Ann L. McLaughlin, Author . John Daniel $14.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-56474-495-1
Two sisters revisit wartime tragedy while closing the family's summer house in McLaughlin's inert sixth novel (after Maiden Voyage
). Set in 1973, the novel drags along over the course of one August week as the Carlson sisters, now in...
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Ann L. McLaughlin, Author John Daniel & Company Books $9.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-936784-72-4
Talented flutist Hally Blessing and Harvard scholar Dan Lewis, stricken with polio on the same night in July 1955, meet in the polio ward at Boston's Wahl hospital. During their nine-month hospitalization, they become close companions and...
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Ann L. McLaughlin, Author John Daniel & Company Books $9.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-936784-90-8
Unsettled by a move with her husband Terry and their young children to Berkeley in the fall of 1959, Margo Sullivan, a part-time portraitist of children, suddenly falls into a manic-depressive cycle, unable to care for her family or to paint. As she
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Ann L. McLaughlin, Author John Daniel & Company Books $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-880284-38-4
If Nancy Drew were a young reporter instead of a sleuth, she'd be a dead ringer for Julia MacLean, with her stylish clothes, chic bobbed haircut and intrepid spirit of adventure. McLaughlin's (Lightning in July) protagonist is a na ve, 22-year-old...
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Ann L. McLaughlin, Author John Daniel & Company Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880284-15-5
""Uncle Will says we Southerners have to get educated so we can make the South new and . . ."" begins the precocious young girl at the center of this claustrophobic novel about her coming-of-age in pre-WW I rural Mississippi. Too often McLaughlin (Li
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Ann L. McLaughlin, John Daniel (SCB, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (236p) ISBN 978-1-56474-506-4
Pre-WWII San Francisco is brought to life in McLaughlin's aesthetically pleasing if sharply underplotted latest (after Leaving Bayberry House). When Lorie Bronson, a progressively minded college freshman, moves with her father, stepmother, and...
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