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  • The Best of Us: A Memoir

    The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of.Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even ... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 1635570344
    • ASIN: 1635570344
    • ISBN: 1635570344
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

  • At Home in the World


    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 1250046440
    • ASIN: 1250046440
    • ISBN: 1250046440
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • The Good Daughters

    “A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed”—Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners“Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.”— Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You  Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynard’s a... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0061994324
    • ASIN: 0061994324
    • ISBN: 0061994324
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • After Her: A Novel (P.S.)

    Marin County, California, summer, 1979. When young women start turning up dead on the mountain behind the home of Rachel and her devoted eleven-year-old sister, Patty, their father—a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective—is put in charge of finding the "Sunset Strangler." Watching her father's life slowly unravel as months pass and more women are killed, Rachel embarks on a dangerous game to catch the killer. Her actions will destroy her father's career and alter forever the lives of everyone she loves. Thirty years later, believing that the wrong man was arrested for the crimes, leaving the true killer at large, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father—and discovers more than she bargained fo... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0062257404
    • ASIN: 0062257404
    • ISBN: 0062257404
    • Brand: William Morrow Company
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

  • Under the Influence: A Novel

    The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship.Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating site. Weekend visits with her son are awkward. He’s drifting away from her, fast.When she meets Ava and Swift Havilland, the vulnerable Helen is instantly enchanted. Wealthy, connected philanthropists, they have their own charity devoted to rescuing dogs. Their home is filled with fabulous friends, edgy art, and dazzling parties.Then Helen ... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0062257684
    • ASIN: 0062257684
    • ISBN: 0062257684
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

  • Labor Day: A Novel (P.S.)


    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: B002HPRBZS
    • ASIN: B002HPRBZS
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • The Usual Rules: A Novel

    It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her mother's office building.Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.Absent for years... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0312283695
    • ASIN: 0312283695
    • ISBN: 0312283695
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers

    Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories―the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profaneIt's an elemental, almost animalistic urge―the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery―the stories that new mothers need most. Here is a book that transcends the limits of how-to guides and honors the act of childbirth in the twenty-first century. Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon have gathered true birth stories by women who have made self-expression their business, including Cheryl Strayed, Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Dani Shapiro, and many other luminaries. In Labor Day, you'll re... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0374239320
    • ASIN: 0374239320
    • ISBN: 0374239320
    • Brand: INVENTORY CONVERSION
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City

    On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer. As the shackles were placed on her wrists, Nancy Seaman asserted that her husband had been beating her, and she'd killed him in self-defense. At her trial, two radically different stories emerged. One of the couple's sons, Greg, testified that his father had been abusing his mother for years. The othe... [Read More]
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 0470223561
    • ASIN: 0470223561
    • ISBN: 0470223561
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

  • The Cloud Chamber

    When his father shoots himself and ends up blind, Nate Chance’s world is thrown into a tailspin as the members of his family retreat from reality, but not wanting to become the tragedy’s next victim, Nate sets his sights on winning the science fair by building the cloud chamber that he and his father had planned to do before everything went wrong.
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard

    • ASIN: 068987152X
    • ASIN: 068987152X
    • ISBN: 068987152X
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

  • The Best of Us : A Memoir

    From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard
    The San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he

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    • Rating: 4.667

  • The Best of Us - eBook

    The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListFrom New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard
    The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he

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  • The Best of Us : A Memoir

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    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard
    The Best of Us (Hardcover)(Large Print)

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    • Rating: 4.667

  • The Best of Us - Audiobook

    In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they
    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard
    The Best of Us - Audiobook

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  • The Best American History Essays

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    The Best Of Us Joyce Maynard
    The Best American History Essays 2006

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  • Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us

    "On the Fourth of July weekend three years ago, at the age of fifty-nine, I married the first true partner I had ever known.” That’s how Joyce Maynard’s new memoir, The Best of Us, begins. Fiftee...

    JOYCE MAYNARD: LOVE, LOSS AND THE BEST OF US

    This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. In 2011, when she was in her late 50s, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true par...
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    Joyce Maynard: The Best of Us

    The Forum at Grace Cathedral October 29, 2017 The best-selling author will discuss her new memoir about health, love and loss and how she discovered strength amid the tragedy of losing her husband...
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