Joyce Maynard
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A special anniversary edition of Joyce Maynard's groundbreaking memoir about coming of age in one of America's most defining decades. Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking Back is her remarkable follow-up: part memoir, part cultural history, and part social critique. She wrote about diving under her desk for air-raid practice during...
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Maynard's captivating novel of four teenage girls, bound together by early motherhood and forever changed by the arrival of two women in their small New England town. In their New Hampshire community, Sandy, Jill, Tara, and Wanda are different from other teenage girls. Jill is pregnant, while the other three are already mothers. Sandy, at eighteen, is married. Tara, the product of a broken family, is raising her baby alone. Wanda, with her three-month-old,...
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An unforgettable collection of essays on the everyday thrills and challenges of marriage and motherhood, from one of America's best-loved memoirists. Witty and insightful, Domestic Affairs is an extension of Joyce Maynard's celebrated, widely syndicated newspaper column of the same name that ran from 1984 to 1990. Each essay gives an unfiltered look at the ups and downs of family life and a remarkable window into the challenges of modern motherhood....
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Cuando Helen conoció a Swift y Ava Havilland en una galería de arte, su vida se hallaba en su punto más bajo. Detenida por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol, había perdido la custodia de su hijo de ocho años y solo lo veía cada dos sábados. Atrapada en un trabajo frustrante, Helen asistía todas las noches a las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos y solo muy de tarde en tarde salía con algún hombre.
Todo eso cambió cuando conoció a...
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On Mother’s Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seamana successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs...
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"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning--and the true price--of friendship. 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. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating...
9) After her
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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.
11) The usual rules
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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After losing her mother in the September 11th attacks, young Wendy moves in with her father in California, where she meets her father's girlfriend and a sad bookstore owner while missing her half-brother back in New York.
12) To die for
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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 and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him....
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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 we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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Bloomsbury USA
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2017.
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"In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, 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. Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that...
17) Labor Day
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[publisher not identified]
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2014.
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A lonely, divorced mother allows an escaped killer to stay with her and her thirteen-year-old son.