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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
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Ain't She Sweet? Not exactly . . .
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, and life has taught Sugar Beth its toughest lessons. Now she's come home-broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.
The people of Parrish don't believe...
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A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
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"After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two black sisters run away to different parts of the country...but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's the summer of 1964, and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one-year-old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack...
5) ha-ʻEzrah
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Modan
Pub. Date
[2010]
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עברית
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Be-1962, yeme maʼavaḳ neged gizʻonut: shalosh nashim, aḥat ishah sheḥorah ʻovedet--mevashelet, menaḳah megadelet yeladim-- be-vate levanim, aḥat levanah shelo rotsah lhyot ima, aḥat mepaṭpeṭet she-ʼivdah maḳom ʻavodah nosaf aḥar maʻaśeh noraʼ, yaḥad rotsot li-khetov sefer ʻal ha-ʻozrot ha-sheḥorot, neged ha-zerem ba-ʻiran be-Misisipi.
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