Lorna Landvik
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
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Description
"No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living...
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Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After her gorgeous husband deserts her, Patty Jane opens a neighborhood beauty parlor with her sister, and it becomes a warm-hearted place offering comfort, Norwegian baked goods, and a permanent wave.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the small town of Granite Creek, Minnesota, Haze Evans suffers a stroke at the age of 89 and slips into a coma. Haze is a local legend, having written a daily column in the Granite Creek Gazette for fifty years running"--
When Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, Granite Creek Gazette, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the Rodeo to Thanksgiving dinner. Now, fifty years later,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Joe Andreson transfers to a Minneapolis high school in his senior year and hooks up with Kristi Casey; however, after graduation, Joe, who can't quite get over Kristi, becomes a grocer while Kristi becomes a radio-televangelist bound for greater things.