

American’s awe of history to a complex nation that is both rich in tradition and

astoundingly foreign.

Portraying himself as a Quixote in love with Romance, Herrin allows us to watch

as he struggles to win the woman who will finally open her arms to him in a

world where the Church and Bureaucracy are unwilling to.

By turns comic and moving—and always lyrical—there are beauty and good

heart enough in this eloquent book for travelers and lovers alike.

Romancing Spain is a rich companion to Herrin’s recent novel, House of the Deaf. .
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Mark Lockwood's life is a small one. He s made his living as a freelance writer, producing a series of little books for hire called How to Talk to Your Teen About... But for the past few months he s been at work on a ghostwriting assignment beyond his dreams. To prepare her autobiography, he has been interviewing the internationally renowned diva Merce Casals. When the Senora dies suddenly-floating sizable in her elegant scented bath-she is suddenly a hot property, and a celebrity biographer arrives to take over the writing of her book. But Lockwood realizes this is his one chance at greatness, and so he runs off with the interview tapes. Abetted by the beautiful but scrupulous Perla, the Senora s nurse, and by a female impersonator, who considers himself the diva s greatest fan, Lockwood locks himself into his study, endlessly plays the tapes, and begins to craft his greatest book. Once the three conspirators rescue the Senora s husband from the home she put him in, Lockwood s sense of his own heart begins to expand beyond his considerable imagination. Moving by turns through the diva s lyrical account of her life and the frantic pace of Lockwood s notes from underground, The Wonder Singer portrays for us just what it can mean to live a beautiful life to its fullest..
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