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Ruth Perkinson's Books

Breaking Spirit Bridge
May.01.2008
The sequel to Piper's Someday has our heroine dropped right into a psychotic break that leads her to UVA Medical Center. She's come home to Virginia from Banff, Alberta, a place she's been taken away to so she can unfetter herself from the abuses of her alcoholic grandfather, on full scholarship to play basketball at across-town rival, UVA. Piper will only come if the coach allows...
Piper's Someday
Nov.01.2007
A lame dog, a lost girl, and a story readers will never forget. After losing her parents and brother to a drunk driving accident, twelve-year-old Piper Leigh Cliff and her dog, Someday, are forced to live with her alcoholic grandfather in the ugliest apartment complex in Goochland County, Virginia.  Soon, we find out that Piper is going to face even more obstacles as she's...
Vera's Still Point
Sep.16.2006
Ever met a forty-year-old lesbian Republican librarian in love with her own repression? Well, Vera Curran is it. She's sexless, loveless, and full of sardonic vinegar until she meets the newest member of the Louisa County High School faculty: the statuesque Frankie Bourdon. Bourdon is an ex-Navy pilot hell-bent on getting gay sex education taught where she is newly affiliated and...