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Elizabeth Crook
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New in Paperback:
 THE NIGHT JOURNAL
Penguin
ISBN-10: 0143038575
ISBN-13: 9780143038573
(On Sale January 30, 2007)
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Elizabeth Crook's novel is a lavish and transporting tale of a young woman discovering the truth about her family's mythic past.
Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass composed starkly revealing diaries of her life on the southwestern frontier, first as a Harvey Girl at the glamorous Montezuma Resort in New Mexico and later as the wife of brilliant, and often absent, railway engineer Elliott Bass. A generation later, Hannah's daughter, Claudia Bass, a renowned historian known to all as Bassie, staked her academic career and reputation on these vibrant accounts, editing and publishing them to great acclaim, and establishing the Bass family as a pillar in the history of the American southwest....» Click Here
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