Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author . River City $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-913515-22-8
With impressive credibility, and even humor, Mickle (The Queen of October) explores the tragic and potentially maudlin subject of teen suicide, creating an engrossing narrative that manages to avoid sentimentality and bathos. Based on a real...
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-945575-21-4
Infusing her first novel with black vernacular as convincing as Alice Walker's, imaginative metaphors that rival Maya Angelou's and humor as delicious as Zora Neale Hurston's, Sanders has created a refreshing new voice--that of Clover Hill, a...
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $8.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-003-7
This perceptive and promising coming-of-age tale fondly evokes small-town life in the '60s; its focus is on 13-year-old Sally, who falls in love with an older, alcoholic man and befriends a striptease artist. (May)
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $16.95 (266p) ISBN 978-1-56512-017-4
In her second novel, the author of The Queen of October tells a refreshingly sweet story of a newly divorced woman struggling to keep her family together. Linda Marsh's husband, George, principal of the only public school in Palm Key, Fla., has left
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, Author St. Martin's Press $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95413-0
``A refeshingly sweet story of a newly divorced woman struggling to keep her family together,'' said PW of this second novel from the author of The Queen of October. (Mar.)
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Shelley Fraser Mickle. Charlesbridge, $24.99 (308p) ISBN 978-1-62354-539-0
Novelist and biographer Mickle (American Pharaoh) traces the long road to the first successful human kidney transplant, in 1954, in this involving chronicle. Avoiding medical jargon, Mickle uses her storytelling skills to bring the doctors and...
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