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  • THE CONDOR PASSES
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    THE CONDOR PASSES
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A family saga of a wealthy man's rise and his children's fight for his fortune in 1920s New Orleans. Like many people in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Thomas Henry Oliver came to the city to escape a dull life—in his case, a childhood in the backwoods of the Midwest. But few New Orleans immigrants find as much prosperity as...

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  • THE HARD BLUE SKY
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    THE HARD BLUE SKY
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    "An arresting and beautifully written novel" about a young woman who yearns to escape her life in Louisiana, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The New York Times). West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke ou...

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  • THE HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET
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    THE HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    A provocative novel of a New Orleans woman's heartbreaking decision, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House. Joan Mitchell has two suitors, and can't decide whom to marry. A witness to her mother Aurelie's less than successful romantic history, she'd like to skip marriage altogether. Joan and Aurelie live together in a beautiful French Quarter home on ...

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  • THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE
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    THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    A "beautifully written" Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family's secrets in the American South ( The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought f...

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  • ROADWALKERS
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    ROADWALKERS
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    From the author of The Keepers of the House, a "beautiful" novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era ( The Boston Globe). Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a "roadwalker," a nomad who wanders across the rural south an...

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  • NINE WOMEN
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    NINE WOMEN
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    A "luminescent" collection of stories about nine Southern women from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House ( The New York Times). The nine namesake women of this collection come from widely disparate worlds, from isolated bayou towns to New Orleans high society. All, however, struggle with grief, longing, and hope.   In "Widows Walk," Myra Rowland tries ...

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  • THE BLACK PRINCE
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    THE BLACK PRINCE
    SHIRLEY ANN GRAU
    National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a façade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord in a backwoods hamlet. A man leaves prison only to be drawn back into the darkness of his past. A young bride faces the choice of informing on h...

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