Melissa Hardy

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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These eight tales of survival and triumph, suffused with magical realism, bring to life the harsh struggles, the dreams, the greed, the obsessions, the xenophobia -- and the love -- experienced by the trappers and prospectors who flocked to north...

• Mar-2012
• / Historical
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A sprawling story confronting social, historical, and racial tensions, this novel is set against the backdrop of the Trail of Tears, when President Andrew Jackson evicted the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands. The narrative follows several g...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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This futuristic novel has all the elements YA fiction needs to draw critical attention from reviewers, and to elicit award-nominations. It is thematically interesting, culturally diverse, well-written, futuristic, and very funny. Set in the year...

• Dec-2013
• / Psychological Suspense
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An unexpected conflict forces Verna to re-examine her life. What was it Donald used to say? "When it comes to children, you pay now or pay later. You never don’t pay."Middle-aged Verna Macoun Woodcock returns to the family cottage for the first tim...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Mariuccia Umbellino is a young woman living in the remote mountain village of Montemonaco, Italy, in the early years of the 19th century. Nearby, the secret recesses of the Grotto of the Fates -- home to an ancient oracle of Apollo -- are about to be...