Poetry Books by Joyce Maynard
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
Published Date: 1987
Categories: Building
Andy uses the scrap material from the new house going up down the street to build a tree house.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2014-11-28
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. Among the hundreds of letters she received as a result, one expressed deep affection for her writing, and concern at the exploitation that she might be subjected to. The writer was J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye and famous recluse. Their correspondence led first to friendship, and then to love, and after a few months she dropped out of college to live with him. In spite of the thirty-five year difference in their ages, she believed they would be together always - but after a year, he sent her away. Courageous, beautifully written and affecting, this book is destined to become a classic memoir of a modern woman's life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 2010-05-11
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
When Nate Chance arrives home from school, he sees two police cars and an ambulance in his yard. Before his mother can get him and his little sister, Junie, inside, Nate and Junie witness their father, blood pouring down his face, being led by two police officers into an ambulance. He has tried to kill himself. Home quickly becomes a different place. Junie stays curled up in front of the TV; Nate's mom retreats inside herself; and the rumor of mental illness makes Nate a social pariah at school. Only the promise of winning the science fair holds any hope of happiness for Nate. He's building a cloud chamber, the project that he and his dad dreamed of working on together. Maybe if he can build it, Nate can give his father something that will help him feel better and finally come home.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published Date: 2008-02-04
Categories: Psychology
Recounts the 2004 hatchet killing of Bob Seaman, an auto industry engineer and softball coach, describing the arrest of his wife of more than thirty years, as well as the contradictory testimonies of their two sons.
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2011-03-02
Categories: Fiction
From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.
