Author: Marsha Boulton
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: wally, wonder, world, life
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-07-22
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312379595
ISBN-13: 9780312379599
It takes about sixty-three days to make a litter of puppies, but sixty-three years later the people who loved those puppies remember the dogs they became. When a puppy that fit into a baseball cap entered bestselling author and shepherd Marsha Boulton’s life she had no idea he was really a rambunctious kid in a dog suit. Wally (named after the poet Wallace Stevens), a loopy-nosed bull terrier whose face looked like a bicycle seat with eyes, became more of an experience than a dog from the moment he arrived at Lambs’ Quarters Farm. He proved to be a valuable hand on the farm and an even mor
Author: Wally Lam
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: institution, testimonies, imprisoned, sisters, correctional, york, myself, wally, lamb, women, couldn
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 006059537X
ISBN-13: 9780060595371
Any book that can give voice to the voiceless should be celebrated. No one feels this more strongly than Wally Lamb, editor of Couldn’t Keep It to Myself, a collection of stories by 11 women imprisoned in the York Correctional Institution in Connecticut. Teacher and novelist Lamb was invited to head a writing workshop at York Correctional Institution in 1999. His somewhat reluctant acceptance soon turned into steadfast advocacy once the women in his charge began to tell their stories. Lamb maintains that there are things we need to know about prison and prisoners: "There are misconceptio
Author: Wally Lam
Publisher: Regan Book
Keywords: true
Number of Pages: 901
Published: 1998-06-14
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0060391626
ISBN-13: 9780060391621
Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You’d either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man’s search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips f
Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, true
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061469084
ISBN-13: 9780061469084
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . . One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human.
Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: novel, believed, first, hour
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0060393491
ISBN-13: 9780060393496
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family’s Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.
Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: undone, come
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0671003755
ISBN-13: 9780671003753
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...." Meet Dolores Price. She’s 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallmomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give
Author: Wally Weaver
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: face, matter
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595320961
ISBN-13: 9780595320967
Alone in post-World War II China, American spy Tompkins must be cautious at all times. For reasons even he himself does not understand, Tommy opts to buy a young Korean woman. Yunhee Kim quietly enters Tommy’s life, living with him in Hangkow, China. But when Tommy’s cover is blown, Yunhee reveals herself to be a Korean intelligence agent. Together, the two flee Hangkow and accept an even more dangerous assignment that will take them into Communist North Korea.
