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Author Askew, Rilla.

Title The mercy seat : a novel / Rilla Askew.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 1997.

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F ASKEW    Check Shelf
Description 427 pages ; 24 cm
Summary A girl's account of the violent life on the frontier. Mattie is 11 when her family moves from Kentucky to 1880s Oklahoma. After her mother dies, an uncle tries to get her father to abandon his honest job of shoeing horses for a life of crime, dealing in guns. By the author of Strange Business.
Subject Brothers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Choctaw Indians -- Fiction.
Ouachita Mountains (Ark. and Okla.) -- Fiction.
Brothers. (OCoLC)fst00839665
Choctaw Indians. (OCoLC)fst00858301
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
United States -- Ouachita Mountains. (OCoLC)fst01310373
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Western stories.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Askew, Rilla. Mercy seat. New York : Viking, 1997 (OCoLC)637146958
ISBN 0670874671 (alk. paper)
9780670874675 (alk. paper)
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