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Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Amazon.com ReviewWise Blood is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O'Connor has no truck with such newfangled notions as psychology. Driven by forces outside thei.... -
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
Caldwell's bestselling, controversial classic: the story of a Southern sharecropper family ground down by the devastation of the Great Depression Even before the Great Depression s... -
Thunderstruck - Erik Larson
SUMMARY: A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” InThunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely ... -
The Wailing Wind - Tony Hillerman
Amazon.com ReviewA lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in h... -
The Memory Chalet - Tony Judt
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from... -
The Handbook for Lightning Stri - Michele Young-Stone
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.**** **BECCA *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No on... -
The Best of Times - Penny Vincenzi
SUMMARY: Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . . On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion... -
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writ - Jack M. Bickham
Amazon.com ReviewFictional life, according to Jack Bickham, is better than real life. You don't get struck by lightning. You are not subject to random acts of cruelty. Events proce... -
Grave Secret - Charlaine Harris
New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from ... -
Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmothe...