Laura McNeal

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn't pay much attention...

• Aug-2013
• / Suspense
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This story began with an assignment to write an anecdotal history of home ec in the rural town of Fallbrook, California, to see how the education of girls had evolved in the last half-century. I took either sewing or cooking every year in junior high...

• Aug-2013
• / Suspense
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If you think cartel-style violence only happens in Mexico, meet the leaders of the Toothpicks, currently serving life sentences and in danger of the death penalty in a trial expected to be the longest in San Diego history. Eddy Tostado met Jorge Roja...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only one thing to call it. But her sister, Ted, is not convinced. Despite the witnesses and the police reports and the divers and the fact that she was...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical
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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine’s sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the ...

• Mar-2024
• / Historical
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An engrossing novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a let...