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Melissa Pritchard
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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The Instinct for Bliss
- Jan-1998
- / Literary
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From the gourmet cook in "Sweet Feed" preparing a last supper for a condemned prisoner to the anorexic girl in "Eating for Theodora" feeding herself holy dirt, each of these eleven stories grapples with the visceral and bloody aspect of human nature ...
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Selene of the Spirits
- Jul-1998
- / Historical Romance
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Set in Victorian London, this story follows a beautiful woman with psychic powers who becomes famous as a medium, but soon falls from grace when she has an affair with a renowned scientist and is exiled to the Welsh countryside where her life is tran...
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Disappearing Ingenue
- Jun-2002
- / General Fiction
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This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous ...
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Late Bloomer
- Mar-2004
- / Romance
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The award-winning, widely praised author of Disappearing Ingenue is at the top of her form in this witty, wickedly funny novel about a romance writer whose real life begins to outpace the wildest flights of her imagination. After one failed marria...
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Spirit Seizures
- Oct-2011
- / General Fiction
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In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most.
Some of the m...
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The Odditorium
- Jan-2012
- / General Fiction
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“A writer at the height of her powers.” ―Oprah.comIn each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley’s “odditoriums...
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Flight of the Wild Swan
- Mar-2024
- / Historical
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A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicineSweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailbl...
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