03193cam a2200325 4500 609008316 TxAuBib 20221110120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062913289 006291328X B07T2ZLHNZ Amazon 2277d270-7234-475f-bb6f-ef0bc7d737d0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4788221 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wetmore, Elizabeth. Valentine [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 869kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:<p><strong>An instant New York Times Bestseller</strong></p> <p><strong>Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize</strong></p> <p><strong>A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!</strong></p> <p><strong>"A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." –Ron Charles, the Washington Post</strong></p> <p><strong>Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award.</strong></p> <p>Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .</p> <p>It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.</p> <p>In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.</p> <p>Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-11-10 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2277d270-7234-475f-bb6f-ef0bc7d737d0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2277d270-7234-475f-bb6f-ef0bc7d737d0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2277d270-7234-475f-bb6f-ef0bc7d737d0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)