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by Jill McCorkle
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Customer Review: What a great writer Jill McCorkle is. I started on the short story collection to see if I liked her work, and now I'm looking forward to reading Ferris Beach and some of her novels. Crash Diet's stories have a southern flavor, but they aren't overdone caricatures. A wonderful collection of stories by a very talented author.
by James A. Michener
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Customer Review: James A. Michener is a superb writer of history. After extensive research, he incorporates interesting and informative historical facts into a very readable work of fiction. His Hawaii and his Source are great examples. The first recalls the history of Hawaii and the second of Israel. This volume tells about eight fictional generations of American heroes, men and women, who helped mold the United States from its beginning until the time of the Iran Contra controversy.
A well decorated soldier, the scion of a marvelous group of ancestors, is accused by the US Congress for misbehavior regarding Iran. His friend, a lawyer, plans to defend him in several ways, including putting hi...
Generations: An American Family
by John Egerton
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Customer Review: This is the real story of Burnam and Addie Ledford of eastern Kentucky and their ancestors and their descendants. Author John Egerton, who spent quite a lot of time with the two Ledfords whose ages and memories were remarkable, took the ancient art of oral storytelling and crafted it into a well-written book. I felt I was actually there with Burnam and Addie while reading this book.
It's not just the story of this one family, but also a story about how some of our ancestors moved west through the Cumberland Gap; a story about how big and wide-spread a family tree gets over the years; a story about how slow things changed just a few generations ago, but how fast things change ...
by Janice Holt Giles
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Customer Review: I have had this book for YEARS and recently loaned it to a friend. Lo and Behold, this friend found family names in the book so I ordered a book for her from Amazon.com. I was quite surprised that someone had one that they were selling. My friend was quite happy with her copy and could show it to her children. A part of their family history.
Homeland and Other Stories
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Customer Review: I am not a fan of short stories. It's not that I don't think they're not well-written, because I do think they are. It is just that they're not always so satisfying and leaves one wanting more.
Not this time. I enjoyed every single one of Kingsolver's short stories. I have read a few of her novels and think her last book, "Animal, Food, Miracle" is the best book yet so far. Obviously, this collection of short stories are her earlier works ... and still just as good. These short stories told stories of people's lives, such as a young shoplifter moving into an old house wanting to change her ways. She ends up helping her elderly neighbor and yet witness a crime that led to the ne...
by B. White
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Customer Review: BOOK CAME IN BETTER SHAPE THAN EXPECTED, VERY FAST DELIVERY, A FUNNY, EASY READING BOOK THAT WILL BRING BACK FOND MEMORIES.
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Customer Review: The Rocking Chair Reader: Memories from the Attic is the kind of book that makes you want to read it again. The beauty of a short story is its ability to steal you away from your own troubles for a little while, and this book does this in a unique way so that not only are you stolen, but you are also welcomed to travel through your own memories and family stories, secrets you thought you had forgotten. Several of the stories also have interesting profiles of the towns where the stories were set.
(I made a list of the towns that I would like to visit.)
The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 stars is because I wanted more stories to be included, mor...
by Janet Campbell Hale
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Customer Review: Hale vividly describes her immediate family, their families and her childhood in this deeply moving book. My heart ached for her as a child and young woman trying to make sense of a hostile world. The book is a testament to human resiliency. -- I am not Native American, but I too grew up with a strong tradition of family and connection to the land. My family was also dysfunctional. Like the author, I too have turned to writing to try and make sense and order and draw meaning from my life and pain. Relating to her as I did, this was not an easy book to read. Yet it had remained on my shelf of favorite books for several years.-- Another reviewer criticized her use of Native American ste...
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Customer Review: I had mixed feelings about this book. Before I read it I was expecting an account of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings life and how she homesteaded. While this book has some of that, it actually wasn't the type of homesteading account I thought it would be.
There isn't really a set time line to this novel. She jumps around back and forth between years and seasons and people. While she does describe some life on the farm, the majority of her time is spent describing the people of Cross Creek, and not always in the friendliest of ways.
Since this book was published before the civil rights movement, I expected some of the language that this book contains and knew it could b...
The Assignation: Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
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