Christina Baker Kline

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

A Novel

"A Piece of the World is a graceful, moving and powerful demonstration of what can happen when a fearless literary imagination combines with an inexhaustible curiosity about the past and the human heart: a feat of time travel, a bravura improvisation on the theme of art history, a wonderful story that seems to have been waiting, all this time, for Christina Baker Kline to come along and tell it.” --Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.

A Piece of the World

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Louisiana

Real news is a rare commodity in Stay More, Arkansas, but twelve-year-old Dawny -- inspired by his hero Ernie Pyle -- finds enough local color to keep the townsfolk reading his weekly newspaper, The Stay Morning Star. One fixture of the paper is Dawny's regular report on the war between the Allies and the Axis, two roving bands of boys and girls whose fledgling identifies are reflections of the global battles of World War II. Fighting with sticks and spears, and competing in scrap drives and verbal jousts, the children who call themselves "Japs" and "Nazis" know their true enemies to be the "Allies", who are also the town bullies: Sog Alan, Larry Duckworth, and Jim John Witter.

But the tenor of these games changes as developments bring the world's war closer to home: the crackle of the town's first radio delivers bad news on a daily basis, and a native son dies on Iwo Jima. For the first time ever, an airplane darkens the skies over Stay More, and soldiers occupy the isolated hills in training for an invasion of Japan. As the ways of outsiders seep into the tiny hamlet's routines, the texture of rural life is irrevocably changed.

By turns comic, sad, and violent, When Angels Rest is a masterful work, part American tall tale, part hillbilly Paradiso.

When Angels Rest

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In very good condition, just time worn. Please see the second photo for a summary. #paperback #nonfiction #humor #vermont #newengland #rural #rurallife 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The Vermont Owner's Manual

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#paperback #novel #storytelling #family #20thcentury #rurallife #fiction #homestead #Wales #familyfiction

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only son, is a junior boxing champion turned hellraising local legend. A novel concerned both with the huge changes of 20th-century rural life, and that life in its eternal details.

Addlands

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Texas

Silas Marner

Ben Logan

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

Collectors Edition

The Land Remembers

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Oklahoma

In a novel brimming with ordinary people living through momentous transformations, Mae Lee Barnes, a South Carolina farm girl, goes from war bride to proud grandmother. By the author of Clover. Reprint.

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Christina Baker Kline

A Piece of the World

Donald Harington

When Angels Rest

Frank Bryan; Bill Mares; Jeff Danziger (Illustrator)

The Vermont Owner's Manual

Tom Bullough

Addlands

George Eliot

Silas Marner

Ben Logan

The Land Remembers

Dori Sanders

Her Own Place