Blogs in January 1970

Bitter in the Mouth 1st January 1970

The teen heroine of her second novel is different from the other girls in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Not only are the walls of her bedroom decorated in manly maritime prints, but she suffers from “auditory-gustatory” synesthesia. There are...

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Badlands Saloon 1st January 1970

Told from the point of view of a young man on the edge of his life looking off to discover his path, this book is filled with wonderful characters, set in a beautiful landscape.

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Paradise 1st January 1970

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of...

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The Thorn 1st January 1970

This is the first of the Rose Trilogy. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters...

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My Sister’s Keeper 1st January 1970

‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to...

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