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The Good Earth
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Ruth Goode,Donald F. Roden,Stephen Colbourn,Nick Bertozzi,Pearl S. Buck,Ernst Simon |
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby,… |
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Lucy Gayheart
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Willa Cather |
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world. |
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Travels of a Country Woman
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Lera Knox |
Selection of newspaper articles by Lera Knox, (former teacher, columnist, and farmer's wife from Middle Tennessee), which contain firsthand accounts of travels and special events that took place in t… |
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Love and summer
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William Trevor |
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. … |
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That certain age
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Elizabeth Buchan |
With gentle but penetrating wit and insight, Elizabeth Buchan tells the story oftwo women whose lives are separated by fifty years, but linked in a varietyof subtle and surprising ways as they try to… |
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The Grass is Singing
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Doris Lessing |
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Nectar in a sieve
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Markandaya, Kamala |
In a small village in India, a simple peasant woman recalls her life as a child bride, a farmer's wife, and a devoted mother amidst fights to meet changing times, poverty, and disaster. |
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