The Rock Orchard (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Wall, P. S.

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9780786275304: The Rock Orchard (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786275308 ISBN 13: 9780786275304

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2005

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Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby's heart and see his life as if he'd already lived it. Even in death, she continues to shock the citizens of Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and her descendents are doing their best to carry on her legacy. Angela Belle, a haunting and beautiful siren, lures every man she meets into greatness, while her illegitimate and very independent daughter, Dixie, serves tea and vanilla wafers to the statue of the Confederate soldier she believes is her father. But when Charlotte Belle, a woman who would rather spend the night with Jack Daniel's than any man she knows, seduces a stranger in the cemetery, it not only transforms the two people involved but the entire town.

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Review:

“A wonderfully endearing story of love, life, and change ... Wall's extraordinary and original style is the icing on one very enticing cake.” (Booklist)

“Fast, funny and surprisingly fresh.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Paula Wall's created a crystalline world so full of one-of-a-kind characters ... you can't help but enjoy your visit.” (Jodi Picoult)

"First-time novelist Paula Wall has created one of the most interesting Southern women since Scartlett O'Hara. Narrator Susan Ericksen brings just the right touch of barbecue smoke and whiskey to the sensual and straighforward Charlotte Belle. While Charlotte's smoldering niece, Angela, enchants the new doctor in town, Charlotte seduces a man of the cloth in the next-door cemetery, or 'rock orchard'. Ericksen at first captures the lazy, humid atmosphere and then quickens the pace as events kick off a double-barreled romance, ending with love triumphing over all." (AudioFile Magazine)

Book Description:

A truly unique love story.

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