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  <title><![CDATA[Prayers for Sale]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;DIV&gt;Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado.&#160; Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married.&#160; She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work.&#160; It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and her husband have suffered greatly.&#160; Hennie notices the young woman loitering near the old sign outside of her house that promises &quot;Prayers For Sale&quot;.&#160; Hennie doesn't sell prayers, never has, but there's something about the young woman that she's drawn to.&#160; The harsh conditions of life that each have endured create an instant bond and an unlikely friendship is formed, one in which the deepest of&#160;hardships&#160;are shared&#160;and the darkest of secrets are confessed.&#160; &#160;Sandra Dallas has created an unforgettable tale of&#160;a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the&#160;finest parts of the human spirit. &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&lt;/DIV&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1997</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas' novel takes its title from a sign on Hennie Comfort's fence, carved when she was &quot;so happy that she had prayers for sale, since there was nothing to ask for.&quot;  Hennie is an 86-year-old twice-widowed woman living in a small mining town called Middle Swan, Colorado, during the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47426857">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The year is 1935 and 86 year old Hennie Comfort has lived in a mountain gold mining town for the last 70 years.  Her daughter thinks it is time that she comes &quot;down the mountain&quot; to live with her. While Hennie is treasuring her last months on the mountain she meets 17 year old Nit Spindle,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70146202">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's 1936 and the Great Depression has taken its toll.  ighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in Middle Swan, CO - up in the high country of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains - since before it was Colorado. When she first meets 17-year old Nit Spindle, Hennie is drawn to the young grieving girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62335357">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[	This was a very interesting book not only because I am a quilter but it told a lovely story. The main characters Hennie and Nit become fast friends. Hennie is 86 and Nit is very young and a new member to the Swan community. Based at a dregding camp in Colorado things could not be more rural and bas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61931748">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The sign read Prayers For Sale.  It drew the attention of seventeen-year-old newlywed Nit.  She was lonely, sad, and grieving.  Prayers were not actually for sale.  I do not think the story behind the sign is ever shared.  Hennie  lives in the house with the sign that attracted Nit’s attention.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57677846">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prayers for Sale, written by Sandra Dallas happens during the early 20th century where many areas are suffering from depression. It talks about a 17-year old teenager, Nit who has just married. She and her husband moves to the high country in search for a job. They have been suffering largely being ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53408267">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>The stories, that is what draws you into this wonderful book. The stories that are weaved into present day and links you to the past. Hennie is eighty-seven years old and she's experienced pretty much everything life can throw at a person: husband dying in the Civil War, brutality at the hands...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58798198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but was expecting more from the reviews that I had read and from the fact that Barnes and Noble was really pushing its sales.  The theme of the book is friendship and how it can take you by surprise at unexpected moments.  The main character is Hennie Comfort, an 86 year old woman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62238725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the book &amp; characters very much. I wish the editors had been so daring as to leave the book a collection of interrelated stories a la Olive Kitteredge; the only flaw in the book to me was that the patching of the quilt was awkward (transitions). In the middles &amp; starts of some chapters I f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60791046">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas has done a wonderful job with this book. Middle Swan, Colorado is a mining town, and as you can imagine, it has a full cast of interesting characters living there. From the miners to the wives to the hookers, you will be pulled into their world. <br/><br/>Hennie Comfort is eighty-six...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58755729">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a current best-seller, and it's easy to see why. It is set in the Colorado mountains during the mining boom of the early 20th century (apparently loosely based on the history of Breckenridge). It's a story of friendship between an old woman, long-time resident of the town about to be fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64494987">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a warm, comforting, easy read that I enjoyed.  However, I did feel that the story itself was fairly thin;  it seemed as though the present day interactions of the young Nit and elderly Henny served as more of a background for the many recollections of stories spun out by 86-year-old Henny.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55495437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read several books by this author before (<em>Diary of Mattie Spencer. Alice's Tulips, The Chili Queen, The Persian Pickle Club</em>) and like her way of telling a tale about a time past.  The women in her books are realistic, with a strength like that which I see in many of the women of my acquaintance...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72265673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably one of the best books I've read this year so far. About an older lady in her 80s who befriends a young lady who comes into Middle Swan, Colorado, a mining town with her husband to make a living and the lessons the elder shows the younger to survive in that part of the world. Hennie Comfort ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51836893">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting story taking place in the mountains of Colorado during the 1930's.  The story evolves around an elderly woman named Hennie Comfort, who came to the town around 1870.  Hennie befriends a newly married young bride name Nit.<br/><br/>The woman and most of the towns women quilt.  It see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56906616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a huge fan of Dallas's Persian Pickle Club, so the reviews of Prayers for Sale got my attention. I found myself immediately drawn into the world of Hennie Comfort. With the first mention of &quot;her life's deepest secret&quot; you become engrossed in discovering the story's mysteries. Dallas ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55662457">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prayers for Sale was a book I didn't want to end.  I listened to the audio version &amp; the narrator, Maggi-Meg Reed, performed the characters in a very realistic way making it easy to distinguish who was who.  One reason it was so very special to me was that the character of Hennie sounded so much lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68336871">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have liked this story within a story more if it weren't for the reference to paisley fabric, also known as &quot;Persian Pickle&quot;. And, the quaint &quot;country&quot; speech did get a little tiresome. But since I do know a real mountain woman (my younger sister who owns a bookstore in Du...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64362276">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 02 07:33:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Local author, Sandra Dallas triumphs again with her eighth book. This gentle historical fiction novel is set in 1936 when 86 year-old Hennie Comfort helps 17 year-old newly arrived bride, Nit Spindle, adapt to the rugged life in the Colorado mountains. While bonding and quilting, Hennie shares stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58169603">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 19 15:29:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, I can't tell you anything about this book, as it's not out yet. It's out in April 09 and you can read my review in Booklist very soon (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ala.org/booklist">www.ala.org/booklist</a>)<br/>]]></body>
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