John Ehle
Born
in Asheville, The United States
December 13, 1925
Died
March 24, 2018
Genre
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
15 editions
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1988
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The Land Breakers
21 editions
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1964
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The Winter People
10 editions
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published
1982
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The Journey of August King
13 editions
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published
1971
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The Road
4 editions
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published
1998
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Time of Drums: A Novel
5 editions
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published
1970
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The Widow's Trial
3 editions
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published
1989
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Last One Home
2 editions
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published
1984
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Lion on the Hearth
7 editions
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published
1961
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The Free Men
5 editions
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published
2007
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“Only the strong knew what suffering was. The weak never found themselves in the strong webs; the strong man was the one who found himself day and night bound and struggling, so that the work he did, the plotting and the owning and the buying, the decisions he made—and in a large family there had been many to make—were often hard-fibered.”
― The Land Breakers
― The Land Breakers
“What was his place? he wondered. Where was his world? He had sometimes stood on the riverbank and told himself: Deep down in the cold water is your world; a rock lashed to your feet is your clothing for that world. To enter it you need only to climb to the place above the rapids, where the pool is, where it is always calm, so it must be deep, and there bury yourself and leave a world that is not your own and find a garden, long fields already cleared and cribs already filled, a new place in which a weakness in a man is a matter for a word or chide, not a break through which the terrors of the world flow in.”
― The Land Breakers
― The Land Breakers
“But even in the wealth of spring, he remembered the harshness of this country. It is a cunning place, he thought, a place of dangers, after all.”
― The Land Breakers
― The Land Breakers
Polls
What shall we read in October, 2022? Books published in or before 1990.
Giant, by Edna Ferber
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