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Don't forget me, little Bessie a novel Cover Image Large Print Book

Don't forget me, little Bessie [large print] : a novel / James Lee Burke.

Do not forget me, little Bessie (other title)
Burke, James Lee, 1936- (author.).

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.

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  • ISBN: 9781420523683
  • ISBN: 1420523686
  • ISBN: 9781420535655
  • ISBN: 142053565X
  • Physical Description: 559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2025.

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Holland, Hackberry (Fictitious character) > Family > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
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Siblings > Fiction.
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United States > 20th century > Fiction.
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