Ellen Foster

Literature & Fiction

Kaye Gibbons

Contemporary

Pan Books

Charms for the Easy Life

ABACUS +

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeatlives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina.In a sad and singular era, they are unique among womenof their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy andbrilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charmsto ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that alltoo often beats a path to their door. And they are protectedthrough the years by the eccentric wisdom and muscular loveof the most stalwart Birch of all -- a solid, unbending anduncompromising self-taught healer who can cure everythingfrom boils to broken hones to broken hearts ... a remarkablematriarch who calls herself Charlie Kate. Charms for the Easy Life is the passionate, luminous, andexhilarating New York Times bestseller by Kaye Gibbons,the acclaimed author of Ellen Foster and Sights Unseen.

Genre Fiction

Maggie Barnes is notorious in her community for being "not right". Her family recognize she is a paradox: a manic depressive who is also beautiful and vivacious. This is an exploration of family torments which depicts a child's love for a damaged parent.

Sights Unseen

A Virtuous Woman

Untitled - American Poems

Putnam Publishing Group

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1998

Teen & Young Adult

Demco Media

Bt Bound

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