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(0)Tim Johnston
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
3) The current
Author
Language
English
Description
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene--half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to...
4) Descent
Author
Language
English
Description
A girl vanishes "on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning" and thus begins a "family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
6) Irish girl
Author
Series
Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction volume no. 8
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In this collection, listeners will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance-of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark-and often darkly funny-these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the listener who just loves a great story.