Lucy Ferriss

• Apr-1986
• / General Fiction
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After Marika Hooper's husband, Richard, the American ambassador to the West African country of Yumana, is assassinated, Marika flees to New York to be reunited with an old lover, but ties to Richard prompt her return to Yumana...

• Mar-1996
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Longing to escape her dreary Hudson River home, Gwyn Stickley finds the fabric of her life changing when her best friend becomes pregnant and a local storekeeper is accused of child molestation. 15,000 first printing....

• Jul-1997
• / General Fiction
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After Roe vs. Wade is overturned in 2011, Phoebe performs illegal ""misconceptions"" in her basement, until the suicide of a twelve-year old incest victim betrays her to the police, and she must decide between anonymity and moral righteousness....

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2002
• / General Fiction
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Nine-year-old Toby Ames is a boy desperately in need of a heart transplant. His salvation comes in the form of Brooke Hunter, a young girl who died with her father in a motorcycle accident. Eight months later, Toby , his parents, Nick and Susannah, a...

• Feb-2012
• / Fantasy
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Brooke O'Connor--elegant, self-possessed, and kind--has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke's high school boyfriend, Alex--now divorced and mournin...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia hol...

• Aug-2021
• / General Fiction
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How far do we have to travel to come face to face with ourselves? Foreign Climes is a collection of short stories linked by place, or more exactly by the strangeness of new places, new territories both geographical and psychological. It proceeds from...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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Lucy Ferriss's modern-day meditations are harrowing, whimsical, elegant, and probing. These beautifully composed pieces are small miracles of the essayist's art, and few writers at work today are as deft as Ferriss at finding wonder and meaning in th...