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A young Kentucky farm wife gives birth to quintuplets around the turn of the century, catapulting her family into the spotlight and leading to an extraordinary series of events that take her from vulnerability and ignorance to tough-minded enlightenment. Reprint. Tour. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780060167806 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In turn-of-the-century Kentucky, Christianna and James Wheeler have the first recorded North American quintuplets, leading to an early version of a media circus

Paperback:

9780060925499 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 1994), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A young Kentucky farm wife gives birth to quintuplets around the turn of the century, catapulting her family into the spotlight and leading to an extraordinary series of events that take her from vulnerability and ignorance to tough-minded enlightenment.

Husband and wife for forty years since they eloped as teenagers, Spence and Lila cannot imagine a world without each other, until Lila is diagnosed with breast cancer and each of them recalls moments spent together and apart. Reprint. NYT.

Paperback:

9780880015943 | Ecco Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Husband and wife for forty years since they eloped as teenagers, Spence and Lila cannot imagine a world without each other, until Lila is diagnosed with breast cancer and each of them recalls moments spent together and apart

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A collection of Bobbie Ann Mason's best short stories moves through the lives of her Kentucky people, capturing their tangled hopes and buried disappointments as they struggle with the ironies of modern life in a traditional rural society. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780880015950 | Ecco Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a collection of stories about the men and women of rural Kentucky, a divorcee dreams about time travel, a disabled trucker builds a facsimile of his dream house, and the wife of a country pastor has second thoughts about her marriage

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The best-selling author of In Country offers a close-up memoir of growing up in the rural farm country near Clear Springs, Kentucky, during the 1940s and 1950s, describing an existence that was rich in family ties, traditions, legends, and a culture rooted in work, the land, and common sense. 35,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780679449256 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author offers a memoir of growing up in the rural farm country near Clear Springs, Kentucky, during the 1940s and 1950s

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The award-winning author of In Country and Shiloh and Other Stories returns to Kentucky to explore the lives of unforgettable characters who leave their homes to embark on an adventure in a world of change and transition by who remain tied to their Kentucky roots, in a collection of stories. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679449249 | Random House Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories set in Kentucky explores the lives of characters who leave their homes to embark on an adventure in a world of change and transition but who remain tied to their roots.

Paperback:

9780375760617 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, July 1, 2002), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories set in Kentucky explores the lives of characters who leave their homes to embark on an adventure in a world of change and transition but who remain tied to their roots.

A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding.

Hardcover:

9780813119489 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 26, 1995), cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780375758430 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, September 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding.
9780060913304 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding

Reinforced:

9780606252898 | Demco Media, December 1, 2001, cover price $21.85 | About this edition: A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding.

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Product Description:  Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780826214027 | Univ of Missouri Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition:  Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture.

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Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant, bailing out his best friend, contemplating the wonders of outer space, and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship, in a story about the repercussions of political decisions on the lives of ordinary people. 40,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375507199 | Random House Inc, August 23, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.

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Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant, bailing out his best friend, contemplating the wonders of outer space, and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship, in a story about the repercussions of political decisions on the lives of ordinary people. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780812975208 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, July 11, 2006), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786177318 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.
9780786179626 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786136759 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2005), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant in heartland America.
9780786136582 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.

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After leaving her Kentucky home for college, marriage, and motherhood in the Northeast, Nancy Culpepper returns to her Southern roots to come to terms with her past, her place in the world, her life, the emotional demands of her aging parents, and her rural, cultural upbringing, in a series of interlinked stories. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375507182 | Random House Inc, July 11, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, married a Yankee, and raised her son in the Northeast.

Paperback:

9780812976670 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, August 14, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After leaving her Kentucky home for college, marriage, and motherhood in the Northeast, Nancy Culpepper returns to her Southern roots to come to terms with her past, her place in the world, her life, the emotional demands of her aging parents, and her rural, cultural upbringing, in a series of interlinked stories.

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Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to 'Sam' Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange

Hardcover:

9781555040727 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, April 1, 1986), cover price $19.95
9780060154691 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to 'Sam' Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange

Paperback:

9780641830129 | Harpercollins, August 30, 2005, cover price $13.95 | also contains In Country
9780060835170 | Perennial, August 1, 2005, cover price $14.99
9780060913502 | Reissue edition (Perennial, September 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to 'Sam' Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange
9781555040222 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, April 1, 1986), cover price $17.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780898458510 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, January 1, 1990, cover price $15.95

Reinforced:

9780606286572 | Demco Media, July 1, 2003, cover price $22.35 | About this edition: Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to 'Sam' Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange

Prebinding:

9781442008014 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $22.95 | also contains In Country

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781609983413 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 26, 2011), cover price $29.95

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Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason offers an unforgettable novel about an American pilot shot down in occupied Europe in World War II. Returning to his crash site decades later, Marshall Stone is drawn back to the brave people who helped him escape from the Nazis. Marshall's search becomes a wrenching odyssey that threatens to break his heart -- and sets him on a new course for the rest of his life.

Hardcover:

9781410440952 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 28, 2011), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason offers an unforgettable novel about an American pilot shot down in occupied Europe in World War II.

Paperback:

9780812978872 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, July 10, 2012), cover price $15.00

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