River Jordan, Author . Harper San Francisco $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-06-084176-8
Jordan's Southern gothic debut transports readers to Shibboleth, Ala., a sleepy anytown of "cornbread and ladybugs"—and miracles of divine intervention—that is being sucked dry by a mysterious, sinister force. An...
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River Jordan, Author . WaterBrook $13.99 (345p) ISBN 978-0-30744-670-1
Not much happens in the small town of Echo, Fla., especially to the spunky yet agoraphobic widow, Velma True. But when a mysterious storyteller steps out of the wind and up to her front door, his ordinary-looking birthday gift sends Velma on a...
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River Jordan, WaterBrook, $13.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 9780307457059
Jordan (Saints in Limbo) writes magical realism, and the result is pure magic. The titular Mercy Land is a girl "born in a bolt of lightning on the banks of Bittersweet Creek." The talented Mercy is nudged by her Aunt Ida to leave her backwater town
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River Jordan. Berkley, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-23964-3
In this memoir, Jordan (Saints in Limbo) recounts stories of a year in which, when both of her sons were deployed to war zones, she decided to pray for a complete stranger every day. The results were extraordinary, as time after time she was led to...
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