Joyce Maynard
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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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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her...
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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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"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...
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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...
7) To die for
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English
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Tells the story of a young woman who arranges the cold-blooded murder of her husband.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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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...
11) After her
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Pub. Date
2013
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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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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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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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Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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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.
16) To die for
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A black comedy in which an ammoral and ambitious news personality seduces a teenager to convince him to murder her husband.
17) Labor Day
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English
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From director Jason Reitman, Labor Day stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as two strangers drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.