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Vera Jane Cook
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Reviewed by Danita Dyess for Readers' Favorite
It was over 40 years ago when the unimaginable occurred: Bessie Day Hardy -- a smart, beautiful teenage girl with curly black hair and a striking figure -- was raped in Chaanakya. But that was exactly what happened in the book “Lies a River Deep” by Vera Jane Cook. Of course, a lot can happen in four decades. Bessie, a widower, is 60 years old now.... Read more of this blog post »
It was over 40 years ago when the unimaginable occurred: Bessie Day Hardy -- a smart, beautiful teenage girl with curly black hair and a striking figure -- was raped in Chaanakya. But that was exactly what happened in the book “Lies a River Deep” by Vera Jane Cook. Of course, a lot can happen in four decades. Bessie, a widower, is 60 years old now.... Read more of this blog post »
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Annabel Horton: Lost Witch of Salem
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Dancing Backward in Paradise
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The Story of Sassy Sweetwater
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Hearts Upon a Fragile Bough
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Annabel Horton: Lost Witch of Salem
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Where the Wildflowers Grow
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Dancing Backward in Paradise
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Lies a River Deep
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Hearts Upon a Fragile Bough (Literature & Fiction)
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Hearts Upon a Fragile Bough, gritty and mesmerizing, takes its readers through the uncharted territory of eccentric sexuality, murder and prostitution. From the shores of Ellis Island in 1912 to a Miami brothel in the 1930s, to a touching love story, where precarious relationships alters the course of destinies.
Dancing Backward in Paradise (Literature & Fiction)
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A murder plot in the deep south in the late 1960s and a cast of characters as colorful as a field of wildflowers.
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