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Paulette Jiles

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Paulette Jiles-Johnson is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969. She is married to Jim Johnson and has three stepchildren and six grandchildren. Currently she lives in San Antonio,Texas.

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It was the third year of the war and by now there was hardly anybody left in the country except the woman and the children.

— from Enemy women

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Lighthouse Island

1968

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In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth is crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought is so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It is a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan. Growing up, she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.

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Enemy women

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E-book extra: Reading group guide.The acclaimed Civil War saga about a young woman arrested on charges of "enemy collaboration," the Union major who loves and frees her, and her quest for a home that may have ... vanished.From critically acclaimed, award-winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty -- an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nation's bitter agony.

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Song to the rising sun

1989

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