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Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Fannee--our great guide! With gratitude' by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Book has mild dusting to the edges of the pageblock. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 366 p. Audience: General/trade. The author's PEN/Faulkner finalist and Washington State Book Award-winning debut novel. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light markings on edges of text block. Signed by author on title page. Dj lightly shelf worn. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
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As New in New jacket. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 366pp. Author's note. Signed by Fisher. "A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration." Praised by Publisher's Weekly, et. al. Fine, as new in dj.
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George W. Ward (Map) Very good in Very good jacket. [8], 366, [10] pages. Map. Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist sticker on front of DJ. Signed by author on the title page. Karen Fisher has lived in the West as a teacher, wrangler, farmer, and carpenter. In 2005 A Sudden Country was the Mountains and Plains Bookseller's Association choice for Best Fiction. A Sudden Country is set during the Oregon Migration of 1847 and is based, in part, on the reminiscences of the author's great-grandmother's grandmother, who crossed from Iowa to Oregon in that year. One source of inspiration was the author's own pioneer heritage. A second source of inspiration was the author's early and continuing fascination with explorers and exploration and with the "mountain men" of the west in particular. It started with the discovery of a biography of Jim Bridger when she was eight, and led, in high school, to a kind of displaced romantic affection for nineteenth century explorers in general, which grew into a more serious interest in college. The third source of inspiration was while growing up, she had been handed the golden story of "How the West was Won, " in which the pioneers and explorers and cowboys she identified with and adored were heroic and unimpeachable. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. Yet his life is overturned when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. She persuades her husband to employ him. As their hidden stories and obsessions unfold, and pasts and cultures collide, both Lucy and MacLaren must confront the people they have truly been, are, and may become. Alive with incident and insight, presenting with intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans, A Sudden Country is, above all, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding.