Mary Lee Settle
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University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet - Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land.
One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white...
2) Prisons
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University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Prisons follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army. Throughout his evolution Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another.
Johnny's journey ends in a prison of...
6) Choices
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English
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The life of a Southern belle who decided to work rather than play the debutante. The novel chronicles her adventures as a nurse during the bloody Kentucky miners strike and as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War, through World War II, to her return to America in time to take part in the civil rights struggle. By the author of The Killing Ground.
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English
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"In this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia. The novel's narrator, a thirty-five-year-old widow and writer, returns from a self-imposed European exile to find her hometown much as she left it decades ago. One thing does change upon her arrival, however; she takes Charley Bland, Canona's most eligible bachelor and the object of her schoolgirl crush,...
11) Know nothing
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University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
12) The scapegoat
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Series
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English