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The Girl Who Said No and other stories

by Clara Lukens Parks

181 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1277; ISBN 1-4120-0908-1; US$18.50, C$21.43, EUR15.50, £11.00

The Girl Who Said No and other stories is full of good, moral, fun stories of romance and adventure that teenagers and adults will enjoy.

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About the Book This is a collection of stories of romance, adventure, families, children, a bit of fantasy , a variety of themes with wide interest for many readers, and with no foul language nor raunchy situations, making them suitalbe and interesting for a wide readership.

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About the Author Clara Lukens Parks, age 89, author of The Girl Who Said No and Other Stories, was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, has lived in several other states in her lifetime, including Indiana, Michigan, Connecticut, New Jersey and Ohio where she graduated from the University of Toledo in 1935 with a business degree, worked as a secretary, then moved to Arizona in 1940, married author, cowboy, Grand Canyon Guide Bill Parks on April 12, 1941, followed by a life of adventure for 54 years until Bill died on June 15, 1995, at the age of 97, all told about in her memoir Horizon Hunters published by Wings of Atlanta, Ga. in 1999, a story of working on dude ranches and resorts including the old Spur Cross Ranch at Cave Creek, Az, the Bard and Big Boulder Ranches, the old Castle Hot Springs Hotel and 15 years at the Grand Canyon where their two sons were born and where she worked for a while at the Auto Camp and later at El Tovar Hotel as a chambermaid. In 1947 and early 1950's she had an article and three short stories published in the Ladies' Home Journal, Collier's, Woman's Journal in England and a couple of Danish and Scandinavian publications. These three stories are included in her new book, along with eleven others she wrote over the years. In 2002 her novel Winter Season about the fun, romance and excitement of life on an Arizona desert dude ranch was published by 1st Books Library.

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Sample Excerpts

Two excerpts from "The Girl Who Said No":

"I thought you loved me," he suggested, more quietly now, his voice sad. Trying to play on her sympathy.

"Love!" Her voice rose. "You don't know the meaning of the word. Love is tenderness and unselfishness, and it's supposed to bring out the best in people." Her voice shook a little, and she tried to control it before going on.

"It's nothing to experiment with and trifle with the way you want to do. You think love is something you can put into one of your silly little test tubes and mix with other things and hold up to the light to see what you've got." She wanted to hang up, but she waited, her eyes bleak, her heart pounding.

"My God!" he exclaimed. "Are your parents listening?"

"Yes, of course they are. I have nothing to hide from my parents, and what's more, I never will," she added pointedly.

"My God, your father will shoot me!"

"I'll load the gun and hand it to him."

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Cliff came right to the point.

"Carrie, can we start over?" he asked.

"Do you want to? I promise to behave." His eyes searched hers anxiously, waiting for her answer.

Caroline looked at him, at his thoughtful gray eyes, his wide, sensitive mouth. I'm seeing him, she thought, I'm suddenly seeing him as he really is, as he could have been all along. As I somehow knew he could be. That's why I never stopped loving him.

"Yes," she told him softly, surely. "I want to. That's why I called you. I'm afraid I was a bit rough on you," she added.

"You were," he agreed, "oh, you were, but you were right. So you mustn't about-face on it now." He laughed ruefully. "You taught me something I needed to know. But it was rough all right, plenty rough. You'll never know."

He gazed at her for a long moment in the quiet room. "There were no other girls," he said finally. "There's no other girl but you. You're the only one."

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Catalogue Information

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