A book about teenage life in the 1950s.

The Cheerleader

Ruth Doan MacDougall

Literature & Fiction

Bantam, USA

The Fourth Sequel to The CheerleaderI'm a Maine native, a born Maniac.-Jean Pond Cram, aka Puddles.Puddles may have been born in Maine, but where are her real roots? She spent her teens in New Hampshire and her married life in South Carolina. Has she established roots in these other states? Or has she felt like a displaced person all these years?The most uninhibited of The Cheerleader's three friends, Puddles is widowed now and working at two jobs in South Carolina (nurse and cheerleading coach). She appears to be settled down for the rest of her life. Normally intrepid and sure of herself, she finds that uncertainty starts with the death of her mother, a complicated milestone for daughters. Concern about her father galvanizes her, and their trip to visit Maine relatives will become her progress to adventure, an island, a castle, hard decisions, and rebirth.Puddles is just as hilarious as when she chased Snowy around a 1950s Woolworth's with giant underwear.-from the foreword by Ann V. Norton

A Born Maniac, or Puddles's Progress (The Snowy Series #5)

Contemporary

Frigate Books

As Mercy Blodgett says of herself, she seems to be related to almost everyone in Chiswick, N.H. To those she isn't, her husband Bob is likely to be. Just when a mill closing in 1986 costs the Blodgetts their jobs, this town is suddenly terrorized by an arsonist, and heart attacks may cost Bob his life. Cover illustration by William Tyers.

Mutual Aid

Plaidswede

Product Description And what happens next? This is the question that readers of the best-seller THE CHEERLEADER and its sequel, SNOWY, have been asking, and now they can discover the answer in HENRIETTA SNOW. New readers will relish a satisfying novel complete in itself."Our generation," Snowy says, "is 'the disappeared.' We've dropped out of sight between our parents' generation--'The Greatest Generation'--and the baby boomers. Remember how we were called 'The Silent Generation'? Nobody knows about us." But here they are, Snowy, Bev, Puddles, Tom, Dudley, and all the Gang from Gunthwaite High School, turning fifty and then-eek!-sixty. How do they reshape their dreams and their lives?HENRIETTA SNOW is the third title in The Snowy Series and is in its Second Printing. About the Author Ruth Doan MacDougall is the author of sixteen novels, including the seven titles in the popular The Snowy Series. She and her husband are New Hampshire natives and residents.

Henrietta Snow (The Snowy Series, #3)

The year is 1969, a time of turmoil for the United States—and for thirty-year-old Emily Bean, who, following her devastating divorce, leaves her home in the New Hampshire mountains to work as a teacher in the state’s coastal region. Still in love with her ex-husband, David, Emily struggles to adjust to single life. Women’s liberation and the freewheeling sixties had only been on the perimeter of her married life, so even walking into a restaurant alone makes insecure Emily self-conscious. The men in town are quick to notice an available and attractive young woman with legs made for miniskirts. Emily falls into relationships with two men, one of whom could be her way back to the safe life that she lost. But in this portrait of a woman on the brink of self-realization, Emily must learn whether or not she can truly recapture the past.

One Minus One (Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries)

Literary

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About the Author When Ruth Doan MacDougall was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, her parents brought her home from the hospital to a chicken farm in neighboring Belmont. Her father, Daniel Doan, had taken up chicken farming after Dartmouth, the idea being that he could both raise chickens and write. As he later joked: I even thought the plan was sound! The income wasn t enough to support a family, and when Ruth was three the Doans moved to Laconia, where Dan got a job at a manufacturing company.Dan had to give up farming, but he didn t give up writing. Ruth remembers falling asleep each evening listening to what she later would call a literary lullaby, the sound of his typewriter as he wrote at night. By the time she was six, she had written her first story and knew that she too was a writer.After graduating from Laconia High School, Ruth attended Bennington College from 1957 to 1959. She then transferred to Keene State College to join her husband, Don MacDougall. They graduated together in 1961. Ruth s novels include: The Snowy Series: The Cheerleader Snowy Henrietta Snow The Husband Bench, or Bev s Book A Born Maniac, or Puddles s Progress A Gunthwaite Girl (a novelette) Site Fidelity Lazy Beds First published in 1973, The Cheerleader became a national best seller. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century Fox, and made into an NBC sitcom pilot. Since then it has been called a classic and a favorite book. Readers wanted to know What happened next? and thus the sequels of Ruth Doan MacDougall's Snowy Series have taken the characters from the 1950s into the twenty-first century. The Cheerleader was featured in the Coming of Age article in the January February 2011 issue of Bookmarks magazine. It was one of five 1950s-era novels chosen; the others were The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Risk Pool by Richard Russo, and A Boy s Own Story by Edmund White. Ruth s other novels are: The Lilting House The Cost of Living One Minus One Wife and Mother Aunt Pleasantine <br. The Flowers of the Forest A Lovely Time Was Has by All A Woman Who Loved Lindbergh Mutual Aid One Minus One was republished in 2013 in Nancy Pearl s Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Ruth s short stories have appeared in Redbook magazine and have been winners in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project. Her articles have been published in Publishers Weekly, theWashington Post, and New Hampshire Magazine. She has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and other newspapers. She is a member of the New Hampshire Magazine Council of Advisers. Like her father, she is a recipient of the New Hampshire Writers Project s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, Keene State College gave her the Alumni Achievement Award. Product Description LAZY BEDS, the latest title in Ruth Doan MacDougall’s Snowy Series, continues the stories of Snowy and Bev as they weather this century's Great Recession. Snowy is worried about the financial health of her three small stores, while Bev, owner of a well-known real-estate agency, is finding that real-estate sales have essentially ceased. Snowy and Bev share their adventures and challenges in equal measure, but Puddles, and many of the friends that readers have come to enjoy, have not been neglected. In LAZY BEDS, readers will catch up with the Gang they first met in THE CHEERLEADER―still going strong after all these years! What's a "lazy bed"? A home gardener, planting potatoes, might use the "lazy bed" method that avoids the more intensive forms of garden labor but still produces impressive results.

Lazy Beds (The Snowy Series #8)

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