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Kind of Kin
A Novel
Av Rilla Askew
E-bok, 2023
67 kr
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In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his …
Harpsong
Av Rilla Askew
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
244 kr
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A love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn't leave for CaliforniaHarlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family's yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his charm. Soon he and his fourteen-year-old bride, Sharon, are on the …
Strange Business
Av Rilla Askew
Häftad, 2009
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
219 kr
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The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small townLyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp - and regrets it on their awkward first date. After years of being nagged about lumpy gravy, abused wife Lois pulls out a shotgun …
Most American
Notes from a Wounded Place
Av Rilla Askew
Häftad, 2017
200 kr
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2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist!In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself - and indeed all Americans - in the …
Voices from the Heartland
Volume II
Av Sara Beam, Emily Dial-Driver m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
247 kr
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Despite progress in recent years, Oklahoma hardly ranks as woman-friendly. The state holds the highest incarceration rate of women in the nation. It offers women no legal protection against being fired due to sexual orientation or gender identity. Its Native American and immigrant populations …
Prize for the Fire
A Novel
Av Rilla Askew
Inbunden, 2022
346 kr
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Lincolnshire, 1537. Amid England’s religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated gentleman’s daughter is determined to free herself from her abusive husband, harsh in-laws, and the cruel strictures of her …
Drawing Flowers from Earth
Oklahoma Women's Poetry, 1900-1940
Av Todd Fuller, Rilla Askew m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
352 kr
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With its vast prairie stretching out before them and infinite stars spreading above, poets—including the women in Drawing Flowers from Earth—have found Oklahoma fertile ground for their craft. This anthology is a revelation and a celebration of the extraordinary poetry produced by Oklahoma women in …
Mercy Seat
Av Rilla Askew
E-bok, 1998
176 kr
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Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother''s talents as a gunsmith. John, …
Fire in Beulah
Av Rilla Askew
E-bok, 2001
198 kr
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Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew ''s Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter''s high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories—and those of others …
Kind of Kin
Av Rilla Askew
Häftad, 2014
120 kr
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Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian. He says he's a felon because he's a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding migrant workers. The law that makes harbouring 'illegals' an offence is the brainchild of the …
