Jane Hamilton
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Series
Language
English
Description
One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for her family's shortcomings. When the Goodwins took over the last dairy farm in the small Midwestern town of Prairie Center, they envisioned their home a self-made paradise. But these days, as Alice is all too aware, her elder daughter Emma is prone to inexplicable fits of rage, her husband Howard distrusts her maternal...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda,...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Alice Goodwin began the unremarkable June day much as every other on the small dairy farm. Amid the din and confusion in the farmhouse, Alice dreams of how life might have turned out differently. Suddenly within the span of minutes, Alice's map of her world is forever altered when her neighbor's two-year-old left with Alice for the morning, wanders away and drowns in the farm pond.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In [this book], two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift...