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Salt Dances is the dramatic story of one woman's redemptive journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing. Unmarried and pregnant at 41, architect Julia Ives returns to her home in the Pacific Northwest, determined to understand her family's troubled past before her child is born. Haunted by memories of betrayal and abandonment, she confronts the father she has not seen in 21 years.
| LCC: | PS3558.E4185 S25 1995 |
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| FDC: | 823 |
Meet Crane Cavanaugh, budding scientist. Raised in poverty in rural Iowa by depraved adults who've given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, the unsinkable Crane traces her experiences from disfiguration in the womb to well-deserved elevation in the halls of academe. When her family is forced to leave its squatters shack, Crane is separated from her sister, brother, and parents. What follows is a series of fateful encounters: some kind, some cruel - each a new world with its own dangers and limitations.
| LCC: | PS3564.E848 S25 2008 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites - two alient races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Although they would eventually form a stable alliance called the Covenant, there are those on both sides who question this fateful union.
| LCC: | PS3569.H558 B76 2014 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again - with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell
| LCC: | PS3570.Y45 D5 1982 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
Shell shock, as it was called, lands Raymond Kaufmann in a London hospital, a victim of the war but also of his own efforts to emigrate from Germany and build a new life in America. While his recovery eludes him, his memories return to the Flats, a milling community on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, where he and his brother Albert sought some respite from the oppressive hand of their older brother, now master of the family farm and brewery. In Minnesota the two brothers remake their lives according to their own principles and wishes - until the war makes their German heritage inescapable.
| LCC: | PS3605.L468 B64 2014 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
| LCC: | PS3614.G83 L58 2019 |
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| FDC: | 813 |
This new edition is a thorough and sensitive revision of the unique, justly acclaimed, and much used anthology of modern poetry in English. In revising the book, the editors have kept to the principles that served the first edition so well. The selections are generous, often demonstrating the span of a career. More attention is given to major poets and to major poetic trends. Contemporary poetry is once again given full representation, in such a way that its outlines are always clear.
| LCC: | PS613 .N67 1988 |
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| FDC: | 821 |
When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Van Scholls learns that her family will leave Germany for Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And so, in a series of letters, she takes "Oma" on this great adventure with her family - and takes us as readers. Sometimes the letters are dark with discouragement, for the Von Scholls find, as did many German-Texas families, that the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants, known as the Adelsverein, was unable to fulfill its promises of land, housing, horses, and farm implements.
| LCC: | PZ7.G98145 Le 1989 |
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| FDC: | 833 |
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