Denise Giardina, Author . Norton $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-393-05206-0
Giardina (Storming Heaven) constructs an intriguing time-travel narrative steeped in the history of West Virginia. After her family died in a fire in 1948, two-year-old Lydde Falcone was taken in by her Uncle John and Aunt Lavinia and grew up with...
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Denise Giardina, Author . Norton $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-393-06915-0
Giardina (Saints and Villains
) offers Brontë fans a solid biographical novel portraying sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily as different in temperament but in love with the same man, fighting the same illnesses and withdrawing from the same grim
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Denise Giardina, Author W. W. Norton & Company $16.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-393-02440-1
Four strong, entirely different voices evoke the passion and the pain of unionizing the coal mines of Kentucky and West Virginia in the early 20th century. The canvas is broad, the action complex but even minor characters quicken to life in this...
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Denise Giardina, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-393-03096-9
Giardina's powerful sequel to the highly praised Storming Heaven again focuses on Blackberry Creek, a West Virginia coal-mining town targeted for union-busting by coal companies and the federal government. In a timeframe reaching from 1930 to the...
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