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"Glorious...a masterwork." --The Washington Post *"Propulsive."
--Associated Press * "Wild, smart, energetic." --Los Angeles Times
* "Brilliant and effervescent." --NPR From the #1 bestselling
author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a
"rip-roaring, action-packed" (The New York Times) novel about an
indomitable young woman in prohibition-era Virginia. Sallie Kincaid
is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic
Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of
comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who
died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just
eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While
Sallie is her father's daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful,
Eddie is his mother's son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to
teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil
coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years
later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family.
That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters
a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets
and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates
the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own
as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger. "You'll fall in love with
Sallie on the very first page and keep rooting for her all the way
through to the last" (Good Housekeeping) in this thrilling read
that "goes down easy...like the forbidden whisky that defines the
life of Sallie Kincaid" (Associated Press).
Cradock is a vivid history of a South African town in the years
when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and
rigorous implementation of apartheid. Through the details of one
emblematic community, Jeffrey Butler offers an ambitious treatment
of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history.
Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he eschews
sentimentality in favour of scholarly precision. Augmenting the
obvious political narratives, Cradock examines the poor
infrastructural conditions, ranging from public health to public
housing, that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation
but are otherwise neglected in the region's historiography. Butler
shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how
the lives of blacks, whites and coloureds were affected by the
bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid
thereafter.
From one of the greatest storytellers of our time, the acclaimed,
bestselling, "gripping story of a courageous and sensible girl
surviving the adults around her" ("St. Louis Post Dispatch")--"a
page turner" ("Entertainment Weekly").
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve
and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother,
Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough
money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day
and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take
the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the
decaying mansion that's been in Charlotte's family for generations.
An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and
hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first
place. Money is tight, and the sisters start babysitting and doing
office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, who
bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Liz
is whip-smart--an inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan
Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, it's Bean
who easily adjusts, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And
then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox.
Jeannette Walls has written a deeply moving novel about triumph
over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other
and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.""
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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