Mary McGarry Morris
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and Henry is devastated by her desertion. He hasn't told Thomas or Margaret why she left-or if she will return. Told from twelve-year-old Thomas's perspective, The Lost...
Author
Series
Oprah's book club volume 1997
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a 1960s small Vermont town, a boy sees a man commit a murder, then later that day sees the murderer come calling on his mother with flowers. So begins a tense tale of a con man exploiting a love-starved woman with an alcoholic husband and three children, and a boy who keeps a murder secret to avoid ruining his mother's happiness.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most skillful writers at work in America today." In The Last Secret, she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A gripping coming-of-age novel with a murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee's Scout Light from a Distant Star is the moving and powerful story of innocence and betrayal told in the endearingly wise voice of thirteen-year-old Nellie Peck. It is early summer, and her beloved father's business is failing. Her mother has to go back to work, and Nellie's older half sister has launched a troubling search for her birth father....
5) Vanished
Author
Language
English
Description
Dotty, an abused teenager who flaunts her sexuality, and Aubrey, a simple laborer in his forties, live a life on the run with the infant girl they have abducted, but the endless uprooting wears on Dotty, and an ex-convict becomes the vehicle for her attempt to return home.
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine, A Dangerous Woman is the story of the damaged and emotionally unstable Martha Horgan, an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and, perhaps most unsettling of all, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience during her teenage years, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A man returns to his hometown after twenty-five years in prison, in this "richly atmospheric" novel by the acclaimed author of Songs in Ordinary Time (The Washington Post).
After decades in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns home to find his old neighborhood blighted by drugs and poverty. Desperate for work, he takes a job at the same rundown market where he once stocked shelves as a teenager. But while Gordon's situation...
8) Fiona Range
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In this "complex, compelling" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author, a troubled woman uncovers the mysteries of her own past (Kirkus Reviews).
Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father's identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her affluent family-or...
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