"Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting."

-- Keith Donohue

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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
“One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.”
“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”
“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
“Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.”
“I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.”
“I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.”
“If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.”

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