Ten-year-old Sammy talks about five disturbing events in his life--the death of the family dog, the suicide of his friend's older brother, life with a senile grandmother, cheating at school, and the divorce of his aunt and uncle...
Charismatic and deeply spiritual Jamie Waters pursues a destiny compelling her to struggle against complacency and leading her to a decision to be ordained as a priest in defiance of the canons of the Episcopal Church...
In a small Massachusetts town, beautiful, talented Francesca Woodbine, granddaughter of a prostitute and fortuneteller, herself gifted with second sight, is haunted by a terrible secret that threatens her life...
"Shreve is a master storyteller....[An] intricate portrait of the American woman and her creative centrality inside and outside the home."
THE MIAMI HERALD
They are four generations of women--Anna, Amanda, Sara, and Eleanor--and their remarkable ...
"Magical . . . . A quirky, elliptical tale of obsessive emotions and double lives." The New York Times Book Review
By the author of "Daughters of the New World," a unique and captivating tale of obsession, redemption and romance . . . in the mos...
Hoping that the news of his parent's forthcoming divorce will work itself out, Liam, the youngest member of the family, decides not to tell his friends, but his older sister sees things differently and does not keep the secret....
Sharing so much in common that they think of themselves as twins, Zoe and her brother, Columbo, move to a new town just before their ninth birthdays, but Columbo wants to hide the fact that he is really adopted....
Julie is in charge of the household affairs after the death of her mother, but when her father begins to date the mother of Benjie True, her arch rival for the position of goalie on the soccer team, she finds herself doubly challenged....
She dyes her hair purple, wears black clothing, and calls herself Cheetah. Can this really be the girl known to her family as Amanda the Good? Not anymore! Sometime between the sixth grade and junior high, Amanda Bates woke up and discovere...
Sam McWilliams, the oldest of a family of orphaned children, guides his siblings to show business success as the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers and exposes them to new dangers that could destroy them. Reprint....
In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn family has carved out its own comfortable, if eccentric, existence. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig into her book bag...
In this Knopf Paperback reissue, Joshua is devastated to learn thathe must repeat third grade. But he manages to survive the taunts of formerclassmates, learn something important about himself, and make it through theyear with the help of a sympathet...
For fans of Sue Miller, a finely wrought novel of family secrets and the desire for sustaining love. It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York an...
“A well-tuned mandolin of a gothic adventure.” -- Washington PostOn the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six ye...
Four generations of women deny the pull toward convention and define their independence through their art, careers, and inner strength. By the author of
Treating a bacterial outbreak that is threatening the children of small-town Meridian, a visiting pediatrics resident is confronted by local hostilities and solves a devastating family mystery. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour....