Meredith Sue Willis

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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This is the story of Blair Ellen Morgan, the daughter of West Virginia schoolteachers, and her struggle to find her way in a place where she feels she must choose between the raw energy of her hill-country friends and the "niceness" of small town ...

• Jan-1985
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Blair Morgan leaves college to fight poverty following a charismatic, but unconventional religious leader. The familiar conventions of the novel of initiation are made new by a convincing female protagonist and a narrative that uses politics as the s...

• Sep-1994
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Terrific stories. rueful, humorous, close to the bone. You cannot help but like and feel for Willis's characters. In these stories you hear the pure mental clarity and honesty of distilled experiences, and a life-long dedication to craft. -PHILLIP L...

• Jan-1995
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• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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In this third novel of the Blair Morgan trilogy, Blair and some of her activist friends move to New York City where Blair involves herself in the swirl of political action at Columbia University during the famous student anti-war sit-ins of 1968. ...

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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Marco, his little sister Ritzi, and his troubled but street-smart friend Tyrone are back. This time Marco tries to help Tyrone stay out of trouble long enough to star in the school play while Tyrone helps Marco find Ritzi after she runs away....

• Sep-2002
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• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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In Dwight's House and Other Stories, Meredith Sue Willis's eclecticism and layered prose release us from the moorings of "regional fiction." Written by a prize-winning member of the Appalachian Renaissance in literature, Dwight's House & Other St...

• Jan-2005
• / Science Fiction
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On a distant world where interplanetary colonists have struggled for generations to survive, a young woman named Espera travels to the fabled City Built of Starships on a quest that may determine the fate of the human species....

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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Willis fleshes out with warmth and tenderness the complexities of family love, which not only defines commitment but deepens the need. An important new talent. -The Kirkus ReviewsThis is the story of a broken family trying to mend itself through thre...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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Smart, sassy, and eleven years old, Billie Lee lives with her eccentric, multi-racial family in New Jersey. Then Billie's white cousin, Celia, shows up and changes everything. A sleepover at Celia's fancy suburban home releases a food of questions. H...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as th...

• Nov-2010
• / Fantasy
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Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of Saint Augustine's concubine...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Love Palace made me realize that a good novel opens like life-with innumerable paths spread out before you. and the reader is eager to follow Martha's." -Rebecca Kavaler, award winning author of the Further Adventures of Brunhild, Tigers in the Wood,...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Oradell Greengold, the brassy narrator of Meredith Sue Willis' Oradell at Sea, spends her days and her deceased husband's fortune cruising on first-class luxury liners where young Greek deckhands wait on her hand and foot-rub. Oradell is a modern-da...

• Sep-2014
• / Women's Fiction
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The narrator of Meredith Sue Willis's new novel has just turned forty, quit her job, been jilted by her live-in boyfriend and suspended by her therapist for nonpayment. Against her better judgment, she takes a job at a settlement house known as "Love...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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These short stories are spin-offs of myths, legends, and Bible narratives. Though Willis’s “revisionist” work has a political point of view, you will find no anger or dogmatism here. Rather you will find real women in the midst of busy and even...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Tired of her upscale private academy in New York City, fifteen-year-old Meli Rossi transfers to Ciudad City School of the Future, which provides an individualized curriculum, an opportunity to make real friends, and insights into her mother's unconve...

• Aug-2020
• / Science Fiction
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Willis's first book about the Second-World, The City Built of Starships, tells earthlings who crossed interstellar space to colonize “the planet with two suns” and start a new civilization. Colonization does not go well. The First-World e...