Items in Book Bag [Brown Bag Book Club American Historical Fiction 1880-1910 August, 2007]

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The road to Wellville / by Boyle, T. Coraghessan. ;: Laced with comic wit, this is a story of Dr. John Kellogg's infamous spa.Diagnosis: Of steak and sun -- Scavengers of the sea -- Sears' White Star liquor cure -- Father to all, father to none -- Civilized bowel -- Biggest little city in the U.S.A. -- Symptomitis -- Changing the flora -- Per-fo -- Thankful bird -- Therapeusis: 'Tis the season -- Baser appetites -- Cold in the middle -- Advertising game -- Kellogg's Kirk -- From humble beginnings -- Organized rest without ennui -- Groundhog day -- Prognosis: Questions, questions, questions -- Letter and the note -- Freikorper Kultur -- Rigid control and other matters -- Per-fo factory -- Sword of fire -- Goguac lake -- Fatal luncheon -- Fireworks -- Decoration Day.; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943; Health resorts;; © 1993., Viking,; unAPI
The fugitive wife : a novel / by Brown, Peter C.;: Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-411).; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Gold mines and mining; Runaway wives; Gold miners; Prospecting;; © c2006., W.W. Norton & Co.,; unAPI
Cold Sassy tree / by Burns, Olive Ann. ;: Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.; Subjects: Pastoral fiction.; Historical fiction.; Humorous stories.; Bildungsromane.; Family; Country life; Autobiographical fiction.; Georgia; Pastoral fiction; Historical fiction.; Humorous stories;; © 1984., Ticknor & Fields,; unAPI
Waltzing in ragtime / by Charbonneau, Eileen.;: Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Man-woman relationships; Women journalists; Environmentalists; Park rangers;; © 1996., Forge,; unAPI
The whistling season [text (large print)] / by Doig, Ivan. ;: Subjects: Western stories.; Brothers and sisters; Irrigation projects; Housekeepers; Teachers; Widowers; Large type books.;; © 2006., Thorndike Press,; unAPI
A spider for Loco Shoat : a novel / by Jones, Douglas C.(Douglas Clyde),1924-;: © 1997., Henry Holt & Company,; unAPI
A girl of the Limberlost / by Stratton-Porter, Gene,1863-1924.;: Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost swamp whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.; Subjects: Self-reliance; Mothers and daughters;; © 1991., Gramercy Books,; unAPI
Murder on Lenox Hill [text (large print)] : a gaslight mystery / by Thompson, Victoria(Victoria E.);: Hired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt investigates when one of the prospective fathers--and suspects--turns up dead, the victim of poison.; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Illegitimate children; Birthfathers; Midwives; Large type books.;; © 2005., RB Large Print,; unAPI
Empire : a novel / by Vidal, Gore, 1925- ;: Subjects: Historical fiction.; Newspaper publishing; Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; James, Henry, 1843-1916;; © c1987., Random House,; unAPI
Empire : a novel / by Vidal, Gore, 1925- ;: Subjects: Historical fiction.; Newspaper publishing; Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; James, Henry, 1843-1916;; © c1987., Random House,; unAPI
A love of my own : a novel / by Harris, E. Lynn. ;: Subjects: Love stories.; Periodicals; African Americans;; © c2002., Doubleday,; unAPI

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