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1) The Feather
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Once upon a time there was a King who reigned over a country as yet, for a reason you may learn later on, undiscovered-a most lovely country, full of green dales and groves of oak, a land of dappled meadows and sweet rivers, a green cup in a circlet of mountains, in whose shadow the grass was greenest; and the only road to enter the country lay up steep, boiling waterfalls, and thereafter through rugged passes, the channels that the rivers had cut...
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In Bette Greene's award–winning debut novel, a young Jewish girl in the postwar South finds herself drawn to a German prisoner of war When the Army delivers a batch of Nazi prisoners of war to an internment camp in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen is as anxious as any of her neighbors to get a glimpse of the monsters. The eldest child in the town's sole Jewish family, Patty is lonely and isolated, spending most of her time in the company
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Green Eyes and Fireflies, her second book, a continuation of her book This Life and the Fireworks contains 57 vignettes (her fans call them cupcakes) in which you live vicariously with the author. Each unique story will capture your imagination. Life, love, war, true stories, poems, fiction, and a play, are all here for your entertainment. Like that box of chocolates with all the flavors, shapes and colors to entice you, each one a confection to savor....
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This book is about two complete strangers, Robert Dean Tomlin and Frederick (Butch) Philip (Pitbull) Price, who become the world's best friends. It tells about the adventures they had while in high school and the trials and tribulations while in the United States Marine Corps. They both went through the madness and heartache of war with battles they fought together while in Vietnam. When ex-girlfriends and wives were easily forgotten. They stay best...
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This superbly moving sequel reveals what happens when 18-year-old Patty Bergen leaves her Southern Bible-belt town for Paris. In a tender love affair with a Frenchman, she begins to overcome the abuse that ruined her childhood-and to understand her conflicting feelings of joy and anger.
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