Product Description: In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women’s work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons...read more
9780896727106 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, October 15, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women’s work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons.
Product Description: Betty Grant Henshaw was born into a large family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era. For years her father, Bill, worked himself to exhaustion, trying to earn enough to provide for his wife and nine children and to buy his own small farm, but he was never able to get ahead...read more
9780896726314 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Betty Grant Henshaw was born into a large family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era.
Product Description: A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following: • Every scene has an EVENT • Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative • Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end • Every scene has a PULSE The Scene Book is a fundamental guide to crafting more effective scenes in fiction...read more
9780143038269 | Penguin USA, March 27, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following: • Every scene has an EVENT • Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative • Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end • Every scene has a PULSE The Scene Book is a fundamental guide to crafting more effective scenes in fiction.
The author of Opal on Dry Ground reflects on the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships in an incisive memoir that describes her return home to Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools, her relationship with her invalid mother and fractured family, her tumultuous adolescence and sexual awakening, and their effect on her life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
9780393057355 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author of Opal on Dry Ground reflects on the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships in an incisive memoir that describes her return home to Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools, her relationship with her invalid mother and fractured family, her tumultuous adolescence and sexual awakening, and their effect on her life.
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9780393327212 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author of Opal on Dry Ground reflects on the dynamics of mother-daughter relationships in an incisive memoir that describes her return home to Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools, her relationship with her invalid mother and fractured family, her tumultuous adolescence and sexual awakening, and their effect on her life.
Growing up in the plains country of west Texas, eighteen-year-old David Puckett is torn between his desire for commitment and intimacy, and a need for power and self-sufficiency
9781877946127 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, July 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Growing up in the plains country of west Texas, eighteen-year-old David Puckett is torn between his desire for commitment and intimacy, and a need for power and self-sufficiency
Twenty-five years after the tragic death of her mother, while recovering from her own serious injury, forty-year-old Lucy realizes that to heal both physically and mentally she must uncover the mystery of her mother's life. Reprint.
9780060173425 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Searching for the truth behind the myth of her late mother's life--a glamorous actress whose dreams of stardom were cut short by childbirth--Lucy Laura leaves her lover and child for Hollywood, where she meets her father.
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9780060929459 | Perennial, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five years after the tragic death of her mother, while recovering from her own serious injury, forty-year-old Lucy realizes that to heal both physically and mentally she must uncover the mystery of her mother's life
On an extended holiday in Mexico to recover from his wife's death, middle-aged Chicago pet-store owner Tom Riley is drawn to the Mexican peasants and becomes involved with Consolata Arispe, a mystically minded widow, and her nineteen-year-old daughter Divina
9780060173432 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: On an extended holiday in Mexico to recover from his wife's death, middle-aged Chicago pet-store owner Tom Riley is drawn to the Mexican peasants and becomes involved with Consolata Arispe, a mystically minded widow, and her nineteen-year-old daughter Divina
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9780060927882 | Perennial, September 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: On an extended holiday in Mexico to recover from his wife's death, middle-aged Chicago pet-store owner Tom Riley is drawn to the Mexican peasants and becomes involved with Consolata Arispe, a mystically minded widow, and her nineteen-year-old daughter Divina
Product Description: Writing From Premise By Sandra Scofield American Book Award winner begins where Natalie Goldberg's lessons on creativity end. Learn how to find a one-sentence premise for your work to make you write better and to make agents, editors and readers take your work seriously...read more
9781880717349 | Davenport Productions, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Writing From Premise By Sandra Scofield American Book Award winner begins where Natalie Goldberg's lessons on creativity end.
Resisting despair after a second divorce and the death of her mother in a flood, Opal becomes a symbol of strength and survival to the women in her family, including two divorced daughters and an angry teenage granddaughter. Reprint. NYT.
9780804113601 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Opal, a fifty-something health care worker with a devoted new husband, Russell, struggles to cope with the unexpected arrival of her two grown daughters, both fleeing bad marriages; an obnoxious, rebellious granddaughter; and the tragic death of her mother
9780932966858 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Focuses on Abilene Painter, a young Texas woman who moves to Mexico and becomes the mistress of a powerful rancher and bullfighter
Opal, a fifty-something health-care worker with a devoted new husband, Russell, struggles to cope with the unexpected arrival of her two grown daughters, both fleeing bad marriages, an obnoxious, rebellious granddaughter, and the tragic death of her mother. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
9780679423973 | Villard Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Opal, a fifty-something health-care worker with a devoted new husband, Russell, struggles to cope with the unexpected arrival of her two grown daughters, both fleeing bad marriages, an obnoxious, rebellious granddaughter, and the tragic death of her mother
Product Description: A 1992 National Book Award finalist and a highly acclaimed novel of family conflict and the redeeming power of love. Scofield tells a complex, moving tale about a colorful, contentious clan living in Southern Oregon who love members of their family "beyond deserving...read more
9781877946073 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, September 1, 1991, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: When Katie and 'Fish' Fisher's nine-year-old daughter, Rhea, appears from Texas, where she is being raised by Katie's mother, the entire family is beset by a summer of upheaval and problems
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9780452269071 | Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, September 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A 1992 National Book Award finalist and a highly acclaimed novel of family conflict and the redeeming power of love.