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SERENA

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness. Together, this Lord and Lady Macbeth of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child...

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CHEMISTRY AND OTHER STORIES

Ron Rash is the poet laureate of Appalachia, a writer whose insight and empathy have illuminated this terrain in three transcendent novels, stories and collections of poems. In his latest volume of stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in this region, Rash chronicles the onset of the modern era in rural communities, the deterioration of the old ways, and the violent arrival of a larger world.

Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else in town believes is there. A son watches his father take up scuba diving in the town reservoir...

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THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

The World Made Straight by Ron Rash In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past. Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a neighbor’s property in the woods, discovers a crop of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws...

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SAINTS AT THE RIVER

Saints At The River by Ron Rash In SAINTS AT THE RIVER, the drowning of a thirteen-year-old girl, swept away in a whitewater river while on vacation, divides a small Appalachian town. This tragedy brings a young woman journalist to the community of her childhood, and on a trip back home that forces her to confront issues buried in her past...

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ONE FOOT IN EDEN

One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash "One Foot in Eden is a story of wild, almost primitive force and yet it is neatly and ingeniously put together. Ron Rash knows to the core the ways of those who yearn for what is just beyond their grasp. He has given us the strength of tragedy with the compassion of someone who cares deeply. Here is a lasting experience..."

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