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Xlibris
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Jillian Jones is an aspiring painter and distance runner whose goals and interests don't match those of her cold, patrician mother. Following the death of a neighbor she'd befriended along her training route, she learns secrets that may explain their differences.
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In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states,...
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