Julia Watts

• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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To be honest, my friends were getting on my nerves. Here I was, trying to get my mind off a woman, and they bring me to a lesbian bar where they talk about nothing but lesbians and sex. It was like they were forcing me to think about the one thing I ...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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Growing up dirt poor in a Kentucky coal mining camp in the 1940s has made Glenda Mooney hungry for everything that life has to offer. She discovers early on the two vital forces that will sustain her throughout her life, music and love... in the arms...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2007
• / Suspense
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• Oct-2008
• / Action Adventure
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Miranda Jasper is different from the other kids in the small town of Wilder, Kentucky. Like all the women in her family, she has the Sight―the ability to see into other people’s thoughts.

Though her granny assures Miranda that the Sight ...

• Dec-2009
• / Action Adventure
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Twelve-year-old Miranda Jasper has the Sight, a gift that allows her to see into other people's thoughts. Most regular kids are scared of Miranda and avoid her; however, Miranda does have two friends who definitely aren't regular kids: horror-movie ...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best frien...

• Nov-2011
• / Action Adventure
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Miranda Jasper just wants her life to go back to normal. For Miranda, "normal" means living in a spooky old house in tiny Wilder, Kentucky, with her mom and granny who, like her, share a mysterious power called The Sight. It also means hanging out wi...

• Sep-2013
• / Historical
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Ruby Pickett didn’t have any say about the family move to Tennessee. Her daddy’s new job will help the war effort, though no one has told her exactly how. Brand new, government-built Oak Ridge quickly proves a curious and intriguing place for the...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2014
• / Literary
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Rachel sends her son Crispin to honors magnet elementary school. Here they meet a variety of academically and socially pushy parents and their children. During their adventures of one school year, the bias of a system that categorizes instead of teac...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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Vermillion, Georgia, is the small town that time forgot, or at least that’s how it feels to fifteen-year-old Rufus. As if being a scrawny ginger called “Matchstick” isn’t bad enough, Rufus is also gay, an artist, and the son of conservative r...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay against her deaf brother's ears to heal him. A gay man finds his Appalachian clan in a dark world. The...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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Set in rural Tennessee, QUIVER, a YA novel by Julia Watts, focuses on the unlikely friendship between two teens from opposite sides of the culture wars.  Libby is the oldest child of six, going on seven, in a family that adheres to the "qui...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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***"Great Reads from Great Places" selection by State of Tennessee for Library of Congress National Book Festival***Honorable Mention, Foreword Indies award for Young Adult Fiction***Lambda Literary Recommended LGBTQ+ Young Adult FictionIn rural Kent...

• Oct-2023
• / Contemporary Romance
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In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives.In her new adult novel, award-winning author Julia Watts creates a compelling, ...