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  • The Morning and the Evening

    A Novel

    by Joan Williams ...
    Finalist for the National Book Award: Joan Williams's unforgettable first novel is the story of a small Southern town struggling to care for one of its ownIn a rundown farmhouse in Mississippi, Jake Darby wakes up one morning to find his world forever changed. His long-suffering mother has died overnight, abandoning forty-year-old Jake, who is mute and, according to his neighbors, not quite right ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pariah

    And Other Stories

    by Joan Williams ...
    Ten poignant and perceptive stories from one of the most distinctive voices in Southern literatureIn these deeply affecting tales, Joan Williams captures with heart-wrenching clarity the pain and confusion of characters struggling to come to terms with a changing world. "The Morning and the Evening," which would later be expanded into Williams's award-winning novel of the same name, is an ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wintering

    A Novel

    by Joan Williams ...
    This poignant tale of a young woman's affair with a famous writer is based on Joan Williams's real-life relationship with William FaulknerFor Amy Howard, the novels of Jeffrey Almoner are a refuge from the uncertainty of life. His books are full of the questions—about the nature of justice, the necessity of suffering, and the meaning of the past—that occupy her thoughts, but that no else seems ... Read more

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  • Pay the Piper

    A Novel

    by Joan Williams ...
    The electrifying story of a woman whose search for love and fulfillment brings her to the very brink of disasterLaurel Wynn is haunted by her insecurities. Raised in a backwater Mississippi town by an alcoholic mother, she is now the author of largely ignored novels and the unhappy wife and mother of an upper-middle-class New England family. She continues to hold out hope, however, that the right ... Read more

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  • Remembering

    Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces

    by Joan Williams ...
    Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces illustrates again that rediscovering an admired author—especially through his or her later works—is every bit as engaging as discovering a new literary voice.Joan Williams, an accomplished and prize-winning southern novelist, published a number of short stories and nonfiction pieces in the later years of her life; a life complicated early on by the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • County Woman

    A Novel

    by Joan Williams ...
    A precisely observed portrait of the civil rights era and the gripping story of one woman's unexpected awakeningItna Homa, Mississippi, is like many small Southern towns in the early 1960s. News travels fast, gossip even faster, and one ugly incident has the power to set the entire community aflame. Forty years ago, the murder of a local white woman shook Itna Homa to its core and resulted in the ... Read more

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  • Old Powder Man

    A Novel

    by Joan Williams ...
    The vivid and absorbing story of a man whose unwavering pursuit of success leaves him searching for the true meaning of lifeRaised in rural Arkansas during the Great Depression, Frank "Son" Wynn leaves home at age fourteen to seek his fortune. Handsome, charismatic, and headstrong, he eventually becomes a powder man, selling dynamite up and down the Mississippi River. With a single-minded ... Read more

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  • Unbending Gender

    Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It

    by Joan Williams ...
    In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Unbending Gender

    Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It

    by Joan Williams ...
    In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Jump Now, Mrs Williams

    A missionary memoir

    by Joan Williams ...
    'I was born in January 1936, and I learned to count by the bombs dropping on Liverpool. My parents were godly people and I was early taught my duty to God and those around me. Very early in my life I felt that God's hand was on me, and I married a man whose sense of commitment and honour to God was likewise pre-eminent in his life. During our years on the mission field the whole spectrum of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cormorant Bay

    by Joan Williams ...
    Shortly after graduating from university, beautiful Kara Olavssen feels she has to get away from her British homeland to leave behind a broken love affair that refuses to heal. She finds solace in a new way of living in California working with a segment of society so long ignored and misunderstood. Confident in the challenges that face her, Kara undertakes ambitious goals with gratifying far ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Clinical Counseling

    Theory, Practice, and Professional Development

    Clinical Counseling: Theory, Practice, and Professional Development is a comprehensive graduate-level textbook designed to equip counseling students, interns, and mental health professionals with the essential knowledge needed for contemporary clinical practice. The text offers a deep dive into the foundational elements of the discipline, tracing the historical development of mental health care ... Read more

    $9.99 USD