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Ruth Wariner, author of The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

Ruth Wariner was the 39th of her father’s 42 children. After Ruth’s father is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries. In need of government assistance and supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where Ruth’s mother collects welfare and her stepfather works a variety of odd jobs.

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Week of April 24, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of April 24th include THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah, which tells the stories of two sisters --- separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance --- each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France; THE SOUND OF GRAVEL, the remarkable memoir of Ruth Wariner's coming-of-age in a polygamist family; BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another; and BUT WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG?, in which cultural critic Chuck Klosterman explores the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong.

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