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The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN: 9781416510819 (1416510818)
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Humor, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Book Club, Adult, Parenting, Biography Memoir
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EpicFehlReader
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4.0 The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Evelyn's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, fl...
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The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
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Kinda makes you wish they still had contests requiring skill, rather than the random drawings of modern sweepstakes. I'm pretty good with words. I probably coulda won me some cool stuff.
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Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it
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I read this while waiting on line to pick up The Deathly Hallows. It's a quick read. It functions well as a snapshot of life for a housewife in the fifties, with interesting information about the contesting craze. Although it addresses the difficulties caused by the dad's alcoholism and ensuing p...
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Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it
2.0 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
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I found this book about the author's mother to be interesting but flawed. I think she could have used a strict editor. I am just old enough to remember the tail end of the big contests for housewives, and it was fun to find out more about them. I found this book to have too many details about things...
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Other editions (18)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
The Prize Winner Of Defiance Ohio (Audio) - Terry Ryan, Carrington MacDuffie
The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman, Carrington McDuffie
The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (cassettes - unabridged) - Terry Ryan, Carrington MacDuffie
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less (Audio) - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan, Brendan Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Terry Ryan, Suze Orman
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Ohio's Education Reform Challenges: Lessons from the Frontlines - Chester E. Finn Jr., Terry Ryan, Michael B. Lafferty
Outwitting Dogs: Revolutionary Techniques For Dog Training That Work! - Terry Ryan
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