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"It's the height of summer 1999 when local newspaper the Record Sun receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling, and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Heart's Content Road. Hungry for a big break into serious journalism, ingénue columnist Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the mysterious leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge--referred to by many as The Prophet. Soon Ivy ingratiates herself...
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There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him...
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"In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as 'The Prophet,' presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement, fifteen-year-old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change....
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The school on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet,' the Settlement is a rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and...
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Los Bean viven enfrente, al otro lado del paso a nivel. Los ves a diario desde el amplio ventanal del salón. Son horteras y chabacanos, tienen pinta de cromañones y nunca van a la iglesia. Son ciento y la madre. Se reproducen como moscas. Huelen fuerte. Su jardín está sembrado de zarzas, neumáticos, radiadores, correas de ventilador, bidones, gallinas, perros y críos grandes y chepudos como osos que juegan a hacer agujeros en la tierra. Lo que...