Mary McGarry Morris

• Jun-1988
• / Suspense
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National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need -- and a terrible secret -- in this suspenseful, “astonishing” novel (Vogue).   Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind ...

• Feb-1991
• / General Fiction
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The “compelling, suspenseful” novel of a vulnerable misfit in a small town by the New York Times�"bestselling author of Light from a Distant Star (Publishers Weekly).   Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine, A Dange...

• Aug-1995
• / General Fiction
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It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen -- invol...

• May-2000
• / General Fiction
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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 prominen...

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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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 re...

• Feb-2005
• / General Fiction
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Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this “powerful” novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly).   During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers alon...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "one of the most skillful writers at work in America today" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In The Last Secret, she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee's "Scout." It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence -- gangly, awkward, full of qu...

• Mar-2024
• / Thriller
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From a New York Times�"bestselling “writer to reckon with,” a psychological suspense about a woman whose life is fractured by a childhood crime (The New York Times Book Review). There was the moment eight-year-old Ruth Corrigan ran away from pla...