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18 produkter
Learning to Fly
A Writer's Memoir
Av Mary Lee Settle, Anne Freeman
Inbunden, 2007
258 kr
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Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of …
I, Roger Williams
A Novel
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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In this beautiful and feelingly written book, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of Roger Williams: the most compelling figure in colonial America. Plucked from obscurity to clerk for the celebrated English jurist Sir Edward Coke, Williams had a ringside seat on the brutal politics of Jacobean London. …
Spanish Recognitions
The Roads to the Present
Häftad, 2005
339 kr
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At eighty-two years old, Mary Lee Settle set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew. But, like Columbus on another voyage of discovery, she found something—many things—that she hadn't even known she was looking for. Winner of a National Book Award for fiction and author of an acclaimed …
Turkish Reflections
A Biography of a Place
Häftad, 1992
277 kr
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In Turkish Reflections , Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen. Settle explores an enchanting and historic land where the cutting of a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole towns emerge at dusk to stroll in the …
Prisons
Book I of the Beulah Quintet
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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The story of the coming-of-age of Johnny Church, an English youngster who seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political and religious prisons. Johnny's journey ends in a prison of stone and mortar, where, after questioning Cromwell's restrictions on personal freedoms, he is executed.
O Beulah Land
Book II of the Beulah Quintet
Häftad, 1996
380 kr
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One of Johnny Church's descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in Virginia, where he battles Native Americans and builds a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes before the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in Virginia.
Know Nothing
Häftad, 1996
251 kr
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Before the Civil War, Peregrine Catlett considers freeing his slaves but believes he can only retain his plantation by slave labour. His son, Johnny, returns to his father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He ends up fighting family and friends with disastrous consequences.
Scapegoat
Häftad, 1996
251 kr
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Set in 1912, ""The Scapegoat"" propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates into a frenzy of violence and ends in the slaughter of an innocent man.
Killing Ground
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, where she sets out to remove the mystery that has surrounded her brother's murder for over 20 years. Her search for truth reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church of ""Prisons"", completing ""The Beulah Quintet"".
Charley Bland
Häftad, 1996
283 kr
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In this narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia, revealing the mores of Canona's closed, upper-class society and of its less prosperous underculture.
World War II Memoirs: The European Theater (LOA #385)
Av Elmer Bendiner, Mary Lee Settle m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
517 kr
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O Beulah Land
Book II of The Beulah Quintet
E-bok, 2021
282 kr
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O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet —Mary Lee Settle''s unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church''s descendants as they leave England in …
Prisons
Book I of The Beulah Quintet
E-bok, 2021
288 kr
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An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom Prisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quinte t—Mary Lee Settle''s unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, classs, and identity and the meaning of …
Addie
A Memoir
Inbunden, 1998
363 kr
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Novelist Mary Lee Settle's autobiography portrays inherited choices, old habits and quarrels, old disguises and the river that formed the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and the mores of her childhood. She traces her childhood dreams through adulthood and ends back at her source in the Valley.
