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Books by Denise Giardina
  | | Emily's Ghost(Reprint) A Novel of the Bronte Sisters by Denise Giardina Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33848-5, ISBN: 0-393-33848-7 ""Denise Giardina’s extraordinary gift for conjuring voices of the past has never been more bewitchingly deployed than here in Emily’s Ghost―a romance so tormentedly devoted to its struggle toward truth that Brontë herself would be proud of it." ―Madison Smartt BellEnigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day. She is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, an ..." |
 | | Fallam's Secret A Novel by Denise Giardina Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33695-5, ISBN: 0-393-33695-6 "A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern American woman in Cromwell's England? Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd legacy: a note with instructions that lead her to a remote mountain cave. When she falls into a crevasse, she finds she has followed her uncle farther than she thought-to Norchester, England, in 1657. ..." |
 | | Saints and Villains(1st Edition) by Denise Giardina Paperback, 487 Pages, Published 1999 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-449-00427-2, ISBN: 0-449-00427-9 "Sometimes the universe produces a man or woman whose life seems ready-made for fiction: Joan of Arc, for example, or Robert Falcon Scott; John Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., or Jesus of Nazareth. Fiction writers are attracted to larger-than-life personalities and each of the above-mentioned luminaries have indeed appeared in fictional works. Now German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins their ranks in Denise Giardina's novel Saint ..." |
 | | Good King Harry A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Denise Giardina Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1999 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-449-00575-0, ISBN: 0-449-00575-5 "Set against the sweeping backdrop of medieval England, Good King Harry brilliantly brings to life one of the most fascinating, conflicted monarchs in history: Henry V. Evoking the sights and sounds of fifteenth-century London, acclaimed author Denise Giardina artfully illuminates the double-edged sword of power--and the momentous events that unfold in the making of a king. . . .A contemplative soul imbued with a compassion and mental ag ..." |
 | | Storming Heaven(1st Edition) A Novel by Denise Giardina, Cover Art, Don Perrin, Margaret Weis Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1988 by Ivy ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-0297-1, ISBN: 0-8041-0297-X "Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy -- land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women.Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C.J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely, Sicilia ..." |
 | | Emily's Ghost(1st Edition) A Novel of the Brontë Sisters by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06915-0, ISBN: 0-393-06915-X "A lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Brontë family―and of Emily Brontë’s passionate engagement with life. Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day: she is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and walks alone at night on the moors above the isolated rural village of Haworth. But Emily’s life, along with the rest of the Brontë family, is t ..." |
 | | Fallam's Secret(1st Edition) A Novel by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05206-0, ISBN: 0-393-05206-0 "A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern American woman in Cromwell's England? Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd legacy: a note with instructions that lead her to a remote mountain cave. When she falls into a crevasse, she finds she has followed her uncle farther than she thought-to Norchester, England, in 1657. ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Earth(Reprint) by Denise Giardina Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Ivy Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-1144-7, ISBN: 0-8041-1144-8 ""A flawless, fearless, great American story. It cuts a wide path through the worst and the best of what we are."BARBARA KINGSOLVERFrom the mining shanty towns of West Virginia comes this moving and passionate saga of a family, a community, and a way of life all but gone. In this coal-smudged place, Dillon, Rachel, and Jackie hopelessly intertwined in love and politics live in the shadow of the dying mines and the doomed union movement. ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Earth(1st Edition) A Novel by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 367 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-03096-9, ISBN: 0-393-03096-2 "Dillon Freeman returns from World War II to Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, where he confronts the coal mining industry as a union organizer and falls in love with his conventional cousin, Rachel. By the author of Storming Heaven." |
 | | Good King Harry(1st Edition) by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 393 Pages, Published 1984 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-015277-2, ISBN: 0-06-015277-X "Presents a first-person account of the life and adventures of King Henry V of England, a conscience-ridden monarch whose transformation goes from rake to hero" |
 | | Saints and Villains(1st Edition) A Novel by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 487 Pages, Published 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04571-0, ISBN: 0-393-04571-4 "An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that dramatizes this painful dilemma through the fictional re-creation of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This emblematic figure risked his life--and fina ..." |
 | | Storming Heaven(1st Edition) by Denise Giardina Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-449-00491-3, ISBN: 0-449-00491-0 "Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy--land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women.Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely, Sicilian ..." |
 | | Thunder on the Mountain(1st Edition) Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets behind Big Coal by Peter A. Galuszka, Denise Giardina Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2014 by West Virginia University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-940425-24-5, ISBN: 1-940425-24-7 " With a foreword by Denise Giardina On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty yearsa disaster that never should have happened. These deaths were rooted in the cynical corporate culture of Massey and its notorious former CEO Don Blankenship, and were part of an endless cycle of povert ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Earth A Novel by Denise Giardina Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35112-5, ISBN: 0-393-35112-2 "In this moving and brilliant follow-up to her acclaimed Storming Heaven, Denise Giardina returns to the coal field of Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, and its people who struggle to maintain their lives against the brutal forces of oppression, neglect, poverty, and disaster. At the heart of this novel, which spans from the 1930s through the 1980s, is principled, passionate Dillon Freeman and his more conventional cousin Rachel Honaker. ..." |
 | | STORMING HEAVEN by Denise Giardina Paperback, Published 2016 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-199-33477-0, ISBN: 1-199-33477-4 |
 | | Life and Death of Nazi Germany by Denise Giardina, Robert Goldston Published 1999 by Fawcett ISBN-13: 978-0-449-00492-0, ISBN: 0-449-00492-9 "Set against the devastation of the Depression, the fearful pulse of a world at war, the dawning hope of the War on Poverty, and, ultimately, the untamable force of nature herself, THE UNQUIET EARTH is a bold and bittersweet story of ..." |
 | | Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina Library, Published 1999 by Topeka Bindery ISBN-13: 978-0-613-37038-7, ISBN: 0-613-37038-4 |
 | | Saints and Villians by Denise Giardina Published 1999 by Turtleback ISBN-13: 978-0-606-21675-3, ISBN: 0-606-21675-8 "A fictional recreation of the life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler, moves from Berlin to New York City, encompassing shattering historical events, clandestine meetings, perilous missions abroad, ..." |
 | | Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina Library, Published 1988 by Perfection Learning ISBN-13: 978-1-62765-235-3, ISBN: 1-62765-235-3 "In 1921, an army of 10,000 coal miners took up arms and threatened to overthrow the governments of two counties in West Virginia. They were met by U.S. Army gas and bombs. Here is the story of how it happened--and where it all went wrong." |
 | | Good King Harry by Denise Giardina Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1984 by Victor Gollancz Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-575-03507-2, ISBN: 0-575-03507-2 |
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