false 199636 9 Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition "a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl."<br> <br> Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina, she's a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. To document her headstrong life, she collects its artifacts&#8212;her lifelong diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, bones (some human, some not).<br> <br> When a mysterious benefactor appears out of her father's past to rescue her, teenaged Molly Petree never looks back. Taking what she is offered, she saves herself and then risks everything to hold true to her nature and to true love. She casts aside two prosperous, well-born suitors to marry a dashing&#8212;and philandering&#8212;mountaineer only to be accused of his murder. The end of Molly Petree's story is as unpredictable and as passionate as her own wide-open heart.<br> <br> Spanning half a century, Lee Smith's portrait of a fiery Southern woman recalls the South from Reconstruction to the Roaring Twenties&#8212;and, in the process, gives us Molly Petree, living and breathing, gripping the reader's arm as the story unfolds. 1851466 2006 On Agate Hill: A Novel total:584|5:120|4:248|3:160|2:44|1:12| 584 2172 926 153 5 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 09:21:11 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 09:25:09 -0800 2007 4 1 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 11 21:40:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 23:40:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 08 07:12:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 07:17:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false true Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 05:06:02 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 05:15:40 -0700 2009
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On Agate Hill is the story of Molly Petree, an orphan girl growing up in the Reconstruction South. The book is made up of a lot of journal entries and letters, and it begins with a young Molly telling her own story, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 10:38:25 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 10:51:13 -0700 2008
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