Widowed white woman has affair with younger black man on a Southern college campus during early years of integration.

The Man With The Key

Virginia Sorensen

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Miracles on Maple Hill

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

Children's Books

Joe Krush

Beth Krush

Literature & Fiction

Clarion Books

Lotte's Locket

Harcourt

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

Miracles on Maple Hill;Odyssey Classic

HMH Books for Young Readers

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

Classics

Marly's father came back from the war a different man. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins to rise, the leaves begin to turn, and Marly's father starts to bloom again, like the world around them. This wise and moving story is a must-have for every reader's library.

Miracles On Maple Hill

Scholastic. Inc.

FollettBound

Winner of the 1957 Newbery Award, this novel offers a loving portrait of a family trying to put itself back together when the father returns from a war in a distant land. Written over 45 years ago, Miracles on Maple Hill is eerily apt for today's young listeners--who will also appreciate the beautifully crafted portrait of a rural world that still exists, but is rapidly vanishing. An all-time great.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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The stories of Where Nothing Is Long Ago are a celebration of Sorensen's childhood. She wrote most of them in 1962 while she stayed eight months with her father in Springville, Utah, after her sister's death. (The title story and "The Face" had been published earlier in The New Yorker.) The narrator of each story is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and narrating events from the child's perspective, so the stories are often about the child's attempt to understand the values of her community. Several stories center on the community's response to an individual who is in some way an outsider a polygamous wife who has been left alone after the 1890 Manifesto ostensibly banned such marriages; a black family from Tennessee, directed to Manti by one of the town's missionaries; a woman whose husband has fallen away from the faith and the child's observations of the behavior of town members towards this outsider. Why, for example, are members of the community more sympathetic to the man who killed Lena's husband than they are to Lena? Why do they so distrust "the Negro"? Why is "the darling lady" all alone in her little store? Why doesn't she have a family? Other stories are stories of initiation sometimes into the pleasures and pains of growing up, but other times into the adult knowledge of death and loss and destructive human behavior. In her Newbery Award acceptance speech, Sorensen says, "[A] story has its own being and . . . if one tells it true, and to the very end, there is always death in it." Some of these stories will be enthralling to children as well as to adult readers "First Love," "The White Horse," "The Vision of Uncle Lars," and "The Secret Summer." But many depend on the reader's ability to recognize the ironic distance between the child's perception and the meaning of the incidents to the narrator or to the adult characters. Virginia Sorensen is a masterful storyteller. Her mother said that the first sentence she remembered Virginia saying was "Tell me a story," and the second was, "I will tell you a story," which Virginia proceeded to do. She spent a lifetime telling stories, many of which she offered to her Mormon community as their own. She once said, "I suppose I get more pleasure out of being noticed by the Mormons than by anybody else."

Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood (Signature Mormon Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Signature Books

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The Man With The Key

Miracles on Maple Hill

Lotte's Locket

Miracles on Maple Hill;Odyssey Classic

Miracles on Maple Hill

Miracles On Maple Hill

Miracles On Maple Hill

Miracles on Maple Hill

Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood (Signature Mormon Classics)