Donald McCaig
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In the early 1960s Donald McCaig left his job at a hot New York advertising agency and his Greenwich Village apartment for a rustic farm in a remote county in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. This is McCaig's story of farming in contemporary America, a timely tribute to a dying way of life.
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When American sheep farmer Donald McCaig travels to Scotland in search of the perfect sheepdog, he is certain he'll return home empty-handed. In addition to the touchy matters of expense, pedigree, and the high demand in America for Scottish Border Collies, McCaig has to transcend the wholly understandable suspicion among the Scots that Americans don't know the first thing about sheepdogs. How McCaig finally finds his "wee bonny Gael" is a story of...
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The bestseller now in trade paperback for the first time to coincide with the publication of the author's new book. Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning...
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"Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched . . . brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone with the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures, and its heartbreaking crises. " —Geraldine Brooks, author of March
The only authorized prequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone...
The only authorized prequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone...
5) Nop's trials
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The story of a farmer, Lewis Burkholder, and his young Border Collie, Nop. When Nop is stolen, he embarks on an ordeal of peril and hardship and survives only through courage.