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At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet.

Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Doig captures the passion and tenacity of turn-of-the-century immigrants struggling to build new lives amidst Montana's windswept Rockies.

Ivan Doig crafts an epic tale of 11 college football teammates confronting World War II. Eager to serve, TSU's champion athletes are stationed across the globe in various theaters.

In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower Oliver Milliron despreately needs help.

Itinerant teacher and perennial charmer Morrie Morgan returns to the 1919 copper-mining center of Butte, Montana.

Accepting the challenge to convert brash, handsome, incorrigible Mick Tremore into a gentleman in only six weeks, Lady Edwina Bollash is concerned less with her abilities than with resisting the ma

Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money.

Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.

Beginning with an engagement announcement and ending with the birth of a son, the author gives a charming and utterly convincing snapshot of the first few years of a modern Southern marriage.

Caterer Goldy Bear's wedding day becomes a nightmare when her groom, homicide detective Tom Schulz, calls her from a murder scene and then vanishes.

Goldy looks forward to whipping up a sumptuous dinner for two wealthy clients, but when one of the men disappears, and her best friend is accused of murder, Goldy must find out who has turned the f

Four kids in the Chicago suburbs learn they are the only ones left in their families. Faced with the truth behind the disappearance, Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan have decisions to make.

Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow.

Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City.