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Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life. The year is 1934, and as the windblown dust of the Great Depression rakes the Oklahoma plains, Palmer offers Lucile and her father, homeless and hungry, the irresistible promise of a better future. But when they follow Palmer to Texas, Lucile's father mysteriously disappears, launching man and girl on an epic journey through the American Southwest: a spree of violence and murder that culminates in one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the era. Based on a true story,…
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7 editions- Other · English · 2013Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 304 pages · 9781620400692
- Other · English · 2013Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning · 549 pages · 9781410457158
- Other · English · 2013Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408831113
- Other · English · 2012Bloomsbury Circus · 322 pages · 9781408829240
- Other · English · 2012Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 9781608198931
- Other · English · 2012Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408829233
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