Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . Warner $24.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-446-57876-9
Bestselling Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea and pitted against nature and a cohort of contemporary pirates. Tracy, Holly and Olivia have known each other since high school, when they were glamorous, popular troublemakers.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard. Simon & Schuster, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1557-8
Mitchard’s (The Deep End of the Ocean) latest combines elements of science fiction and suspense with a heartfelt meditation on family and grief, to mixed results. When a tsunami devastates the Australian coast, Frank Mercy loses his pregnant wife...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard. Soho Teen (Random, dist.), $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61695-141-2
Bestselling author Mitchard launches the Soho Teen imprint with a contemporary thriller whose tension and excitement are tempered by coincidences, near misses, and credulity-stretching assumptions. Sixteen-year-old Allie Kim and her friends Juliet...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author Viking Books $23.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-670-87662-4
Mitchard, a speechwriter, editor and novelist (The Deep End of the Ocean), has collected selections from her weekly newspaper column written for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the last 12 years. Her entertaining and thought-provoking...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author Viking $24.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-670-87884-0
Despite portentous foreshadowing, Mitchard second novel never achieves the dramatic momentum and the emotional immediacy of her acclaimed fiction debut, The Deep End of the Ocean. But her depiction of two female protagonists is so large-hearted and...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author Viking $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-86579-6
One of the most remarkable things about this rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel is Mitchard's assured command of narrative structure and stylistic resources. Her story about a child's kidnapping and its enduring effects upon his...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . Random $25 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6774-9
Mitchard returns to the Cappadoras from The Deep End of the Ocean
(Oprah's first book club pick), proving that, sometimes, sequels work. In this harrowing outing, set 13 years after the events of Ocean
, the oldest Cappadora son, Vincent, 29,...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . Razorbill $16.99 (235p) ISBN 978-1-59514-160-6
Experimenting with genre, Mitchard (The Deep End of the
Ocean; All We Know of Heaven
, Reviews, May 26) proffers the first of a projected trilogy about identical twins Mallory and Meredith, born two minutes apart—one on New Year's Eve,...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-06-134578-4
Riveting, compassionate and psychologically nuanced, Mitchard's (Now You See Her
) second YA novel reimagines the macabre true story that is also the subject of the current bestselling memoir Mistaken Identity
(reviewed online). She brings to...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperCollins $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-621023-0
When real life inspires fiction, an authentic and convincing voice is often the happy result. Here Mitchard draws on her own experience as an adoptive parent and as a one-time participant in a custody suit to produce gripping fiction on a par with...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-111683-4
Mitchard's (The Deep End of the Ocean
) unsettling thriller features a borderline psychotic heroine—a trait that readers will suspect, but not confirm until the final chapters. Bernadette Romano, who now goes by Hope Shay, is destined to...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . Warner $24.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-446-57875-2
A young Mormon girl finds herself torn between retribution and forgiveness in The Deep End of the Ocean
author Mitchard's latest. Twelve-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Swan witnesses the murder of her two sisters in her family's yard in
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-058724-6
No one could blame Julieanne Gillis, beleaguered heroine of this no-holds-barred family drama by Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean
, etc.) for not seeing the signs. At first her lawyer husband, Leo Steiner, seems to be in the throes of a midlife...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperCollins $14.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-06-056557-2
No heartstring goes untugged in this slim but moving Christmas story from award-winning journalist, screenwriter, bestselling novelist and children's book author Mitchard (Twelve Times Blessed
; The Rest of Us
; The
Most Wanted
). It's...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (912p) ISBN 978-0-06-053419-6
The author of The Deep End of the Ocean
delivers once again in this overstuffed story about a middle-aged woman's complicated second marriage. She chronicles one year in the life of True Dickinson, the owner of a thriving mail-order business on
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Julia Noonan, Illustrator , illus. by Julia Noonan. HarperCollins $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-050760-2
As Mama Bat coos over her baby—"Small new prince of the dark"—readers follow the pair on their nocturnal adventures. "Field squeaker,/ Forest streaker,/ Little wings petal-light,/ Little teeth sugar white," writes...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Susan Ericksen, Read by Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-191-8
Ericksen gives an appropriately taut, tense reading of this gripping novel about four women on a sailing vacation who end up fighting for their lives when their ship is disabled, food is running low, and they're beset by modern-day pirates. Ericksen
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Tricia Tusa, Illustrator , illus. by Tricia Tusa. HarperCollins $15.99 (152p) ISBN 978-0-06-057356-0
Mitchard (author of the adult bestseller The Deep End of the Ocean
) turns out a flimsy, often sluggish novel about a mouse who is born in a piano, backstage at New York's Ballet Jolie, and who opens her eyes just as a prima ballerina performs...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Read by , read by the author. Harper Children's Audio $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-074742-8
With a bright and generally cheery reading sparked with an occasional hint of sarcasm, bestselling author Mitchard (writing her first children's novel) invites listeners backstage to meet the mice of the Ballet Jolie, which performs in special...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Read by, Juliette Parker, Read by , read by Juliette Parker. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52497-6
Gordon McKenna is a handsome 24-year-old science teacher who thought life was as tough as it could get when his only sister, Georgia, was diagnosed with cancer. Then she and her husband die in a car crash, leaving behind their one-year-old daughter,
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, John Bendall-Brunello, Illustrator , illus. by John Bendall-Brunello. HarperCollins $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-072220-3
Mitchard (Baby Bat's Lullaby
) relays an endearing tale just right for newly independent readers, focusing on the friendship between Henry, an "almost" nine-year-old girl, and her pet duckling, Rosalie. Henry is bothered by the fact that
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, Author, Paul Ratz de Tagyos, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Rátz de Tagyos. HarperCollins $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-050766-4
Areticent raccoon named Rory overcomes his separation anxiety in Mitchard’s (Now You See Her
) somewhat protracted story. Rory is dreading an upcoming sleepover with his aunt and cousins while his parents attend a “gourmet garbage party.&
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Jacquelyn Mitchard. Mira, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1179-9
The disappointing latest from Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean) begins with an irresistible dilemma and morphs into a long-winded, unconvincing melodrama. The setup: comfortable middle-class Wisconsin English professor Thea Demetriou must face...
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Jacquelyn Mitchard. Mira, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6937-0
Mitchard (The Good Son) offers an arresting exploration of a family’s messy relationships. When 27-year-old underwater photographer Frankie Attleboro returns from an expedition in Canada to her family home on Cape Cod, she’s almost five months...
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