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If the Creek Don't Rise
by Williams, Rita
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151011540
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011544
- Seller
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Douglas, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt. first edition. Clean tight and square. no markings . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. 2006.
Synopsis
When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisy's last hope to right the racial wrongs of the past and to make good on a lifetime of thwarted ambition. If the Creek Don't Rise tells how Rita found her way out from under this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming "a perfect credit to her race," discovered how to become herself. Set amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies, this is a gorgeous, ruthless, and unique account of the lies families live-and the moments of truth and beauty that save us.
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- Bookseller
- Jen's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026754
- Title
- If the Creek Don't Rise
- Author
- Williams, Rita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151011540
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011544
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2006
- LCCN
- 2006000335
- Keywords
- Autobiography/Biography
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾.
Terms of Sale
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Most are shipped the same day, all books will be shipped within 3 days of payment. Returns.1. Incorrect Book/Not As Described/Damaged: You are eligible for a full refund of the purchase price, including shipping costs, if your return is a result of an error on my part. To receive a refund, you must return your item directly to Jen's Books within 30 days of the estimated delivery date and in the same condition you received it in. 2. Book Did Not Arrive. You are eligible for a full refund of the purchase price, including shipping costs, if your book does not arrive between the estimated delivery date + 15 days and the estimated delivery date + 30 days. (For example if your estimated delivery date was November 1st, you would be eligible for a refund if the book still had not arrived by November 16th. You could initiate the return until December 1st.) 3. Changed Your Mind If you have changed your mind about a book that you have ordered, please contact me directly to request a return. You will be refunded the price of the book (not including original or return shipping charges). I will be happy to accommodate these requests for books in the same condition as when shipped.
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Douglas, Wyoming
About Jen's Books
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