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News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless,...
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Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery...
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Lighthouse Island: A Novel

Paulette Jiles - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Paulette Jiles, thebestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women,pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Islandacaptivating and atmospheric story set in the far futurea literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope.In the coming...
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The Color of Lightning: A Novel

Paulette Jiles

In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children, searching for a life and a future. But their dreams are abruptly shattered by a brutal...
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Stormy Weather CD

Paulette Jiles - HarperAudio
Format: Audio CD

From Paulette Jiles comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time—and a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day.Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard...
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