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The Reluctant Midwife
This title is sure to appeal to fans of American historical fiction or anyone else looking for a story with plenty of emotion, spunk, and community spirit.
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Heads up—Hulse is a smart writer, able to reveal her character's gut-level emotions and trickiest self manipulations. Comparing the author to Annie Proulx, Wallace Stegner, or Kent Haruf is no exaggeration. Her debut is bound to turn readers' hearts inside out and leave them yearning for some sweet, mournful fiddle music.
Black River
Heads up—Hulse is a smart writer, able to reveal her character's gut-level emotions and trickiest self manipulations. Comparing the author to Annie Proulx, Wallace Stegner, or Kent Haruf is no exaggeration. Her debut is bound to turn readers' hearts inside out and leave them yearning for some sweet, mournful fiddle music.
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The Home Place
Under "a big sky full of a million stars," the hard, cold realities of the Terrebonne family loom large. Alma, emotionally shut down for years, must find new strengths to face escalating horrors. Walloping in suspense, drama, rage, and remorse, this debut is an accomplished literary novel of the new West. [See Prepub Alert, 2/10/14].
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Sundance
Suspense, romance, history, and Western lore are all spun together between the covers of Fuller's (Sweetsmoke) sophomore effort. This novel is at times a bit far-fetched, but since little is known about the real Etta Place, all sorts of backstories can be—and have been—invented. Those who got to know Etta Place in Gerald Kolpan's novel, Etta, may enjoy the different viewpoint presented here.
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Lautner's first novel is lively as a pepperbox, bursting with action and appeal. It is sure to become a classic in the tradition of Charles Portis's True Grit or Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.
Road to Reckoning
Lautner's first novel is lively as a pepperbox, bursting with action and appeal. It is sure to become a classic in the tradition of Charles Portis's True Grit or Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
By turns droll, stark, wry, or raunchy, this peripatetic novel is a bit sketchy at times. The infamous gunfight at the OK Corral brings the novel to a dramatic end and will satisfy many readers who long for more from literary icon McMurtry. [See Prepub Alert, 12/16/13.]
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The Promise
Excellent use of historical detail and strong character development mark this second novel by Weisgarber, whose 2010 debut, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and it should attract wide readership.
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Etched on Me
Readers will cheer for Lesley's progress in this against-all-odds, sometimes grueling, suspenseful, and character-rich tale of individuation. Bringing to mind Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted or Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Virgin Suicides, Crowell's (Necessary Madness; Letting the Body Lead) novel darkly fascinates.
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In Calamity's Wake
The many sides of Calamity Jane (born Martha Jane Canary) have been presented before by contemporary authors, including Larry McMurtry (Buffalo Girls) and Pete Dexter (Deadwood), but the archetype of the wild woman never dies and receives colorful treatment here. Readers looking for fresh Western fiction will be well satisfied.
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