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Christy
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Christy (1968) (edit title/settings)

by Catherine Marshall (Author) (edit contributors)

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In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But... read more

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On that November afternoon when I first saw Cutter Gap, the crumbling chimney of Alice Henderson's cabin stood stark against the sky, blackened by the flames that had consumed the house.

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Prologue

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  • piquant: pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind
  • stentorian: (of a person's voice) loud and powerful
  • stygian: of or relating to the Styx River; dark and gloomy
  • ossify: cease developing; be stagnant or rigid
  • suppurate: undergo the formation of pus; fester
  • picayune: 1. Of little value or importance; paltry. 2. Petty; mean.
  • abject: Brought low in condition or status
  • truculent: Disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce
  • gentian: 1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gentiana, characteristically having showy, variously colored flowers.2. The dried rhizome and roots of a yellow-flowered European gentian, G. lutea, sometimes used as a tonic.
  • perfunctory: Done routinely and with little interest or care

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This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1968. (authoritative list)
This is book 5 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1967. (authoritative list)

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  1. Catherine Marshall (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Avon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 1968
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Page Count: 576

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Reading Level: Young Adults

This book is good for young adults through adults.

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