Bird of paradise by Vicki Covington
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8
editions published
between
1990
and
1999
in
English
and held by
916
libraries
worldwide
Septuagenarian Honey Shugart's life in a sleepy Alabama town is changed by the arrival of a handsome stranger.
Night ride home by Vicki Covington
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7
editions published
between
1992
and
2001
in
English
and held by
748
libraries
worldwide
Two former lovers with a secret, a wedding, a mining disaster, and more intermingle in this novel of life in a tiny Alabama mining town.
The last hotel for women : a novel by Vicki Covington
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7
editions published
between
1996
and
1999
in
English
and held by
644
libraries
worldwide
A novel of the civil rights movement through the eyes of a white family. The setting is 1961 Birmingham, Alabama, where the Fraley family owns a hotel which used to be a brothel, run by Fraley's deceased mother. The family's liberal leanings come into conflict with their mother's old lover, Bill Connor, the commissioner of public safety, who in real life organized white resistance to the civil rights movement. By the author of Night Ride Home.
Gathering home by Vicki Covington
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5
editions published
between
1988
and
1999
in
English
and held by
641
libraries
worldwide
Cleaving : the story of a marriage by Dennis Covington
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3
editions published
in
1999
in
English
and held by
585
libraries
worldwide
"Told in the authors' alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory of a marriage, unique in its particulars but universal in its resonance. Childhood aquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their twenties and wed. Like many of their generation, they "promise each other nothing" and get more than they'd bargained for; alcoholism, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty." -- Jacket.
Women in a man's world, crying : essays by Vicki Covington
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8
editions published
in
2002
in
English
and held by
249
libraries
worldwide
This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers. This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the writer's life. These are her stolen moments in between the writing of four novels-Gathering Home, Bird of Paradise, Night Ride Home, and The Last Hotel for Women; in between coauthoring the edgy memoir Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage with her husband Dennis Covington; in between raising two daughters; i.
Birmingham/Jefferson County Drug Use Forecasting Project data analysis report by L. Foster Cook
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Book
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1
edition published
in
1991
in
English
and held by
1
library
worldwide
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