03619cam a2200925 4500 521479898 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804139106 0804139105 B00GEYN1PM Amazon f953f556-5101-42e1-91b5-b5b6009d391a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 234305 234305 234305 1443322 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bond, Cynthia. Ruby [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2014. family. redhead. childhood. Historical. voodoo. romance. African American Literature. small town. elementary. mother. South. ruby. crime. 1950s. abuse. Death. love story. suspense. Historical Fiction. sweethearts. liberty. protection. redemption. rural. Oprah. survival. New York. Street. violence. dark. mental illness. village. Texas. child abuse. boyhood. girlhood. oprahs book club. oprah book club. black authors. african american books. african american novels. fallen woman. oprah books. oprah book club list. book club gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3184kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.</b><br /> &#160;<br /> Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city—the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village—all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother.<br /> <br /> When a telegram from&#160;her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:35:50. https://samples.overdrive.com/ruby-f953f5?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/ruby-f953f5?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/ruby-f953f5?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXSAI