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Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.
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aliasNayNay
Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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TUMBLEWEEDS by Leila Meacham is a novel filled with a star-crossed love, unlikely friendship, and a little mystery. Just like Meacham's other family sagas it is intense with twists on-top of twists, and young characters who seem to make a wreck of things. The book was a pleasure to read, devouring the 470 pages late into the night. A must read.

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Kboltz
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This one reads like a good soap opera. West Texas setting with a star QB, his best friend who becomes a priest, and a girl that they both care for. Secrets are everywhere. Good read.

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heatherkaz
Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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"...He lays her down, he frowns
Gee my life's a funny thing, am I
Still too young?
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything..."
#SeptemBowie #YoungAmericans
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Cinfhen I'm fully invested 💙thanks for posting & sharing 7y
heatherkaz @Cinfhen , welcome 😊 I'm seriously loving this prompt and getting some great book recs too! 7y
Cinfhen Yay, it's a win/win 💕 7y
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CocoReads
Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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How's that for #flowersoncovers ? I'm sure I have more but this was the first I've found. #feistyfeb

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LanieFitz
Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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Loved the flow of Leila Meacham's writing in this novel. The way she writes her characters is perfect. Never wanted to put it down!

MrBook Nice reviews! Welcome to @Litsy 😊👍🏻! 8y
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ImaginativeMom
Tumbleweeds: A Novel | Leila Meacham
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When you go to the bookstore to get a birthday gift for a friend and hit the $5 and under sale rack. Um, pic was in the back of the car on the way to said friend's birthday lunch. Never let it be said that I'm not a champion procrastinator.

LauraBeth ❤️ it! I have a tendency to use my steering wheel to write bday cards in the driveway of a party 8y
ImaginativeMom @LauraBeth And then the writing comes out all bumpy and I just don't even care. lol 8y
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