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At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh The year is 2002. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because their ramshackle cottage in Burnham, Pennsylvania, is filled with so much history and because, in the last ten years or so, even birdsong has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. These are the things that Scarlet needs to understand. Cora and Lou (the third woman in Addie's circle) will help Scarlet to see her mother in full. In addition, Scarlet carries her own secret into these foggy days-a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel is rich in so many ways beyond the taut mother-daughter dynamic and the competition among even the closest of women. The natural world, an artist's vision, the intensity of long-lasting love, the flight of a bird's song and the sighting of an extinct-or perhaps illusory-samll creature all work to shape the plot of the novel. Even the prose seems filled with birdsong-at once raucous and transporting. In its structure and style, In Hovering Flight follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld's own..
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When twenty-one-year-old Michael Corbitt joined the police force in the Chicago suburb of Willow Springs, he was already in the pocket of Illinois's most powerful mob boss. By the time he was appointed chief of police, Corbitt had moved steadily up the ranks of the Outfit and was living the high life of a respected mobster. Now, with the assistance of bestselling author Sam Giancana -- godson of the legendary underworld kingpin who recruited Corbitt into a double life of crime and crime fighting -- a man who was both saint and sinner tells a shocking true story of forty years of corruption, conspiracy, racketeering, and murder . . . and rips the lid off a clandestine criminal operation whose evil tentacles reach into every corner of our world..
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Imogene Marshall has everything a girl could want--and she's miserable To her, the perfect life is made of horses and cowboys and round-ups. When she's sent east to finishing school, Imogene disembarks on the way and ends up convincing Buffalo Bill himself to give her a chance in his Wild West Show. Imogene Marshall becomes "Liberty Belle," trick rider, and the object of attention from two cowboys who have very different ways of trying to win her heart. Determined to live her own dream, Liberty Belle travels across the country with one of them--but ends up in a place she couldn't have imagined even in her wildest dreams..
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A keen-eyed, 13-year-old girl

leaves both her bare-handed past

and her dark likely future behind,

takes to the road, and carves a

new dream out of her boundless

will, her fearlessness, and her

newborn desires .
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Asthe waters of the Mississippi rise in 1927, the moneyed powers of Lousiana must decide which Parish to flood in order to save New Orleans This beautiful novel by the lauded author of Hunger is told from the point of view of a man awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while looking back on the first great flood and the first great losses of his life..
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In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler arrived dramatically in Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger girls. Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the Hollywood star, The Pirate's Daughter tells the provocative history of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, compelling attachments, betrayal, and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting. May, the illegitimate daughter of Errol Flynn, belongs neither to the emerging black nation of Jamaica nor to the white, expatriate society on the island. Her mother, Ida, romantically adventurous, dreams of a bigger more glamorous world than that of her small seaside town. For them both, trying to find the right way to live their lives is about discovering who they are and where they truly belong. As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, in this culturally sensitive and delightful novel, Margaret Cezair-Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence..
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At the age of seven a mulatto slave boy with an indomitable spirit, Jimmy Gates, is freed by his owner-father, separated from his mother and everything he holds dear, and sent to England for an education. Four years later when his father drowns at sea, leaving him bereft, Jimmy is apprenticed to a London workhouse where he spends six hard years making saddles, reading heroic novels to his companions, finding the comfort of prostitutes, and discovering the inspirational speeches of an Irish revolutionary name Cornelius O Keefe, or O Keefe of the Sword. At eighteen, dreaming himself a warrior and a hero, he returns to the states intending to rescue his mother. Both blessed and cursed by his late father s words-to-live-by and armed with his free papers and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, Jimmy grows into manhood while he s on the battlefields of the Civil War and in the gold camps of the American West, repeatedly forced to reckon the joys, terrors, and ironies of his freedom. He also discovers chameleon-like ability to shift identities and re-invent himself along the way. Freeman Walker is an adventure story filled with contradictory epiphanies, ironies, and paradoxes rolled into one man s quest to discover a defining inner truth that might allow him to survive a life of terrible misadventures-gritty, sublime, fantastical-and to finally understand the true meaning of moral freedom..
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