Children of power

SHREVE, SUSAN RICHARDS

Macmillan

Fourth-grader Miranda starts a successful club to take care of latchkey children and finds herself competing with the president of a rival club for publicity and local support.

How I Saved the World on Purpose

Children's Books

Henry Holt Co.

In this hilarious and diverse collection of short stories, ten well-known writers (including Avi, Angela Johnson, David Lubar, and Susan Shreve) relate their funny and memorable middle school moments. Illustrations.

Tripping Over the Lunch Lady

Proimos, James

Johnson, Angela

LUBAR, DAVID

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

Plum & Jaggers

Sam McWilliams, the oldest of a family of orphaned children, guides his siblings to show business success as the comedy troupe Plum &amp; Jaggers and exposes them to new dangers that could destroy them. Reprint.

Picador USA

A Country of Strangers

Contemporary

Simon&Schuster

Sam McWilliams, the oldest of a family of orphaned children, guides his siblings to show business success as the comedy troupe Plum &amp; Jaggers and exposes them to new dangers that could destroy them. 40,000 first printing.

United States

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

“Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting. . . . Cancel those dinner plans―you’ll want to keep reading.”―Joanna Powell, People It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father’s suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father’s death or the identity of their own father. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. From a writer whose “unique presentation of human experience makes reading a delight” (Elizabeth Strout), You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

W.W.Norton&Company

A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter’s quest to understand her mother’s mysterious death.
On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie’s father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to Missing Lake.
Acclaimed novelist Susan Richards Shreve, celebrated for her “refined explorations of parent-child relationships” (Washington Post), captures the tenor of the times with clarity and elegance as she follows both Georgie and her parents on parallel trips up the Bone River, weaving together the hope of June 2008 with the injustices of June 1941. Georgie must untangle a web of bigotry, loss, and half-forgotten memories to finally understand her parents’ fate.
More News Tomorrow is a stirring and irresistible portrait of a family drawn together in search of truth.

More News Tomorrow: A Novel

“Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting.” ―People
It’s 1973 and the Watergate scandal is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two, leaves New York and the married father of her children to return to Washington, DC, to the neighborhood where she grew up and the house where her father committed suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father’s death or the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. Beautifully told, You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.

Product Description 
“A well-tuned mandolin of a gothic adventure.” ―Washington Post 
On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie’s father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to the campsite that has haunted her memories. Thrilling and richly drawn, More News Tomorrow follows a daughter’s quest to finally understand her parents’ fate. 
 Review 
"[A] mythic journey of self-discovery, held aloft by Shreve’s silken prose." 
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Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review\n"A compelling, atmospheric family drama." 
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People\n"A tightly written family drama that still manages to pack in deeper points about racism, memory, and time." 
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Elizabeth Sile, Real Simple\n"One of [Shreve’s] very best books." 
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Elizabeth Strout, bestselling author of Olive, Again\n"Violent weather, inexperienced campers and the disappearance of a child make this a potent family drama." 
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Elfrieda Abbe, Star Tribune\n"Shreve combines elements of a classic mystery novel with a contemporary psychological thriller to create a story whose surface simplicity conceals depths of emotion.… A story whose journey is as rewarding as its destination." 
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Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness\n"Shreve creates a spooky atmosphere with stormy weather, eerie parallels between past and present, and at least one threateningly crazy woman. Even spookier is the backdrop of 20th-century racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigration feeling that are all too familiar today." 
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n"With a keen sense of place and pacing, Shreve weaves a subtle and unrelenting pattern of malevolence in this portrait of a woman burdened by the sins of her father and sustained by her unshakable belief in his innocence." 
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Booklist\n"In 
More News Tomorrow, Susan Richards Shreve gives us an unforgettable seventy-year-old heroine, Georgianna Grove, who takes her family and the reader on a journey back in time to solve the murder of her mother. Part mystery, part family drama, 
More News Tomorrow reveals the hatred of racism, the weight of history and grief, and the enormous generosity and grace of the human heart. I loved this book!" 
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Ann Hood, best-selling author of The Book That Matters Most\n"I loved the way 
More News Tomorrow takes us into an elemental and unpredictable landscape, as it takes the novel of family life into new territory. It’s just superb fiction of great emotional authenticity, always finding the remarkable under what we assume." 
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Joan Silber, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Improvement 
 About the Author 
Susan Richards Shreve is the author of fifteen previous novels, a memoir, and thirty books for children. She is a former president and co-chair of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she lives in Washington, D.C

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Children of power

How I Saved the World on Purpose

Tripping Over the Lunch Lady

Plum & Jaggers

A Country of Strangers

Plum & Jaggers

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

More News Tomorrow: A Novel

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

More News Tomorrow: A Novel