Clyde Edgerton
1) Raney
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Raney and Charles were drawn together by their mutual love for bluegrass music. Though their love is strong, their cultural differences sometimes seem monumental.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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"She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egyptwhich not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. Shes Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake."--Publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents. Enter Wesley Benfield, a prime candidate for Project Promise, with...
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A comic novel set in Colorado and featuring Cobb Pittman, a crazy bounty hunter who carries a dog in his holster, the Redeye of the title. Pittman takes on a motley crew of innocents and scoundrels trying to commercially exploit Indian cave dwellings in the name of free enterprise.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The author of nine novels, Clyde Edgerton has built a reputation as a sage commentator on the American experience. In The Night Train, Edgerton weaves the ultimately uplifting tale of friends Dwayne, a James Brown-inspired crooner, and Larry, apprentice to a jazz musician. One black, one white, Dwayne and Larry face daunting challenges to their friendship-and futures-in 1960s America.
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