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Literature & Fiction

Owen, Howard

United States

Harpercollins

After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen

The Measured Man: A Novel

Driven by their father to become successful, twin brothers Tom Ed and Jack are torn apart when Jack contracts polio and is cruelly dismissed as useless by the family, and years later he vows to reestablish himself. Reprint.

A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called "fat lightning" and sees Christ on the Cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew's frustrated wife in a small Southern town. By the author of Littlejohn. IP.

Fat Lightning: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Perennial

Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is "a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfections, in his quiet determination and bravery, as any in recent fiction."--Washington Post. National reading tour. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Littlejohn

Villard

Random House~trade

Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith. Painstakingly honest, Littlejohn is "a character as fully rounded in his quirks and imperfections, in his quiet determination and bravery, as any in recent fiction."--Washington Post. National reading tour.

Contemporary

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Littlejohn McCain, an eighty-two-year-old farmer looks back on his life, remembering the hardships and happiness

Thorndike Pr

Before he let his life fall apart, James "Neil" Beauchamp was special. He lived and flourished in the world of privilege, adored and accommodated. 
Then, before he truly learned to appreciate it, the one talent that lifted him from a small life in a small town was gone. The only thing worse than spending your life earthbound, Neil would learn, is landing hard and knowing you'll never fly again. 
Born in Penns Castle, in the castle itself, he was a prince of sorts. But when his mother left the castle with him in tow, he lost everything, even his name. He seemed destined for a life as a shopkeeper's barely tolerated stepson. 
That's when baseball presented itself and saved him. For what Neil could do was hit. Through some combination of reflexes, vision, and coordination, the lean and supple Virginia Rail turned the game of his childhood into the driving force of his life. Before he was through, he would win batting championships and be elected to the Hall of Fame. 
Yet before his talent failed, he already was failing those closest to him. His wife and son suffered from being outside his field of vision too much of the time. Then, with his career over well before his 40th birthday, everything collapsed. The final crash, with his half-sister Blanchard beside him in the car, the crash that sent him to prison, was seen by most who knew him as the inevitable landing at the end of a very long fall. 
On the day he was paroled, he was met at the prison gates by his son David, the last person Neil expected to see, and returned to the castle—from which he was banished as a child—and to Blanchard, a woman of tenuous mental balance. 
Neil is looking for some way to make amends. And his son, who will learn things about Neil he never would have guessed, still wants to salvage something out of their mutual wreckage.

The Rail

Literary

Permanent Pr Pub Co

Used Very Good Appearance of little or no use. Pages are smooth and bright with no folds, creases or curl. Exception: Other than marker line on bottom book edge. Former library book has labels on front and spine of dust jacket as well as inside front cover page. Faint smudging on book edges. Fast Amazon shipping, delivery tracking number, no-hassle return policy - your satisfaction guaranteed!

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The Measured Man: A Novel

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Fat Lightning: A Novel

Littlejohn

Littlejohn

Littlejohn

Littlejohn

The Rail

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