Hansen, Ron

Summary: Exiled for their religious beliefs in 1875, five nuns embark on a voyage to America, only to lose their lives when the ship runs aground, in a tale that inspires a grand poem by a doomed priest and Oxford scholar living in literary exile.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008

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Hansen, Ron

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1979

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Hansen, Ron

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999

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Summary: Thirty-five authors choose their favorite stories and they explain why. From Chekhov's Gooseberries to Mary Caponegro's The Star Cafe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994

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Summary: Story of the assassination of Jesse James by Robert Ford, a member of his gang.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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Summary: In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020

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