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Paulette Jiles
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born
January 01, 1943
in The United States
gender
female
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Enemy Women
   3.49 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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published
2002
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19 editions
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Stormy Weather
3.40 avg rating — 580 ratings
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published
2007
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13 editions
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The Color Of Lightning
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published
2009
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North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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published
1995
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Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola: A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies Crossing Canada by Train
by Paulette Jiles, Ingrid E. Paulson 2.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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1993
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2 editions
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Blackwater
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published
1988
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Song to the Rising Sun
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published
1989
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Waterloo Express
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Enemy Women Prepack [With Easleback]
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Flying Lesson: Selected Poems
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“And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart clled the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.
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― Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather
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― Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather
“The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.”
― Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
― Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
“Then took the quilt out of its linen wrapper for the pleasure of the brilliant colors and the feel of the velvet. The needlework was very fine and regular. Adair hated needlework and she could not imagine sitting and stitching the fine crow’s-foot seams.
Writing was the same, the pinching of thoughts into marks on paper and trying to keep your cursive legible, trying to think of the next thing to say and then behind you on several sheets of paper you find you have left permanent tracks, a trail, upon which anybody could follow you. Stalking you through your deep woods of private thought.
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― Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
Writing was the same, the pinching of thoughts into marks on paper and trying to keep your cursive legible, trying to think of the next thing to say and then behind you on several sheets of paper you find you have left permanent tracks, a trail, upon which anybody could follow you. Stalking you through your deep woods of private thought.
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― Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
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