Stars Came Tumbling
In one month of one summer...learning the stories that have determined your secret life, your greatest hopes, your worst fears. An ancient map of the stars holds the key, carried by a drifter who asks a widow and her adopted son for asylum. From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century.
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Stars Came Tumbling
In one month of one summer...learning the stories that have determined your secret life, your greatest hopes, your worst fears. An ancient map of the stars holds the key, carried by a drifter who asks a widow and her adopted son for asylum. From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century.
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Stars Came Tumbling

Stars Came Tumbling

by Robert Brown
Stars Came Tumbling

Stars Came Tumbling

by Robert Brown

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Overview

In one month of one summer...learning the stories that have determined your secret life, your greatest hopes, your worst fears. An ancient map of the stars holds the key, carried by a drifter who asks a widow and her adopted son for asylum. From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780692222584
Publisher: Middlerun Press
Publication date: 05/14/2014
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Robert Brown spent a 50-year career in broadcasting, including 33 years (1977-2010) as a correspondent for ABC News and the magazine show 20/20. Among other honors, he is the recipient of six Emmy awards; an Alfred I. duPont award; National Headliner and Investigative Reporters awards; and a Bronze Wrangler Award for Television Documentary Writing from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Films inspired by stories he reported include the children's classic "Fly Away Home;" the Emmy-winning TV movie "Door-to-Door;" and "The Pursuit of Happyness." His early career was spent in Tulsa, Houston and Dallas, from where he traveled throughout Texas to originate a series that re-traced the state's legends and mysteries.
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