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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
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BH
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2018
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Where the Crawdads SingĀ byĀ Delia Owens: Conversation Starters
When she was six years old, Kya's mother abandoned her and her siblings. Eventually deserted by her father and siblings, Kya learns to live by herself. She is taunted as a swamp rat and retreats from interaction with the community around her. Nature becomes her source of solace and sustenance. Kya becomes fascinated with wildlife and nature including insects,
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Daily Books
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Where the Crawdads Sing: by Delia Owens | Conversation Starters
When she was six years old, Kya's mother abandoned her and her siblings. Eventually deserted by her father and siblings, Kya learns to live by herself. She is taunted as a swamp rat and retreats from interaction with the community around her. Nature becomes her source of solace and sustenance. Kya becomes fascinated with wildlife and nature including insects, birds, dappled...
When she was six years old, Kya's mother abandoned her and her siblings. Eventually deserted by her father and siblings, Kya learns to live by herself. She is taunted as a swamp rat and retreats from interaction with the community around her. Nature becomes her source of solace and sustenance. Kya becomes fascinated with wildlife and nature including insects, birds, dappled...
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Alexander Cooper
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2019
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Croatian
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Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens | A Comprehensive Summary
ThŠµ novel's mŠ°Ńn narrative Š¾ŃŠµnŃ Ńn thŠµ marshland nŠµŠ°r thŠµ fŃŃtŃŠ¾nŠ°l tŠ¾wn Š¾f Barkley CŠ¾vŠµ, NŠ¾rth CŠ°rŠ¾lŃnŠ°. SŠµvŠµn-ŃŠµŠ°r-Š¾ld Catherine "KŃŠ°" ClŠ°rk lŃvŠµŃ Ńn a ŃhŠ°Ńk Ńn thŠµ ŃwŠ°mŃ wŃth hŠµr mŠ¾thŠµr, fŠ°thŠµr, Š°nd ŃŃblŃngŃ. HŠ¾wŠµvŠµr, one dŠ°Ń, KŃŠ°'Ń mŠ¾thŠµr lŠµŠ°vŠµŃ thŠµ ŃhŠ°Ńk fŠ¾rŠµvŠµr Ńn Š¾rdŠµr tŠ¾ ŠµŃŃŠ°ŃŠµ...
ThŠµ novel's mŠ°Ńn narrative Š¾ŃŠµnŃ Ńn thŠµ marshland nŠµŠ°r thŠµ fŃŃtŃŠ¾nŠ°l tŠ¾wn Š¾f Barkley CŠ¾vŠµ, NŠ¾rth CŠ°rŠ¾lŃnŠ°. SŠµvŠµn-ŃŠµŠ°r-Š¾ld Catherine "KŃŠ°" ClŠ°rk lŃvŠµŃ Ńn a ŃhŠ°Ńk Ńn thŠµ ŃwŠ°mŃ wŃth hŠµr mŠ¾thŠµr, fŠ°thŠµr, Š°nd ŃŃblŃngŃ. HŠ¾wŠµvŠµr, one dŠ°Ń, KŃŠ°'Ń mŠ¾thŠµr lŠµŠ°vŠµŃ thŠµ ŃhŠ°Ńk fŠ¾rŠµvŠµr Ńn Š¾rdŠµr tŠ¾ ŠµŃŃŠ°ŃŠµ...
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bestof.me
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2018
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English
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New York Times bestselling book Where The Crawdads Sing is about the rumors about the Marsh Girl that have haunted Barkley Cove for years. Where The Crawdads Sing is set in late 1969. Chase Andrews was found dead and locals suspected the Marsh Girl Kya Clark as the murderer. But the truth about Kya is far from what they think of her. She is smart and sensitive. She has called the marsh her home for years. She found friends in the sand but all these...
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Epic Books LLC
Pub. Date
2019
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A Complete Summary of Where the Crawdads Sing
"ThŠµ novel's mŠ°Ńn narrative Š¾ŃŠµnŃ Ńn thŠµ marshland nŠµŠ°r thŠµ fŃŃtŃŠ¾nŠ°l tŠ¾wn Š¾f Barkley CŠ¾vŠµ, NŠ¾rth CŠ°rŠ¾lŃnŠ°. SŠµvŠµn-ŃŠµŠ°r-Š¾ld Catherine "KŃŠ°" ClŠ°rk lŃvŠµŃ Ńn a ŃhŠ°Ńk Ńn thŠµ ŃwŠ°mŃ wŃth hŠµr mŠ¾thŠµr, fŠ°thŠµr, Š°nd ŃŃblŃngŃ. HŠ¾wŠµvŠµr, one dŠ°Ń, KŃŠ°'Ń mŠ¾thŠµr lŠµŠ°vŠµŃ thŠµ ŃhŠ°Ńk fŠ¾rŠµvŠµr Ńn Š¾rdŠµr tŠ¾ ŠµŃŃŠ°ŃŠµ
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Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival--and hope--for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing "Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature.... Completely unforgettable." --Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry "A splendid American...
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Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder-perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise. Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself...
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2019.
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From the author of Ordinary Grace , a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the early years of the Great Depression?a book that shines new light on a pivotal time in American history. 1932, Minnesota?the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits...
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2021.
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"After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest - and in turn, they teach her some...
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"In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy-tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile-fascinates and enamors Kay. Kay is willful and loud-mouthed...
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"A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the...
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"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
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Recommended by The Washington Post! "Paper Moon meets Badlands in this mesmerizing Texas backroads thriller, a twisty story of a runaway girl who finds a home and a desperate love on the road with an opportunistic criminal...told in a gritty, sensual prose."--Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander Set in 1970-90s Texas, a mesmerizing story about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can't escape, perfect for readers...
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"In this intimate debut novel, a woman returns to her small Southern hometown in the wake of her mother's sudden death--only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets. Lila Bruce Breedlove never quite felt at home in Wesleyan, Georgia, especially after her father's untimely death when she was a child. Both she and her brother, Henry, fled north after high school, establishing fulfilling lives and relationships of their own, steeped in art...
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"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
19) The marsh queen
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2022.
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Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted...
20) La chica salvaje
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Books on Tape
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2019
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EspaƱol
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El libro que inspiró la película
“Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciación a la vida y una celebración de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a través de los ojos de una niña abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa niña nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas...
“Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciación a la vida y una celebración de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a través de los ojos de una niña abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa niña nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas...
