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Jun.13.2011
The paperback edition of Flesh and Grass, an historical novel based loosely on the Ill-fated Plockhoy serttlement in Colonial Delaware. The blind son of the founder grows up amidst the intermittent violence unleashed by the struggles of England and the Netherlands over the spice trade and slaving...
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Dec.30.2008
Some girls grow up with Barbie dolls and E-Z Bake ovens, but not Martha. She has Scorpion Tail, Beelzebub, and the seven battles of the Apocalypse to deal with in addtion to a mother who reads bedtime stories from Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Martha lives in working class Arkansas of the late...
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