Teacher Lucy Richards Arnold and her husband, Josh, the local school principal, struggle with parenting, family tragedy, farming, and small-town life in rural West Texas during the Great Depression. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

Dance a Little Longer

Literature & Fiction

Wood, Jane Roberts

United States

DELACORTE PRESS

The Train to Estelline

Wood, Jane Roberts, Train to Estelline, The

Delta

In the sequel to The Train to Estelline and A Place Called Sweet Shrub, Lucy Richards Arnold moves back to a rundown West Texas farm with her husband and son and copes with drought, Depression hardship, rural disregard for education, and tragedy. Reprint.

Genre Fiction

Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:The Train to EstellineA Place Called Sweet ShrubDance a Little LongerThe Lucinda Lucy” Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic. Lucy is feisty, funny, and completely open-armed about life. Josh passionately confronts danger and greed and prejudice with courage and humor and, sometimes, with bare fists. Even the minor characters are so rife with color that you first turn the pages quickly to see what they will do next and, then, you turn them slowly so as to savor each page of this remarkable trilogy.In 1915 it has been three years since Lucy Richards left her teaching post in West Texas and returned home where she is busy being indispensable to her eccentric mother, keeping her Aunt Catherine comfortable, and taking on many of the chores her very pregnant sister no longer feels up to. She decides to choose a husband from the local beaus, but none of them stand a chance when handsome, irreverent Josh Arnold comes to town. The newlyweds move to the sleepy hamlet of Sweet Shrub, Arkansas, where they are soon caught up in the lives of their neighbors and discover that the surface tranquility of the town hides simmering tensions and unrest that will inevitably result in tragedy.

A Place Called Sweet Shrub

Lucinda Richards, only seventeen, accepts a teaching position in west Texas in 1911, and is forced to modify her ideas concerning love and life

Train to Estelline

Laurel

1991, trade paperback edition, Laurel / Dell, NY. 309 pages. Highly praised novel from an acclaimed Texas writer. Book 2 in a trilogy. Discusses Texas life and the story of a young school teacher, Lucy Richards.

Grace

In 1944, the inhabitants of the east Texas town of Cold Springs wait for the war to end, in particular the four families on the 900 block of Pine Street, whose neighborhood ties and Southern etiquette challenge their separation by class, money, and family. Reprint.

Literary

Plume

In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Newly widowed Mary Lou, a Dairy Queen counter clerk, left with only her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, signs up for a single-parenting class when Echo runs away and wonÂ't return. Peopled by an extraordinary group and taught by Anne, the entire class soon becomes irrevocably enmeshed in Mary LouÂ's quest. 
 Roseborough exemplifies the miracle of recovery through the tincture of time, and shines as the perfect example of why Â“Wood and her books are Texas treasures to be especially cherished.Â” (Southwestern American Literature)

Roseborough

In 1944, the inhabitants of the east Texas town of Cold Springs wait for the war to end, in particular the four families on the 900 block of Pine Street, whose neighborhood ties and Southern etiquette challenge their separation by class, money, and family. 35,000 first printing.

Dutton Adult

Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.

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Dance a Little Longer

The Train to Estelline

Dance a Little Longer

A Place Called Sweet Shrub

Train to Estelline

A Place Called Sweet Shrub

Grace

Roseborough

Grace

Roseborough