The protagonist of the The Bean Trees unexpectedly becomes a mother to an abandoned girl. Barbara Kingsolver also wrote the best selling Poisonwood Bible
. If you haven’t read her yet, I highly recommend her books.
. If you haven’t read her yet, I highly recommend her books.Jodi Picoult also wrote the best-selling My Sister’s Keeper
. According to a review I read on Amazon, Vanishing Acts is about a woman who makes her living finding missing people.
. According to a review I read on Amazon, Vanishing Acts is about a woman who makes her living finding missing people.Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir of growing up with an alcoholic father and a neglectful mother.
J.A. Jance has two mysteries since Damage Control
-Trial by Fire
and Fire and Ice
. In Jance’s 15 mystery novels, Joanne Brady is a Maricopa County sheriff. Maricopa County contains Phoenix. (Joe Arpaio, the actual Maricopa County sheriff gained fame by creating tent city jails.)Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell is a historical novel about the Navajo forced "long march" in the 1860s.
These is My Words is about the settling of the Arizona/New Mexico territories. “Based on the real-life exploits of the author's great-grandmother, this fictionalized diary vividly details one woman's struggles with life and love in frontier Arizona at the end of the last century.” –from Publishers Weekly
Bones in the Desert is about the mom of Terri of Terri's Consignment who was killed by her live-in boyfriend.
Frank Lloyd Wright bio
Barry Goldwater bio
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