Mary Morris
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this "powerful" novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly). During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caring for her shy younger brother while her mother returns to work, thirteen-year-old Nellie encounters three strangers, including a junkyard worker, a New York City thief, and a young stripper before witnessing a shocking act of violence.
Author
Publisher
NAN A. TALESE/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 321 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres' descendants travel...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A man returns to his hometown after twenty-five years in prison, in this "richly atmospheric" novel by the acclaimed author of Songs in Ordinary Time (The Washington Post).
After decades in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns home to find his old neighborhood blighted by drugs and poverty. Desperate for work, he takes a job at the same rundown market where he once stocked shelves as a teenager. But while Gordon's situation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
740 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1960 Atkinson, Vermont. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the classic memoir Nothing to Declare, a new travel narrative examining healing, redemption, and what it means to be a solo woman on the road."--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most skillful writers at work in America today." In The Last Secret, she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (158 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fall 2005 travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old houseboat called the River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry--and a dog who hated her. It was a time of emotional turmoil for Morris: her father had just died; her daughter was leaving home; life was changing all around her. So she decided to return to the Midwest where she was from, to the river she remembered. Morris describes living like a pirate...
11) Fiona Range
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this "complex, compelling" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author, a troubled woman uncovers the mysteries of her own past (Kirkus Reviews).
Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father's identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her affluent family-or...
12) Vanished
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wallace a laborer in his late forties; Dotty, an abused teenager who flaunts her sexuality; and a little girl stolen from her playpen are bound together for the next five years by Dotty's manic moods and Wallace's tragic helplessness.
13) House arrest
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Critically-acclaimed author of The Lifeguard, Mary Morris has created this novel with the same sensitivity and literary craftsmanship that won her the Rome Prize for Literature. Like her short stories, this novel explores the boundaries of friendship and love, and of freedom and confinement. Travel writer Maggie Conover is under house arrest at her hotel on la isla in the Caribbean. Because of her friendship with the revolutionary leader's missing...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Editon.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
15) A mother's love
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Description
The Morrises, well-known lexicographers, published a dictionary of the same title in 1977, a revision of a three-volume work published between 1962 and 1971. This new revision, which provides histories of interesting words and phrases in the English language, is similar in concept to several books by John Ciardi. Like Ciardi's works, the etymologies and phrase origins are presented in a readable style, making them a joy to browse.
18) Crossroads
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the center of ordinary circumstances gone awry and lovewarped by bad timing is urban planner Deborah Miles, her philandering husband Mark, her rebellious brother Zapp, her midwestern parents and a handsome filmmaker.
19) The waiting room
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of three generations of women whose lives have been shaped through the experiences of waiting for one event or another to take place.