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Janet Beard

The Ballad of Laurel Springs

By Janet Beard - Published 2021

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This multi-period novel traces the lives of a family of Tennessee mountain women from a brutal murder in 1891 to the present day. This ...Read Review

The Atomic City Girls

By Janet Beard - Published 2018

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Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 100,000 people worked at a secret site in East Tennessee, making enriched uranium for the atomic bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and ...Read Review

Janet Beard

The Ballad of Laurel Springs

The Atomic City Girls

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