false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179597725m/934879.jpg 744224 13 Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured-and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever. 1783858 1 4 2002 Rush Home Road: A Novel total:366|5:132|4:151|3:70|2:9|1:4| 366 1496 646 79 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 1 false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 20:42:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 20:31:21 -0700 2009
Books that start with old people and flash back to their earlier lives will always ...more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue May 12 22:02:32 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 18:17:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sun Mar 22 14:00:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 09:39:58 -0700 2009
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"This novel tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd, who was born in southwestern Ontario in the first decade of the 20th century in an all-black town settled by fugitive slaves. She's forced to flee her beloved Rusholme as a teenager bu...more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 3 1 false Tue Aug 12 20:41:12 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 20:45:38 -0700 2008 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Sep 17 04:25:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 11:42:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Oct 15 19:59:56 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 19:51:27 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 19:59:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 17:23:23 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 15:30:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 5 0 false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 18:23:49 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 14:04:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 5 0 false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 09:23:39 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 09:37:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2607904 0316008036 9780316008037 22 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576975m/2607904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2607904.Rush_Home_Road 5 0 false Tue Mar 10 07:57:03 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:00:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 934879 0676974511 9780676974515 10 6 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179597725m/934879.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/934879.Rush_Home_Road 3 0 false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 06:31:54 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 17:13:44 -0700 2009 This woman had an amazing amount of hope and determination. Even having a 5 yr. old child (Sharla Cody) basically dumped on her door step only made her realize how lonely she was in her old age. But now she had someone t...more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:44:30 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 10:37:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:43:44 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:48:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2607904 0316008036 9780316008037 22 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576975m/2607904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2607904.Rush_Home_Road 5 0 false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 06:07:24 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:41:35 -0800 2009 and so it happens again. i finish a book only to miss the characters and their stories so much that i contemplate starting over. immediately. there are but a handful of authors that i've read where i feel this way and lori lansens is certainly one of them. i read the girls last year and fell in lov...

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I enjoy this author's writing style and character development. Both this book and "...more...]]> 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 08:53:35 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 09:01:51 -0700 2008 1 Throughout the book, Addy talks about all her struggles that she went through during her childh...more...]]> 2607904 0316008036 9780316008037 22 7 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576975m/2607904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2607904.Rush_Home_Road 4 0 false Thu Nov 12 08:30:24 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 08:36:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 934879 0676974511 9780676974515 10 6 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179597725m/934879.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/934879.Rush_Home_Road 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 19:28:16 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 19:34:14 -0700 2009 744224 0316069027 9780316069021 313 62 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177948307m/744224.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744224.Rush_Home_Road_A_Novel 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 01:31:38 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 01:42:38 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=934879