Tabitha King, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-453-00626-2
When the admirable heroine of the title, a 35-year-old black woman, arrives in Nodd's Ridge, Maine, to live in the farmhouse bequeathed her by an unknown uncle, local residents gossip a little behind her back, but otherwise do not respond to her...
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Tabitha King, Author Dutton Books $23 (496p) ISBN 978-0-525-93590-2
In this affecting story of high-school basketball and teenage romance, King returns to the small-town Maine characters who peopled her previous novel, Pearl. Sam Styles, who made brief appearances as the son of Pearl's lover Reuben in the earlier...
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Tabitha King, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-93766-1
In addition to its own deftly crafted tale, King's latest provides a rich backdrop for two of her earlier protagonists-Reuben's second wife, the eponymous Pearl, and his son Sam (One on One). Set once again in the blue-collar milieu of Nodd's Ridge,
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Tabitha King, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-525-94241-2
Departing from her usual literary territory of Nodd's Ridge, King (The Book of Reuben) moves onto a Maine campus to pit a strong yet vulnerable woman against her own demons as she struggles to extricate herself from a poisonous marriage. Talented...
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Tabitha King, Author, Michael McDowell, Author . Berkley $24.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-425-21028-4
A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King (Survivor
) and McDowell (The Elementals
), who died in 1999, moves at a hypnotic pace, like an Alabama water moccasin slipping through black water. Set in the late
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Tabitha King, Author, Michael McDowell, Author, Carrington MacDuffie, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6543-8
MacDuffie reads this Southern gothic tale, which King completed upon her friend McDowell's death, with a honeyed Alabama drawl that rapidly grows tiresome. She puts so much effort into each word that the audiobook becomes more a personal performance
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