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Johanna Moran
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"The Wives of Henry Oades" is based on real events. More than a half-century ago, my father, a law professor, came across an abstract on the Oades trials, and showed it to my mother, who was attempting to write short fiction in her nonexistent spare time. She was intrigued and gave thought to fleshing out the story, but that's as far as she got. She might have had three kids down with mumps tha...
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True or not? It was first believed that this story was based on an actual event that took place. There is now speculation that the “real story” was actually a hoax made up in the early 1900s to showcase bigamy laws.
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I've been wanting to read this, and then a friend hands it to me because she couldn't read beyond a little bit. She's in her eighties and found the book just too crude. Yup, it's crude all right. It's also full of Tina Fey humor as well as evidenc...
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This has probably been my most anticipated new release for a very long time. Like many people, I was totally awestruck by Hosseini's first novel The Kite Runner. His second; A Thousand Splendid Suns is up there in my Top Five Books, I was astounde...
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“There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.”
― Johanna Moran, The Wives of Henry Oades
― Johanna Moran, The Wives of Henry Oades
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Thanks so much, Cindy! It's a little strange, like throwing my child out into the world to sink or swim on its own...
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