Black Hills, Nora RobertsA summer at his grandparents South Dakota ranch is not eleven year old Cooper Sullivans idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that hes discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Each year, with Coops annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying discovery of a hikers body. As the

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A collection of stories written during the last stages of the Cultural Revolution

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