Moriarty, Laura
Summary: This is the story of a 10-year-old math prodigy, Evelyn Bucknow living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother. Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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Summary: Fending for herself in the wake of a chronically unemployed, dysfunctional mother, ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow experiences feelings of confinement in their small Midwestern town and suffers the heartache of a first love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: "In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of hig-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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Summary: Leigh's relationship with her daughter Kara, a high-achieving high school senior, is strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand and when Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects not only divide Leigh's family but polarize the entire community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moriarty 2012Moriarty, Laura
Summary: This is the story of a 10-year-old math prodigy, Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother. Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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Summary: Engrossed in a new relationship to the point that her studies begin to suffer, college junior Veronica is devastated when a plea for help goes unheeded, but a surprising request from her mother teaches her about family, love, and independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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Summary: Inspired by the real-life relationship between future movie star Louise Brooks and the woman who chaperoned her to New York City for a summer, this is the story of an unlikely friendship between two women who couldn't be more different—and how it changes both their lives. In the summer of 1922, only a few years before she became a famous actress of the silent screen and an icon for her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2012
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Summary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019