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Pub. Date
c2003
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258 p. ; 21 cm.
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Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.
3) Main Street
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Carol Milford is an exuberant, liberal-hearted woman who marries a man from a small town. After they marry they settle in his home-town, Gopher Prairie, which Carol finds narrow and ugly. She throws herself into reforming the town, but is met only with derision by her own class. She decides to leave, but finds that the world outside is just as flawed as Gopher Prairie. She remains uncowed, however, declaring "I do not admit that dish-washing is
...4) Eat cake
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Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her...
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Pub. Date
p1997
Physical Desc
8 compact discs (9 hr.)
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Patty Jane and Harriet Dobbin are two wacky Minnesota sisters in a female Lake Wobegon-like world. When Patty Jane's husband leaves her with a baby, she opens the House of Curl. This beauty shop evolves into a support group and community workshop over three tumultuous decades.
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