Round Rock Public Library

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Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the...

"Fu Zao" is translated into English by Professor Howard Goldblatt titled "Turbulence" and released in 1991. It is a winner of the 1991 Pegasus Prize. It is a story about a fictional town Shang Zhou going through social reform. Shang Zhou's major river Zhou silently watched the town shift into market economy and with it, the changing values. The shift is told through the love story between Jin Gou, a peasant and Xiao Shui, that was mercilessly disapproved....

One of the WPA's great successes, the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky provided books to those in remote locations.

"The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways"--

"In these powerful rendered, prizewinning stories, working class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control."--from the cover.

In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet...

This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.

Simplified Chinese edition of Educated: A Memoir 人们只看到我的与众不同：一个十七岁前从未踏入教室的大山女孩，却戴上一顶学历的高帽，熠熠生辉。 只有我知道自己的真面目：我来自一个极少有人能想象的家庭。我的童年由垃圾场的废铜烂铁铸成，那里没有读书声，只有起重机的轰鸣。不上学，不就医，是父亲要我们坚持的忠诚与真理。父亲不允许我们拥有自己的声音，我们的意志是他眼中的恶魔。...