Smith, Lee
Summary: On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly Petree, an open-hearted and headstrong young Southern woman. The novel is framed with the letters and notes of a contemporary woman who seems almost a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: "Investigative journalist Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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Summary: Evenly divided between a book about Smith’s process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son’s mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1985
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Summary: "Herb's charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: A collection of fourteen short stories by Lee Smith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 1996
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Summary: It is 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses the cascading events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition " a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006