Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: novel, keeper, sister
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743454537
ISBN-13: 9780743454537

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kat

Author: Edward Johnson
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: english, handbook
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0671707973
ISBN-13: 9780671707972

Now substantially revised and updated, this essential guide is arranged in an easy-to-follow, topical style that takes readers from the rules governing basic sentence structure to methods of achieving effective expression.

Author: Larry Watson
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: time
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0671551647
ISBN-13: 9780671551643

A powerful voice in contemporary American fiction, Larry Watson is the award-winning author of Montana 1948, hailed as "a work of art" (San Francisco Chronicle), and White Crosses, praised as "one of the most irresistible novels of the year" (The Globe and Mail). In this, his debut novel, Watson explores the themes that established him as a master protrayer of small-town America. Another female student has been found strangled—the body count is up to three, and everyone suspects there will be more. But for Peter, a reticent teacher at Minnesota’s Wanekia High School, his own morbid fa

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: falls, salem
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-08-06
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743418719
ISBN-13: 9780743418713

Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: once a teacher at a girls’ prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets -- and they maliciously target Jack w

Author: Gina B. Nahai
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: faith, avenue, moonlight
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0671042831
ISBN-13: 9780671042837

When she is five years old, Lili, the narrator of this epic and magical tale, watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw herself off the balcony of their house on the Avenue of Faith. Roxanna has left no farewell, no explanation. Her family’s subsequent search for her reveals no body. no sign of a fall, no trace of an escape. The only witness to Roxanna’s disappearance, Lili will spend the next thirteen years looking for her mother, wondering if she is alive, wondering why she left. This is the remarkable tale that follows Roxanna, born as a "bad-luck child" in the Jewish ghett

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: mercy
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-04-03
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743422449
ISBN-13: 9780743422444

Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie -- seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he’d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: novel, glance, second
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1416583866
ISBN-13: 9781416583868

"Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?"An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property.Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and