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Product Description: As in Chekhovâs play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walkerâs Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class livesâand yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues...read more
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9780803248281 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As in Chekhovâs play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walkerâs Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class livesâand yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues.
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9780803298644 | Bison Books, September 1, 2006, cover price $14.95
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9780803298231 | Bison Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While visiting her grandmother in Vermont, a young girl's discovery of a huge boulder in the woods of a nearby farm leads her into a special friendship with a boy living there.
Product Description: James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, he travels with his wife, Phyllis, to Vermont to spend the summer at the farm of old friends, Josh and Lucy Blair...read more
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9780803297876 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, March 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student.
Product Description: Dr. Henry Baker and his wife, Liz, have spent twelve years developing a cure for tuberculosis. Working at a lab in their home, they have persisted without adequate funding and assistance, sacrificing new clothes and vacations to make their contribution to humanity...read more
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9780803297883 | Bison Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Dr.
Product Description: Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel son and later, as a widow, took over the business...read more
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9780803297869 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s.
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9780803297814 | Bison Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
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9780803297821 | Bison Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Sue Norton, the wife of a doctor at a small medical college, is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and must cope with the progress of the disease as well as the strain it causes in her marriage
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9780803297791 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $17.95
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9780803297784 | Bison Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.95
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9780803297692 | Bison Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $15.95
Product Description: At eighty-three Marcia Elder was alert and active but felt insecure about facing another winter alone, yet she dreaded giving up her old home and entering a re-tirement facility. So, with great resourcefulness, she advertised for a companion and eventually staked out a corner of her ownâone with a view...read more
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9780803297685 | Reissue edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, February 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: At eighty-three Marcia Elder was alert and active but felt insecure about facing another winter alone, yet she dreaded giving up her old home and entering a re-tirement facility.
Product Description: Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore...read more
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9780803297586 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934.
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9780803297579 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $21.00
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is!" Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.
Hardcover:
9780151972234 | Harcourt, September 1, 1967, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s.
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9780803297418 | Bison Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $14.95
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