Tiffany McDaniel
1) Betty
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"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
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During the heat wave of the summer of 1984, Fielding Bliss became friends with the devil, a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy named Sal, who was welcomed into his family. Tensions rise with the temperature as strange accidents start to occur until a fanatic froves the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change sleepy, Ohio backwater town Breathed forever.