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The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.
Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalised in folksongs like 'Knoxville Girl' and 'Pretty Polly' reminding them always to know their place-- or risk the wages of sin. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982151560 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1982151560 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781982151577 (trade paperback)
- ISBN: 1982151579 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
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| Subject: | Family secrets > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Women > Violence against > Fiction. Ballads > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | BEARD J (Text) | 33126025190665 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | BEARD J (Text) | 33126025190657 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard studied screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She is the bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls and The Ballad of Laurel Springs. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.