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(0)Joyce Maynard
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English
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"After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam are now raising three children on a New Hampshire farm: summer softball games, Labor Day cookouts, snow days and skating on the pond. When a tragic accident permanently injures the youngest child, Eleanor blames Cam. Her inability to forgive him leads to a devastating betrayal and the end of their marriage. Over the decades that follow, the members of this family and the many others...
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English
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'Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way...
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English
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"A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed"
—Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
"Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you'll find hard to put down and impossible to forget."
— Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You
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English
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Thirty years after destroying her detective father's career and altering the lives of everyone she loves, Rachel, who has never given up hope of vindicating her father, finally finds The Sunset Strangler, a killer who, in the summer of 1979, preyed on young women in northern California.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer... When she meets Ava and Swift Havilland, the vulnerable Helen is instantly enchanted. Wealthy, connected philanthropists, they have their own charity devoted to rescuing dogs. Their home is filled with fabulous friends, edgy art, and dazzling parties.Then...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The author looks back on her life, focusing on the year she spent living with reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, who contacted her after she published a story in "The New York Times Magazine"; discusses how the experiences of her youth influenced her willingness to become involved with Salinger, thirty-five years her senior; and considers how her time with him impacted the remainder of her life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby’s older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the...
10) Labor Day
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A novel of childhood and discovery, innocence and love, betrayal, and its haunting consequences.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. Before...
12) To die for
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
When her husband is shot dead by her teenage boyfriend, would-be television journalist Suzanne Maretto steps into the role of grieving widow with a brilliant performance. But few suspect her dark side.
"That's the beauty of television. It's like an eye that's on you all the time ... Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy" Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
14) To die for
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in which an amoral and ambitious news personality seduces a teenager to convince him to murder her husband.
15) To die for
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c]
Language
English
Description
Suzanne Stone has always dreamed of being on TV and she's dead-set on making that dream come true. But there is just one obstacle: Larry Maretto, her husband. So, Suzanne convinces a love-struck teenager to get Larry out of the way for good. To Die For is the most critically acclaimed comedy of the year.