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Product Description: In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou’s Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen, Mary Lou impulsively signs up for Anne Hamilton’s single-parenting class at the nearby community college...read more

Hardcover:

9780786256587 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.
9780525947158 | E P Dutton, May 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.

Paperback:

9781574412796 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 28, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas.
9780452285491 | Reprint edition (Plume, June 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.

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Product Description: In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts Wood exposes the heart of each of four families during the last year of World War II...read more

Hardcover:

9780786234578 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $28.95
9780525946021 | E P Dutton, April 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In 1944, the inhabitants of the east Texas town of Cold Springs wait for the war to end, in particular four families on Pine Street, whose neighborhood ties and Southern etiquette challenge their separation by class, money, and family.

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9781574412789 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 28, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end.
9780452283398 | Reprint edition (Plume, May 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In 1944, the inhabitants of the east Texas town of Cold Springs wait for the war to end, in particular four families on Pine Street, whose neighborhood ties and Southern etiquette challenge their separation by class, money, and family.

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Mocha, an injured cat who finds a home at an animal clinic, makes nighttime doctor rounds there and helps the various animals.
By Mary Haverfield (illustrator) and Jane Roberts Wood

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9781931721301 | Bright Sky Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mocha, a cat who lives at an animal clinic, makes nighttime doctor rounds there and helps the various animals.

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9781574410785 | 3 edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, January 1, 2000), cover price $15.95

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9781574410808 | 3 edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, January 1, 2000), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic...read more

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9781574410792 | Univ of North Texas Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic.

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Product Description: Book by Wood, Jane Roberts, Critt, C. J.

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9780788703188 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 1999), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Book by Wood, Jane Roberts, Critt, C.

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In the sequel to The Train to Estelline and A Place Called Sweet Shrub, Lucy Richards Arnold moves back to a rundown West Texas farm with her husband and son and copes with drought, Depression hardship, rural disregard for education, and tragedy. Reprint. K. PW.

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9780786201082 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1994), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Teacher Lucy Richards Arnold and her husband, Josh, the local school principal, struggle with parenting, family tragedy, farming, and small-town life in rural West Texas during the Great Depression
9780385305211 | Delacorte Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Teacher Lucy Richards Arnold and her husband, Josh, the local school principal, struggle with parenting, family tragedy, farming, and small-town life in rural West Texas during the Great Depression

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9780385313209 | Reprint edition (Delta, May 1, 1995), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In the sequel to The Train to Estelline and A Place Called Sweet Shrub, Lucy Richards Arnold moves back to a rundown West Texas farm with her husband and son and copes with drought, Depression hardship, rural disregard for education, and tragedy.

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Product Description: Lucinda Eliza Richards had longed for a great adventure and on August 17, 1911, at the age of 17, she embarked on a new chapter of her life. She would be the new schoolteacher at the White Star school on a ranch in the little Texas Panhandle town of Estelline...read more

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9780786203215 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Lucinda Eliza Richards had longed for a great adventure and on August 17, 1911, at the age of 17, she embarked on a new chapter of her life.
9780936650050 | Ellen C Temple Pub, April 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic.

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Product Description: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic...read more

Hardcover:

9781560541561 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lucy Richards helps her mother with the family hardware store and takes care of her aunt and pregnant sister, until the arrival of her long-time suitor, Josh Arnold, brings dramatic changes in her life
9780385301879 | Delacorte Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lucy Richards helps her mother with the family hardware store and takes care of her aunt and pregnant sister, until the arrival of her long-time suitor, Josh Arnold, brings dramatic changes in her life

Paperback:

9780385314589 | Laurel Leaf, December 1, 1991, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic.
9780440503057 | Laurel Leaf, November 3, 1991, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic.

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9780929398037 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic...read more

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9780385312899 | Reprint edition (Dell Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda “Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic.
9780440500339, titled "Train To Estelline" | Laurel Leaf, June 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Lucinda Richards, only seventeen, accepts a teaching position in west Texas in 1911, and is forced to modify her ideas concerning love and life

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