Stealing -- Margaret Verble, Hardcover Vine Mess and the United Kingdom

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She's jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story

in Profiles in Ignorance

Stealing -- Margaret Verble, Hardcover Vine Mess and the United KingdomA gripping, gut punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s an ambitious, eye opening reckoning of history and small town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble. Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived with her grief stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew