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Miracles on Maple Hill
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Ten-year-old Marly, her 12-year-old brother Joe, and their parents move from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the old rural farmhouse where her mother spent summers as a child. The family moves in order to help Marly's father recover, both emotionally and physically, from being a prisoner of war. During their time in the woods, Marly and ...
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Plain Girl
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A fictional account of the life of a young Amish girl.
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A Little Lower Than the Angels
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It is not surprising that Sorensen's first novel, written soon after she graduated from Brigham Young University in 1934, was on a Mormon theme -- loosely the story of her husband's grandmother. What is surprising is how successfully it captured the tone of mid-nineteenth-century Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Lotte's locket
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Where nothing is long ago; memories of a Mormon childhood.
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The narrator of these stories is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and telling them from a child's perspective. The stories often attempt to understand the values of the writer's community and depend on the reader's ability to recognize the ironic distance between the child's perception and the meaning of the incidents to the ...
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Around the Corner
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A black boy's mother forbids him to associate with the neighbors whom she considers "poor white squatters," but when she unexpectedly begins labor, a number of misunderstandings are righted.
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Friends of the Road
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Cathy is not looking forward to the family's tour of duty in Morocco. Then she finds a wonderful friend.
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The man with the key
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The Evening and the Morning
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Do all the heroines who challenge patriarchy end up dead-but-faithful or alive-but-ruined? A survey of the literature uncovers one exception -- Kate Alexander. Weaving past and present as seamlessly as they live in our minds, Sorensen returns Kate to the small town where she had loved, married, reared children, and met calamity, not entirely in ...
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Miracles on Maple Hil
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Kingdom come.
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