Joyce Maynard, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-214077-9
The author and her husband as illustrator both make debuts in this book, the story of an overnight outing. The warmth and mutual caring by members of an attractive family are conveyed in Maynard's blithe narrative. Audrey and her young brother...
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Joyce Maynard. Morrow, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-225764-2
In this, her ninth novel, Maynard depicts one woman’s moral dilemma. Helen’s first-person narrative details her adult life and how it spiraled out of control after the divorce from her ex-husband Dwight. Helen was devastated after a drinking bout...
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Joyce Maynard. Morrow, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-225739-0
Bestselling author Maynard (The Good Daughters) returns with the story of a broken family rocked by a real-life Bay Area serial killer. Rachel Torricelli and her younger sister, Patty, idolized their father, a homicide detective with a voice like...
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Joyce Maynard, Author Crown Publishers $23 (338p) ISBN 978-0-517-70177-5
Maynard's precocious debut 23 years ago at age 18 was founded on unsparing commentary on contemporary American life--but the same reliance on pop culture and brand names reduces her new novel to a paean to the middlebrow. Claire Temple is part...
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Joyce Maynard, Author Dutton Books $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-93396-0
Taking her inspiration from a recent murder trial, Maynard ( Baby Love ) reimagines the protagonists in fictional form: 22-year-old Suzanne Maretto, a pathologically self-absorbed, ruthlessly ambitious would-be TV journalist, and the three high...
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Joyce Maynard, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-07-041092-3
``Syndicated columnist Maynard paints scenes from her 10-year marriage, centering on the care of three children,'' reported PW . Richly detailed and often humorous, the work ``brings the reader into the intimacy of her rural New Hampshire home...
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Joyce Maynard, Author Crown Publishers $17.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1244-9
Syndicated columnist Maynard (author of the novel Baby Love paints scenes from her 10-year marriage, centering on the care of three children. Detailing, often humorously, her three-pronged adventure of ""making a home, making a marriage work, trying
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Joyce Maynard, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-24261-9
While the first 50-odd pages of Maynard's (To Die For; At Home in the World) new novel are emotionally harrowing, perseverance is rewarded. Set both in Brooklyn and the small town of Davis, Calif., following the events of September 11, the book...
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Joyce Maynard, Author Picador USA $25 (347p) ISBN 978-0-312-19556-4
Maynard, novelist (Baby Love; To Die For) essayist, columnist and Web-page chatteuse, was a freshman at Yale in April 1972 when the New York Times Magazine published her cover article, ""An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life."" Of the hundreds of...
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Joyce Maynard, Author Signet Book $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-17327-0
A ruthlessly ambitious young woman recruits three high school misfits to kill her husband in Maynard's carefully constructed but somewhat unconvincing fact-based fiction, a Literary Guild selection in cloth. (Jan.)
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Joyce Maynard, Author Vintage Books USA $16.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-679-77102-9
Mating rituals among the middle-aged provide the focus for Maynard's latest. (Aug.)
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Joyce Maynard, Morrow, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-199431-9
Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this exquisite novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same day in the same hospital, take
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Joyce Maynard, Author . Morrow $24.99 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-184340-2
In her sixth novel, Maynard (To Die For
) tells the story of a long weekend and its repercussions through the eyes of a then 13-year-old boy, Henry, who lives with his divorced mother, Adele. On Labor Day weekend, Henry manages to coax his mother,...
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Joyce Maynard, Author . Atheneum/Schwartz $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-689-87152-8
Maynard (The Usual Rules
) sets her deeply moving coming-of-age novel in rural America during the late 1960s. The story begins with hard-hitting drama: 14-year-old Nate Chance comes home from school one day to find that his father, a struggling...
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Joyce Maynard, Author, Joel Johnstone, Read by , read by Joel Johnstone. Listening Library $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-24559-5
Johnstone's spot-on preteen tone and easygoing, heartfelt delivery are a comfortable fit for Maynard's wrenching coming-of-age novel. Nate knew that hard times on their small dairy farm and mounting debt were taking a toll on his family.
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Joyce Maynard, Author, Steve Bethel, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-257042-2
As American as apple pie and Norman Rockwell, this book tells about a new house being built next door to a boy named Andy, who befriends the builder, Red, and the construction workers. Andy watches them construct the house and collects their scraps,
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Joyce Maynard. Bloomsbury, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-63557-034-2
In this touching memoir, Maynard (To Die For; At Home in the World) chronicles her second marriage. She beautifully renders the joy of falling in love later in life and the pain of watching her husband die of pancreatic cancer. In her late 50s,...
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Joyce Maynard. Morrow, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-239827-7
Maynard (Under the Influence) shows her mastery at pulling the heartstrings in her latest family saga. Doled out in 100 bite-size chapters, the life of a woman named Eleanor unfolds over five decades starting with her solitary childhood in Newton,...
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Joyce Maynard. Morrow, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-239830-7
Maynard continues the story of Eleanor, the resilient New Hampshire matriarch featured in 2020’s Count the Ways, with this heartwarming chronicle of a woman coping with changes in her life and in the country. Eleanor is estranged from her 30-somethin
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